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  • Welcome Tongtong & Faraneh

    Tongtong Lu and Faraneh Fathi have joined the BISS group as new graduate students in August and September, respectively. Wellcome both!

  • Vivek defended his PhD proposal

    Vivek successfully defended the proposal for his PhD dissertation. Wonderful achievement! Congratulations!

  • Dr. Yu is now a SPIE senior member

  • Dr. Yu gave invited talks at CIOP and PIERS

    Dr. Yu gave two invited talks on Quantitative optical spectroscopy and imaging for cancer diagnosis and treatment monitoring at the 8th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2016) and Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2016),  both in Shanghai, China.

  • Xiangqian presented at 2016 CIOP

    Xiangqian gave an oral presentation on “Smartphone microendoscopy for high resolution fluorescence imaging,” to the 8th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2016), July 17-20, 2016, Shanghai.

  • Dr. Yu received Ohio TVSF Phase I award

    Dr. Yu’e team was awarded an Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation and Start-up Fund (TVSF) in the amount of $50,000 to test and validate a smartphone based medical device that can be used in low-resource countries to diagnose cervical cancer. Dr. Yu will be collaborating with Dr. En Cheng from Computer Science in the project.

  • Xianqian’s paper accepted by JIOHS

    Xiangqian Hong’s manuscript, entitled “Smartphone microendoscopy for high resolution fluorescence imaging” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences (JIOHS). Congratulations!

  • Vivek’s paper accepted by LSM

    Vivek Nagarajan’s manuscript, entitled “Monitoring of Tissue Optical Properties during Thermal Coagulation of ex-vivo Tissues” has been accepted for publication in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine (LSM). Congratulations!

  • Dr. Yu receives $462,580 award from NIH

    Dr. Bing Yu has been awarded a 3-year, $462,580 grant from the National Cancer Institute for his research project, entitled “Longitudinal assessment of tumor hypoxia in vivo using near-infrared spectroscopy.” The objective of this R15 grant is to develop a next generation frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy instrument for longitudinal assessment of tumor hypoxia and the efficacy…

  • The BISS Team received I-Corps@Ohio award

    The BISS Team has received the NSF I-Corps@Ohio award to commercialize a smart microendoscope (SmartME) for cervical cancer screening.