Optical Coherence Tomography News

1. System Engineer Opening at Heidelberg Engineering in Lübeck Germany

   Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 14 2019 Jobs & Studentships

   

   We are looking for In order to support our development department in Lübeck, we are looking for a professionally and personally convincing personality. We offer you an exciting and responsible position in a fast-growing company. Our Lübeck site specialises in OCT technology and systems integration. With your high understanding of systems, you will accompany a project from the initial conception, through the definition of the architecture, the construction of prototypes to testing and handover to production. Your responsibilities System development from the basic concept to production Evaluation of new technological possibilities Definition and elaboration of the system architecture ...

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2. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Optical Coherence Tomography at The Tearney Lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA USA

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   A Postdoctoral research fellowship in the area of optical coherence tomography (OCT) is available in the Tearney Lab at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the Wellman Center for Photomedicine. This appointment will be made at the rank of postdoctoral fellow or instructor at Harvard Medical School, commensurate with the applicant’s experience. MGH’s role as a leading teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and close ties to Harvard University and MIT provide an outstanding environment for developing and translating new OCT technologies with applications in basic and clinical research. The fellowship will focus on high resolution OCT imaging ...

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   Mentions: Guillermo J. Tearney Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University

3. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Opening in In Vivo Microscopy at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston USA

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   A Postdoctoral research fellowship in the area of In Vivo Microscopy is available in the Tearney Lab at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the Wellman Center for Photomedicine. This appointment will be made at the rank of postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. MGH’s role as a leading teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and close ties to Harvard University and MIT provide an outstanding environment for developing and translating new in vivo microscopy technologies with applications in basic and clinical research. The fellowship will focus on the development and clinical application of advanced in vivo microscopy imaging ...

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   Mentions: Guillermo J. Tearney Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University

4. SPECTRALIS OCT2 Module Improves Speed and Efficiency on the International Space Station

   Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 13 2019 Ophthalmology

   

   Research on the effects of microgravity on vision continues with the SPECTRALIS multi-modal imaging platform. Heidelberg Engineering, a privately-held imaging and healthcare IT technologies company focused on ophthalmic diagnostic solutions that empower clinicians to improve patient care, announced that its SPECTRALIS imaging platform with the company’s next-generation OCT2 Module has been successfully installed at the International Space Station (ISS) and is now fully operational. NASA launched the SPECTRALIS with OCT2 Module to the ISS aboard the Antares 230 Cygnus CRS OA-9, also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 9E, from Wallops Island, Virginia, last May. The new imaging platform ...

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5. Dyad Medical Incorporated Receives NIH Grant for Software for OCT Analysis of Vascular Stents

   Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 12 2019 Cardiology , Funding

   

   Dyad Medical Incorporated Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for $1,265,906 for Software for OCT Analysis of Vascular Stents. The principal investigator is Ronny Shalev The program began in 2017 and ends in 2021. Below is a summary of the proposed work. Dyad Medical, Inc. will create intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (IVOCT) software for clinical, live time determination of stent apposition and for offline analysis of stent implantation. Every year, 100s of thousands of patients in the US are treated with intravascular stents creating an opportunity for both solutions. Although advancements such as drug eluting metal stents hinder restenosis ...

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6. Iowa City VA Medical Center Receives NIH Grant for Automated Assessment of Optic Nerve Edema with Low-Cost Imaging.

   Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 12 2019 Ophthalmology , Funding

   

   Iowa City VA Medical Center Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for Automated Assessment of Optic Nerve Edema with Low-Cost Imaging. The principal investigator is Mona Garvin. The program began in 2016 and ends in 2020. Below is a summary of the proposed work. Papilledema - a specific type of optic nerve edema associated with elevated intracranial pressure - occurs in veterans due to intracranial masses or hemorrhage, obstructive hydrocephalus, following traumatic brain injury, and from idiopathic causes. Currently, the diagnosis of papilledema and its severity are assessed by direct funduscopic observation or digital fundus photographs using a six-stage grading scale. The scale ...

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7. Johns Hopkins Receives NIH Grant for Imaging Neurodegeneration in Multiple Sclerosis

   Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 12 2019 Neurology , Ophthalmology , Funding

   

   Johns Hopkins University Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for $628,385 for Imaging Neurodegeneration in Multiple Sclerosis. The principal investigator is Peter Calabresi. The program began in 2013 and ends in 2023. Below is a summary of the proposed work. One of the significant challenges facing treatment of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) is determining their individual likelihood of progression, as this information would significantly influence the type of therapy selected. Thus, developing specific tools to monitor and predict progression is critical to better manage patient care and to understand mechanisms of disease. We have been developing a multi-faceted approach ...

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   Mentions: Peter A. Calabresi Johns Hopkins University National Institutes of Health

8. Share your OCT Thesis on OCT News

   Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 9 2019 Student Theses

   

   OCT News is seeking links to bachelors, masters, and PhD theses in the area of "Optical Coherence Tomography". Traditionally student theses contain a great wealth of information but are rarely accessible to the OCT community. If you or someone you know wrote an OCT thesis and would like to share it with the community please submit a link or PDF using the "Contact OCT News" tab in the main menu bar or the feedback link in the footer and we will include it here: Student Theses. Thesis will only be included if the link is free of charge to users.

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9. New software library from AlazarTech breaks speed barrier – 6.9 GB/s sustained GPU-based OCT imaging

   Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 7 2019 Other Business News

   

   AlazarTech®, a manufacturer of high-performance, low-cost PC-Based Instruments, today announced the release of version 4.0 of ATS-GPU-BASE ™ with greatly increased data transfer rates, and ATS-GPU-OCT. ATS-GPU-BASE is a software library that allows users to transfer data acquired by AlazarTech PCI Express waveform digitizers to a CUDA ® -enabled Graphical Processing unit (GPU) at sustained transfer rates as high as 6.9 GB/s for PCIe Gen 3 digitizers. Add-on libraries allow users to perform additional signal processing on data captured into GPU memory by ATS-GPU-BASE. Download ATS-GPU-BASE Datasheet Download ATS-GPU-OCT Datasheet Download high resolution image The ATS-GPU-OCT add-on library provides ...

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10. Georgia Institute of Technology Receives NIH Grant for Stimulated Raman Scattering Spectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography (SRS-SOCT) for Label-Free Molecular Imaging of Brain Tumor Pathology

    Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 5 2019 Neurology , Funding

    

    Georgia Institute of Technology Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for $182,900 for Stimulated Raman Scattering Spectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography (SRS-SOCT) for Label-Free Molecular Imaging of Brain Tumor Pathology. The principal investigator is Francisco Robels. The program began in 2018 and ends in 2021. Below is a summary of the proposed work. The extent of resection of brain tumors is one of the most important factors associated with prolonged survival for patients with brain cancer. Unfortunately, achieving complete resection of the preoperatively-defined tumor region remains a significant clinical challenge. This is due, in part, to the lack of intraoperative tools ...

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    Mentions: National Institutes of Health Georgia Institute of Technology Francisco E. Robles

11. UCLA Receives NIH Grant for Vitroretinal Surgery via Rogbotic Microsurgical System with Image Guidance, Force Feedback, Virtual Fixture, and Augmented Reality

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    University of California at Los Angeles Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for $439,347 for Vitroretinal Surgery via Rogbotic Microsurgical System with Image Guidance, Force Feedback, Virtual Fixture, and Augmented Reality. The principal investigator is Jean-Pierre Hubschman. The program began in 2019 and ends in 2024. Below is a summary of the proposed work. The aims of the present proposal are to extend our work with the Intraocular Robotic Interventional and Surgical System (IRISS) and augment it for teleoperated vitreoretinal surgery. Although novel technologies such as intraoperative optical coherence tomography (i-OCT) have been developed, vitreoretinal surgeons still lack critical information ...

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12. OSHU Receives NIH Grant for Applications of Ultrahigh-Speed Long-Range Wide-Field OCT in Anterior Eye Diseases

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    Oregon Health & Science University Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for $496,687 for Applications of Ultrahigh-Speed Long-Range Wide-Field OCT in Anterior Eye Diseases. The principal investigator is David Huang. The program began in 2018 and ends in 2023. Below is a summary of the proposed work. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is uniquely able to achieve micron depth resolution while imaging a large 3-dimensional (3D) volume. This enables 3D imaging and precise measurements in the anterior segment of the eye, including the cornea, conjunctiva, sclera, anterior chamber, iris, and crystalline lens. Anterior segment OCT is already widely used in ophthalmology. But ...

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    Mentions: National Institutes of Health David Huang Oregon Health & Science University

13. Duke University Receives NIH Grant for Handheld Portable Adaptive Optics Optical Coherence Tomography for Imaging Young Children

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    Duke University Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for $230,682 for Handheld Portable Adaptive Optics Optical Coherence Tomography for Imaging Young Children. The principal investigator is Sina Farsiu. The program began in 2019 and ends in 2021. Below is a summary of the proposed work. Eye diseases in young children, if not detected and treated early, can lead to serious vision loss and even blindness. We have pioneered development of handheld spectral domain optical coherence tomography (HH- SDOCT) imaging systems to provide 3-D visualization of intra-retinal structures. Our previous studies based on HH-SDOCT of neonatal retina have already provided unique ...

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    Mentions: National Institutes of Health Duke University Sina Farsiu

14. Lightoptech Corporation Receives NIH Grant for Towards In Vivo High-Definition 3D Corneal Imaging

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    Lightoptech Corporation Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for $225,000 for Towards In Vivo High-Definition 3D Corneal Imaging. The principal investigator is Cristina Canavesi. The program began in 2019 and ends in 2020. Below is a summary of the proposed work. The cornea, the outermost window of our visual system, is vulnerable to various types of infections and diseases. Corneal disease is one of the leading causes of visual deficiency and blindness.!There are nearly 5 million bilaterally corneal blind persons worldwide, and an estimated 23 million people affected by unilateral corneal blindness globally. In a conservative estimate, corneal diseases ...

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15. University of Alabama Receives NIH Grant for The Mechanisms Underlying Abnormal Mucus and Its Clearance in the Cystic Fibrosis Rat

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    University of Alabama at Birmingham Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for $135,841 for The Mechanisms Underlying Abnormal Mucus and Its Clearance in the Cystic Fibrosis Rat. The principal investigator is Susan Birket. The program began in 2017 and ends in 2022. Below is a summary of the proposed work. Abnormal mucociliary clearance (MCC) is a critical component of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease, especially in the presence of infection; however, the mechanisms responsible for the defect are not well understood. Until recently, evaluation of this question has been primarily limited to cell culture models which do not replicate the ...

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16. Cornell University Receives NIH Grant for Three-Dimensional Mechano-Microscopy of the Stem Cell Niche

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    Cornell University Receives a 2019 NIH Grant for $190,047 for Three-Dimensional Mechano-Microscopy of the Stem Cell Niche. The principal investigator is Steven Adie. The program began in 2018 and ends in 2021. Below is a summary of the proposed work. Biophysical properties of cellular microenvironments can act to direct the self-renewal and differentiation fate outcomes of stem cells in multiple tissue types. As an example, the stem cells resident in skeletal muscles (MuSCs, also called satellite cells) are highly sensitive to elasticity of their surrounding “niche” microenvironment. In culture models, elastic substrates corresponding to the more stiff microenvironments observed ...

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    Mentions: National Institutes of Health Cornell University Steven G. Adie

17. Mirrorcle's PLS Presentation stirs excitement at Photonics West Conference

    Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 5 2019 Other Business News

    

    Early morning on Superbowl Sunday, the Mirrorcle Technologies team drew a sizeable crowd to the Photonics West MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XVIII conference where the company’s Senior Electronics Engineer, Mr. Abhishek Kasturi presented a paper titled MEMS Mirror Module for Programmable Light System (Session 5, Paper 10931-21). The motivation for research into dynamic lighting solutions is based on increased demand, mainly from the automotive industry, for novel headlights, taillights, and so-called ‘courtesy lights’ in and around vehicles that allow for branding, customization and personalization as well as improved safety and awareness in potentially hazardous situations. Mirrorcle proposed a high-contrast ...

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18. Product Development Engineer Opening at Opticent Health

    Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Feb 2 2019 Jobs & Studentships

    

    Opticent, Inc. (Opticent Health – www.opticenthealth.com) , established in 2015, is a fast growing medical device start-up company commercializing visible-light optical coherence tomography (vis-OCT), a novel imaging modality for a variety of applications, including advanced ophthalmic diagnostics. First developed at Northwestern University, Opticent Health’s core technologies have been embraced by leading researchers in clinical and pre-clinical ophthalmic investigations, which has fueled rapid commercial development of vis-OCT products. Opticent Health is located in Evanston IL, part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area. The company’s management team, with guidance from its medical and technical advisory board, is expanding its engineering ...

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    Mentions: Northwestern University Hao F. Zhang Opticent Health

19. Senior Software Engineer Opening In Medical devices at Westface Medical

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    Senior Software Engineer – Medical devices – C/C++ If you are a Senior Software Engineer with medical device and an embedded C/C++ background, please read on! Based in Truckee, with R&D operations in Redwood City CA, we are a Medical Device startup developing opto-electro-mechanical devices for image-guided surgery. We are looking for a great software engineer to support medical device development from early R&D concepts through prototype and full development including pre-clinical testing, clinical evaluations, and regulatory approval. General Summary: Provides software design, development and support leadership in a small cross-functional product development team developing a state-of-the-art image-guided ...

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20. Mechanical Engineer Opening in Medical devices at Westface Medical

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    Mechanical Engineer – Medical devices If you are a Mechanical Engineer with a disposables / durables medical device background, please read on! Based in Truckee, with R&D operations in Redwood City CA, we are a Medical Device startup developing opto-electro-mechanical devices for image-guided surgery. We are looking for a great ME to support medical device development from early R&D concepts through prototype and full development including pre-clinical testing, clinical evaluations, and regulatory approval. General Summary: Provides mechanical design, development and support leadership in a small cross-functional product development team developing a state-of-the-art image-guided surgical system. Works with company principals, other ...

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21. New low-cost 12 bit, 50 MS/s PCI Express waveform digitizer from AlazarTech

    Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Jan 31 2019 Other Business News

    

    AlazarTech , a manufacturer of high-performance, low-cost PC Based Instruments, today announced the release of AlazarTech ATS ® 9130, a dual-channel 50 MS/s, 12 bit waveform digitizer based on the single-lane Gen1 PCI Express bus. ATS9130 features two simultaneous analog input channels that can each be sampled at rates up to 50 MS/s with 12 bit vertical resolution. Each channel has 25 MHz of full power analog input bandwidth and up to 8 Megasamples of on-board acquisition memory buffer. With software selectable attenuation, users can achieve an input voltage range of ±40 mV to ±20 V. “ATS9130 is a continuation ...

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22. OptoRes presents world-record 3 MHz swept laser at SPIE BiOS / Photonics West in San Francisco

    Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Jan 31 2019 Other Business News , Tunable Sources

    

    Ideally suited for optical coherence tomography, Optores‘ FDML laser with 3 MHz sweep rate is more than 10x faster than competition. Optores GmbH announces the latest upgrade to its NG-FDML series of wavelength-swept lasers. The SPIE Photonics West conference marks the launch of the new 3 MHz imaging speed option: Double as fast as previously, and more than 10x faster than any other commercially available swept laser. The new device is ideal for optical coherence tomography (OCT) in medicine, biology and industrial inspection. “Multi-MHz sweep rates are necessary for high-resolution 4D-OCT, which shows three-dimensional tissue structure live and in real ...

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    Mentions: James G. Fujimoto Robert A. Huber University of Lübeck

23. Wasatch Photonics launches WP OCT software platform as enabling tool for OCT system development

    Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Jan 31 2019 Other Business News

    

    Wasatch Photonics announces the launch of its WP OCT software platform as an enabling tool for research and OEM development, with the power and flexibility to speed OCT system development. This suite of SDKs, sample GUIs, and turnkey application software facilitates imaging speeds of up to 250 kHz with minimal software development effort, while retaining the flexibility to customize user interface, algorithms, and analysis. Availability in C++, C#, Matlab, and Labview environments further enhances the versatility of this platform, as does compatibility with both Camera Link and USB 3.0 data acquisition protocols. OCT is one of the fastest growing ...

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24. Mirrorcle Technologies to present and exhibit at Photonics West 2019

    Explore Optical Coherence Tomography News Jan 31 2019 Other Business News , Probes

    

    Mirrorcle Technologies is excited to announce the presentation of its latest developments in automotive laser projection systems at this year’s SPIE Photonics West exhibition in San Francisco. The company’s CEO, Dr. Veljko Milanović, and Sr. Electronics Engineer, Mr. Abhishek Kasturi, will provide an overview of some of the company’s most recent R&D achievements at the MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XVIII conference (Session 5, Paper 10931-21) titled MEMS Mirror Module for Programmable Light System . On Sunday morning, February 3 rd , 2019 at 08:40 AM, conference attendees will get an overview of the company’s programmable light ...

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