Technical Contact
Anna Estraneo
Marco Germanotta
Francesca Baglio
Instruments
Clinical Imaging Unit
- High-field 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging scanner with high-density multichannel coil
- Multichannel fNIRS system for cerebral hemodynamic monitoring
- Specialized software for structural; functional; and brain connectivity analysis
- Non-immersive and immersive virtual reality systems for neuromotor and cognitive rehabilitation
- Robotic tilting table with functional electrical stimulation (FES)
- Collaborative service robot for assistive support and human-machine interaction
- End-effector robot for shoulder and elbow rehabilitation
- Sensor-based system for upper limb and balance rehabilitation
- End-effector robot for hand rehabilitation
- End-effector robot for lower limb rehabilitation
- Instrumented treadmill for rehabilitation and gait assessment
- Markerless system for whole-body motor rehabilitation and assessment
- Proprioceptive and stabilometric platform for balance rehabilitation
- Home-based telerehabilitation system
- Robotic exoskeleton for lower limbs
- Multi-camera optoelectronic system for movement analysis
- Wireless surface electromyography system
- Force platforms for stabilometric and dynamic analysis
- Wearable sensor system based on MIMU
- High-density EEG systems with evoked potential recording
- Electromyography system
- Wearable sensors for heart rate and respiratory rate monitoring
- Sensors for galvanic skin response recording
- High-density EEG system
Procedures
- Characterization of optical and optoelectronic devices with the aid of open-source/open-hardware infrastructures that allow the implementation of complex optoelectronic measurements in both the visible and infrared ranges
- Two-photon polymerization (2PP) on the non-planar surface of a tapered optical fiber using a near-infrared laser
- Confocal and multiphoton imaging to characterize the properties of tapered optical fibers for optogenetics and fiber photometry, allowing the measurement of both the emission and collection light fields
- Multiphoton characterization of the optical properties of biological tissues
- Raman and hyperspectral imaging of organic and inorganic samples
- Fiber Raman microscopy
- Fiber holography for endoscopic Raman measurements
- Super-resolution imaging based on STED microscopy
- High-sensitivity UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometry
- High-resolution atomic force microscopy integrated with an inverted line microscope (AFM)
- Fabrication of optical fibers and small-diameter fused silica capillaries
- Processing and characterization of materials through deposition processes on substrates and devices: thermal depositions of metals, AlN depositions via piezoelectric sputtering, and conformal Parylene coatings for complex 3D devices and MEMS
- Front-end techniques for the nanofabrication and microfabrication of passive and active semiconductor- and polymer-based piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for energy harvesting and biosensing
- Back-end technologies useful for the second phase of MEMS and device microfabrication: encapsulation of the individual chip within the chip carrier and the relative wiring for chip-to-package connections
- Dual-beam FIB/SEM system: including automated slice-and-view FIB tomography, electron and ion beam lithography, nanomanipulation, in situ probing, EDS, EBSD, and a range of imaging modalities. Deposition of Pt, Au, SiOx, and etching (XeF2)
- 3D printer systems
- Detailed electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical characterization of semiconductor thin films and electrochemical devices using tools for identifying critical performance parameters of photovoltaic devices
- Contact mechanics, lubrication, and theoretical tribology; experimental tribology (adhesion, friction, lubrication, wear, optical and electrical characterization of contact pairs); rheometry and spectroscopy; functionalization and chemical/physical characterization of surfaces.
- Synthesis and characterization of engineered nanomaterials for biological applications
- Synthesis of organic molecules used as surface coatings, binders, and labels, conjugation of biomolecules, in vitro testing of materials on mammalian cell cultures and bacteria
- High-end data processing with high computing power and fast algorithms requiring high CPU and memory utilization