Joseph A. Izatt, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Biophotonics is concerned with the application of cutting-edge optoelectronic technologies to problems in the biomedical sciences. My research centers on the application of optical technologies for non-invasive, high-resolution imaging and sensing in living biological tissues. The technologies we use in my laboratory include acousto-optic and integrated-optic devices, femtosecond lasers, and ultrabroadband fiber optic telecommunications equipment. The applications of the systems we build include noninvasive medical diagnostics, in-vivo tomographic microscopes, and high-throughput three-dimensional small animal imaging systems for genomics studies. Our work involves multiple collaborations with engineers, biologists, and physicians at Duke and elsewhere.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	2573 CIEMAS
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5128
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.fitzpatrick.duke.edu/biophotonics

Teaching (Fall 2013):

• BME 271.01, SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS Synopsis

  TBA, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Education:

PhD	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1991
SM	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1988
SB	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1986

Specialties:

Medical Imaging
Photonics
Medical Diagnostics

Research Interests:

Professor Izatt's research interests are in the area of biophotonics and include coherence-based biomedical imaging and microscopy, novel technologies for ophthalmic imaging, and nanoscale studies of cellular morphology and dynamics.

Areas of Interest:

Optical coherence tomography and microscopy
Ophthalmic imaging technology
Field-based optical microscopy at the nanoscale
Laser-tissue interactions
Optical and ultrasonic signal processing
Novel methods for high-resolution minimally invasive medical imaging and tissue characterization

Keywords:

biophotonics • biomedical optics • optical coherence tomography • optical coherence microscopy • optical tomography • light-tissue interactions

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. A. Davis and J. Izatt and F. Rothenerg, Quantitative Measurement of Blood Flow Dynamics in Embryonic Vasculature Using Spectral Doppler Velocimetry, Anatomical Record-advances In Integrative Anatomy And Evolutionary Biology, vol. 292 no. 3 (March, 2009), pp. 311 -- 319, ISSN 1932-8486  [abs]
2. S. Asrani and M. Sarunic and C. Santiago and J. Izatt, Detailed visualization of the anterior segment using Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography, Archives Of Ophthalmology, vol. 126 no. 6 (June, 2008), pp. 765 -- 771, ISSN 0003-9950  [abs]
3. C. S. Johnson and S. I. Mian and S. Moroi and D. Epstein and J. Izatt and N. A. Afshari, Role of corneal elasticity in damping of intraocular pressure, Investigative Ophthalmology \& Visual Science, vol. 48 no. 6 (June, 2007), pp. 2540 -- 2544, ISSN 0146-0404  [abs]
4. Ellerbee, Audrey K. and Izatt, Joseph A., Phase retrieval in low-coherence interferometric microscopy, Optics Letters, vol. 32 no. 4 (2007), pp. 388 - 390 [OL.32.000388]  [abs]
5. A. Louie and J. Izatt and K. Ferrara, Biomedical imaging graduate curricula and courses: Report from the 2005 Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Educational Summit, Annals Of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 34 no. 2 (February, 2006), pp. 239 -- 247, ISSN 0090-6964  [abs]