Collaborative project of Optics in Medicine Director Keith Paulsen, Dartmouth Engineering Professor Paul Meaney, and researchers at both Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the Geisel School of Medicine featured in Focus. Researchers at the Cancer Imaging and Radiobiology Research Program (CIR) at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center study and test new ways to get good images using techniques [...]
On Saturday, December 1st the Dartmouth Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence is hosting Cancer Nanotechnology Conference: Mechanisms in Nanoparticle Hyperthermia at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. The conference’s keynote speakers will discuss the applications of nanoparticle delivered hyperthermia mechanisms in both research and treatment regimes. The conference will also feature two panel discussions—one focusing [...]
Written by Hamid Dehghani in 2001, Near-Infrared Fluorescence and Spectral Tomography (NIRFAST) is an open source software package that allows users to model Near-Infrared light transport in tissue. Currently, Michael Jermyn, a graduate student in Dartmouth’s Optics in Medicine Laboratory, is moving the program to an open source platform and developing a number of new user [...]
Molecular Therapy has the potential to improve the prognosis for difficult to treat cancer types, including glioblastoma multiform and pancreatic cancer. By targeting tumors, this non-invasive form of treatment delivers drugs directly to cancerous cells without damaging healthy tissue. Currently, this approach to molecular imaging is being tested at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC). [...]
While screen-film mammography has been proven to reduce the mortality of the disease, the screening method has its limitations. As Professor Keith Paulsen explains in this video published by the Thayer School of Engineering, doctors often find the images created by mammography difficult to read due to “tissue overlap”—a type of distortion that occurs when [...]
On Monday, October 1st, the cancer research conducted by the Dartmouth Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (DCCNE) was featured on the website of NH Magazine. The article explains a number of non-invasive cancer treatment approaches, including targeted drug delivery. DCCNE is funded by $12.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Each year, members [...]
Titled Long Exposure Image, PhD student Adam Glaser describes describes the piece as: “Long exposure image of Čerenkov radiation and the induced fluorescence from a dilute amount of Fluorescein in water when irradiated with a medical LINAC megavoltage electron beam.” Check out the photo on the OSA’s website, and be sure to comment and share! [...]
Located on the second floor of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), the Advanced Imaging Center houses several imaging devices used by the Optics in Medicine Laboratory. Currently, graduate student Michael Mastanduno is testing a prototype that combines Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with Optical Tomography into a singular imaging device. This has the potential to [...]
Tomographic imaging creates three-dimensional models of breast cancer that supplement the information provided by mammograms, a breast cancer screening method commonly used in hospitals. Currently, the Optics in Medicine Laboratory is researching a number of methods to improve these imaging techniques, and is developing medical devices that integrate tomographic imaging with other tumor-modeling techniques. This July, [...]
The Optics and Medicine Laboratory would like to welcome its newest graduate student, Yan Zhao, to Hanover. Originally from Xuchang, China, Yan received his bachelors degree in engineering from Xian Jiaotong University. While at Jiaotong, Yan published a paper titled “Polarization dressings of four-wave mixing process in a V-type three-level atomic system” in Optics Communications. [...]