17th annual fNIRS course
Our 17th annual fNIRS course is scheduled for Nov 1-3, 2017 in Boston. This intensive course mixing lectures and hands-on training with a growing focus on hands-on...
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The Martinos Center Views the Eclipse as Only It Can
Members of the Martinos Center community, along with family and friends, gathered on the waterfront yesterday to view the solar eclipse. Continue reading at: news.martinos.org/martinos-center-views-eclipse-as-only-it-can/
SPIE Translational Research Award Goes to Optics Division Investigator
Parisa Farzam, a postdoctoral fellow in the Martinos Center Optics Division, received the 2017 Translational Research Award this week at the annual Photonics West meeting...
Dr Franceschini receives the 2016 Distinguished Investigator Award
The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research is pleased to announce that 38 researchers received this award in 2016. Please join us in congratulating...
Zen And The Art Of Sailboat Maintenance: David Boas On The Early Days Of Biomedical Optics
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...
Optical imaging could lead to fewer unnecessary biopsies in breast cancer screening
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...
The Birth of an Academic Society
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...
Neuroimage celebrates 20 years of functional near-infrared spectroscopy
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)...
David Boas to serve as editor-in-chief of new journal, Neurophotonics
Martinos Center researcher David Boas will helm a new journal to be launched by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, in 2014. The...
Connecting the dots in the BRAIN
The Martinos Center’s Anna Devor and colleagues have outlined a collective vision for what we can achieve through the NIH BRAIN Initiative. In a recently...