Research

Radio Opto Nano

Creating precisely controlled interactions

The group's research overlaps among radiological sciences, optical techniques, and nanomaterials. Members develop cutting-edge techniques in nuclear (SPECT and PET) and functional X-ray imaging (X-ray fluorescence CT, X-ray luminescence CT). Working with radio-induced drug activation and excitation and therapeutic delivery processes within deep tissue is paving the way for new innovations in cancer therapies.

Hexagonal rods formed from DNA-directed colloidal reduction of silver on gold plates.

View people in this group

Group leaders

Ling J. Meng

Jianjun Cheng

Labs within this group

Computational Imaging Science Laboratory

Latest news

News

Researchers awarded $2.4M to develop imaging to detect microvascular changes in diabetic patients

Dec. 3, 2019 by Bioengineering at Illinois

Researchers at Illinois —including bioengineering professors Michael Insana and Wawrzyniec Dobrucki, who are full-time Beckman faculty members — are partnering with researchers at the Mayo Clinic to develop sensitive, low-cost imaging technologies for detecting microvascular changes in diabetic patients.
News

NIH RO1 grant to help improve ultrasound tomography for breast cancer detection

Nov. 13, 2019 by The Grainger College of Engineering

In the growing need to improve imaging techniques, the US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded an RO1 grant to improve breast ultrasound tomography. Beckman’s Mark Anastasio, Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering and the head of the Department of Bioengineering at Illinois, is the contact principal investigator on the project, titled “Advanced image reconstruction for accurate and high-resolution breast ultrasound tomography.” Illinois will partner with Wayne State University.
News

Lu and Rodríguez-López awarded Discovery Fund support

Sept. 13, 2019 by Department of Chemistry

Among the three faculty members to be awarded fall 2019 support from the Department of Chemistry’s Discovery Fund are Beckman’s Joaquín Rodríguez-López and Yi Lu. The fall 2019 round of funding will support research on enhanced MRI sensitivity, genetic engineering, and improved environmental pollutant monitoring.
News

2019 Carle Hospital-Beckman Institute Fellow announced

June 11, 2019 by Ananya Sen
News

Researchers develop fast, efficient way to build amino acid chains

June 7, 2019 by Illinois News Bureau

Jianjun Cheng, a professor of materials science and engineering, and his team developed a new method that streamlines the construction of amino acid building blocks that can be used in a multitude of industrial and pharmaceutical applications. Cheng is a memebr of Beckman's Selective Theranostic Agents and Systems for Multiscale Photoacoustic Imaging Group.