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We strongly value the importance of interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and ethics. Our research philosophy is transitional research from bench to the bedside. Therefore, we are always looking to collaborate with talented students, faculties, researchers, clinicians, and industry.
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News
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October 2020:
Check out our newest news release, featured on the University of Waterloo's "Waterloo Stories" page. "New laser imaging could precisely guide doctors during brain surgery." Researchers have take an important step in the development of a microscope to precisely guide doctors during surgery to remove brain tumors.
September 2020:
Congratulations to Dr. Parsin H. Reza for receiving the Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award. This award honours outstanding, well-rounded faculty members. Winners are those with exceptional overall merit ratings, who have also made some significant contribution through their research, teaching, or service. Each department offers awards for distinguished performance, with input from the dean and from the Academic Policy Committee.
September 2020:
Our team at the PhotoMedicine Labs for the first time reported label-free, non-contact, in-vivo ophthalmic imaging using photoacoustic remote sensing (PARS®) microscopy. This work is the first non-contact photoacoustic imaging of ocular structures. This study laid the foundation for future non-contact and non-invasive quantitative imaging of the sO2 and MRO2 in the ocular vasculature and also measuring the distribution of the pigments in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) layer, which are critical for the research and clinical diagnosis of ocular diseases. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2009/2009.06088.pdf
August 2020:
Our paper "Deep non-contact photoacoustic initial pressure imaging" is one of the top downloaded papers in the field of Biophotonics over the last two years from Optica.
June 2020:
Our paper "All-optical Reflection-mode Microscopic Histology of Unstained Human Tissues" presented by graduate student Saad Abbasi at the 2020 OSA Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics has been awarded the OSA Student Paper Award. Read more here.
May 2020:
Our team is among one of the 186 recipients for the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF). This reserch fund awards $46.3 million for Exploration projects that push research boundaries in Canada. Read more here.
May 2020:
Dr. Parsin H. Reza will be giving an invited talk at the 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in the Special Topics category of Advanced Optimal Imaging session. His talk will be on the recent progress on development and pioneering of PARS® virtual histology. The Conference will be held July 20-24, 2020 via the EMBS Virtual Academy.
Check out our newest news release, featured on the University of Waterloo's "Waterloo Stories" page. "New laser imaging could precisely guide doctors during brain surgery." Researchers have take an important step in the development of a microscope to precisely guide doctors during surgery to remove brain tumors.
September 2020:
Congratulations to Dr. Parsin H. Reza for receiving the Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award. This award honours outstanding, well-rounded faculty members. Winners are those with exceptional overall merit ratings, who have also made some significant contribution through their research, teaching, or service. Each department offers awards for distinguished performance, with input from the dean and from the Academic Policy Committee.
September 2020:
Our team at the PhotoMedicine Labs for the first time reported label-free, non-contact, in-vivo ophthalmic imaging using photoacoustic remote sensing (PARS®) microscopy. This work is the first non-contact photoacoustic imaging of ocular structures. This study laid the foundation for future non-contact and non-invasive quantitative imaging of the sO2 and MRO2 in the ocular vasculature and also measuring the distribution of the pigments in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) layer, which are critical for the research and clinical diagnosis of ocular diseases. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2009/2009.06088.pdf
August 2020:
Our paper "Deep non-contact photoacoustic initial pressure imaging" is one of the top downloaded papers in the field of Biophotonics over the last two years from Optica.
June 2020:
Our paper "All-optical Reflection-mode Microscopic Histology of Unstained Human Tissues" presented by graduate student Saad Abbasi at the 2020 OSA Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics has been awarded the OSA Student Paper Award. Read more here.
May 2020:
Our team is among one of the 186 recipients for the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF). This reserch fund awards $46.3 million for Exploration projects that push research boundaries in Canada. Read more here.
May 2020:
Dr. Parsin H. Reza will be giving an invited talk at the 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in the Special Topics category of Advanced Optimal Imaging session. His talk will be on the recent progress on development and pioneering of PARS® virtual histology. The Conference will be held July 20-24, 2020 via the EMBS Virtual Academy.
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Welcome to the PhotoMedicine Labs in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Welcome to the PhotoMedicine Labs (PML) in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. In September 2018, Professor Parsin Haji Reza started the PML with the long-term vision of growing it to become a hub in the field of biomedical optics and medical imaging. PML is interested in designing and developing novel engineering systems for clinical and pre-clinical biomedical applications. These new technologies aim to provide clinicians and researchers with novel capabilities and information that is presently difficult/impossible to obtain with existing techniques.
Dr. Parsin Haji Reza's research philosophy is translational research from bench to bedside. Therefore, he built the foundation of PML on translational research activities. In that end, we run a truly interdisciplinary research program. We research, design, and develop our entire hardware and software systems in PML. This includes but not limited to research activities in state-of-the-art optical imaging systems, photoacoustic, nonlinear optics, optical sensing, fiber-optics, data acquisition, electronics, software development, image processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, ultrasound, instrument control, and analytical and computational modeling. We also design, perform and analyze significant pre-clinical and clinical experiments and activities. PML currently consists of several laboratories (Discovery Lab, Imaging Lab, Machine learning and image processing lab, In-vivo Lab, Pre-clinical lab and Pathology lab). We are working to double our research activities by the end of 2021.
Our group continually strive to maintain an extremely dynamic, respectful, intellectual, fun, and creative environment. We are passionate about our research and enjoy working together as a team. Our goal is to bring talents and good ideas together to make a difference and contribute to our society. We understand that this requires hard work, knowledge, creativity, teamwork, efficiency, honesty, and focus.
Dr. Parsin Haji Reza's research philosophy is translational research from bench to bedside. Therefore, he built the foundation of PML on translational research activities. In that end, we run a truly interdisciplinary research program. We research, design, and develop our entire hardware and software systems in PML. This includes but not limited to research activities in state-of-the-art optical imaging systems, photoacoustic, nonlinear optics, optical sensing, fiber-optics, data acquisition, electronics, software development, image processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, ultrasound, instrument control, and analytical and computational modeling. We also design, perform and analyze significant pre-clinical and clinical experiments and activities. PML currently consists of several laboratories (Discovery Lab, Imaging Lab, Machine learning and image processing lab, In-vivo Lab, Pre-clinical lab and Pathology lab). We are working to double our research activities by the end of 2021.
Our group continually strive to maintain an extremely dynamic, respectful, intellectual, fun, and creative environment. We are passionate about our research and enjoy working together as a team. Our goal is to bring talents and good ideas together to make a difference and contribute to our society. We understand that this requires hard work, knowledge, creativity, teamwork, efficiency, honesty, and focus.
University of Waterloo and the Department of Systems Design Engineering provide unique opportunities for students who value creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and enjoy working in a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research environment.
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PhotoMedicine labs is an advocate for equity and is committed to ensuring representation in its team. We welcome applications from members of visible minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.