Professor Kostadinka Bizheva's Biomedical Optics Research Group focuses on the development of novel optical imaging technology (Optical Coherence Tomography - OCT) that can be used in clinics to image various part of the human body for diagnostic purposes or for monitoring the outcome of drug therapy or surgery.
Imaging with the OCT technology is non-contact, non-invasive and some of its medical applications include the diagnosis of potentially blinding diseases such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy or macular degeneration, screening for skin or oral cancer, or monitoring of surgical procedures such as retinal, corneal, heart and brain surgery.
Compared to commercially available OCT systems, the OCT technology developed in Professor Bizheva's lab provides ultrahigh resolution in biological tissue sufficient to observe its cellular structure and the smallest blood vessels. Professor Bizheva's research group has extensive and successful collaborations with Canadian and international industrial partners, as well as clinical collaborators with multiple hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area.
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Welcome Tony!
Tony is a new MSc graduate student who is joining our group. He has just graduated from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario with a BSc degree with a major in physics and minor in mathematics. He has an interest in optics and clinical applications. Welcome Tony!
Welcome Steph!
Steph Swanson is joining us for the Fall 2019 semester as an undergraduate co-op student studying Mathematical Physics.
Goodbye to Olivera!
Congratulations to Olivera Kralj! She has been accepted into a graduate program under the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University and is leaving our group.