New Views of Inside the
Body: Optical
Imaging for Biomedical Applications
Seeing
Inside: Optical Frequency Domain Imaging
and Ultra-Miniature Endoscopy
Gary Tearney, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard
Medical School; Assistant Physicist, Wellman Center for Photomedicine; Program
Leader, Optical Diagnostics, CIMIT, gtearney@partners.org
Moderator: Sergio Fantini, Phd, Associate Dean for Graduate Education,
School of Engineering, Tufts University,
sergio.fantini@tufts.edu
Developments in the field of optical diagnostics offer new ways to conduct
microscopy inside the human body and to perform three-dimensional endoscopy
through very small, flexible probes. Dr. Tearney will describe these
technologies and the current challenges to their widespread adoption.
Endo-Microscopy and
Biomechanical Engineering: Novel Technologies and Applications
Seok-Hyun (Andy) Yun, PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical
School; Assistant Physicist, MGH, syun@partners.org
Moderator: Tayyaba Hasan, PhD, Professor of Dermatology, HMS;
Director, Office for Research Career Development, Wellman Center for
Photomedicine, MGH, thasan@partners.org
Recent advances in minimally-invasive high-resolution optical imaging
technologies offer great promise. Dr. Yun is exploring in vivo
cellular-level fluorescence endo-microscopy for a variety of translational
investigations using small-animal models. He will present some of his work in
novel Brillouin microscopy which can be utilized to probe the biomechanical
properties of the lens and cornea for clinical diagnosis of ocular problems.