On the left, a white male with grey hair and glasses wearing a dark suit and red tie. On the right is a white woman with blonde hair and glasses wearing a deep purple blouse. — Professor Laura Marcu, Department of Biomedical Engineering (right) is founding director of the new NIH-funded National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies. Griff Harsh, professor and chair of neurological surgery at UC Davis Health, will be deputy director and training lead for the NCIBT. (UC Davis photo)

NIH Grant Creates National Center at UC Davis

Light-Based, AI Technologies Could Transform Interventional Health Care

by Sarah Colwell
July 12, 2022

"A new center that stands to transform surgical procedures and brain monitoring on a national scale using light-based, artificial intelligence-informed technologies will soon be part of Aggie Square at the University of California, Davis, thanks to a recent $6.3 million P41 grant from NIH’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

The National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies, or NCIBT, will advance two optical imaging technologies developed at UC Davis — interventional fluorescence lifetime imaging, or iFLIM, and interferometric diffuse optical spectroscopy, or iDOS — and combine them with an AI-deep learning platform to provide real-time guidance of decision-making during medical and surgical procedures. The center will support research and development, clinical application, and training and education of the new technologies and promote their adoption to improve the quality of interventional health care."

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