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Name: Oscar D. Ayala
Year in program: 1 st
year (started Fall 2012)
Previous degree info (Year, degree type, focus, school): BS Biomedical Engineering,
2012, The University of Texas at Austin
Office number in Stevenson: SC5835
Email address: oscar.d.ayala@vanderbilt.edu
Research interests: OCT and Raman spectroscopy, clinical applications in diabetes and cardiology, optical design instrumentation
Research description (paragraph):
Publications
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Journal Articles
Conference Abstracts
Wang T, McElroy A, Ayala O D, Kazmi S M, Dunn A, Gruber A, Milner T E. Effects of infrared laser irradiation on in vivo cerebral neural tissue activity. Photobiomodulation: Basic Science and Pre-Clinical Studies Session.
American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) Annual Conference 2012. Kissimmee, FL, USA. April
20-22, 2012. Oral Presentation.
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Talks:
Ayala O D, Ray D, Nelson T, Fu C L, and Hsieh M H. RNA isolation in S. haematobiuminduced mouse bladder granulomata by laser capture microdissection.
Microbiology Session. Annual Biomedical
Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) 2011. St. Louis, MO, USA. November 9-
12, 2011. Oral Presentation
Ayala O D, Paranjape A S, Wang T, Ma L L, Johnston K P, Kuranov R V, and Milner T E. Measurement of 1210nm laser induced thermo-elastic expansion in tissue phantoms with nanoparticles using swept source phase-sensitive OCT in Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical
Society of America). Optics in Interventional Medicine Session. Frontiers in Optics (FiO)/Laser
Science (LS) XXV Conference 2009. San Jose, CA, USA. October 11-15, 2009. Oral
Presentation.