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WFU Physics Colloquium

TITLE: Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Imaging Contrast and Elastography using Optical Coherence Tomography

SPEAKER: Professor Amy Oldenburg ,

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

TIME: Wednesday September 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM

PLACE: Room 101 Olin Physical Laboratory

Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM in the Olin Lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend.

ABSTRACT

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging non-invasive biomedical imaging modality on a scale similar to histology. In the first half, I will present the development, from an engineering physics point of view, of a novel contrast method for OCT employing magnetic nanoparticles for targeting cell surface receptors in atherosclerosis and breast cancer. In the second half, I will discuss new elastography imaging techniques that are evolving from this technology, and their potential application in cystic fibrosis.

100 Olin Physical Laboratory
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7507
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