Archived News

6/17/2009: Welcome (back) to Mike Campos, Elmer Indrawan, and Sean White (co-advised by Prof. Steve George) who will be continuing as graduate students in the lab, and medical student Albert Bui, who will be working in the lab for the summer

6/12/2009: Congratulations and farewell to the graduating members of the lab: Kim Bui, Angelica Byrne, Sam Costantini, Carlos Cossio, Erinn Kim, Anton Licas, Anthony McClure, Hannah Schreibeis-Baum, Charlie Stoianovici, and Sumitro Wiryo. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

6/8/2009: Congratulations to undergraduates Elaine Nguyen and Victor Sun, who both have been appointed ID-SURE Fellows [link] for Summer 2009! Great job!

5/17/2009: The MTI Lab has been awarded a grant (R03) from the National Institutes of Health to pursue clinical applications of laser speckle imaging in image-guided surgery

5/14/2009: Congratulations to graduate student Austin Moy, who has been awarded an SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering [press release], well done!

3/28/2009: Congratulations to Prof. Choi, who has received a "Professor of the Year" award from the Engineering Student Council! Check out the official announcement for more info.

2/23/2009: New publications in Applied Optics and Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

1/8/2009: Happy New Year! Welcome to Bruce Yang (BME), a rotating graduate student! We are also pleased to announce two new papers accepted for publication:

M. Zimmerley, R.A. McClure, B. Choi, E.O. Potma, "Following dimethyl sulfoxide skin optical clearing dynamics with quantitative nonlinear multimodal microscopy," Appl. Optics (2008, in press)

A.K. Bui, R.A. McClure, J. Chang, C. Stoianovici, J. Hirshburg, A.T. Yeh, B. Choi, "Revisiting optical clearing with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)," Laser. Surg. Med. (2008, in press)

9/29/2008: Welcome to our rotating graduate students Jen Aleshire (BME) and Sean White (BME)! The MTI lab has also been awarded a research grant from the UCI School of Medicine Committee on Research and Graduate Academic Programs, entitled “Optical clearing method to enhance in vivo optical molecular imaging and microscopy”

7/10/2008: "Long-term vascular effects of photodynamic and pulse dye laser therapy protocols" (Channual et al.) accepted for publication in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

6/13/2008: Congratulations to our graduating seniors Youssef Farhat, Matt Hallowell, Alden Holmes, Jenny Szu, Hien Tang, John Trieu, and Owen Yang! We wish you well in your future endeavors!

4/2/2008: New publications in Optics Express, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

2/25/2008: MTI Lab website 1.0 launched!