{"id":9,"date":"2017-08-29T19:48:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/dkang\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-02-09T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T21:27:36","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Low-cost <em>in vivo<\/em> microscopy technologies<\/h3>\r\n<p>Innovative medical imaging technologies often face challenges\u00a0in wide clinical adoption due to the high device cost. We have developed the world&#8217;s first <strong>Smartphone-based Confocal Microscope<\/strong> that can examine microscopic details of human skin in vivo. We continue to develop\u00a0low-cost <em>in vivo<\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 0.95em\">microscopy devices for various clinical applications<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.95em\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-154 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/SmartphoneConfocal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"271\" data-id=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/SmartphoneConfocal.jpg 547w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/SmartphoneConfocal-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/Video-1-Manual-translation-of-the-smartphone-confocal-microscope.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"273\" data-id=\"149\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><em>to find out more: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/BOE.9.001906\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/BOE.9.001906<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<h3>Smartphone-based <em>ex vivo<\/em> tissue microscopy<\/h3>\r\n<p>We are developing smartphone based <em>ex vivo<\/em> tissue microscopy technologies that can examine the freshly excised tissues at the point of care. The smartphone epifluorescence microscopy can reveal biomarkers relevant to various human diseases.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"359\" data-id=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/IMG_6140-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-157 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/PancreaticTumor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"377\" data-id=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/PancreaticTumor.jpg 218w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/PancreaticTumor-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/PancreaticTumor-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/01\/PancreaticTumor-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>to find out more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/BOE.11.000089\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/BOE.11.000089<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-cost in vivo microscopy technologies Innovative medical imaging technologies often face challenges\u00a0in wide clinical adoption due to the high device cost. We have developed the world&#8217;s first Smartphone-based Confocal Microscope that can examine microscopic details of human skin in vivo. We continue to develop\u00a0low-cost in vivo\u00a0microscopy devices for various clinical applications. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 to find out more: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/BOE.9.001906\u00a0 Smartphone-based ex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/dkang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}