Amanda Dayton attended North Carolina State University and earned the degree of B. S. in biomedical Engineering. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the ARCS Foundation.
Amanda started at the Oregon Medical Laser Center in the fall of 2005 as a volunteer biomedical engineer who quickly became a paid engineer. She matriculated in the department of Biomedical Engineering at OHSU the next year in the fall of 2006. She is working on technologies to improve breast tumor excision.
2008A. L. Dayton, S. A. Prahl, "Turbid-polyurethane phantom for microscopy," SPIE Proceedings on Design and Performance Validation of Phantoms Used in Conjunction with Optical Measurements of Tissue, 6870, (2008).