Columbia Engineering | CHRISTINE HENDON: engineering systems for women's health @ColumbiaSEAS | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
"By using fiber optics, we can bring the light to wherever we need to within the body,” says Christine P. Hendon, associate professor of electrical engineering. In the lab, Hendon and her students refine near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), both of which emit light into the body and measure what reflects.
At the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Hendon is working with a team (mechanical engineering Prof. Kristin Myers and Dr. Mourad, co-director of Columbia's Preterm Birth Prevention Center) to develop a device that could mitigate preterm birth by adding light therapeutics to remodel the cervix.
You can learn more about her work: https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/prof-christine-hendon-as-2021-spie-fellow
"By using fiber optics, we can bring the light to wherever we need to within the body,” says Christine P. Hendon, associate professor of electrical engineering. In the lab, Hendon and her students refine near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), both of which emit light into the body and measure what reflects.
At the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Hendon is working with a team (mechanical engineering Prof. Kristin Myers and Dr. Mourad, co-director of Columbia's Preterm Birth Prevention Center) to develop a device that could mitigate preterm birth by adding light therapeutics to remodel the cervix.
You can learn more about her work: https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/prof-christine-hendon-as-2021-spie-fellow
