The laboratory conducts various researches which can be categorized broadly into applied science or relative narrowly into image science. Applied science encompasses the middle ground between basic science and engineering technology, where a definite practical end is in mind, and where the approach may lead to new discoveries in pure science as well.
Image science explores the nature via visualization.
It can be pure science in exploring molecular sequences or cell functions in biology and physiology or technical means in detecting lesions in the brain and heart.