iThera Medical hosts Prof. Dr Vasilis Ntziachristos of TU München for invited talk December 10th

Optoacoustic Imaging is a biomedical, non-invasive imaging modality based on the optoacoustic effect. It uses optical excitation and ultrasound detection (light in – sound out) to generate in-vivo images of tissue morphology and function. The technology has now advanced to bring fundamentally new abilities to optical imaging that result in high-resolution visualization much deeper than what is allowed by optical microscopy. This emerging imaging modality can bring solutions to a number of unmet clinical need in cancer, cardiovascular or metabolic diagnostics.

Prof. Dr Vasilis Ntziachristos is a Full Professor of Medicine and Electrical Engineering and holds the Chair of Biological Imaging at the Technical University of Munich. He is also the Director of the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Ntziachristos is a globally recognized pioneer and entrepreneur in biomedical imaging. His area of research encompasses the development of new methods and devices for biological and medical imaging focusing on innovative non-invasive approaches that visualize previously unseen physiological and molecular processes in tissues. For his work, he has been awarded several prestigious awards. Specifically, this year he was made an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to optoacoustic imaging and intraoperative fluorescence imaging”. In this talk, he will present the insights and the future perspective of Optoacoustics.

Language: English

About the IEEE EMBS Student Chapter Munich

The aim of the recently activated IEEE EMB Student Chapter Munich is to provide the students with a community of peers, and a connection to faculty and industry professionals who drive innovation in the field of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB). They organize once per month a one-hour online Guest Lecture of an interesting topic related to MedTech.