Our Capabilities
We make cutting-edge imaging accessible to Australian and international medical researchers, and materials and agricultural scientists, enabling them to solve major challenges in research and industry.
Our capabilities cover flagship imaging equipment, expertise, tools, data and analysis.
- Advanced Human Imaging
- Preclinical and Frontier Imaging
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Data Collections and Partnerships
Access policy
We encourage program and project leaders, researchers, clinicians, and industry project leaders to contact us about using NIF’s capabilities.
There are four steps:
Consulting and Expertise
NIF’s work continues to expand Australia’s world-leading community of imaging experts, and imaging’s applicability across increasingly complex research and industrial applications.
Our imaging technology can magnify the productivity and impact of outstanding researchers, but it is sophisticated and difficult to use, requiring human operators with extensive imaging expertise.
Instrument access
The NIF Portfolio of more than 50 instruments and accessories span the continuum of small and large animal imaging, through human imaging, to highly specialised capabilities for agriculture, materials science, museums and cultural applications.
Clinical trials
NIF helps translate research ideas into real outcomes that address national health priorities, including through large-cohort imaging projects and multisite clinical trials. Our trials cover humans, animals, plants and materials.
Get in touch with us about your ideas for a clinical trial.
In 2023, our clinical trial work in human health helped to:
- Test the world’s first disease-modifying drugs to treat dementia
- Improve diagnosis accessibility and treatment options for prostate cancer patients
- Identify a link between Long COVID and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Find the likely cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Identify novel treatments and use virtual reality to help chronic pain sufferers
- Harness technology to pinpoint epilepsy triggers in the brain
- Support exemplary scientists whose revolutionary work in drug discovery and cystic fibrosis lung health imaging was lauded at the 2023 Eureka Prizes.