12/13/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Austin Moy, who has received a travel grant to the 2011 American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) annual conference

11/22/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Bruce Yang, who has successfully advanced to PhD candidacy. Great job!

11/10/2010: Check out our public MTI lab presentations

11/1/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Bruce Yang, who has been appointed a TL-1 Scholar through the UC Irvine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. Great work!

9/17/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Sean White, who successfully advanced to PhD candidacy in August and welcome to Wes Moy, who will be continuing as a graduate student in the fall

8/13/2010: New publication in Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences

6/16/2010: Congratulations and farewell to the graduating members and affiliates of the lab:James Homan, Sanjeev Karma, Andrew Liang, Elaine Nguyen, Ricky Suen, Victor Sun, Kathleen Teves, and Clement Yaori. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

5/11/2010: Check out the lab representation at ASLMS 2010, great work!

The lab has also been awarded the Dean’s Triumvirate Grant through the UC Irvine School of Medicine, click here for more info

4/7/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Sean White who has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and to graduate student Bruce Yang who received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention. Excellent work!

3/19/2010: Congratulations to Prof. Choi, who has received a “Faculty of the Year” award for the 2nd year in a row from the Engineering Student Council! Check out the official announcement for more info

3/2/2010: Congratulations to Charlie Stoianovici, whose paper entitled “Assessment of Pulp Vitality Using Laser Speckle Imaging” has been selected as the Best Student/Resident paper submitted in the Dentistry/Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery section for the 30th ASLMS Annual Conference! Great job!

2/26/2010: Welcome to Jon Pham who will be starting as a graduate student in the lab!

1/26/2010: The lab has been awarded the Dean’s Triumvirate Grant through the UC Irvine School of Medicine!

10/16/2009: New publication in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

8/27/2009: Congratulations to Yu-Chih (Eugene) Huang, PhD, who has successfully defended his dissertation!

Congratulations to Austin Moy, who has successfully advanced to PhD candidacy!

Welcome to Bruce Yang, who will be continuing as a graduate student in the lab!

We are also pleased to announce that “Blood Flow Dynamics after Laser Therapy of Port Wine Stain Birthmarks” (Huang et al.) has been accepted for publication in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

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, andLasers in Surgery and Medicine

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