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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
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Justin Baba

Research Focus: Optical biosensing; non-invasive diagnostics; motion corrected imaging and sensing
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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
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Daniel Brown

Research Focus: Intravascular measurement of therapeutic endpoints and catheter/ablation tracking to target delivery of brachy/chemotherapy
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Amanda Buck

Research Focus: hemodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, MRI, cardiovascular imaging
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Brett Byram

Research Focus: Medical ultrasound; signal processing; elasticity imaging; ultrasonic imaging and beamforming
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Catie Chang

Research Focus: Functional neuroimaging techniques and applications; signal processing and computational analysis
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Andre Churchwell

Research Focus: Engineering Design Education
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Christos Constantinidis

Research Focus: Neuroengineering, deep brain stimulation, working memory, cognitive development, prefrontal cortex
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Bruce Damon

Research Focus: Development and application of magnetic resonance imaging methods for studying healthy and pathologic skeletal muscle structure and function
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Zhaohua Ding

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging and integrated studies of brain structure and function
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Mark Does

Research Focus: MRI, neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, MR microscopy
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Dario Englot

Research Focus: Brain networks in epilepsy and other neurological disorders; Functional and anatomic neuroimaging; Human electrophysiology; Functional neurosurgery
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Yurui Gao

Research Focus: Small animal and human MRI imaging (diffusion/functional MRI), medical image processing and analysis.
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John Gore

Research Focus: Development and application of biomedical imaging techniques
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Kevin Harkins

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging, computational modeling, optimization
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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
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Yu Huang

Research Focus: Software Engineering, Human Factors, Medical Imaging, Eye Tracking, Mobile Sensing, Open Source Software, Software-hardware Co-design
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Yuankai Huo

Research Focus: Biomedical data representation, biomedical image processing, machine learning, data science
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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
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Karen Joos

Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for ophthalmic surgery. Primary research areas use of optical coherence tomography.
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Bennett Landman

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging.
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Matthew Lang

Research Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology
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Ilwoo Lyu

Research Focus: Computer vision, surface registration, computational neuroanatomy, shape analysis
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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.
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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.
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Justus Ndukaife

Research Focus: Nanophotonics, microfluidics, novel bio-inspired soft actuators and robots
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Gregor Neuert

Research Focus: Quantitative Systems Biology of signal transduction and gene regulation of coding and non-coding RNA
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Jack Noble

Research Focus: Medical image processing including image segmentation as well as other techniques related to computer-aided surgery.
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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
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Ipek Oguz

Research Focus: Medical image analysis, image segmentation, machine learning, image registration
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Reed Omary

Research Focus: Image-guided drug delivery for cancer; interventional radiology
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K. Arthur Overholser

Research Focus: Engineering education.
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Cynthia B. Paschal

Research Focus: Engineering education; academic success; Former areas: MR angiography, MRI of lungs, cardiopulmonary MRI techniques and applications, CT
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Richard Alan Peters

Research Focus: Digital image processing, computer vision, Digital signal processing, computer graphics, software engineering, electromagnetic theory, applied mathematics
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Wellington Pham

Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging with focus on molecular probes and biomarkers for cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Baxter Rogers

Research Focus: Neuroimaging analysis, with a focus on developing and applying image processing methods for functional and structural MRI.
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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
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Eric Spivey

Research Focus: Microfluidics for single-cell imaging and analysis, design of ion source for high-resolution MALDI imaging mass spectrometry.
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Yuankai (Kenny) Tao

Research Focus: Optical imaging systems for clinical diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring in ophthalmology, gastroenterology, and oncology
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Sharon Weiss

Research Focus: Light-matter interaction, silicon photonics, porous silicon biosensors, nanotechnology, nanocomposite materials
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D. Mitchell Wilkes

Research Focus: Digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision, digital signal processing hardware, structurally adaptive systems, sonar, signal modeling
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