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.

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.