Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory (BAIL)
Ruikang
(Ricky) Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Optics, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Ricky’s background includes metrology
(by training), mechanical engineering, optical
information processing with emphasis on optical pattern recognition, and optics
with emphasis on light propagation in biotissues.
Current research interests in BAIL laboratory include:
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High
resolution functional optical imaging using coherence gating and confocal
gating techniques as applied to healthcare. Our major focus is to use optical
coherence tomography to investigate and extract parameters (physical and
physiological) from biological tissues, the examples of which are microstructures,
flow, birefringence and elastic properties. The OCT systems we are researching
on include the time-domain OCT, frequency domain OCT, Doppler OCT,
polarization-sensitive OCT, whole field optical coherence microscopy, transillumination optical computed tomography, etc
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Optical
biopsy and functional imaging in tissue engineering. This includes the
development of optical techniques for use in tissue engineering to non-invasively and non-destructively monitor the tissue growth
profiles for engineered tissue constructs. The areas of tissue engineering
interests are the blood vessels and hard tissue engineering (tendon, bone,
cartilage etc.)
·
Photoacoustic
imaging. We are currently establishing photoacoustic imaging
systems to non-invasively map vascular network and hemoglobin concentrations
within blood perfused tissue beds.
·
Optical
projection tomography, including transilluminated
optical computed tomography. This modality of imaging offers the opportunity to
map the absorption distribution and refractive index distribution of biological
tissue across over 10mm in dimension.
·
Light
propagation in biological tissue, including optical clearing of biotissues.
Contact information:
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Mail code: CH13B
Email: wangr<AT>ohsu.edu Please replace
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