Irving Bigio

Irving Bigio Professor
PhD, University of Michigan, 1974

Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics Laboratory


(617) 358-1987
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office: ERO 233
office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 9:30–10:30 AM

Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • Fellow: Optical Society of America, American Society for Lasers In Medicine and Surgery, American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering
  • 2007 Faculty Service Award
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Biomedical Optics
  • Associate Editor, Lasers in the Life Sciences
  • Invited Nominator, 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics

Classes Taught

  • EK130 Introduction to Engineering
  • BE 491 Engineering Physiology Laborator
  • EC 770 Guided-wave Optoelectronics
  • EC/BE 765 Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics

Research Interests

  • medical application of optics lasers, and spectroscopy
  • biophotonics
  • nonlinear optics
  • applied spectroscopy
  • laser physics

Selected Publications

  • Invited review:  “Spectroscopic Sensing of Cancer and Cancer Chemotherapy, current status of translational research” Irving J Bigio and Stephen G. Bown, Cancer Biology and Therapy 3, no.3, 259-267 (2004)
  • “Particle sizing with a fast polar nephelometer,” Jean Luc Castagner and Irving J Bigio, Applied Optics 46, 527-532 (Feb. 2007).
  • “Optical method for real-time monitoring of drug concentrations facilitates the development of novel methods for drug delivery to brain tissue,” Roberto Reif, Mei Wang, Shailendra Joshi, Ousama Aamar and Irving J Bigio, J. Biomedical Optics, 12(3), 034036 (May/June 2007)
  • “An analytical model of light reflectance for extraction of the optical properties in small volumes of turbid media,” Roberto Reif, Ousama A’Amar and Irving J. Bigio, Applied Optics 46, 7317-7328 (Oct. 2007)
  • “Elastic scattering spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool for apoptosis in cell cultures,” C.S. Mulvey, A.L. Curtis, S.K. Singh and I.J. Bigio, Invited paper: IEEE J. Select. Topics in Quant. Electron. 13, 1663-1670 (Oct. 2007).