01/31/2018
A new device that can image diseases of the retina more quickly will soon be tested during ophthalmic surgeries with Vanderbilt Eye Institute collaborators.
The prototype was designed by a Vanderbilt engineering undergraduate, who is first author on a paper about the work she will present today at the largest photonics conference in the world.
Kelsey Leeburg, a junior planning to double major in biomedical and electrical engineering, is one of four undergraduates presenting their work at SPIE Photonics West. All four worked last summer in the Diagnostic Imaging and Image-Guided Interventions Laboratory (DIIGI) under the direction of Yuankai “Kenny” Tao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
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