<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img width="497" height="62" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D20E65.AE488640" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01D20E65.AE488640"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Seminar<br></span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">New Frontiers in X-Ray Imaging <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:red">Friday, September 16, 2016<br>
SEC 204: 12-1PM</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Speaker: Dr. Mini Das<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img width="242" height="229" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.png@01D20E6F.7866AFC0"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Mini Das, PhD<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Department of Physics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">University of Houston<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Abstract: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Nonionizing imaging modalities such as optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging are consistently being investigated as alternatives to x-ray
imaging for deep-tissue applications. However, none of these modalities can match the full slate of important advantages provided by x-rays, which include deep penetration, low cost, high resolution, system reliability, ease of operation and robustness. Given
these advantages, the use of x-rays for clinical imaging looks to continue for the foreseeable future. Thus improving x-ray based contrast and detection mechanisms have the potential for high impact. Current x-ray imaging techniques use a simple absorption
based contrast mechanism and energy integrating detectors as it has been for more than a century. In this talk I will describe some of the latest advances in the field of x-ray imaging such as x-ray phase contrast imaging and development of spectral detectors
which has the potential to transform the current radiological imaging.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Bio: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"></span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Dr. Mini Das</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"> is Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Houston (UH). She also holds a joint appointment in the UH Biomedical Engineering
Department. Her research interests include novel x-ray imaging techniques, x-ray optics, image science, multimodality imaging, breast imaging techniques and psychophysics. She is a recipient of a Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) and a recent Breakthrough Award from the Department of Defense, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></span><style><!--
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