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About TERC: TERC Personnel
Sergtio Fantini, Tufts University
 Contact info:
Sergtio Fantini
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Science and Technology Center - Room 247
Medford, MA 02155
Tel: 617-627-4356 (office) ~ 617-627-4264/4324/4369 (lab)
Fax: 617-627-3151/3231
Research interest:
Research in the area of medical optics that covers aspects such as the study of light propagation in optically turbid media (biological tissue), the design of optical instrumentation for medical imaging, and the development of novel near-infrared techniques for medical diagnostics.
Specifically, the major current research projects in Sergio Fantini's laboratory are the following:
- Optical mammography; This project aims at developing a novel imaging tool to
detect the presence of breast tumors by using safe near-infrared light.
- Optical imaging of the human brain; This project consists of developing
an optical instrument for functional imaging of the human brain (in both adults and infants)
to be used as a stand-alone technology or concurrently with FMRI (functional magnetic resonance
imaging) or EEG (electroencephalography).
- Optical study of muscle hemodynamics; Near-infrared methods can be used to measure the
blood flow and the oxygen consumption of skeletal muscle under rest and exercise conditions.
We use this technique to investigate the muscle physiological response to exercise.
- High-resolution diffuse optical tomography; In this project, we investigate the potential
of a novel scheme of data acquisition and analysis (phased-array of light sources) to
improve the spatial resolution of optical imaging of tissue.
- Diffuse reflectance imaging; This imaging approach consists of illuminating a sample with a broad light beam, and collecting a 2-D image with a charge coupled device (CCD) camera detector.
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