School of Physics Seminar Programme 2013-2014
Venue: A0208
Time: 13:00
Tuesday, November 12th
Optical Imaging for Structural and Functional
Monitoring of Cancer and Radiation Therapy Effects
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Prof. Alex Vitkin is an engineering physicist/biomedical engineer by training, with further
specialization in medical physics and applications of lasers in medicine. He is currently a
professor of Medical Biophysics and Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto, a senior
scientist in the division of BioPhysics and BioImaging at the Ontario Cancer Institute, and a
clinical medical physicist at Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto. His research is in the field of
biophotonics, with particular emphasis on optical coherence tomography, tissue polarimetry,
and optical fiber sensors. He has published over 140 papers and book chapters on diagnostic
and therapeutic uses of light in biomedicine, holds several patents in the field, and currently
runs a large laboratory with several undergraduate/graduate students and postdoctoral/clinical fellows.