Biomedical Optics and Imaging

Department Faculty

Taner Akkin

Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical optics and imaging

Shai Ashkenazi

Biomedical Engineering

Bioimaging, instrumentation

Bin He

Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical imaging, neuroengineering, bioinstrumentation, biomodeling

Tay Netoff

Biomedical Engineering

Study of epilepsy, in vitro calcium imaging of seizures

Paolo Provenzano

Biomedical Engineering

Quantitative cancer biology, cell-matrix interactions, signal transduction, mechanotransduction, advanced optical imaging/biophotonics

Alena Talkachova

Biomedical Engineering

Cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, numerical modeling

Faculty with Graduate Education Responsibilities

Patrick Bolan

Radiology

MRI/MRS techniques for  cancer detection and therapy response

Wei Chen

Radiology

Study of brain metabolism and function using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI) technologies

Afshin Divani

Neurosurgery

Cerebrovascular diseases and stroke, spinal cord injury, endovascular/implantable devices, medical signal and image processing, traumatic brain injury

Emad Ebbini

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ultrasonic signal processing, image-guided therapeutic systems, real-time 3D ultrasonic imaging, diffraction tomography and inverse problems, phased-array pattern synthesis, imaging through inhomogeneities

Timothy Ebner

Neuroscience

Cerebellum and motor cortex control of limb movements, optical imaging of the brain

Melissa Gardner

Genetics, Cell Biology & Development

Computational biology, quantitative fluorescence microscopy, single-molecule TIRF microscopy, genetics

Michael Garwood

Radiology

Non-invasive nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI) methodologies for cancer research

Benjamin Hackel

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Molecular imaging, engineering proteins, tumor targeting

Bruce Hammer

Radiology

Biotechnology, MR safety/compatability of medical devices, industrial process monitoring

Greg Metzger

Radiology

Prostate cancer, ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging

Joachim Mueller

Physics

Experimental biophysics, two-photon excitation microscopy, fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy

David Thomas

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Molecular dynamics of energy transduction in muscle using site-directed spectroscopic probes

Kamil Ugurbil

Radiology

Development of ultrahigh field magnetic resonance methodology for MR imaging and spectroscopy

Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele

Radiology

Medical imaging

Thomas Vaughan

Radiology

Biomedical instrumentation, electromagnetics design and modeling, magnetic resonance imaging

Jay Zhang

Medicine

Cardiology, NMR spectroscopic study of myocardial bioenergetics, cardiac applications of MRS and MRI, heart energetics