Contact Information
Email: phajireza@uwaterloo.ca
Telephone: 519 888-4567 x40172
Location: E7 6416
Director | PhotoMedicine Labs (PML)
Assistant Professor | Systems Design Engineering (SYDE)
Dr. Parsin Haji Reza is an award-winning teacher, researcher, entrepreneur, published novelist, and inventor of photoacoustic remote sensing (PARS®) microscopy. His research explores designing and developing novel hardware and software methods 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. He invented and pioneered several new technologies/concepts including, Photoacoustic Remote Sensing (PARS®) microscopy, a novel absorption-based, non-contact, non-invasive, label-free imaging technique. He also is the co-founder of illumiSonics Inc., where he holds position of CTO and Chairman of the Board.
Graduate Supervision: Dr. Haji Reza supervises graduate students within masters and doctoral programs in SYDE. His students have been exploring research associated with designing and developing novel optical systems for clinical and pre-clinical biomedical applications. Their primary research focus is on the development of deep cellular resolution PARS® microscopy techniques. Additionally, there is a focus on medical imaging research, which involves the development of multi-modality optical imaging techniques as well as novel all-optical detection methods for photoacoustic tomography.
Selected Publications:
- Hosseinaee, Z., Abbasi, N., Pellegrino, N., Khalili, L., Mukhangaliyeva, L., & Haji Reza, P. (2021). Functional and structural ophthalmic imaging using non-contact multimodal photoacoustic remote sensing microscopy and optical coherence tomography. Scientific Reports 11, 11466.
- Bell, K., Abbasi, S., Dinakaran, D., Taher, M., Bigras, G., van Landeghem, K. H., Mackey, J. R., & Haji Reza, P. (2020). Reflection-mode virtual histology using photoacoustic remote sensing microscopy. Scientific Reports 10, 19121.
- Ecclestone, B. R., Bell, K., Abbasi, S., Dinakaran, D., van Landeghem, K. H., Mackey, J. R., Fieguth, P., & Haji Reza, P. (2020). Improving maximal safe brain tumor resection with photoacoustic remote sensing microscopy. Scientific Reports 10, 17211.