LABEL FREE IMAGING OF BLOOD SMEARS AND TISSUE BIOPSIES


Year of Award:
2010
Status:
Complete
Award Type:
R21
Project Number:
CA147967
RFA Number:
RFA-CA-09-004
Technology Track:
Biospecimen Science Technologies
PI/Project Leader:
POPESCU, GABRIEL
Other PI or Project Leader:
N/A
Institution:
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
This exploratory project is aimed at investigating the potential of newly developed optical interferometric technique that we developed- Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (SLIM)-- for characterizing blood smears and tissue biopsies. SLIM is label-free