About This Webinar
For more than two decades, scientists and clinicians have utilized light coherence and interferometry, collectively known as optical coherence tomography (OCT) to evaluate complex and three-dimensional tissues. Today, these methods are standard-of-care tools in many medical disciplines. Meanwhile, in the separate fields of physics and metrology, optical frequency combs (OFCs) have emerged as indispensable light sources with unique temporal and spectral properties, enabling a wide range of applications.
Recent work has focused on the synergy between OFCs and biomedical imaging and this talk will show that OFCs allow the avoidance of many technological barriers in traditional OCT and open coherent imaging to a broader set of applications. The recent motivation for using OFCs and their technological implementation in coherent imaging is based on new fiber lasers and novel low-loss photonic integrated circuits. Results will be presented from the early-stage translation of these systems for diagnostic and interventional medical imaging.
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About the presenter
Norman Lippok, Ph.D., completed his dissertation research at the Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He subsequently joined the Wellman Center for Photomedicine for postdoctoral work on high-speed swept lasers and advanced polarimetry for ophthalmic and atherosclerotic plaque imaging under Prof. Brett Bouma in Boston. Lippok currently is an instructor in Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and a visiting scholar in applied physics at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).
His research focuses on molecular tissue contrast, stepped frequency combs as well as novel integrated photonic platforms and their application for new imaging and diagnostic tools. At the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Lippok is working closely with Prof. Benjamin Vakoc on new coherent imaging methods for surgical guidance. Under Prof. Marko Loncar at SEAS, Lippok’s work focuses on tunable on-chip laser sources based on thin-film Lithium Niobate integrated circuits.