The Photon Migration Imaging laboratory at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging is exploring new ways to investigate the brain and breast non-invasively and without using harmful, ionizing radiation. The lab is working to develop the optical imaging technology as well as apply it for a wide range of basic science and clinical studies. Ultimately, these studies could contribute to better understandings of how the brain works as well as improved screening and detection of a variety of pathologies.

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December 8, 2010: We're revamping the website here at the Photon Migration Lab. More pages should be online soon.

November 24, 2010: The optics community lost a friend last week. Britton Chance, a giant in the field, died on Tuesday, November 16. Read about Dr. Chance's life and work here.

November 10, 2010: The Optical Imaging Lab's work developing a combined optical/x-ray imaging system capable of obtaining both structural and functional information of the breast, which is reported in the online edition and January issue of Radiology, has been highlighted by several media outlets, including CBS Boston, HealthImaging.com, Ivanhoe and MedPage Today. The work is a collaborative effort with Dr. Daniel Kopans and colleagues at the Breast Imaging Center at MGH. Read the abstract here.

September 2, 2010: Sakadzic et al.'s recent Nature Methods paper is the subject of a News and Views article in the same issue. Check it out: Dirnagl, U. "Oxygen maps in the brain." Nat Methods 7(9):697-699.

August 9, 2010: PMI investigator Vivek Srinivasan and colleagues at ThorLabs Inc. and MIT have published an article in the SPIE Newsroom: Doppler optical coherence tomography for imaging of brain hemodynamics.

August 8, 2010: Sakadzic et al.'s Nature Methods paper, " Two-photon high-resolution measurement of partial pressure of oxygen in cerebral vasculature and tissue," has been published online. Nature Methods issued a press release about the paper. We've reproduced it here.

COSMOS magazine has already written about the study. Read the article here.