Recent Announcements

December, 2025 - Campus Conversations with Student Leaders

Halloween_2025

Farah Kamar joined President Alan Shepard along with other student leaders to reflect on their journeys at Western University. Their conversation can be accessed here.

October, 2025 - Halloween

Halloween_2025

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

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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