Functional and Structural Imaging for Stem Cell Tracing In-Vivo

EECS Colloquium

Featuring Orhan Nalcioglu, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Radiology, Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Irvine

Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium
Free and open to the public

Abstract:
The use of stem cells in medicine offers great promise to treat various diseases.  This is usually done by delivering stem cells to the diseased organ. However, one also needs methods to follow the proliferation, survival, differentiation and movement of stem cells in living organs. This lecture will review the state of the art in imaging technologies that may be used for this purpose.

Nalcioglu is director of the John Tu & Thomas Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging and the Research Imaging Center.  He is also the vice chairman for research for the Department of Radiology.  He received an M.S. degree in physics from Case-Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oregon.  His research interests include oncological imaging and functional brain imaging.

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