Brain researcher David Boas has been named as winner of the 2016 Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award, the Awards Committee for SPIE, the international society...
When David Boas steps on stage this month to receive the Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award he will have, in a sense, come full circle. Named...
By Mari Franceschini The CCHU is such a great place, an organized oasis in this underdeveloped country. It is a good example of how...
By Mari Franceschini For someone that has never been to Africa like me, the road to Mbale is a memorable drive. I was glued to the window...
By Mari Franceschini Ivy Lin, Jason Sutin and I went to the Cure Children’s Hospital of Uganda (CCHU) to study how hydrocephalus and...
The prevalence of unnecessary biopsies is an ongoing problem in breast cancer screening. Some three quarters of biopsies on lesions found in the breast turn...
October was a month of milestones for functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). With the third biennial fNIRS meeting and the official launch of the Society...
Novel optical technologies for imaging and manipulation of brain structure and function span from visualization of intracellular organelles and protein assemblies to noninvasive macroscopic investigation...
SPIE member David Boas (Massachusetts General Hospital) discusses techniques for understanding oxygen delivery through the vascular network, in “Optical Spectroscopy and Tomography of Oxygen Delivery:...
In 1993, four different groups reported a novel noninvasive technique with which to image hemodynamics in the brain. The technique – functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)...