When
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 12:00 p.m.
Dongkyun Kang
Associate Professor
College of Optical Sciences and the Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Arizona
"Low-Cost, In Vivo Microscopy"
Keating, Room 103 | Lunch included
Abstract:
In vivo microscopy is an optical microscopy approach that can visualize cellular details of human tissues non-invasively. Some of the in vivo microscopy technologies such as reflectance confocal microscopy, optical coherence tomography, and two-photon microscopy have become available as medical imaging devices and have been evaluated for a wide range of clinical applications. Since in vivo microscopy could reveal cellular changes associated with disease progression without taking biopsies from the patient, it can be used to aid diagnosis of various diseases in low-resource settings, where the facilities, equipment, and trained personnel needed for standard histopathologic diagnosis are scarce. However, widespread implementation of in vivo microscopy has not occurred yet, and one of the main remaining hurdles is the high device cost. We have developed several low-cost, in vivo microscopy devices for imaging applications in low-resource settings. In this talk, we will present our research on the portable confocal microscopy for imaging skin and eye diseases, smartphone-compatible confocal endoscopy for imaging cervical precancers, and scattering-based light sheet microscopy for imaging anal precancers.
Bio:
Dr. Dongkyun "DK Kang received his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department of KAIST, South Korea. He worked as research fellow, instructor, and assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2017, Dr. Kang started his research lab at the College of Optical Sciences and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona. Dr. Kang also served as a co-leader of Cancer Imaging Program at the University of Arizona Cancer Center. His research is focused on developing low-cost optical imaging devices for medical applications in low-resource settings, smartphone based confocal microscope for imaging skin and eye diseases and light sheet microscopy devices for imaging anal precancer.