About the lab
Quick facts
- Year founded: 2007
- Director: Xavier Intes, Ph.D.
- Graduate Concentration: Biomedical Engineering
Our laboratory goal is to develop quantitative thick-tissue optical imaging platforms for pre-clinical and clinical applications. We focus on three main areas: (a) design new optical tomographic imaging instrumentation; (b) develop new reconstruction algorithms for quantitative volumetric imaging; and (c) investigate optimal experimental and theoretical parameters for functional, molecular, and dynamical optical imaging.
Lab News
- Congratulations to Vivek who was awarded the Zelda and David G. Gisser Prize. It is awarded to a biomedical engineering graduate student whose dissertation is considered exemplary in the area of experimental work.
- 04/02/2012: New paper from Vivek published in Current Medical Imaging Reviews (learn more)
- Congratulations to Vivek who was awarded the Karen and Lester Gerhardt 2012 Prize. This prize was established to honor a full-time engineering or science doctoral candidate, who by the originality and insight of his or her work emphasizes the tradition of excellence that is Rensselaer.
- 04/02/2012: New paper from Lingling accepted in Biomaterials (learn more).
- 03/27/2012: Dr. Intes received the NSF CAREER award in Biophotonics: “CAREER: Whole-Body FRET Tomography.”
- 03/15/2012: The lab has been awarded a two-year, $378K R21 grant from the National Cancer Institute at the NIH. The grant will be used to develop a Multispectral Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (MFMT) tool capable of simultaneous tracking of multiple fluorophores in vivo in small animals.
- 01/15/2012: Monish defended successfully his Master Thesis: “Ex-vivo Molecular Optical Imaging of the Spine.” He will join SIEMENS as a research engineer.
- 01/24/2012: The lab work on wide-field optical tomography was presented in an invited talk at SPIE BIOS 2012, San Francisco.
- 12/15/2011: Vivek defended successfully his PhD thesis: “A small animal time-resolved optical tomography system using wide-field excitation.” He will join Dr Fragioni’s lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, as a postdoctoral fellow.
- 11/28/2011: The Lab has been awarded a two-year, $378K R21 grant from the National Cancer Institute at the NIH. The grant titled, “The 3D whole Body Distribution of NIR transferrin using FRET tomography imaging” is in collaboration with Dr. Barroso at the Center for Cardiovascular Research at Albany Medical College.
- 10/14/2011: Vivek was awarded a travel grant to attend WMIC 2011 and was selected as a semi-finalist (6 nominees) for the young innovator award.
- 09/27/2011: New paper from Jin published in Medical Physics (learn more).