PhotoMedicine labs is interested in designing and developing novel optical 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 to obtain with existing techniques.

Some of our research interests includes: ​

• Photon Absorption Remote Sensing (PARS®) - formerly known as photoacoustic remote sensing 
• Multi-scale Functional and Molecular Photoacoustic Tomography
• Medical Imaging
• Medical Devices
• Ultrasound Imaging
• Multi-photon Microscopy
• Novel Multi-modality Optical Imaging Techniques
• Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
• Nano-fabrication methods
• Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT)
• All Optical and Non-contact Detection Systems
• Photoacoustic Wavefront Shaping
• Design and Fabrication of Micro-endoscopy Systems
• Super-resolution Imaging Techniques
• Real-time And 3D Biomedical Imaging
• Novel Optical and Fiber-based Components
• Novel Laser Systems for Biomedical Applications
• Optical Sensors
• Image Processing
• Machine Learning
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Professor Parsin Haji Reza and his team are the inventors and pioneers of  Photon Absorption Remote Sensing (PARS) - formerly known as photoacoustic remote sensing. Our proprietary PARS® photon absorption remote sensing technology is a revolution in optical imaging.  Like traditional photon absorption imaging, PARS® measures optical absorption and is capable of providing functional and molecular imaging of anything that can absorb light. Traditional photon absorption imaging has been constrained by the need to have contact with targeted tissues, the size of transducers and an inability to easily integrate with other optical imaging techniques.  PARS® is the first fully optical, non-contact photon absorption imaging technology.  This allows PARS® to maintain all of the advantages of photon absorptionc imaging while addressing its short comings which provides incredible flexibility in how it can be deployed.  PhotoMedicine Labs work with market leading partners to develop systems for specific applications.  Currently, our primary research focus is on the development of deep cellular resolution PARS® microscopy techniques. Our secondary research vision involves the development of multi-modality optical imaging techniques as well as novel all-optical detection methods for photon absorption tomography.

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Project 1: Label-Free Virtual Histology for Rapid Cancer Diagnosis

Project 2: Novel functional ophthalmic devices

Project 3: Miniaturized optical imaging deviceS

Project 4: Fundamental research in light-matter interaction

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