David Boas featured in new SPIE article
David Boas, in addition to other BU researchers, were recently featured in a new SPIE article discussing their advancements in detecting blood circulation problems
Jiabei Zhu of Tian’s Group Wins OPTICA Student Paper Competition – 3D Imaging Sub-Division
Another student within Lei Tian’s research group, Jiabei Zhu, has been awarded the win for OPTICA’s Student Paper Award, this time in the field of “3D Imaging Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications (3D)” Zhu’s paper, “3D Phase Imaging from Intensity Measurements with Non-Paraxial Multiple Scattering Model” stood out among four potential candidates from top […]
Scientist Profile – Professor David Boas
Since 2017, Professor David Boas, founding director of the BU Neurophotonics Center (NPC), has been building an interdisciplinary community to develop and deploy photonics technologies that allow scientists to use light to study the brain in impactful new ways.
Neuroscience Beyond the Lab
Incoming Neurophotonics Center assistant professor Matthias Stangl is looking into the “how” and “why” of neural mechanisms. By Danny Giancioppo: Neuroscientist Matthias Stangl will be joining the Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Neurophotonics Center (NPC), the Center for Systems Neuroscience, and the Cognitive Neuroimaging Center this January after an already impressive career at […]
Hao Wang of the Tian Group Wins OPTICA Student Paper Award
Following up the several BU graduate students to be named as finalists in OPTICA’s recent Student Paper Award, Hao Wang of Lei Tian’s research group has won for the paper “Wide-field, high-resolution reflection-mode Fourier ptychographic microscopy.”
Darren Roblyer to Lead New SPIE Journal
Professor Roblyer will be serving as the editor-in-chief of SPIE‘s latest journal, “Biophotonics Discovery (BIOS),” beginning publication in early 2024. The journal will serve as an outlet for new and advancing technologies, research, and findings within the biophotonics field, a burgeoning subdivision of both biology and photonics. This is publication also serves as an outlet through which […]
New Article from Jerome Mertz & Mike Economo
Professors Mertz, Economo, et al. were recently published in Nature Neuroscience for “High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled neuronal populations”
Xiaojun Cheng Wins $2.7 million 5-year NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant
Assistant Professor Xiaojun Cheng was the lead PI in this project on “A transformative method for functional brain imaging with Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy,” with co-PI David Boas. Abstract: Advances in non-invasive monitoring of human brain function under normal and pathological conditions will lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain in health and […]
A Giant Leap in Detecting Brain Activity
BU researchers developed a new method and microscope allowing them to see electrical activity between brain cells in exquisite detail
Lei Tian’s Team Granted Scialog Award for Advanced Bioimaging
Professor Lei Tian’s team was among nine teams recently awarded a collective $1 million in funding as an initiative aiming to catalyze advances in imaging technologies.