I-Corps: Quantitative phase imaging solutions for materials and life sciences

这个创新团队项目将专注于将PI开发的定量相位成像(QPI)的边界扩展到高影响应用，包括神经科学、癌症成像和细胞膜生物物理学。PI/团队打算构建QPI技术的“阿尔法单元”原型。如果成功，建议的技术有可能为医学界提供负担得起的、快速和准确的仪器；并为工业提供更高质量的设置。提出的技术提供的主要特征是：非侵入性、无标记、定量、纳米级和3D成像。

This Innovation Corps project will focus on extending the boundaries of quantitative phase imaging (QPI) developed by the PI to high-impact applications including neuroscience, cancer imaging, and cell membrane biophysics. The PI/team intend to build an "alpha unit" prototype of the QPI technology. If successfulu, the proposed technology has the potential to provide affordable, fast and accurate instruments for the medical community; and to offer improved quality setups for industry. The main features the proposed technology provides are: noninvasive, label-free, quantitative, nanoscale, and 3D imaging.