Engineering science summer research intern develops super power—learns to see through skin
Undergraduate student Yutian Zhang spent her summer as part of a research team that's developing a laser-based optical system and a special camera that, together, can see through tissue. The team wants to improve medical technology for tissue imaging.
Zhang, a senior undergraduate from China’s Harbin Institute of Technology in China, worked with ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV engineering science professor Glenn Chapman through the Mitacs Globalink research internship program.
Chapman's research focuses on using light to see through tissue, with the long-term goal of finding abnormalities such as tumours. Since most light does not damage tissue (X-rays do), the research could, if successful, lead to improved and safer screening for mammograms and brain scans, for example.