Research
S-Level Research
System Level Applications is the final integration of Center activity that aims to achieve critical technical advances to dramatically improve subsurface imaging for important societal problems.
- Current system level projects have biological-medical and civil-environmental
applications:
- Application of 3D Fusion Microscopy to Subsurface Imaging of Mouse Oocytes, Embryos, and Embryonic Stem Cells: Non-destructive evaluation of embryo viability that improves the success rate of in vitro fertilization and reduces the number of multiple-birth pregnancies.
- Application of 3D Fusion Microscopy to Skin Cancer Characterization: Imaging of skin cells to detect skin cancer, with the eventual goal of producing a hand-held skin cancer detection device that can be used in clinical settings.
- Four-Dimensional Image-Guided Radiotherapy: Improvement of the effectiveness of cancer therapy through reduction of the time needed to calculate a treatment plan, modeling of respiratory patterns to better direct radiation to the tumor, and development of a toolkit that visualizes CT scans over time.
- Multi-Sensor Breast Cancer Imaging: Integration of multi-sensor instruments and processing schemes to decrease the incidence of unnecessary biopsies for breast cancer and identify cancer not seen using x-ray mammography.
- Multi-Scale Sensing for Benthic Habitat Monitoring: Remote Sensing: Use of sensors and processing algorithms to develop tools that monitor shallow Caribbean reefs and maintain marine health and biodiversity.
- Imaging the Deep Coral Reef Habitat with the SeaBED AUV: Deployment of the Center's Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle to study previously inaccessible deep-water coral reefs, identifying both potential sources of both commercially desirable fish and coral larvae to redevelop the shallow reefs.
- 4-D Multi-Sensor Underground Assessment: Development of techniques to detect site contamination, flaws in civil infrastructure, and unexploded ordnance such as landmines.