Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Friday, November 30, 2007
Optical Imaging for Medicine and Biology: Applications in Cancer Detection
8:00AM-4:00PM, Cocktail Hour 4:00-5:00PM
The Photonics Center
8 Saint Mary's Street, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Host:
Professor Jerome Mertz, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Boston University
College of Engineering
44 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

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Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Speaker: Guillermo J. Tearney MD PhD

Title: Cardiovascular Optical Reflectance Microscopy

Optical reflectance microscopy holds great promise for visualizing cardiovascular microstructure in vivo. In this talk I will present work conducted in our laboratory that utilizes reflectance microscopy to image architectural and cellular microstructure in diverse biological systems ranging from the xenopus embryonic heart to coronary arteries in human patients. Our finding show that several techniques, including spectrally encoded confocal microscopy, full-field optical coherence microscopy, optical coherence tomography, and optical frequency domain imaging, have roles in helping us understand developmental cardiovascular pathophysiology and diagnosing coronary artery disease. These same techniques may additionally provide important avenues to improved diagnosis and management of patients with cancer.

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