Irving Bigio
Professor
PhD, University of Michigan, 1974
Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics Laboratory
(617) 358-1987
webpage
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).