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1. Jim's innovation, scholarly activities, professional service, entrepreneurial efforts, and impact on the field of biomedical optics typifies the spirit of this award, and reflects the seminal changes that Britton Chance made during his lifetime...Few researchers in the world today have had such a profound impact as a result of their technological work that has literally changed our field, changed the way we practice medicine, and directly improved the lives of perhaps hundreds of thousands of patients (considering ophthalmology and cardiology).

   In Fujimoto Honored with Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award

2. We know that antibiotics don’t always work well if you have a biofilm, because the bacteria protect themselves and become resistant...In the presence of a chronic ear infection that has a biofilm, the bacteria may not respond to the usual antibiotics, and you need to stop them. But without being able to detect the biofilm, we have no idea whether or not it’s responding to treatment.

   In Nowhere to hide: New device sees bacteria behind the eardrum

3. I think it's going to dramatically change things...What we hope is that diagnosis is going to get shifted closer and closer to the point of care...We’re developing techniques to get at molecular changes..So much of medicine and pathology are based on structural changes. If we think of a pathologist looking at a slide, he or she looks at the cells and tissue structures. A radiologist will look at how organs and these anatomical structures are arranged...But with a lot of these techniques, we can get the molecular changes where disease starts. So a pathologist that has molecular information, not just structural, will perhaps catch disease earlier. The same is true for Rohit’s work and Gabi’s work.

   In Positive Results: A New Era for Medical Diagnostics - News from UIUC

4. It's the same challenge, but instead of imaging through the atmosphere, we're imaging through tissue, and instead of imaging a star, we're imaging a cell.

   In Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images - News from Beckman Institute at UIUC

5. The effectiveness is striking...Because of the aberrations of the human eye, when you look at the retina without adaptive optics you just see variations of light and dark areas that represent the rods and cones. But when you use adaptive optics, you see the rods and cones as distinct objects...are working to compute the best image possible.

   In Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images - News from Beckman Institute at UIUC

6. to emphasize the role of medical imaging and how this technology has enabled us to look into the body at many different size scales, how imaging has enabled us to diagnose disease, and how imaging has made a difference in our healthcare...Federal dollars have been used to fund technology that’s going to change and improve health care. They already have. In the area of optics and high-resolution optical imaging, there’s going to be better healthcare, economic development with new companies, new jobs, and new areas of research to investigate...We can now do real-time microscopic imaging in the operating room without waiting for pathology.

   In Boppart Presents at Congressional Briefing

7. In the end, I expect the cost of this system will be slightly more than what it replaces, but with significantly more capabilities, I do expect the cost of this system to continue to fall as more systems are developed and demand increases...This will be a boon for poorer hospitals and Third World or developing countries...It is essentially a portable imaging system with digital data that can be sent via cell-phone networks for analysis by experts in larger cities/hospitals.

   In Scientists awarded grant to continue developing optical device for medical exams

8. The result of this – if successful, could really reduce our health care costs and streamline our delivery of health care.

   In NIH Awards Stephen Boppart $5M For A Bioengineering Research Partnership to Develop Handheld Optical Imaging Technology

9. We are trying to build a small, handheld unit that has multiple tips...What’s collected is 3D digital data that can image several millimeters into tissue and at micron-scale resolution...The primary care physician is the best person to screen the general population for disease...“We think that it’s going to completely change the way we treat ear infections.

   In NIH Awards Stephen Boppart $5M For A Bioengineering Research Partnership to Develop Handheld Optical Imaging Technology

10. The diagnosis is made based on very subjective interpretation – how the cells are laid out, the structure, the morphology...This is what we call the gold standard for diagnosis. We want to make the process of medical diagnostics more quantitative and more rapid.

    In New imaging technique accurately finds cancer cells, fast