Raman Spectroscopy and Laser Ablation for In-Vivo Cancer Detection and Destruction

January 1, 2019

City of Hope Engineering/Physics, 2018-19

Liaison(s): Dr. Yuman Fong, Dr. Veronica Jones, Ragini Kothari ’18, Dr. Daniel Schmolze
Advisor(s): Steven Santana ’06, Dr. Michael Storrie-Lombardi
Students(s): Morgan Blevins (TL), Daniel Brito (F), Kira Favakeh (S), Dominique Mena, Qianti Min, Youkang Shon

The team created a system which can locate and diagnose an early stage breast tumor via raman spectroscopy and destroy it via laser ablation during surgery.