Snapshots: How Aggie Square is advancing innovation in Sacramento
Revolutionizing surgery and brain monitoring with AI medical imaging
The National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies, or NCIBT, is revolutionizing surgical procedures and brain monitoring using light-based, artificial intelligence-informed technologies. Thanks to a $6.3 million grant from National Institutes of Health, the center moved to Aggie Square at UC Davis.
NCIBT is advancing two optical imaging technologies developed at UC Davis — interventional fluorescence lifetime imaging (iFLIM) and interferometric diffuse optical spectroscopy (iDOS). These technologies pair with an AI-deep learning platform to provide real-time guidance of decision-making during medical and surgical procedures.
UC Davis Health surgeons already use FLIM imaging to detect head and neck cancer and brain cancer during surgery. The center also supports research and development, clinical application, and training and education of the technologies, promoting adoption of iFLIM and iDOS to improve the quality of interventional health care.