Optical Imaging Lab receives $90K grant to study skin abnormalities

The Optical Imaging Lab at the Biomedical Engineering Department recently received $90K grant of support from Michelson Diagnostics Inc. to study skin abnormalities using the VivoSight optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. OCT is a non-invasive high-resolution imaging modality that uses safe light waves to take cross-section images of a tissue. The produced image contains microstructural/morphological information of the tissue.

Assistant professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Optical Imaging Lab, Dr. Mohammad Avanaki (center), along with students Albert Farah (left) and Mansoor Nawaz Khan (right), are developing additional hardware and advanced image processing algorithms to identify the three-dimensional border of the skin tumor. Algorithms are designed to save time in Mohs surgery, a precise surgical technique used to treat skin cancer, during the tumor excision and to help dermatologists to make better diagnostics.

To learn more about Avanaki's work visit http://engineering.wayne.edu/profile/mohammadreza.nasiriavanaki/