13:20  BK2-1  PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES FOR SENSING

Kevin L. Shuford*

Department of Chemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX

13:40  BK2-2  DETERMINATION OF CELL DEATH MECHANISMS INITIATED DURING GOLD NANOPARTICLE-MEDIATED PHOTOTHERMAL THERAPY

Varun P. Pattani*, James W. Tunnell

Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

14:00  BK2-3  SHG MICROSCOPY AND SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY TO PROBE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX ALTERATIONS IN OVARIAN CANCER

Paul J. Campagnola*, Karissa Tilbury, Kirby Campbell, Chi-Hsiang Lien, Gunnsteinn Hall

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

14:20  BK2-4  FIBER OPTIC PROBE FOR EARLY DETECTION OF LUNG CANCER

Nikhil N. Mutyal*, Andrew Radosevich, Jeremy D. Rogers, Hemant K. Roy, Vadim Backman

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston IL

14:40  BK2-5  MEASURING THE NANOSCALE MASS-DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS WITHIN BIOLOGICAL CELLS USING OPTICAL AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

Dhwanil P. Damania*¹, Ilker Capoglu¹, Jeremy D. Rodgers¹, Hariharan Subramanian¹, Lusik Cherkezyan¹, Reiner Bleher², Jinsong Wu², Vinayak Dravid², Vadim Backman¹

¹Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston,IL
²Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston,IL

15:20  BK2-6  QUANTITATIVE IMAGING OF TUMOR VASCULARITY TO EXPLORE CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH COLON CARCINOGENESIS

Sarah Ruderman*¹, Mariano Gonzalez-Haba², Urszula Dougherty², Jana Zujovic¹, Jeremy D. Rogers¹, Andrew J. Gomes¹, Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas¹, Vani Konda², Vadim Backman¹

¹Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
²Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

15:40  BK2-7  REAL TIME BLOOD TESTING USING QUANTITATIVE PHASE IMAGING

Gabriel Popescu*

Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

16:00  BK2-8  VIRTUAL OPTICS: SEEING THROUGH TURBID MEDIA AND BEYOND

Snow H. Tseng*, Wei-Lun Ting

Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

16:20  BK2-9  SPECTRAL ENCODING OF SPATIAL FREQUENCY APPROACH FOR IMAGING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF 3D STRUCTURES

Shikhar Uttam*¹, Sergey Alexandrov², Rajan Bista¹, Yang Liu¹

¹Dept. of Medicine, Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
²Dept. of Physics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

16:40  BK2-10  BIOPHOTONICS: COMPUTATIONAL AND OPTICAL ADVANCES IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL BIOLOGICAL IMAGING

Kevin W. Eliceiri*

LOCI, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison