Can we see through thick tissue layers without cutting the subject?

We are developing advanced algorithms for imaging through scattering tissue.

Seeing inside tissue is one of the hardest barriers in biomedical research and in medical imaging, mostly because cells inside the tissue aberrate and scatter the light waves passing through it. Even after propagating through tissue layers as thin as a few dozen micrometers, the resulting images are highly aberrated and are uninterpretable by the human eye. Despite this we develop computational tools which can see biological components such as fluorescent neurons, deep inside the tissue.

The research will combine tools in optics and algorithmic processing, including adaptive optics surfaces, machine learning, statistics and advanced optimization. In particular, we are looking for students in a new project applying NeRF (Neural radiance fields) methods for the reconstruction of 3D structures in microscope images.

Research group: Computational Photography Lab (PI: Anat Levin)
Contact: anat.levin@ee.technion.ac.il
Group website: https://webee.technion.ac.il/people/anat.levin/