Amir Gandjbakhche

National Institutes of Health
Building 49, Room 5A82
Bethesda, MD 20892

Tel: (301) 435-9235

Fax: (301) 480-2427

Email: gandjbaa@mail.nih.gov

Education:

1995 “Diplome d’habilitation a diriger des recherches” (This diploma qualifies one for the position of Full Professor in France) Title: Spectroscopy and imaging of biological tissue, University of Marne la Vallee
1989

Ph.D., Physics (specialty: biomedical engineering) 

Title of thesis: An optical method to study the gradients of deformation of a concentrated suspension of deformable particles in a simple shear flow (application to red blood cells) Laboratoire de Biorheologie et d’Hydrodynamique Physico Chimique (L.B.H.P.), University of Paris

1984 D.E.A. (M.S.), Heat and mass transfer, University of Paris
1978 B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Iran

Professional and Academic Experience:

2004—Present Senior Investigator, Chief of Section on Biomedical Stochastic Physics, (formerly Section on Analytical and Functional Biophotonics, Section on Biomedical Stochastic Physics), NICHD, NIH
1999—2004 Investigator, Chief of Unit on Biomedical Stochastic Physics, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, NICHD, NIH
1997—1999 Senior Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, NICHD, NIH 
1995—1996 Visiting Associate, Physical Sciences Laboratory, DCRT, NIH 
1990—1995 Visiting Fellow, Physical Sciences Laboratory, DCRT, NIH
1987—1990

Assistant associe, University of Paris (first year Medical School)

Courses:

  • Hydrodynamics
  • Statistical Thermodynamics
  • Electricity
  • Waves and Propagation
  • Numerical Analysis
1986—1987

Teaching assistant, Ecole Superieure d’Informatique, d’Automatique et d’Electronique

Courses:

  • Mechanics
  • Electricity
1986—1987

Teaching assistant, University of Paris

Courses:

  • Calculus I & II
1977—1978 1977-1978 Teaching assistant, University of Science and Technology of Iran

Courses:

  • Circuit and Network Analysis I & II

Awards:

1984—1987 French Government Graduate Studies Fellowship
1995 NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (of the 406 entries, 32 received the award)

Society Memberships:

  • Optical Society of America (OSA)

  • International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

  • Biophysical Society

Scientific Responsibilities and Activities:

  • Editorial Board of Journal of Biomedical Optics (2000-present)
  • Chair, Biomedical Optical Imaging Technical Committee, OSA (2000-2002)
  • Member of the Optical Society of America Bio-Optics Advisory Committee
  • Member of the Program Committee of OSA Conferences on Advances in Optical Imaging, Photon Migration, and Tissue Optics
  • 20 times member of program Committees of International Photonics Conferences including OSA, CLEO, LEOS, SPIE, IEEE
  • Reviewer of Applied Optics, J. Optical Society of America, J. Biomedical Optics, Medical Physics, Physica A, J Stat. Phys., Phys. Rev. E., Phys. Rev. Lett., IEEE Trans. in Biol. Med., Nature, Science
  • Guest Editor of Special Issue of Journal of Biomedical Optics (2005, 2007)
  • Member of Scientific Council of Pierre Gilles de Gennes Foundation (Paris, France )
  • Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Advance Research Technologies ( St Laurent, Canada)
  • Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Beckman Laser Institute (Irvine, CA)

Memberships at NIH:

  • 17 times member of review panels of NIH Study Sections (R01 and SBIR) on Imaging NIH Biophysics Interest Group
  • NIH Bio-Instrumentation Interest Group
  • Chair of 1st Inter Institute Workshop at the National Institutes of Health on In-Vivo Optical Imaging (Sept 1999)
  • Chair of 2nd Inter Institute Workshop on Optical Imaging from Bench to Bedside (Sept 2000)
  • Chair of 3rd Inter Institute Workshop on Diagnostics Optical Imaging: The Clinical Adventure (Sept 2002)
  • Chair of 4th Inter-Institute Workshop on Diagnostic Optical Imaging from Bench to Bedside (Sept. 2004)
  • Chair of 5th Inter-Institute Workshop on Diagnostic Optical Imaging from Bench to Bedside (Sept. 2006)
  • Chair of Optical Imaging Subcommittee of the Mouse Imaging Facility (MIF) at NIH
  • Representative of NICHD at the Tenure Track Investigators Committee (2000-2001)
  • Member of Steering Committee of NIH Center for Molecular Imaging
  • Member of Steering Committee of NCI Network on Translational Research on Optical Imaging
  • Chair of Functional and Molecular Biophotonics Interest Group

Invited Talks (18 on issue topics in USA and overseas):

Most recent:

  • Invited Professor at Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle, Paris (2007)
  • Symposium on Molecular Imaging, Tokyo (March 2006)
  • Symposium on Molecular Imaging, Beijing (March 2006)
  • Quantitative Optical Imaging of Biological Tissue, Paris Canceropole (January 2006)
  • Optical Society of America Topical Meeting, Miami (April 2004)
  • Symposium on Biomedical Optics, Tokyo (September 2003)
  • Conference on Biomedical Imaging Inverse Methods, Vancouver (August 2003)
  • Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore (June 2003)
  • Workshop on Biomedical Imaging, Paris (June 2003) City College of New York, New York (Nov. 2002)
  • University of Paris Denis Diderot, Paris (June 2002)
  • Topical Meeting of Optical Society of America, Miami (April 2002)
  • Workshop on Photon Migration, Berlin (February 2002)
  • Invited Professor at University of Paris (1995, 1996, 1999)
  • Invited Professor at Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle, Paris (1997)

Publications:

Papers and Conference Proceedings:

  1. “Etude phenomenologique des differents stades de la cinetique de formation d’un gel biologique,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, G. Guiffant, P. Mills. Innovation Techniques en Biologie et Medecine ITBM, Vol. 10(3) (1989).
  2. “An optical method to determine the collective orientation-deformation of red blood cells in a simple shear flow,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, P. Mills, and P. Snabre, Proceedings of Seventh International Congress of Biorheology, Vol. 26, (France, 1989).
  3. “New rheolytic catheter for percutaneous thrombectomy. Preliminary in vitro observations,” P. Douek, A.H. Gandjbakhche, M. Leon, and R.F. Bonner, Proceedings of Radiology Society of North America, (Chicago, 1991).
  4. “Scaling relationships for anisotropic random walks,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, R.F. Bonner and R. Nossal, Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 69, 35-53 (1992).
  5. “Use of polarized light to discriminate short-path photons in a multiply scattering medium,” J.M. Schmitt, A.H. Gandjbakhche and R.F. Bonner, Applied Optics, Vol. 31, 6535-6546 (1992).
  6. “New device for fragmentation and evacuation of thrombus,” P. Douek, A.H. Gandjbakhche, M. Leon, and R.F. Bonner, Proceedings of American College of Cardiology, (Dallas, 1992).
  7. “Random walk theory applied to noninvasive in vivo optical measurements of human Tissue,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, J.M. Schmitt, R. Bonner, and R. Nossal, Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE in Medicine and Biology, 332-333 (Paris, 1992).
  8. “Scaling relationships for theories of anisotropic random walks applied to tissue optics,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, R. Nossal and R.F. Bonner, Applied Optics, Vol. 32, 506-516 (1993).
  9. “Rheological effects of the presence of hyaluronic acid in the extracellular media of differentiated 3T3-L1 preadipocyte cultures,” J.C. Calvo, A.H. Gandjbakhche, R. Nossal, V. Hascall, and M. Yanagishita, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vol. 302, 475-486 (1993).
  10. “Photon pathlength distributions for transmission through optically turbid slabs,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, G.H. Weiss, R.F. Bonner and R. Nossal, Physical Review E, Vol. 48, 810-818 (1993).
  11. “Random walk analysis of time-resolved transillumination measurements in optical imaging,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, H. Taitelbaum and G.H. Weiss, Physica A, Vol. 200, 212-221 (1993).
  12. “Optical characterization of dense tissue using low-coherence interferometry,” J.M. Schmitt, A. Knuttel, A.H. Gandjbakhche, and R.F. Bonner, Proceedings of Holography, Interferometry, and Optical Pattern Recognition in Biomedicine (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 1889, 197-213 (Los Angeles, 1993).
  13. “Resolution limits for optical transillumination of abnormalities deeply embedded in tissues,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, R. Nossal and R.F. Bonner, Medical Physics, Vol. 21, 185-191 (1994).
  14. “A light scattering technique to study orientation and deformation of red blood cells in a concentrated suspension,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, P. Mills and P. Snabre, Applied Optics, Vol. 33, 1075-1083 (1994).
  15. “Functional properties of a new rheolytic catheter for percutaneous thrombectomy: In vitro Investigations,” P.C. Douek, A.H. Gandjbakhche, M.B. Leon, R.F. Bonner, J. Invest. Radiol., 29, 547-552 (1994).
  16. “Aggregation and deformation of red blood cells as probed by a laser light scattering technique in a concentrated suspension: I-Methodology,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, P. Mills, P. Snabre, and J. Dufaux, Proceedings of Biochemical Diagnostic Instrumentation (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 2136, 87-96 (Los Angeles, 1994).
  17. “Aggregation and deformation of red blood cells as probed by a laser light scattering technique in a concentrated suspension: II- Comparison between normal and pathological red blood cells,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, A. Othmane, P. Mills, P. Snabre, and J. Dufaux, Proceedings of Biochemical Diagnostic Instrumentation (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 2136, 97-104 (Los Angeles, 1994) .
  18. “Theoretical study of resolution limits for time-resolved imaging of human breast,” A. H. Gandjbakhche, R. Nossal, and R.F. Bonner, Proceedings of Advances in Laser and Light Spectroscopy to Diagnose Cancer and Other Diseases (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 2135, 176-184 (Los Angeles, 1994).
  19. “Random walk methodology for determining optical properties of tissue from reflection and transmission measurements,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, R.J. Nossal, R. Agah, M. Motamedi, and R.F. Bonner, Proceedings of Laser-Tissue Interaction VI (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 2391, 273-282 (San Jose, 1995).
  20. “Expected resolution and detectability of adenocarcinoma tumor in human breast for time-resolved imaging,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, R. Dadmarz, D. Schwartzentruber, and R.F. Bonner, Proceedings of Advances in Laser and Light Spectroscopy to Diagnose Cancer and Other Diseases (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 2387, 111-118 (San Jose, 1995). 
  21. “Random walk analysis of effects of presence of abnormalities in highly turbid media on the shape of time-of-flight expressions,” A.H. Gandjbakhche and G.H. Weiss, Proceedings of Advances in Laser and Light Spectroscopy to Diagnose Cancer and Other Diseases (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 2387, 102-110 (San Jose, 1995).
  22. “Isotropization length for random walk models of photon migration in turbid media,” G.H. Weiss, A.H. Gandjbakhche, and J. Masoliver, J. Mod. Optics, 1567-1574 (1995).
  23. “Experimental validation of an elementary formula for estimating spatial resolution for optical transillumination imaging,” J.C. Hebden, A.H. GandjbakhcheMedical Physics, Vol. 22, 1271-1272 (1995).
  24. “Fluorescent photon migration theory in biological turbid media,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, R.F. Bonner, J. R. Knutson, R. Navai, R. Nossal, and G.H. Weiss, Proceedings of Advances in Laser and Light Spectroscopy to Diagnose Cancer and Other Diseases III: Optical Biopsy (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 2679, 8-15 (San Jose, 1996).
  25. “Dynamics of temperature dependent optical properties of tissue: Dependence on thermal damage,” R. Agah, A.H. Gandjbakhche, M. Motamedi, R. Nossal, R.F. Bonner, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 43, 839-846 (1996).
  26. “Absorptivity contrast in transillumination imaging of tissue abnormalities,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, R.F. Bonner, R. Nossal, and G.H. Weiss, Applied Optics, Vol. 35, 1767-1774 (1996).
  27. “Non-invasive techniques for the diagnosis of diseased salivary glands in situ,” I. Gannot, A.H. Gandjbakhche, G. Gannot, P. C. Fox, H. Koch, and R. F. Bonner, Biomedical Optics Spectroscopy and Diagnosis, Vol. 1, 229-233 (1996).
  28. “Dynamics of temperature dependent optical properties of tissue: Dependence on thermal damage,” R. Agah, A.H. Gandjbakhche, M. Motamedi, R. Nossal, R.F. Bonner, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 43, 839-846 (1996).
  29. “Optical detection of abnormally absorbing regions in tissue,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, V. Chernomordik, R.F. Bonner, R. Nossal, G.H. Weiss, and J. Hebden, Advances in Optical Imaging and Photon Migration, Vol. 2, 183-189 (1996).
  30. “Point spread functions of photons in time-resolved transillumination experiments using simple scaling arguments,” V. Chernomordik, R. Nossal, and A.H. GandjbakhcheMedical Physics, Vol. 23(11), 1857-1861 (1996).
  31. “Quantitative fluorescence imaging of Specific markers of diseased tissue,” A.H. Gandjbakhche and I. Gannot, IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Quant. Elec., Vol. 2(4), 914-921 (1996).
  32. “Effects of multiple passage probabilities on fluorescent signals from biological media,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, R.F. Bonner, R. Nossal, G.H. Weiss, Applied Optics, Vol. 36, 4613-4619 (1997).
  33. “Effects of nonlocalized target shape in the random walk description of transillumination experiments for optical imaging,” G.H. Weiss and A.H. GandjbakhchePhys. Rev. E., Vol. 56, 3451-3458 (1997).
  34. “Use of time-dependent contrast functions to discriminate between the scattering and absorption properties of abnormal regions hidden within a tissue-like model,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, V. Chernomordik, R.F. Bonner, J. Hebden, and R. Nossal, Optical Tomography, Photon Migration, and Spectroscopy of Tissue and Model Media: Theory, Human Studies, and Instrumentation II, (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 2979, 211-217 (San Jose, 1997).
  35. “Quantitative detection of multiple fluorophore sites as a tool for diagnosis and monitoring disease progression in salivary glands,” I. Gannot, R.F. Bonner, G. Gannot, P. Fox, J. Yoo, R. Waynant, and A.H. GandjbakhcheOptical Tomography, Photon Migration, and Spectroscopy of Tissue and Model Media: Theory, Human Studies, and Instrumentation II (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 2979, 151-156 (San Jose, 1997).
  36. “Optical simulations of a non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of diseased salivary glands in-situ,” I. Gannot, R.F. Bonner, G. Gannot, P.C. Fox, P. Smith, and A.H. GandjbakhcheMedical Physics, Vol. 27(7), 1139-1144 (1998). 
  37. “Time-dependent contrast functions for quantitative imaging in time-resolved transillumination experiments,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, V. Chernomordik, J. Hebden, and R. Nossal, Applied Optics, Vol. 37(10), 1973-1981 (1998).
  38. “Testing of new algorithm based on time-dependent contrast functions to evaluate optical characteristics of abnormality hidden within a tissue-like phantom,” V. Chernomordik, J. Hebden, R. Nossal, and A.H. GandjbakhcheTrends in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 21, 209-212 (1998).
  39. “Visible light photon migration through the heart, in vivo,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, R.F. Bonner, A.E. Arai, and R.S. Balaban, Amer. J. Physiol., 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H698-H697 (1999).
  40. “Optical reflectance spectroscopy of the porcine heart, in vivo: Detection of myoglobin and cytochrome c,” A.E. Arai, C. E. Casserra, P.R. Territo, A.H. Gandjbakhche and R.S. Balaban, Amer. J. Physiol., 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H683-H697 (1999).
  41. “Effect of lateral boundaries on contrast functions in time-resolved transillumination measurements,” V. Chernomordik. A.H. Gandjbakhche, J. Hebden, and G. Zaccanti, Medical Physics, Vol. 26(9), 1822-1831 (1999).
  42. “Inverse Method 3D Reconstruction of Localized in-vivo Fluorescence. Application to Sjøgren Syndrome,” V. Chernomordik, D. Hattery, I. Gannot, and A.H. GandjbakhcheIEEE J. Sel. Topics in Quant. Elec., Vol. 5(4), 930-935 (1999).
  43. “Random walk model of the effect of lateral boundaries on time-resolved measurements in optical tomography,” V. Chernomordik, A.H. Gandjbakhche, J. Hebden, and G. Zaccanti, Proceedings of Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue III, Ed. B. Chance, R.R. Alfano, and B.J. Tromberg, Vol. 3597, 136-143 (1999).
  44. “Time-Resolved Fluorescent Imaging in Tissue,” D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, M. Loew, I. Gannot, and A.H. GandjbakhchePhysics of Medical Imaging, Ed. J. Boone, J. Dobbins, (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 3659, 384-391 (San Diego, 1999).
  45. “Quantitative imaging in time-resolved transillumination experiments using time-dependent contrast functions,” V. Chernomordik, D. Hattery, A.H. Gandjbakhche, A. Pifferi, P. Taroni, A. Torricelli, G. Valentini, R. Cubeddu, and Jeremy C. Hebden, Optical Tomography, Photon Migration, and Spectroscopy of Tissue and Model Media: Theory, Human Studies, and Instrumentation III, (International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), Vol. 3597, 398-402 (San Jose, 1999).
  46. “Features and performance of a tomographic algorithm, based on a random walk model, for quantification of the optical characteristics of an abnormality embedded within tissue-like turbid media,” V. Chernomordik, D. Hattery, and A.H. GandjbakhcheTechnical Digest of OSA Conf. on Advances in Optical Imaging, Photon Migration and Tissue Optics, 209-210 (1999).
  47. “A descriptive parameter for photon trajectories in a turbid medium,” A.H. Gandjbakhche and G.H. Weiss, Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 61, 6958-6962 (2000).
  48. “A random walk methodology for quantification of the optical characteristics of abnormalities embedded within tissue-like phantoms,” Victor Chernomordik, David Hattery, Antonio Pifferi, Paola Taroni, Alessandro Torricelli, Gianluca Valentini, Rinaldo Cubeddu, and A. H. GandjbakhcheOptics Letters, Vol. 25(13), 951-953 (2000).
  49. “Fluorescence measurement of localized deeply embedded physiological processes,” D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, I. Gannot, M. Loew, and A.H. Gandjbakhche,Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, Vol. 3978, 377-383 (2000).
  50. “Optical Signatures of Small, Deeply Embedded, Tumor-Like Inclusions in Tissue-Like Turbid Media Based on a Random-Walk Theory of Photon Migration,” D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, M. Loew, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICRP) 2000: Biomedical Imaging and Applications, Vol. 4, 348-351 (2000).
  51. “Monte Carlo Simulations of Abnormal Scattering Inclusions Embedded in Turbid Media,” D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2000: Photon Migration and Light Scattering in Biological Tissue, 563, (2000).
  52. “Quantifying Fluorescent Lifetime of Deeply Embedded Sources in Turbid Media,” D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, M. Loew, I. Gannot, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of OSA Biomedical Optics Topical 2000: Time-Dependent Techniques, 281-283, (2000).
  53. “Depth dependence of the analytical expression for the width of the point spread function (spatial resolution) in time-resolved transillumination,” V. Chernomordik, A.H. Gandjbakhche, M. Lepore, R. Esposito, I. Delfino, J. Biomed Opt, Vol. 6(4), 441-445 (2001).
  54. “Analytical solutions for time-resolved fluorescence lifetime imaging in a turbid medium such as tissue,” D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, M. Loew, I. Gannot, and A.H. GandjbakhcheJ Opt Soc Am (A), Vol. 18(7), 1523-1530 (2001).
  55. “Imaging metabolism with light: quantifying local fluorescence lifetime perturbation in tissue-like turbid media,” D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, A.H. Gandjbakhche, and M. Loew, Proceedings of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Eds. W. Niessen and M. Viergever, 795-802 (2001).
  56. “Quantification of optical properties of a breast tumor using random walk theory,” V. Chernomordik, D. Hattery, D. Grosenick, H. Wabnitz, H. Rinneberg, K.T. Moesta, P.M. Schlag, and A.H. GandjbakhcheJ Biomed Opt, Vol. 7(1), 80-87 (2002).
  57. “Analytical calculation of the mean time spent by photons inside an absorptive inclusion embedded in a highly scattering medium,” V. Chernomordik, D. Hattery, I. Gannot, G. Zaccanti, and A.H. GandjbakhcheJ. Biomed. Opt., Vol. 7(3), 486-492 (2002).
  58. “Laser activated fluorescence measurements and morphological features-An in vivo study of clearance time of FITC tagged cell markers,” I. Gannot, G. Gannot, A. Garashi, A.H. Gandjbakhche, A. Buchner, and Y. Keisari, J Biomed Opt, Vol. 7(1), 14-19 (2002).
  59. “Three dimensional localization of fluorescent masses deeply embedded in tissue,” A. Eidsath, V. Chernomordik, A.H. Gandjbakhche, P. Smith, and A. Russo, Phys Med Biol, Vol. 47, 4079-4092 (2002).
  60. “Non-invasive multi-modality technique to study angiogenesis associated with Kaposi's Sarcoma,” M. Hassan, D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, K. Aleman, K. Wyvill, L. Merced, R. Little, R. Yarchoan and A.H. GandjbakhcheIEEE EMBS BMES, 1139-1140 (2002).
  61. “Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy to Quantify Inflammation of the Oral Epithelium In Vivo,” D. Hattery, K. Gerdelman, F. Hekmat, V. Chernomordik, P. Smith, A. Eidsath, J. Atkinson, J. Mulshine, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of the SPIE Photonics West Conference, Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging: Optical Biopsy IV, Ed. R. Alfano, Vol. 3(5), 59-70 (San Jose, 2002). 
  62. “Measuring Oral Inflammation In Vivo with Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy,” D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, P. Smith, R. Pursley, J. Atkinson, M. Loew, J. Mulshine, and A.H. GandjbakhcheIEEE EMBS, 2243-2244 (Houston, 2002).
  63. “Hyperspectral Imaging of Kaposi's Sarcoma for Disease Assessment and Treatment Monitoring,” D. Hattery, M. Hassan, S. Demos, and A.H. GandjbakhcheApplied Imagery Pattern Recognition, 124-132 (2002).
  64. “Effects of anisotropic optical properties in photon migration in structured tissues,” L. Dagdug, G.H. Weiss, and A.H. GandjbakhchePhysics in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 48, 1-10 (2003).
  65. “In vivo quantitative 3-D imaging of tumor labeled with exogenous specific fluorescence markers,” I. Gannot, A. Garashi, G. Gannot, V. Chernomordik, and A.H. GandjbakhcheAppl Opt, Vol. 42(16), 3073-3080 (2003).
  66. “Tissue characterization by quantitative optical imaging methods,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, V. Chernomordik, D. Hattery, M. Hassan, and I. Gannot, Technol Cancer Res Treat, Vol. 2(6), 537-551 (2003).
  67. “Exogenous specific fluorescence marker location reconstruction using surface fluorescence imaging,” A. Garashi, I. Gannot, V. Chernomordik, G. Gannot, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProc. SPIE Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue V, Vol. 4955, 314-321 (San Jose, 2003). 
  68. “Infrared thermographic imaging for the assessment of temperature asymmetries in reflex sympathetic dystrophy,” M. Hassan, D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, K. Toda, F. Fukuhara, D. Mittal, J. Rowan, J. Shah, L. Gerber, R. Dionne, I. Kopin, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of IEEE EMBS, 1102-1104 (2003).
  69. “Multi-modality imaging techniques to assess Kaposi’s Sarcoma associated with angiogenesis,” H. Hassan, D. Hattery, A. Vogel, V. Chernomordik, F. Hekmat, K. Aleman, K. Wyvill, L. Merced, R. Little, R. Yarchoan, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of 7th Intl. Conf. on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Immunodeficiencies: Basic, Epidemiologic and Clinical Research, 22 (2003).
  70. “Quantitative optical imaging of the pharmacokinetics of fluorescent-specific antibodies to tumor markers tissuelike turbid media,” I. Gannot, A. Garashi, V. Chernomordik, and A.H. GandjbakhcheOptics Letters, Vol. 29(7), 742-4 (2004).
  71. “Differential oblique angle spectroscopy of the oral epithelium,” D. Hattery, B. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, P. Smith, M. Loew, J. Mulshine, and A.H. Gandjbakhche, J. Biomed. Optics, Vol. 9(5), (2004).
  72. “Noninvasive infrared imaging for quantitative assessment of tumor vasculature and response to therapy,” M. Hassan, D. Hattery, A. Vogel, V. Chernomordik, S. Demos, K. Aleman, R. Little, R. Yarchoan, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of IEEE EMBS, 1200-1202 (San Francisco, 2004).
  73. “Multi-modality imaging techniques to assess angiogenesis associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma,” M. Hassan, D. Hattery, A. Vogel, V. Chernomordik, S. Demos, K. Aleman, R. Little, R. Yarchoan, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of OSA Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting, FH5, (Miami, 2004). 
  74. “Photon Migration in Turbid Media with Anisotropic Optical Properties,” O. Dudko, G. Weiss, V. Chernomordik, and A.H. GandjbakhchePhys. Med. Biol., Vol. 49, 3979-3989 (2004).
  75. “Experimental evaluation of an anisotropic scattering model for a slab geometry,” J.C. Hebden, J.J. Guerrero, V. Chernomordik, and A.H. GandjbakhcheOptics Letters, Vol. 29(21), 2518-20 (2004).
  76. “Functional optical detection based on pH dependent fluorescence lifetime,” I. Gannot, R. Izhar, F. Hekmat, V. Chernomordik, and A.H. GandjbakhcheJ. Lasers in Med. and Surg., Vol. 35, 342–348 (2004).
  77. “Quantitative Assessment of Tumor Vasculature and Response to Therapy in Kaposi’s Sarcoma Using Functional Noninvasive Imaging,” M. Hassan, R. Little, A. Vogel, K. Aleman, K. Wyvill, R. Yarchoan, and A.H. GandjbakhcheTCRT, Vol. 3(5), 451-7 (2004).
  78. “Intensity profiles of linearly polarized light backscattered from skin and tissue-like phantoms,” A. Sviridov, V. Chernomordik, M. Hassan, A. Russo, A. Eidsath, P. Smith, and A.H. GandjbakhcheJ. Biomed. Optics, Vol. 10(1) (2005).
  79. “Real time in vivo non-invasive optical imaging using near-infrared quantum dots,” N. Morgan, S. English, W. Chen, V. Chernomordik, A.H. Gandjbakhche, P.D. Smith, and A. Russo, Academic Radiology, Vol. 12(3), 313-23 (2005).
  80. “Oxygen-sensing fluorescent lifetime-based probe for in vivo tumor assessments,” D.W. Hattery, I. Gannot, M. Hassan, and A.H GandjbakhcheProceedings of Optical Diagnostics and Sensing V, BIOS 2005, (San Jose, 2005).
  81. “Enhancement of hidden structures of early skin fibrosis using polarization degree patterns and Pearson correlation analysis,” A.P. Sviridov, V. Chernomordik, M. Hassan, A.C. Boccara, A. Russo, P. Smith, A. GandjbakhcheJ Biomed Opt. 10(5):051706 (2005). 
  82. “Modeling and Simulations of the Pharmacokinetics of Fluorophore conjugated Antibodies in tumor vicinity for the optimization of fluorescence based optical imaging,” G. Fibich, A. Hammer, G. Gannot, A.H. Gandjbakhche and I. Gannot, J. Lasers in Med. and Surg., 37(2):155-60 (2005).
  83. “Whole-body fluorescence lifetime imaging of a tumor-targeted near-infrared molecular probe in mice,” S. Bloch, F. Lesage, L. McIntosh, A. Gandjbakhche, K. Liang, and S. Achilefu, J Biomed Opt., 10(5):054003 (2005).
  84. “Monte Carlo simulations of increased/decreased scattering inclusions inside a turbid slab.” L. Dagdug, V. Chernomordik, G.H. Weiss, and A.H. GandjbakhchePhys Med Biol., 50(23):5573-81 (2005).
  85. “Quantitative method to study the network formation of endothelial cells in response to tumor angiogenic factors,” F. Amyot, K. Camphausen, A. Siavosh, D. Sackett, and A.H. Gandjbakhche, Syst Biol (Stevenage), 152(2):61-6 (2005).
  86. “A scanning system for fluorescence lifetime imaging,” M. Hassan, I. Gannot, V. V. Chernomordik, P. D. Smith, R. Pursley, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of SPIE Photonics West, 6091-05 (2006).
  87. “Time-Resolved Lifetime Fluorescence Imaging – an Inverse Model Based on Analytical Solutions,” J.D. Riley, M. Hassan, V. Chernomordik, I. Gannot and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of the OSA Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting, MH6 (2006).
  88. “Using Multi-Modality Imaging Techniques to Assess Vascularity in AIDS-Related Kaposi’s Sarcoma,” A. Vogel, M. Hassan, F. Amyot, V. Chernomordik, S. Demos, R. Little, R. Yarchoan and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of the OSA Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting, SG2 (2006).
  89. “Analysis of Biological Tissue Textures Using Measurements of Backscattered Polarized Light,” A.P. Sviridov, Z. Ulissi, V. Chernomordik, M. Hassan, A.C. Boccara, and A.H. GandjbakhcheProceedings of the OSA Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting, WD8 (2006).
  90. “Enhancing Diffraction-Limited Images Using Correlations Introduce by the Point Spread Function,” A.R. Small, I. Ilev, V. Chernomordik, and A.H. Gandjbakhche,Optics Express 14, 3193 (2006).
  91.  “The use of the Henyey-Greenstein phase function in Monte Carlo simulations in biomedical optics,” T. Binzoni, T.S. Leung, A.H. Gandjbakhche, D. Rufenacht, and D.T. Delpy. Phys Med Biol 51(17):N313-22 (2006).
  92. “Fluorescence lifetime imaging system for in-vivo studies,” M. Hassan, J. Riley, V. Chernomordik P. Smith, R. Pursley, S.B. Lee, J. Capala and A.H. GandjbakhcheMolecular Imaging, 6(4): 229-36 (2007).
  93. “Simple fiber-optic confocal microscopy with nanoscale depth resolution beyond the diffraction barrier,” I. Ilev, R. Waynant, I. Gannot, and A.H. GandjbakhcheReview of Scientific Instruments, 78-093703-1 (2007)
  94. “Choice of Data-Types in Fluorescence Enhanced Diffuse Optical Tomography,” J. Riley J, M. Hassan, V. Chernomordik and A. H. GandjbakhcheMedical Physics, 34(12), 4890-4900 (2007)
  95. “Optimization of Multi-Photon Excitation Microscopy by Total Emission Detection (TED) Using a Parabolic Light Reflector,” C.A. Combs, A.V. Smirnov, J.D. Riley, A.H. Gandjbakhche, J.R. Knutson, and R.S. Balaban, Journal of Microscopy, 228(3), 329-336 (2007)
  96. “Using Non-Invasive Multi-Spectral Imaging to Quantitatively Assess Tissue Vasculature,” A. Vogel, V. Chernomordik, J. Riley, M. Hassan, F. Amyot, B. Dasgeb, S.G. Demos, R. Pursley, R. Little, R. Yarchoan, Y. Tao, and A.H. GandjbakhcheJournal of Biomedical Optics,12(5), 051604 (2007)
  97. "Investigation of Signal Dependence on Tissue Depth in Near Infrared Spectral Imaging", Bevin Lin, Victor Chernomordik, Amir Gandjbakhche, Dennis Matthews, and Stavros Demos, Optics Express, 15(25), 16591 (2007)
  98. “Light transport in tissue by 3D Monte Carlo: Influence of the boundary voxelization” T. Binzoni, T.S. Leung, R. Giust, D. Rufenacht and A.H. GandjbakhcheComputer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 89(1), 14-23 (2008)
  99. “Detection limits of multi-spectral optical imaging under the skin surface,” T. Binzoni, A. Vogel, A.H. Gandjbakhche, R. Marchesini, Phys. Med. Biol., 53, 617-636 (2008)
  100. “Stochastic model of angiogenesis and endothelial cell apoptosis in a heterogeneous extracellular matrix” F. Amyot, A. Small, H. Boukari, K. Camphausen and A.H. GandjbakhcheMacrovascular Research.
  101. “Thin Films of Oriented Collagen Fibrils for Cell Motility Studies,” F. Amyot, A. Small, H. Boukari, D. Sackett, J. Elliott, D. McDaniel, A. Plant, A. GandjbakhcheJournal of Biomedical Materials Research–Part B Applied Biomaterials; 86:438-443 (2008)
  102. “Use of scaling relations to extract intrinsic fluorescence lifetime of targets embedded in turbid media," Victor Chernomordik, Moinuddin Hassan, Jason Riley, Franck Amyot, and Amir GandjbakhcheJBO Letters; 13(2); 024025 (20008)
  103. “Spatial Distribution of VEGF Isoforms and Chemotactic Signals in the Vicinity of a Tumor,” A. Small, A. Neagu, F. Amyot, D. Sackett, V. Chernomordik, A. GandjbakhcheJournal of Theoretical Biology; 252:593-607 (2008)
  104. “Affibody molecules for in vivo characterization of Her2-positive tumors by quantitative near infrared imaging,” S.B. Lee, M. Hassan, R. Fisher, V. Chernomordik, A. H. Gandjbakhche, J. Capala, Clinical Cancer Research; 14(2); 3840-3849 (2008)

Review Papers:

  1. “Random Walk and diffusion-Like models of photon migration in turbid media,” A.H. Gandjbakhche and G.H. Weiss, Progress in Optics, Ed. E. Wolf, Vol. 34, 333-402 (1995).
  2. “Diffuse Optical imaging and spectroscopy, in vivo,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, In optical and acoustical imaging of biological media, Eds. Claude Boccara and Mathias Fink. Compte rendus de l’academie des sciences de Paris, Elsevier: Serie IV, 1073-1091 (2001).
  3. “Tissue characterization by quantitative optical imaging methods,” A.H. Gandjbakhche, V. Chernomordik, M. Hassan, D. Hattery, and I. Gannot, Tech. in Cancer Research and Treatment, Vol. 2, 537-551 (2003).
  4. “Demystifying Optical Diagnostics,” A. Vogel, A. H. Gandjbakhche, and I. Gannot, J X-Ray Science and Technology, 14(1): 55-72 (2006).
  5. “Advances in Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging of Breast Lesions,” S. Demos, A. Vogel and A.H. GandjbakhcheJournal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia, Vol. 11(2): 165-81 (2006).

Editor:

  1. Proceedings of 1999 Inter Institute Workshop at the National Institutes of Health on In-Vivo Optical Imaging, OSA Publication (2000).
  2. Guest Editor of the special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics based on presentations at the 2004 Inter-Institute Workshop of Optical Imaging at the National Institutes of Health (Sept/Oct 2005).
  3. Guest Editor of the special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics based on presentations at the 2006 Inter-Institute Workshop of Optical Imaging at the National Institutes of Health (Sept/Oct 2007).

Book Chapters:

  1. “Infrared imaging for tissue characterization and function,” M. Hassan, V. Chernomordik, A. Vogel, D. Hattery, I. Gannot, R. Yarchoan and A.H. GandjbakhcheThe Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Medical Devices and Systems, Chapter 30, Third edition, CRC press (2006).
  2. “Infrared imaging for functional monitoring of disease processes” M. Hassan, V. Chernomordik, A. Vogel, D. Hattery, I. Gannot, R. Yarchoan and A. H. GandjbakhcheMedical Infrared Imaging, Chapter 14, Edited by Nicholas Diakides and Joseph Bronzino. July 2007. CRC press, Florida, USA.
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