Author: Cristina Zhao

Meiqi is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering Department. She obtained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology, China. Her research in the group is on the development of computational and hardware adaptive optics approaches for OCT-based imaging in mouse brain.

We have received our first NIH grant, from the NIBIB, to develop OCT-based imaging of cell force dynamics during cancer cell migration in 3D environments.  This research, which is being undertaken in collaboration with the Reinhart-King Lab, aims to demonstrate OCT-based traction force microscopy for the study of single as well as collective behavior of cell populations.

Group kayaking adventure on Cayuga lake, spending some well earned time out of the lab (photo by Jeff…from his kayak):

Congrats Asher for winning the best poster in the Bio-Signals category at the annual ECE M.Eng poster competition!

This award, from Cornell’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), will support research aimed at extending the imaging depth limits of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and three-photon microscopy (3PM) by leveraging both computational and hardware adaptive optics. We are collaborating with the Xu Lab to demonstrate this approach for multimodal OCT and 3PM deep in the mouse brain.

Siyang is a PhD student in ECE department. He obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. His research in the group is focused on computational and hardware adaptive optics for OCT imaging in biomedical applications.

Han Tang wins one of the two Hamamatsu Best Paper Awards ($500 each) for her talk and proceedings manuscript “GPU-based computational adaptive optics for volumetric optical coherence microscopy” at the SPIE Photonics West BIOS 2016 conference “High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy: Toward Big Data Instrumentation and Management.”

Well done Han and co-authors!

Tang H., Mulligan J.A., Untracht G.R., Zhang X. and Adie S.G, “GPU-based computational adaptive optics for volumetric optical coherence microscopy”, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, 13-18 February 2016.

This was the first Photonics West conference for the group and we had 3 presentations:

Invited talk: Adie S.G. and Mulligan J.A., “Computational adaptive optics for broadband interferometric tomography of tissues and cells”, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, 13-18 February 2016.

Tang H., Mulligan J.A., Untracht G.R., Zhang X. and Adie S.G, “GPU-based computational adaptive optics for volumetric optical coherence microscopy”, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, 13-18 February 2016.

Mulligan J.A. and Adie S.G., “Computational point spread function engineering for optical coherence tomography (poster presentation)”, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, 13-18 February 2016.

Nichaluk (Nikki) Leartprapun is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering. She has an M.S. in Bioengineering Innovation and Design from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University. Her research in the group is focused on the development of optical coherence elastography for cancer research.

Jeffrey has just been selected to receive a GAANN Fellowship…congrats Jeff!

This one-year Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship is funded by a training from the US Department of Education. The goal of this grant is to increase the number of well-trained BME PhDs, with an emphasis on promoting diversity and developing the teaching skills of GAANN Fellows.