KEYNOTE: Advanced Optoacoustic and Fluorescence Techniques for Noninvasive Scalable Imaging of Mammalian Brain

Neuroscience has a fundamental need for more efficient and less intrusive ways to observe the activity of large distributed neuronal populations and related vascular changes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Razansky focuses on his research group's latest additions to the arsenal of multiscale neuroimaging techniques. These additions include whole-brain functional optoacoustic neuro-tomography, large-field multifocal illumination microscopy, and diffuse optical localization imaging.

About the presenter
Daniel Razansky holds the Chair of Biomedical Imaging and is a professor within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zürich. He is also a professor in the Department of Information Technologies and Electrical Engineering, and director of the joint Preclinical Imaging Center at ETH Zürich. He earned degrees in biomedical and electrical engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Previously, he was professor of molecular imaging engineering at the Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich in Germany. The Razansky Lab has pioneered a number of functional and molecular imaging technologies that have been successfully commercialized and put into use in many research labs and clinical facilities around the world. These technologies include multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) and hybrid optoacoustic ultrasound (OPUS). His research has been recognized by the German Innovation Prize along with receiving awards from the ERC, NIH, SNF, DFG, and HFSP. He is also an elected fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.