Recent Announcements

March, 2025 - Western's Spring Open House

Spring Open House 2025

Dr. Diop attended Western's Spring Open House along with Drs. Eugene Wong, Jeff Frisbee, and Ian MacDonald to represent the Medical Biophysics program. 

March, 2025 - Medical Biophysics Research Day 2025 

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Sophie Niculescu, Emma Zhang, Ghali El Hajoui, and Zoë Holliday presented their work at Medical Biophysics Research Day 2025, which was hosted in London, ON, Canada. Zoe was awarded 1st place for her poster presentation, and Sophie was awarded 2nd place for her three-minute thesis presentation.
  • Sophie's presentation: Accuracy of hyperspectral near-infrared spectroscopy in measuring tissue water content
  • Emma's presentation: Quantifying optical pathlength in tissue using low-coherence interferometry and NIRS
  • Ghali's presentation: Assessing cytochrome-c-oxidase redox state using five-wavelength near-infrared spectroscopy
  • Zoë's presentation: Assessing the utility of continuous-wave hyperspectral near-infrared spectroscopy for detecting cytochrome c-oxidase in tissue-mimicking phantoms 

February, 2025 - Mamadou's Birthday

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We took a break from our weekly lab meeting to celebrate Mamadou's birthday with a Mamadou-themed cake! 

Featured Publications

Eskandari, R., Milkovich, S., Kamar, F., Goldman, D., Welsh, D. G., Ellis, C. G., & Diop, M. (2024, December). Non-invasive point-of-care optical technique for continuous in vivo assessment of microcirculatory function: Application to a preclinical model of early sepsis. The FASEB Journal, 38(23), e70204.

Mawdsley, L.1, Eskandari, R.1, Kamar, F., Rajaram, A., Yip, L. C. M., Abayomi, N., Milkovich, S., St. Lawrence, K., Carson, J. J. L., Ellis, C. G., & Diop, M. (2024, August). In vivo optical assessment of cerebral and skeletal muscle microvascular response to phenylephrine. FASEB BioAdvances, 6(9), 390.

Wang, Q., Pan, M., Kreiss, L., Samaei, S., Carp, S. A., Johansson, J. D., Zhang, Y., Wu, M., Horstmeyer, R., Diop, M., & Li, D. D. U. (2024). A comprehensive overview of diffuse correlation spectroscopy: theoretical framework, recent advances in hardware, analysis, and applications. NeuroImage, 120793.

Ioussoufovitch, S., & Diop, M. (2024). Time-domain diffuse optical imaging technique for monitoring rheumatoid arthritis disease activity: experimental validation in tissue-mimicking finger phantoms. Physics in medicine and biology.

Ioussoufovitch, S., & Diop, M. (2024). Time-domain diffuse optical imaging technique for monitoring rheumatoid arthritis disease activity: theoretical development and in silico validation. Physics in medicine and biology, 69, 125022.

Kamar, F., Shoemaker, L. N., Eskandari, R., Milej, D., Drosdowech, D., Murkin, J. M., St. Lawrence, K., Chui, J., & Diop, M. (2024). Assessing changes in regional cerebral hemodynamics in adults with a high-density full-head coverage time-resolved near-infrared spectroscopy device. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 29(S3), S33302-S33302.

Li, N. C., Ioussoufovitch, S., & Diop, M. (2024). HyperTRCSS: A hyperspectral time-resolved compressive sensing spectrometer for depth-sensitive monitoring of cytochrome-c-oxidase and blood oxygenation. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 29(1), 015002-015002.

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