Center for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging (Halpern Lab)
Center for EPR Imaging in Vivo Physiology
Center for EPR Imaging in Vivo Physiology
They build specialized, low-background detectors designed to identify rare and low-energy interactions, possibly induced by dark matter interacting with ordinary matter. We have been doing this by contributing to two major experimental efforts in the field: XENON1T (2015-now) and DarkSide-50 (2008-2015), respectively featuring ultrapure xenon and argon as targets for dark matter detection. Both detectors employ the so-called two-phase (gas/liquid) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) technology that allows to simultaneously detect ionization and excitation produced by even tiny energy depositions in the sensitive liquid volume. We are now building XENONnT, an even larger detector featuring with respect to XENOn1T a 4 times larger fiducial mass and a 1/10th background.
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers work study students, and students requring pay interested in Biomedical acoustics.
The focus of the Biomedical Acoustics Development and Engineering Research Laboratory (BADER Lab) is the translation of therapeutic ultrasound for non- or minimally invasive treatment of cardiovascular and cancerous disease. Specifically, we utilize acoustic cavitation for combinatorial ablation and enhanced drug delivery treatment strategies of pathologies resistant to standard interventional techniques. To assess bubble activity and the resultant changes in tissue structure, we are developing multi-modal imaging approaches via diagnostic ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. Analytic and numerical bubble dynamics models are also utilized to gain insight into the mechanism of action of our therapeutic approaches. Current research topics include:
For more information, visit our laboratory website: baderlab.uchicago.edu
The explosion of digital information offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the dynamics that shape human understanding, investigation and certainty.
PI looking for undergraduate research volunteers. My lab is a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary lab that combines the physical sciences, engineering, and surgery. We study aortic pathologies, stability and failure of endovascular repairs, stress focusing phenomena induced by surgical interventions, and interfacial adhesion, surface renewal, and topography.
Surgery is anatomy. Anatomy is geometry. Geometry is the heart of mechanics.
SurgBioMech Lab studies the geometry and biomechanics of surgical anatomies and biological interfaces.