Biomedical Imaging Research Laboratory
BIRL · Stony Brook University
The mission of the Biomedical Imaging Research Laboratory is to work with faculty, students and clinical collaborators to develop quantitative imaging methods that detect disease earlier and show, sooner, whether a treatment is working.
Functional UltrasoundImaging brain activity through changes in cerebral blood volume, below a millimeter and deeper than optical methods reach.
Machine Learning in Medical ImagingPhysics-constrained learning for reconstructing tissue microstructure, where data alone is not enough.
Cancer ImagingResponse to therapy is usually judged from tumor size, which can lag weeks behind the biology.
Reverberant MR ElastographyMeasuring brain stiffness from the reverberant wave field, and asking what microstructure underlies its decline with age.
Radiation-Acoustic Imaging and DosimetryRadiotherapy delivers a dose that is carefully planned but rarely verified inside the patient.Fanchao Yin's study using transcranial functional ultrasound to map visual-system reorganization in a mouse model of juvenile Batten disease has appeared in Neurobiology of Disease. Read the paper →
The group has relocated to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University.
Nikhila Nyayapathi's work on shear wave elastography for monitoring treatment response in a murine model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is under review.