Med Tech Frontiers: Photoacoustic Imaging for Biomedical Applications August 6, 2009

Triple Ring Technologies, Inc. is pleased to offer informational presentations on topics of technical and scientific interest to the medical device community through its free Med Tech Frontiers Series for 2009. Details for the next event are below:

Speaker: Adam de la Zerda, PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

About the Seminar:
Photoacoustic imaging is a new medical imaging technology with tremendous clinical and commercial potential. Recently it has received significant attention from the scientific and corporate press alike. This non-invasive imaging technique allows for high spatial resolution imaging of deep structures in the body. The technique utilizes the 'photoacoustic effect' - the conversion of short light pulses into ultrasound waves and their detection outside the body with sensitive ultrasound microphones (transducers). By measuring the ultrasound waves from multiple points outside the body, one can create a detailed 3D image of blood vessel structure, oxygen saturation levels and even track various contrast agents as they target diseased tissues such as cancer. This talk will present an experimental photoacoustic imaging system and review its various aspects including: optics, electronics, ultrasound, image processing, nanoparticle chemistry, biology and medicine. Finally, a number of medical needs that might be met using this technology will be introduced, including early cancer detection, sentinel lymph node mapping and others.

About the Speaker:
Adam de la Zerda is a PhD candidate at the department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His work in the Gambhir lab has pioneered the field of Photoacoustic Molecular Imaging and its applications on cancer imaging. Adam has won numerous awards including the Best Photoacoustic Poster Presentation at SPIE Photonics West 2009, the Young Investigator Award at the Molecular Imaging Congress 2008, the DoD Breast Cancer Research Fellowship Award of 2008, the Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship, and the Bay Area Entrepreneurship Contest. He holds a number of patents and has published in various journals including Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS and Nano Letters.

About Triple Ring:
Triple Ring Technologies is an innovative contract research and medical product development company that teams with clients to complete complex technical projects - from conceptual design through development and product launch. Our extensive start-up experience, breadth of technical capabilities, and unique interdisciplinary team model set us apart from other technical consulting alternatives. Our highly skilled technical experts are chosen for their ability to solve early-stage technical problems collaboratively. With Triple Ring, clients get the brainpower of a full team without the cost, time, and overhead of finding and hiring skilled technical specialists.

The Triple Ring team has worked together for more than ten years, and is headquartered in a large research & development facility in Newark, CA that includes laboratories for optics, electronics, and x-ray technology development. Our clients include early stage investors, entrepreneurs, and established companies in the medical device, life sciences, industrial instrumentation, optics, digital imaging, and renewable energy fields.

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