Music and Rhythm-based Technology Helps Stroke Survivors Improve Walking Ability in Nationwide Clinical Trial

Nearly 800,000 Americans experience a stroke each year, making it a leading cause of disability. One common condition after a stroke is hemiparesis – muscle weakness or partial paralysis – which can make movement slower and more difficult. Walking, and in particular independent walking outside the home, poses a significant challenge for as many as 85 […]

Hadi T. Nia and Team Publish Back-to-Back Articles

Hadi T. Nia, Junior Faculty member at the Neurophotonics and Photonics Centers, announced today that his team had two articles published back-to-back in ScienceDirect. The first article, “Multiscale elasticity mapping of biological samples in 3D at optical resolution”, published by Kathryn Regas et. al, presents a new platform: “µElastography,” a “scalable elastography system that maps […]

New Article from David Boas and Xiaojun Cheng

Professors Boas and Cheng were recently published in the Optica Publishing Group’s “Biomedical Optics Express” for their team’s research on “Dynamic light scattering and laser speckle contrast imaging of the brain: theory of the spatial and temporal statistics of speckle pattern evolution”