The power of light in bio-medical sensing

In this talk, it will be shown how light can be used, not only for conventional purposes of “seeing”, but also to “hear”. It will be shown how a laser-based sensing technology can be used to “hear” nano-vibrations of the body and to use the analysis of the change in the characteristics of those vibration sounds in order to perform in-vivo, remote and continuous medical monitoring and diagnosis. A single such laser-based sensor can be used to monitor many bio-medical parameters at once and to allow to revolutionize the evolving home care medical market. Moreover, the capabilities to monitor heart rate and sounds, breathing and lungs sounds, blood pressure, blood hematology and hemodynamics, and many more, will be also discussed.

Participants:
Prof. Zeev Zalevsky, Vice Dean of Engineering and the Director of the Nanophotonics Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Zeev Zalevsky received his B.Sc. and direct Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel in 1993 and 1996 respectively. Zeev is currently a full Professor in the faculty of engineering in Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His major fields of research are optical super resolution, biomedical optics, nano-photonics and electro-optical devices. Currently Zeev is the Vice Dean of engineering, the head of the electro-optical track and the director of the nanophotonic center in the nano-technology institute, at Bar Ilan University. He published more than 700 scientific publications and has around 60 issued patents. For his activity Zeev received many national and international prizes and he is a fellow of many large scientific professional societies as OSA, SPIE, EOS, IOP, IET and more.
With the support of the Embassy of Israel in Athens