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• Bioengineering Research Partnership in Brain Dynamics
  Bioengineering Dynamics Laboratory
  
  The Brain Dynamics Bioengineering Research Partnership is committed to the development of seizure warning systems and devices for the purpose of transferring this technology to the global marketplace.
• Breast Pump Development
  Electrical Bioimpedance Laboratory
  
  Our lab is working with Medela AG in Baar, Switzerland, and Chicago, Ill., to develop smart breast pumps that will make milk expression easier and faster for mothers.
• Cardiac Control
  BioApplied Dynamics Laboratory
  
  Heart disease is a brutal and ruthless killer. When a heart attack hits, it takes a jolt of electricity to kick it back into its regular rhythm. This method works, but it's painful and complicated. We're looking for a better solution.
• Chaos Based Computation
  BioApplied Dynamics Laboratory
  
  Our quest has been to harness coupled nonlinear systems for computation. While still early in its development phase, nonlinear dynamical computers are now ready to be applied to computationally difficult and complex problems.
• Combined Optical and Fluorescence Imaging of Breast Cancer
  Biomedical Optics Laboratory
  
  Non-ionizing, noninvasive near-infrared optical imaging has great potential to become such a promising alternative for breast cancer detection.
• Detecting Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Newborns
  Electrical Bioimpedance Laboratory
  
  It's somewhat common to find a build-up of blood in the brains of babies born several weeks too soon. Left untreated, these hemorrhages have been linked to dangerous developmental disabilities, and are sometimes even fatal.
• Diffuse Optical Tomography of Osteoarthritis
  Biomedical Optics Laboratory
  
  
• Evolution Into Epilepsy
  BioApplied Dynamics Laboratory
  
  Neural Robotics and Neural Computation Laboratory
  
  Epilepsy is the single most common serious brain disorder in every country of the world. It may be the most universal of all medical disorders, affecting all ages, races, social classes, and nation. Worldwide, at least 40 million or 7 of every 1,000 individuals currently suffer from epilepsy. Estimates of incidence rates range from 24 to 53 per 100...
• Flight Control Systems
  Neural Robotics and Neural Computation Laboratory
  
  Dr. Thomas DeMarse is using a model airplane and flight-simulation software to study the computational properties of living networks of brain cells.
• In Vivo Cellular Diagnosis of Skin and GI Cancers
  Biomedical Optics Laboratory
  
  Diseases involving the skin and underlying soft tissues are legion. These tissues are involved by a wide range of congenital, inflammatory, infectious, traumatic, and neoplastic processes. Aside from physical examination, the diagnosis of most of these lesions is invasive, time-consuming, and costly, often requiring surgical excision or biopsy foll...
• Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography (MREIT)
  Electrical Bioimpedance Laboratory
  
  We are developing high resolution conductivity imaging techniques using this new hybrid method in collaboration with the Impedance Imaging Research Center at Kyung Hee University in South Korea. MREIT data is collected by taking MRI images of subjects who simultaneously have an electrical current applied. Our method can reconstruct current density ...
• Microwave Imaging
  Biomedical Optics Laboratory
  
  
• Monitoring Intraperitoneal Bleeding
  Electrical Bioimpedance Laboratory
  
  Bleeding in the abdominal cavity is a frequent consequence of the blunt trauma suffered in motor vehicle accidents. Often it is undetected by conventional clinical screening techniques. We have developed a monitoring method that can quantify the rate of bleeding and thus the urgency of surgery. At present we are readying a new commercial device ...
• Neural Interface Technology
  Neural Robotics and Neural Computation Laboratory
  
  We begin by growing living rat cortical neurons on multielectrode arrays (MEA) from MultiChannel Systems which consist of 60 electrodes arranged in an 8x8 grid. Each electrode is 30 microns spaced 200 microns apart over an area of approximately 1.6 mm2. These arrays are covered with approximately 25,000 neurons which rapidly begin to re-establish c...
• Optical Imaging For Breast Cancer Detection/Diagnosis
  Biomedical Optics Laboratory
  
  In recent years, the early detection of preclinical breast cancer in screening programs has been proposed and implemented as a beneficial tool against a disease which one in eight women in the United States will encounter. While current breast cancer screening programs implement conventional x-ray mammography and palpation for breast cancer detecti...
• Optical measurements of oxygen transport to tumors
  Biophotonics Imaging Therapeutics and Sensing Laboratory
  
  Tumor hypoxia has been shown to have prognostic value in clinical trials involving radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery. Tumor oxygenation studies at microvascular levels can provide understanding of oxygen transport on scales at which oxygen transfer to tissue occurs. To fully grasp the significance of blood oxygen delivery and hypoxia at microvas...
• Particulate Analysis for On-Line Process Monitoring in the Chemical/Pharmaceutical-Based Industries
  Biomedical Optics Laboratory
  
  Chemical and pharmaceutical processes involving polymer melts, powders, polydisperse slurries, dispersed phases and high solid contents are often limited to time-consuming, off-line laboratory analyses. Consequently, the control schemes for continuous production in many of these processes cannot be implemented and end product quality is ultimately ...
• Reconstructive Ultrasound Imaging
  Biomedical Optics Laboratory
  
  
• tcMEP Optimization
  Electrical Bioimpedance Laboratory
  
  Our lab is working with Active Diagnostics in Davis, Calif., to optimize the injection sites and stimulus levels used in trans-cranial Motor Evoked Potentials (tcMEP). tcMEPs are a method of monitoring, during surgery, the integrity of brain motor pathways. The brain is stimulated using scalp electrodes and the motor signals stimulated are monit...

Current Research Projects

More design and research goes into crafting washing machines than goes into creating artificial knees and artificial hips. As crazy as it sounds, it's true. And it has to stop. UF biomedical engineers are working right now for a better solution.