Top Italian Women Scientists
The Center’s Maria Angela Franceschini has been named one of the Top Italian Women Scientists. This honor recognizes Italian women whose research has had a...
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Postdoctoral Fellow position available in Carp Group
A Post Doc position is open in Dr Carp’s Lab to work on instrumentation, data processing algorithms, as well as validation and clinical studies for...
BU Neurophotonics Symposium 2017
Professor David Boas is chairing the 21st Annual Photonics Center Neurophotonics Symposium, hosted by the Boston University Photonics Center. The symposium brings together cutting-edge researchers...
Shedding light on the neonatal brain: probing cerebral hemodynamics by diffuse optical spectroscopic method
Our latest paper on healthy newborn brain’s optical properties is out: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15995-1
Dr Boas and Dr Franceschini elected OSA Fellows
The Board of Directors of The Optical Society (OSA) elected Dr Franceschini and Dr Boas as Fellow of the Society Maria Angela Franceschini Massachusetts General...
Pilot study of a new supplementary food designed to enhance cognitive performance of malnourished children
Our paper reporting the Guinea Bissau pilot study results is finally out! http://cdn.nutrition.org/content/asnaoa/early/2017/10/12/cdn.117.000885.full.pdf
fNIRS: Enabling Routine Functional Brain Imaging
A fNIRS review article from BU Neurophotonics & Optics @ Martinos has just been published in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. Here is the link...
Dr Franceschini awarded a NIH BRAIN Initiative R01
Maria Angela Franceschini has been awarded $905,096 through the NIH BRAIN Initiative to develop a near-infrared spectroscopy system with optical sensors that will be worn...
Multicolor and multidistance DCS for quantitative measures of blood flow
Davide Tamborini and Parisa Farzam just published a new paper entitled “Development and characterization of a multidistance and multiwavelength diffuse correlation spectroscopy system” in the...
Nutrition and Brain Growth in the Developing World
Researcher Maria Angela Franceschini recently completed a study of nutrition and brain development in Guinea-Bissau. Read more at: news.martinos.org/nutrition-brain-growth-developing-world