Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics

Biomedical imaging and biophotonics use physical phenomena such as magnetic fields, radiation and light to aid diagnoses and treatments of disease and dysfunction.

Faculty involved in biomedical imaging and biophotonics research:

	Adam Anderson Research Focus: Developing and applying magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods to assess tissue structure and function with a focus on developing better methods for estimating the orientation and microstructural properties of white matter fibers in the central nervous system Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Justin Baba Research Focus: Optical biosensing; non-invasive diagnostics; motion corrected imaging and sensing Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Audrey Bowden Research Focus: Biophotonics tools for applications in early detection, diagnosis and therapy for cancer; development and deployment of low-cost, high-performing point-of-care technologies for rural and global health applications Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Daniel Brown Research Focus: Intravascular measurement of therapeutic endpoints and catheter/ablation tracking to target delivery of brachy/chemotherapy Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Amanda Buck Research Focus: hemodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, MRI, cardiovascular imaging Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Brett Byram Research Focus: Medical ultrasound; signal processing; elasticity imaging; ultrasonic imaging and beamforming Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Catie Chang Research Focus: Functional neuroimaging techniques and applications; signal processing and computational analysis Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Andre Churchwell Research Focus: Engineering Design Education Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Christos Constantinidis Research Focus: Neuroengineering, deep brain stimulation, working memory, cognitive development, prefrontal cortex Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Bruce Damon Research Focus: Development and application of magnetic resonance imaging methods for studying healthy and pathologic skeletal muscle structure and function Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Zhaohua Ding Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging and integrated studies of brain structure and function Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Mark Does Research Focus: MRI, neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, MR microscopy Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Dario Englot Research Focus: Brain networks in epilepsy and other neurological disorders; Functional and anatomic neuroimaging; Human electrophysiology; Functional neurosurgery Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Yurui Gao Research Focus: Small animal and human MRI imaging (diffusion/functional MRI), medical image processing and analysis. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	John Gore Research Focus: Development and application of biomedical imaging techniques Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Kevin Harkins Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging, computational modeling, optimization Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Frederick Haselton Research Focus: Microfluidic transport of particles, multi-spectral quantum dot-based retinal imaging, DNA logic operations for viral diagnostics, molecular basis of corneal regeneration both in homeostasis and wound repair Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Yu Huang Research Focus: Software Engineering, Human Factors, Medical Imaging, Eye Tracking, Mobile Sensing, Open Source Software, Software-hardware Co-design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Yuankai Huo Research Focus: Biomedical data representation, biomedical image processing, machine learning, data science Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	E. Duco Jansen Research Focus: Laser-tissue interaction; optical neural interfaces; modulation of neural activity using infrared laser light; cellular effects of laser-induced stimuli; application of light, lasers and optical technology in medicine and biology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Karen Joos Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for ophthalmic surgery. Primary research areas use of optical coherence tomography. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Bennett Landman Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Matthew Lang Research Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Ilwoo Lyu Research Focus: Computer vision, surface registration, computational neuroanatomy, shape analysis Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Anita Mahadevan-Jansen Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for diagnosis of pathology. Primary research areas use of fluorescence and Raman spectroscopics for cancer and precancer detection. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Michael Miga Research Focus: Image-guided surgery and intervention, computational modeling for therapeutic applications, soft-tissue mechanics, biotransport, and inverse problems in therapeutics and imaging. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Justus Ndukaife Research Focus: Nanophotonics, microfluidics, novel bio-inspired soft actuators and robots Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Gregor Neuert Research Focus: Quantitative Systems Biology of signal transduction and gene regulation of coding and non-coding RNA Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Jack Noble Research Focus: Medical image processing including image segmentation as well as other techniques related to computer-aided surgery. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Jeffry Nyman Research Focus: Diagnosing bone disease with MRI and Raman spectroscopy, Effect of diabetes on the fracture resistance of bone, Regulators of bone toughness and fracture healing Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Ipek Oguz Research Focus: Medical image analysis, image segmentation, machine learning, image registration Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Reed Omary Research Focus: Image-guided drug delivery for cancer; interventional radiology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	K. Arthur Overholser Research Focus: Engineering education. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Cynthia B. Paschal Research Focus: Engineering education; academic success; Former areas: MR angiography, MRI of lungs, cardiopulmonary MRI techniques and applications, CT Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Richard Alan Peters Research Focus: Digital image processing, computer vision, Digital signal processing, computer graphics, software engineering, electromagnetic theory, applied mathematics Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Wellington Pham Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging with focus on molecular probes and biomarkers for cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Baxter Rogers Research Focus: Neuroimaging analysis, with a focus on developing and applying image processing methods for functional and structural MRI. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Mikail Rubinov Research Focus: Integrative statistical models of big neuroscience networks, evolutionary principles of brain network organization, information transfer in neural systems, neuropsychiatric connectivity phenotypes Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Eric Spivey Research Focus: Microfluidics for single-cell imaging and analysis, design of ion source for high-resolution MALDI imaging mass spectrometry. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Yuankai (Kenny) Tao Research Focus: Optical imaging systems for clinical diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring in ophthalmology, gastroenterology, and oncology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	Sharon Weiss Research Focus: Light-matter interaction, silicon photonics, porous silicon biosensors, nanotechnology, nanocomposite materials Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10
	D. Mitchell Wilkes Research Focus: Digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision, digital signal processing hardware, structurally adaptive systems, sonar, signal modeling Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	10