Botlab Ph.D. student Kavon Karrobi was recently awarded a prestigious F99/K00 from the NCI. This is a new mechanism that provides support for both Ph.D. work and a postdoctoral fellowship. From the NCI: The NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition (F99/K00) Award supports outstanding Ph.D. and other Research Doctoral candidates complete their dissertation research training […]
Rice BIOE Alumni Awards
I was proud to work with colleagues Jonathan Liu, Ricky Wang, and Melissa Skala on this new book chapter on Imaging Metabolism: M Wall, T Heaster, K Tilbury, WJ Choi, Darren Roblyer, R Wang, M Skala, J.T.C. Liu, “Chapter 5: Metabolic Imaging Approaches: Optical Imaging”, Imaging and Metabolism, Jason S. Lewis and Kayvan R. Keshari […]
Ph.D. student Hannah Peterson presented a poster on our Osteosarcoma work at AACR 2017: HM Peterson, BH Hoang, D Geller, R Gorlick, R Yang, J Berger, J Tingling, M Roth, J Gill, Darren Roblyer, “Clinical Feasibility of Chemotherapy Monitoring for Bone Sarcoma Patients with Diffuse Optical Spectroscopic Imaging ”, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) […]
The BOTLab had two poster presentations at ECI Snowmass 2017: M Applegate, Darren Roblyer, “High-speed Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging (SFDI) with temporally modulated light.”, ECI Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine, and Surgery XV, Snowmass, Colorado, July 2017, poster presentation, poster prize: 3rd place V Pera, K Karrobi, S Tabassum, Darren Roblyer, “Exploiting diffuse reflectance […]
Link to paper
We’ve published a number of papers in the last few months, here’s the list: Our new JBO paper on ultrafast optical property extractions in tissue, link here A. Torjesen, R Istfan, Darren Roblyer, “Ultrafast wavelength multiplexed broad bandwidth digital diffuse optical spectroscopy for in vivo extraction of tissue optical properties,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, 22(3), 036009 […]
The BOTLab has three oral presentations this year at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco: Darren Roblyer, Alyssa Torjesen, Raeef Istfan, Rachita Chaudhury, “Ultra-fast frequency domain Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy using miniaturized sources and detectors towards quantitative wearables”, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, California, February 2016, invited oral presentation Darren Roblyer, Syeda Tabassum, Junjie Wu, David […]
Rachita was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) award to work on a frequency-domain wearable probe this semester.
We were recently awarded a new grant to explore pediatric sarcoma using Diffuse Optics from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.