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The price for the best poster presentation on the Biomedical Engineering Research Symposium 2022 goes to Brent Weyers.

Title of the poster: "In Vivo Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging In H&N Oncology: An 88-Patient Study Demonstrating Cancer Detection and Confirmation of Negative Surgical Margins"

Xiangnan Zhou has made it: he successfully received his PhD on March 4th, 2022.

His thesis topic: "Novel optical techniques for characterization of native and engineered cartilage and the development of APD based fluorescence lifetime imaging system". 

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Presentation Title: Intraoperative Label-Free Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging for Real-Time Delineation of Oropharyngeal Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Origin

Presentation Title: Intraoperative Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIm) for Tumor Delineation and Surgical Guidance of Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancer

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Here the presentetion titles:

Laura Marcu: "Label-free fluorescence lifetime techniques for image-guided surgery"

Julien Bec: "Label-free assessment of biochemical markers of atherosclerotic plaque progression using intravascular fluorescence lifetime"

Alba Alfonso García: "Assessment of murine gut dysbiosis with intraluminal fluorescence lifetime imaging"

Takanori Fukazawa: "Head and neck cancer visualization using deep learning combined with fluorescence lifetime imaging and white light imaging"

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Presenter: Laura Marcu - “Optics in the Operating Room”
Poster Presentation: Brent Weyers - "Intraoperative Delineation of Oral Cancer & Oropharyngeal Cancer Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIm)"

Marcu Lab receives R01 Grant to investigate Label-free fluorescence lifetime imaging for intraoperative real-time guidance of neurosurgical procedures

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Here are the presentation title:

Brent Weyers: "Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIm) for intraoperative pathology detection in transoral robotic surgery" 

Tanveer Ahmad Shaik: "FLIm guided Raman imaging for detecting bovine pericardium cross-links and calcification"

Tanveer Ahmad Shaik: "FLIm and Raman imaging for detecting micro-environmental changes in bovine pericardium upon genipin cross-linking"

Julien Bec: "Novel broadband freeform micro-optics for multimodal FLIm-OCT intravascular catheter"

UC Davis Hosts JEDIS Summer School on Biophotonics in Translational Research, see article here.

2nd Best Poster: Brent Weyers - “Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIm) for Intraoperative Pathology Detection in Transoral Robotic Surgery“

3rd Best Presentation: Tanveer Ahmed Shaik - “FLIm-guided Raman Imaging to Detect Bovine Pericardium Cross-links and Calcification”