|
Fairway has research laboratories completely equipped with
lasers, electronics and mechanical devices for basic
studies, preclinical research in animals, and certainly
clinical studies. We have R&D facilities and researchers
experienced in optoacoustic tomography, imaging, sensing and
monitoring systems, ultrasound systems, custom ultrasonic
transducer arrays, spectrometers as well as other sensing
technologies used in most biomedical research projects. Our
testing and assembly labs are suitable for manufacturing and
assembly of custom detectors, fiberoptic light delivery
systems, optoacoustic phantoms, electronics boards. Our
team has also expertise in math and computer modeling,
software and firmware design.
In the past 7 years, Fairway has been awarded a number of
research grants from the National Cancer Institute of NIH
and US Army for the purpose of developing of different
applications of the optoacoustic technology with the main
emphasis being the detection and diagnosis of cancer. The
present research projects include:
-
Optoacoustic Imaging with Contrast Enhanced by Gold
Nanorods in Preclinical Cancer Research (NCI sponsored
project in collaboration with Prof. Massoud Motamedi,
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston)
-
Hybrid Optoacoustic-Ultrasonic System for Diagnostic
Imaging of Breast Cancer (NCI sponsored and Seno Medical
sponsored project in collaboration with Pamela Otto,
Cancer Therapy and Research Center at San Antonio)
-
Optoacoustic System for Image-Guided Biopsy of Prostate
Cancer (NCI sponsored project in collaboration with
Kenneth Bartells and Daqing Piao, Oklahoma State
University)
-
Optoacoustic Nano-Biosensor of Blood-borne Pathogens
(Office of Naval Research sponsored project in
collaboration with Randolph Glickman, UT Health Science
Center at San Antonio).
-
Feasibility of Laser Assisted NanoThermolysis as Tumor
Cell Elimination Technology (Alliance for Nanohealth
sponsored project in collaboration with Marina Konopleva
and Michael Andreeff, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center).
 |
