{"id":9171,"date":"2025-11-10T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=9171"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:24:53","slug":"irving-bigio","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/profile\/irving-bigio\/","title":{"rendered":"Irving Bigio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2026 REU Project: <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/02\/19\/bigio\/\" style=\"color: #008080;\">Polarized-light microscopic imaging of different tissues<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The focus of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irving Bigio&#8217;s Biomedical Optics Lab<\/a><\/strong> is the development of minimally-invasive research-oriented and clinical (both diagnostic and therapeutic) tools, based on optical technologies. Applications span the breadth of the human body.<\/p>\n<p>The lab&#8217;s projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optical Biopsy: we develop tools to measure non-invasively the reflectance spectrum of biological tissues to diagnose diseases such as cancer and to identify tissue types.<\/li>\n<li>Sensors to monitor the response of tumors to specific treatments.<\/li>\n<li>Real-time imaging feedback systems for tissue profiling and guidance during surgery.<\/li>\n<li>Optical methods for noninvasive imaging of neural activation and brain function.<\/li>\n<li>Birefringence microscopy for high-resolution imaging of myelin and cerebral arteries, relevant to neurodegenerative diseases and neuronal connectivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a href='https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&#038;user=TLFlK60AAAAJ&#038;view_op=list_works' class='button button'>Publications<\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":19768,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19768"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10679,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9171\/revisions\/10679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}