Fall 2024 was a great time for publications! Three papers were published (and other four submitted), two focusing on applications of multiphoton imaging and one on polarization-sensitive imaging in the brain! See below:

Carlson R, Comrie CJ, Bonaventura J, Morara K, Daigle N, Hutchinson EB, and Sawyer TW. Backscattering Mueller matrix polarimetry estimates microscale anisotropy and orientation in complex brain tissue structure. J. Med. Imag. 12(1), 016001 (2024).

Montague J, Hutchens G, Howard C, Rice P, Besselsen D, Slayton M, Utzinger U, Barton JK, and Sawyer TW. Multiphoton microscopy assessment of healing from tendon laceration and microthermal coagula. L. Surg. Med. (2024).

Montague J, Young L, Shir H, Sawyer TW, Nfonsam V, Routh J, and Barton JK. Feasibility of non-imaging, random-sampling second harmonic generation measurements to distinguish colon cancer. Biophotonics Discovery. 1(3), 035001 (2024).

Congratulations to several lab members on successful defenses in the last year! Dr. Yuanxin Guan defended her PhD dissertation titled “Advancing refractive error care through novel methods of measuring prescription lens and ocular distortion.”

Also this past summer, Kyle Hawkins defended his MS thesis “Depolarization characteristics of biological tissues in transmissive imaging configurations over the visible spectrum.”

And this past winter, Dr. Thomas Knapp defended his dissertation titled “Leveraging label-free multiphoton microscopy for diagnostic applications: probing tissue biology for enhanced disease detection and analysis!”

Travis was recently interviewed by Logan Graves and featured on his Spotlight report! Logan has other great interviews on his channel as well – check them out!

Video: https://youtu.be/PVsmA09V5eE

Audio: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-spotlight-report/episodes/Travis-Sawyer-on-Early-Cancer-Detection-with-Multimodal-Optical-Imaging-e2o171g

Forum: https://community.eleoptics.com/t/travis-sawyer-on-early-cancer-detection-with-multimodal-optical-imaging/421

See the press release here! https://www.frontiersinoptics.com/home/media-center/conference-news/integrating-mri-and-oct-for-new-insights-into-brai

Both Tom and Natzem had papers published this Spring – Tom’s paper was focused on tile correction in mosaic-based microscopy images and Natzem’s focused on engineering aspects of multispectral fluorescence imaging systems – great job!

Natzems: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.63.5.055105

Toms:https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.29.1.016007

Justina, Noelle and Shuyuan all had their research featured on journal covers!
https://www.optics.arizona.edu/news/optical-sciences-students-research-featured-covers-journals-showcasing-impactful-work

Congratulations Noelle for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and to Justina for being accepted into the NIH Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems training grant!
https://www.optics.arizona.edu/news/wyant-college-students-selected-nsf-grfp-program

Great job Natzem for passing his comprehensive exam!

Congratulations Justina for having her paper published in Frontiers in Photonics! In the manuscript, we demonstrate backscattering Mueller Matrix polarimetry for mapping out microstructural features in intact, preserved, Ferret brains. Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphot.2022.1034739

Congratulations Justina, Noelle and Sophia for being recognized by the department! Photos here: https://www.optics.arizona.edu/news/2022-scholarship-awards-ceremony