Joint BME/VISE Guest Seminar: Biomedical Optics: Image-Guided Interventions in Oncology and Ophthalmology. WEDNESDAY January 13, 1:10pm. SC 5326.
Title: Biomedical Optics: Image-Guided Interventions in Oncology and Ophthalmology
Speaker: Yuankai Kenny Tao, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmic Research, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Date: ***Wednesday, January 13th*** Stevenson Center 5326
Time: ***1:10 pm***
Place: Stevenson Center 5326
Abstract: Optical imaging techniques are particularly attractive for visualizing tissue morphology, biological dynamics, and disease pathogenesis because they enable noninvasive access to diagnostic information and surrogate biomarkers of disease. Nonlinear microscopy (NLM) provides subcellular resolution and improved molecular specificity and penetration depths over conventional white-light and fluorescence imaging of endogenous and exogenous contrast agents in in vivo and ex vivo tissues. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables real-time, depth resolved optical biopsies of weakly scattering tissue and has demonstrated strong clinical potential in ophthalmic, intracoronary, and endoscopic imaging. Novel developments in NLM, OCT, and complimentary optical imaging technologies will be presented in the context of clinical translation in which structural, functional, and molecular contrast can be leveraged to provide both diagnostic information and real-time feedback for image guided therapeutics in oncology and ophthalmology.