Recent Announcements

October, 2025 - Halloween

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Our team celebrated halloween dressed as the characters of the Super Mario franchise. 

October, 2025 - WestNIRS 2025

Mamadou Diop and Farah Kamar presented at WestNIRS 2025, which was hosted at Western University in London, ON, Canada. Farah was awarded best poster presentation.
  • Mamadou's public lecture: Beyond fNIRS: The untapped potential of tissue spectroscopy
  • Farah's oral talk: Feasibility of using hybrid NIRS/DCS to measure changes in cerebral blood flow and volume pulsatility 
  • Farah's poster: Feasibility of using hybrid NIRS/DCS to measure changes in cerebral blood flow and volume pulsatility

September, 2025 - Neurocritical Care Society 23rd Annual Meeting

Farah Kamar presented her work at the Neurocritical Care Society 23rd Annual Meeting, which was hosted in Montreal, QC, Canada. 
  • Farah's poster: Hybrid optical system for noninvasive longitudinal monitoring of dynamic cerebral blood flow, oxygenation, and pulsatility

Featured Publications

Karagulleoglu-Kunduraci, S., Kamar, F., Eskandari, R., Samaei, S., Diop, M. (2025, October). Neonatal cerebral hemodynamics under elevated intracranial pressure: a near-infrared spectroscopy study in piglets. Pediatric Research.

Suwalski, M., Milej, D., Mousseau, J. P., Rajaram, A., Diop, M., Murkin, J., St. Lawrence, K., Chui, J. (2025, June). The Effect of Hypotension on Cerebral Metabolism and Perfusion in Adults Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Prospective Cohort Study. Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Eskandari, R., Li, N. C., Samaei, S., Milej, D., St. Lawrence, K., Diop, M. (2025, August). Quantification of oxidized and reduced cytochrome-c-oxidase by combining discrete-wavelength time-resolved and broadband continuous-wave near-infrared spectroscopy. Biomedical Optics Express, 16(9), 3797-3812.

Ping, A.1, Haque, R.1, Li, N. C., Eskandari, R.#, & Diop, M.# (2025, April). Minimum spectral resolution for continuous-wave hyperspectral near-infrared tissue spectroscopy. Journal of Biomedical Optics (Vol. 30, Issue 4, 047002).

Eskandari, R., Milkovich, S., Kamar, F., Goldman, D., Welsh, D. G., Ellis, C. G., & Diop, M. (2024, December). Non-invasive point-of-care optical technique for continuous in vivo assessment of microcirculatory function: Application to a preclinical model of early sepsis. The FASEB Journal, 38(23), e70204.

Mawdsley, L.1, Eskandari, R.1, Kamar, F., Rajaram, A., Yip, L. C. M., Abayomi, N., Milkovich, S., St. Lawrence, K., Carson, J. J. L., Ellis, C. G., & Diop, M. (2024, August). In vivo optical assessment of cerebral and skeletal muscle microvascular response to phenylephrine. FASEB BioAdvances, 6(9), 390.

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