Two New Papers from the BOTLab
Yanyu Zhao recently published his work on Quantum Yield Imaging in the Journal of Biomedical Optics:
Current and former undergrad researchers in the BOTLab recently published their methods for 3D printing optical phantoms in Biomedical Optics Express.
BOTLab presents at SPIE Photonics West
The BOTLab has three oral presentations this year at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco:
1. Yanyu Zhao, BME Ph.D. student: Spatial Mapping of Fluorophore Quantum Yield in Scattering Media
2. Fei Teng, ECE Ph.D. student: A wearable continuous-wave optical device for continuous monitoring during neoadjuvant chemotherapy infusions
3. Sanjana Pannem and Jordan Sweer: Customized three-dimensional printed optical phantoms with user-defined absorption and scattering
Undergraduate Researcher Jordan Sweer featured for his work in 3D printed phantoms
Jordan Sweer, an undergraduate researcher in the BOTLab, was recently featured in a video where he describes his work in 3D printed optical phantoms. Jordan is a recent recipient of the Joseph Healey Distinguished Fellowship for his work in our group, one of only three recipients this year at BU.
New video featuring the BOTLab as part of the Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care (CFTCC)
BOTLab raises money for ACS Relay for Life
The BOTlab's 9 member team participated in the 2015 BU ACS Relay for Life, raising more than $1500!
Congratulations to Sanjana Pannem for her UROP
Sanjana received a summer UROP to fund her work on 3-D printing optical phantoms.
Congratulations for Meghan Thommes for Teaching-as-Research Fellowship
BME Ph.D. student Meghan Thommes (PI Daniel Segre, Biology/BME), was awarded a Teaching-as-Research fellowship to help transform the junior level BME course BE491, Biomedical Measurements I, to improve the course labs and solidify teaching objectives. She will work with Professor Roblyer this summer to implement these changes.
Congratulations to Jordan Sweer on Summer Research Fellowship
BME Junior Jordan Sweet was awarded the prestigious Joseph Healey Distinguished Fellowship for the summer of 2015 in the BOTLab. This will support Jordan this summer as he investigates new 3-D printing techniques for fabricating optical phantoms, and comes with a $10,000 fellowship award for stipend and research funds.
BOTLab research featured in BU’s Daily Free Press
Check out a new article about our work and new DOD grant here
BOTLab research featured on BU Eng Website
BOTLab receives Department of Defense (DOD) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Era of Hope Award
Professor Roblyer has received the 2014 Department of Defense (DOD) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Era of Hope Award for work in monitoring treatment in early and late stage patients with breast cancer.
Congratulations to Shaheer Piracha on being awarded a 2015 UROP Fellowship
Shaheer was awarded a BU Undergraduate Research opportunity Program (UROP) fellowship for Spring 2015.
BOTLab featured in article about BU-BWH collaboration
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BOTLab research featured on Photonics.com
See the article here
Syeda Tabassum receives XTNC Fellowship
BotLab Ph.D. student Syeda Tabassum recently received a graduate fellowship through BU's Cross-Disciplinary Training in Nanotechnology for Cancer (XTNC) program.
New Collaborative Grant with Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The BotLab recently received a new 1-year pilot grant to spur collaboration with the Bringham and Women's Hospital. The grant will allow us to correlate our optical techniques with MRI and biochemical techniques during treatment of glioma with extracellular matrix proteases.
New Lab Photo
Our fall lab outing at Lucky Strike Bowling and Tasty Burger.
Congratulations to the BOTLab for a CFTCC grant to fund DOS instrumentation development
The BOTLab was awarded a 1 year grant from the Center For Future Technologies in Cancer Care (http://www.bu.edu/cftcc/) to continue development of a digital DOS prototype and wearable probe.
Congratulations to our 2014 ECE Senior Design Group for their Design Excellence Award
Our 2014 ECE senior design group won the Design Excellence Award for their work on developing a digital DOS system.
See an article about their Design Excellence Award here
From left to right: Professor Roblyer, Raeff Istfan, Chris Woodall (ECE senior design group), Fei Teng, Thomas Nadovich (ECE senior design group), Caroline Ekchian (ECE senior design group). Not pictured: Benjamin Havey (ECE senior design group)
BU ENG press release for BOTLab work in personalizing cancer treatments
http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=666&id=61422
Congratulations to Darren Roblyer for being named an American Cancer Society (ACS) Research Scholar
This comes with an ACS Research Scholar Grant for 2014-2017 to fund chemotherapy monitoring research with DOS and SFDI.
see sections entitled: "Personalized Cancer Treatment Takes Shape"
http://www.cancer.org/research/acsresearchupdates/more/exploring-all-avenues-to-stop-cancer
Congratulations to Shaheer Piracha on being awarded a Summer Term Alumni Research Scholar (STARS) fellowship
The Summer Term Alumni Research Scholars (STARS) Program is an undergraduate program that engages students in faculty-mentored full-time research experiences throughout the summer.
Congratulations to Fei Teng on his Acceptance and Fellowship for the Beckman Laser Institute Short Course in Computational Biophotonics, August 2013
Congratulations to Lauren Perry for being named an Intel Science Talent Search (STS) 2014 Semifinalist
Lauren was named a Semifinalist based on the work she conducted during summer 2013 in the BOTLab as part of the BU Research internship in Science and Engineering (RISE) program.
https://student.societyforscience.org/intel-sts-2014-semifinalists
Congratulations to Sanjana Pannem for being awarded a 2014 UROP Fellowship
Sanjana was awarded a BU Undergraduate Research opportunity Program (UROP) fellowship for Spring 2014.
Congratulations to Justin Jung for being awarded a 2013 UROP Fellowship
Justin was awarded a BU Undergraduate Research opportunity Program (UROP) fellowship for Fall 2013.
Congratulations to Justin Jung for his SPIE Photonics West 2014 Presentation
Justin Jung gave an oral presentation on: "A digital broad bandwidth frequency-domain Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (dDOS) system for multiplexed measurements in turbid media."
New Group Photo
- Lab Picture 2013
ECE Senior Design digital DOS video
Our 2013 ECE senior design group is building us a digital DOS system, here is a video they made for the project!
Lower noise frequency-domain measurements with new preamp
Raeef took new measurements with a much lower noise preamp made by the Boston University Electronics Design Facility (EDF). Below is a drift measurement (60 repeated measurements every minute for 1 hour) with an 850nm laser diode, taken from 50-500MHz on an optical phantom with a 3mm APD. Also shown are noise floor measurements for all 6 laser diodes.
First Frequency-Domain Measurements
Raeef helped to take out first few successful frequency-domain measurements through a tissue-simulating phantom on Dec 21, 2012. Below is a plot showing an overlay of 60 repeated measurements over an hour (a drift test) using an 808nm laser diode and APD receiver. There are some noise issues, but a great start!
Optical Tables Delivered!
Biomedical Optical Technologies Lab Opens its Doors!
The BOT lab officially opened July 1, 2012!