{"id":223483,"date":"2025-10-16T03:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-pioneer-fluid-based-laser-scanning-for-brain-imaging"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:30:42","slug":"researchers-pioneer-fluid-based-laser-scanning-for-brain-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-pioneer-fluid-based-laser-scanning-for-brain-imaging","title":{"rendered":"Researchers pioneer fluid-based laser scanning for brain imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-pioneer-fluid-based-laser-scanning-for-brain-imaging3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Darwin Quiroz first started working with optics as an undergraduate, he was developing atomic magnetometers. That experience sparked a growing curiosity about how light interacts with matter, an interest that has now led him to a new technique in optical imaging.<\/p>\n<p>Quiroz, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, is co-first author of a new study that demonstrates how a fluid-based <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical device<\/a> known as an electrowetting prism can be used to steer lasers at high speeds for advanced imaging applications.<\/p>\n<p>The work, <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-33-21-44671\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Optics Express<\/i>, conducted along with mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate Eduardo Miscles and Mo Zohrabi, senior research associate, opens the door to new technologies in microscopy, LiDAR, optical communications and even brain imaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Darwin Quiroz first started working with optics as an undergraduate, he was developing atomic magnetometers. That experience sparked a growing curiosity about how light interacts with matter, an interest that has now led him to a new technique in optical imaging. Quiroz, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}