Israel Gannot

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, Tel: 03-6406711

I. Education

1994Doctor of Philosophy, Biomedical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.

Dissertation Title: “Investigation of the Flexible Waveguide Transmitting IR Laser Radiation and the Interaction of the Radiation Emerging from the Waveguide with Tissue.” Advisor: Professor Nathan Croitoru.

1989 Master of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.

Thesis Title: “Plastic Hollow Fibers for Transmitting CO2 Laser Radiation for Medical Purposes.” Advisor: Professor Nathan Croitoru.

1981Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Technion-The Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

II. Academic and Professional Experience

2009-present Chair; Department of Biomedical engineering, Tel-Aviv University

2007–presentHead, Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program, Tel-Aviv University

2005–2008Visiting Full Professor, Department of electrical and computer Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

2007–presentAssociate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel-Aviv

University

2002–2005Senior Guest Scientist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (sabbatical followed by a leave of absence).

2001-2007Senior Lecturer, tenured, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel-Aviv

University

1997–2001Lecturer, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University

1994–1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center of Devices and Radiological Health, Office of Science and Technology, Electro-Optics Branch, with a fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council

1987–1994 Researcher and Teaching Assistant in charge of student electronics laboratories, Department of Physical Electronics, Fiberoptic Laboratory, Tel-Aviv University

1981–1987Officer (Captain) and Head, Department of Biomedical Instrumentation Research and Development Branch, Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps

Guest Researcher Positions

Aug 2009Laboratory of Biophysics, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

July–Aug 2008Laboratory of Biophysics, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

June–Sept 2001Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, National Institute of

June–Sept 2000Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health,

June–Oct 1999Bethesda MD (biomedical optical imaging)

July–Aug1998

Sept–Oct 1993 Laser-Medizin-Zentrum (LMZ), Freie Universitat Berlin, F.R. Germany (interaction between laser radiation transmitted by flexible waveguides and tissue)

Spring 1993 Fiberoptic Materials Research Program, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ (optical properties of fibers for infrared laser radiation)

Sept–Oct 1992Laser-Medizin-Zentrum (LMZ), Freie Universitat Berlin, F.R. Germany (thermal and optical properties of flexible waveguides)

Fellowships

1994–1997National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council Fellowship (U.S.)

1994 Minerva Fellowship (Germany)

1993 American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Fellowship

1993DAAD Fellowship (Germany)

1992Minerva Fellowship (Germany)

III. Professional Societies

1998Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

(awarded to the top 2% active scientists in the field in the U.S.)

2006Fellow, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS)

2008Fellow, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) (for exceptional

contributions to the biomedical optics sciences)

IV. Courses

Graduate Courses

1

  • Lasers and Optics in Medicine
  • Optical Diagnostic Methods in Medicine
  • Medical Informatics
  • Laser Tissue Interactions
  • Medicine for Engineers

1

Undergraduate Courses

  • Lasers Applications in Medicine
  • Wave Propagation in Biological Tissue
  • Biomedical Computing

V. Students Supervised

Doctoral Students

  1. Alon Goren, Transendoscopic thermal imaging of laser tissue interaction within body cavities, 2003-present.
  2. Amit Hammer (co-advised with Gadi Fibich), Computational model of the movement of fluorescent antibodies in the surrounding of tumor, 2001-2004.
  3. Avital Garashi, Development of a minimal invasive method for detection of tumors in biological tissue based on imaging of exogenous specific fluorescence markers, 1999-2004.
  4. Moshe Ben-David (co-advised with Abraham Katzir), Theoretical and experimental investigation of new generation of hollow waveguides for infrared radiation, 1999-2003.
  5. Amir Langus, A new method to analyze laser tissue interaction in ocular tissue, 1998- 2008.
  6. Alycia Sagi-Dolev (co-advised with Nathan Croitoru), Wet-field laser-tissue photomechanical interactions using hollow waveguides, 1997-2001.

Master Students

  1. Yonat Milstein, September 2009
  2. Reut Cohen, Nanoparticle-based infrared imaging, 2008-present.
  3. Jonatha Yifat, Nanoshell-based treatment, 2008-present.
  4. Osnat Harbater, Combined temperature and pH sensitive lifetime imaging, 2008-present.
  5. Michal Tepper, Photo-thermal imaging, 2007-present.
  6. Idan Steinberg, Magnet-Otical imaging, 2007-present.
  7. Ranit Shacham, Tissue monitoring, 2007-present.
  8. Marina Gaufman, Fluorescence lifetime imaging, 2006-present.
  9. Arik Levy, Nanoshell-based imaging and treatment, 2006-present.
  10. Dima Litvak, Detection of location and severity of a fall, 2006-present.
  11. Udi Gal, Thermal imaging bundles, 2006-present.
  12. Tomer Eruv, Fluorescence lifetime imaging of tumors, 2005-2007.
  13. Iddo Michael Gescheit, Nanoshell-based “image and treat method” of tumors, 2005-2007.
  14. Michael Vardi, Calculus fragmentation of calculus in aqueous media through Er-YAG delivering waveguides with sealed caps, 2003-2005.
  15. Ami Pomerantz (co-advised with Bruni Sfez), Acousto-optical imaging (Laser-ultrasound combined imaging), 2002-2005.
  16. Alon Goren, Thermal consideration of transendoscopic closed cavity laser ablation of tissue, 2001-2003.
  17. Izhar Ron, Functional imaging of tissue based on fluorescent antibodies specifically attached to diseased cell markers, 2001-2004.
  18. Gadi Aizenberg (co-advised with Avi Dayan), Theoretical investigation of the thermal effects of CO2 laser beam-biological tissue interaction in an enclosed space, 1999-2002.

Projects

  1. Eran Kaplan: The role of skew rays in sensing through hollow waveguides, 2009.
  2. Yonat Milstein and Rotem Neeman Thermal imaging methods for estimation of oxygen saturation.-experiments and theory verification. 2009.
  3. Eyal Baum and Yoav Borenstein, Spectroscopy-based feedback of Er-YAG laser-tissue interaction, 2008.
  4. Marwa Kada and Hannan Falash, Tissue interaction feedback, 2008.
  5. Eti Chechik and Guy Nacht, Ultrasound activation of nanoshells for thermal imaging and treatment, awarded best project of the class, 2007.
  6. Eyal Braunstein, Multilayer waveguide modeling, 2007.
  7. Hilla Lavie and Eyal Hirsch, Detection of Heparin/medicine concentration in the bloodstream, 2007.
  8. Moran Yehuda, Theoretical framework for laser-tissue interaction feedback, 2007.
  9. Roni Kantor and Nataly Balbul, Feedback system for laser tissue interaction, 2006.
  10. Yalon Bahat, Labview-based program for control of welding system, 2000.

VI. Professional Leadership Positions

Editor

  1. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Optics, Section of Biomedical Optics, 2006-present.
  2. Co-Editor, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Special issue on In Vivo Optical Imaging from Bench to Bedside, 2004.
  3. Co-Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Lasers in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996-2000.
  4. Conference Proceedings
  5. Biomonitoring and Endoscopy Technologies, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging, 1(29), 2000.
  6. Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications I, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 4253, 2001.
  7. Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications II, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 4616, 2002.
  8. Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications III, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 4957, 2003.
  9. Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications IV, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 5317, 2004.
  10. Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications V, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 5691, 2005.
  11. Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VI, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6083, 2006.
  12. Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VII, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6433, 2007.
  13. Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VIII, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6852, 2008.
  14. Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VIII, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 7173, 2009

Reviewer

  1. Journals: Applied Optics, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Optical Engineering, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Laser Surgery and Medicine, Review of Scientific Instruments, and the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology.
  2. National Science Foundation
  3. Israeli Ministry of Science programs
  4. Program for Medical Biophotonics, Ministry of Research and Innovation, Government of Ontario, Canada

Conference Chair

  1. Chair, Conference on Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications, SPIE Photonics West BIOS, 2005-2010.
  2. Chair; smart Medical homes, Photonics West 2010.
  3. Co-Chair, Molecular Imaging Workshop, SPIE Photonics West BIOS, 2005.
  4. Chair, Special Symposium on Smart Medical Home, SPIE Photonics East, 2006.
  5. Co-Chair, Inter-Institute workshop for In Vivo Optical Imaging from Bench to Bedside, National Institutes of Health, 2004.
  6. Chair, Symposia on Lasers in Medicine and Biology as part of IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting, 2003-2004.
  7. Chair, Conference on Fibers, Waveguides and Sensors, SPIE Photonics West BIOS, 2001-2004.
  8. Chair, Conference on Endoscopy, Fibers, Waveguides and Sensors, SPIE Photonics West BIOS, 2000.
  9. Co-Chair, NATO Summer School in Optical Fibers and Sensors for Biomedical and Environmental Applications, 2006.

Conference Committee Member

  1. Member SPIE fellows committee 2009-present
  2. Member, SPIE Symposia Planing Committee, 2002-present.
  3. Member, SPIE Nominating Committee, 2002-2003.
  4. Member, Scientific Committee of Optical Biopsy Conference, SPIE Photonics West BIOS, 2006.
  5. Member, CLEO Technical Program Committee on Biomedical Optics, 2006.
  6. Member, Biophotonics Scientific Committee, CLEO-Europe, June 2005.
  7. Member, IEEE-LEOS Program Committee, Glasgow, Scotland, November 2002.
  8. Member, Scientific Committee, Special Symposium on Lasers in Medicine and Biology/IEEE-LEOS Annual Meeting, 2001.
  9. Member, Program Committee of Optical Biopsy Conference, SPIE Photonics West BIOS, 2000.
  10. Member, Program Committee of Least Invasive Diagnostics Conference, SPIE Photonics West BIOS, 1999, 2002.
  11. Member, Scientific Committee, Inter-Institute Workshop for In Vivo Optical Imaging, National Institutes of Health, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2009.

Additional Committee Memberships

  1. Member, Scientific Committee, Biophotonics World Initiative, 2007-2008.
  2. Member, Steering Committee of the George Washington University Institute of Biomedical Engineering, 2006-present.
  3. Chair, IEEE/LEOS Committee on Lasers in Medicine and Biology, 2002-2004.
  4. Member, Research and Development Committee, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery,1998

VII. Patents

  1. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, E. Goldenberg, D. Mendlovic and I. Gannot, “Hollow fiber waveguides and method of making same,” Israeli Patent 82296, May 6, 1988.
  1. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, E. Goldenberg, D. Mendlovic and I. Gannot, “Hollow fiber waveguides and method of making same,” U.S. Patent 4,930,863, June 5, 1990.
  2. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, E. Goldenberg, D. Mendlovic and I. Gannot, “Hollow fiber waveguides and method of making same,” European Patent 89107926.1, 1990.
  3. I. Kaplan, N. Croitoru, J. Dror and I. Gannot, “Flexible Laser Waveguides,” Israeli Patent 105956, June 8, 1993.
  4. N. Croitoru, I. Gannot, J. Dror and R. Dahan, “Hollow Waveguides Tips for Controlling Beam Divergence and Methods of Making Same,” Israeli Patent 106302, July 1993.
  5. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, I. Gannot, R. Dahan, “Hollow waveguide tips for controlling beam divergence and method of making such tips,” U.S. Patent 5,497,441, March 5, 1996.
  6. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, I. Kaplan, I. Gannot, “Laser beam waveguide and laser beam delivery system including same,” U.S. Patent 5,497,440, March 5, 1996.
  7. I. Gannot, A. Cohen and A. Dayan, “Minimally Invasive Controlled Surgical System with Feedback,” U.S. Patent 0052661-A1, March 2006.
  8. I. Ilev, R. Waynant, I. Gannot and A. Gandjbachkhe, “Ultrahigh-Resolution Fiber-Optic Confocal Microscopy Beyond the Diffraction Barrier in the Nanometric Scale,” U.S. Patent submitted November 2004.
  9. I. Gannot and A. Goren, “Method and apparatus for selective heating of tumors for the dual purpose of (a) enhancing the specificity and the sensitivity of thermal imaging as a diagnostic tool and/or for (b) selective, non-invasive targeted thermotherapy,” PCT 30340, July 2005.
  10. I. Gannot, I. Gescheit and A. Dayan, “Infrared Specific Bio-Imaging,” Application No. 60/854,687.
  11. M. Ben-David and I. Gannot, “Tissue monitoring,” Provisional Application, August 2007.
  12. I. Gannot, D. Litvak and Y. Zigel, “Fall detection of elderly through floor vibrations and sound,” US Provisional application No. 61/064,508, March 11, 2008.
  13. I. Gannot, M. Tepper and M. Ben-David, “Novel method for thermal spectroscopy,” US Provisional application No. 61/089,977, August 19, 2008.

VIII. Grants

Internal

  1. The Ela Kodesz Research Grant, 1998, $6000
  2. Tel-Aviv University Research Grant, 1998, $15,000
  3. Keshet Foundation, 1998, $8000
  4. Schlezak Foundation for Research in Cardiovascular Engineering, 1998, $10,000
  5. Fleischman Research Grant, 2000, $10,000
  6. Adams Center for Brain Research Grant, 2000, $6000
  7. Schlezak Foundation for Research in Cardiovascular Engineering, 2000, $8000
  8. The Ela Kodesz Research Grant, 2002, $6000
  9. Tel-Aviv University Internal Fund, 2002, $15,000
  10. The George Washington University Institute of Biomedical Engineering Grant, 2007, $15,000
  11. Tel-Aviv University Internal Fund, 2007, $7500
  12. Shlezak Fund – Coherent bundle for intra blood vessel thermal imaging of vulnerable plaques, 2008, $10,000
  13. Kodesz Fund, Targeted treatment of vulnerable plaque by using bio specific magnetic nanoparticles, 2008, $7500
  14. Tel-Aviv University-Northwestern Nano-Technology Collaboration Grant, 2008, $3500

External

  1. MFEL Program Grant at Vanderbilt Keck FEL Center, 1997, $18,000
  2. Ministry of Science Strategic Research Grant (three years), 1998-2001, $850,000
  3. Ministry of Industrial affairs Consortium (5 years), 1998-2003, $1,250,000
  4. VATAT – The Committee for Higher Education in Israel, 1999, $125,000
  5. BSF – American Israel Binational Foundation (3 years), 1999-2002, $140,000 (with Dr. Amir Gandjbakhche)
  6. Opto-Electronic Industry Development Association – Photonics Technology Access Program Grant, 2005, $15,000
  7. Opto-Electronic Industry Development Association – Photonics Technology Access Program Grant, 2006,$20,000
  8. Ministry of Industrial Affairs, Spectral Diagnostic of Microorganisms in Cough, 2008-2009, $950,000.
  9. BSF – American Israel Bi-national Foundation, 2008-2012, $205,000(with Prof. Jim Harrington)

IX. Publications

Papers

  1. J. Dror, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru, “Hollow tubes for transmitting IR laser energy for surgery applications,” Israel Journal of Technology, 24:599-610, 1988.
  2. I. Kaplan, S. Giler, J. Dror, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru, “Preliminary experiments of possible uses in medicine of novel plastic hollow fibers for transmission of CO2 radiation,” Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 10:291-294, 1990.
  3. N. Croitoru, J. Dror and I. Gannot, “Characterization of hollow plastic fibers for the transmission of infra-red radiation, Applied Optics, 29:1805-1809, 1990.
  4. N. Croitoru, J. Dror, I. Gannot, R. Dahan and S. Calderon, “Hollow Fibers for Mid Infrared and Applications in Medicine,” Romanian Physics Review, 36:667-673, 1991.
  5. O. Mor-Haim, D. Mendlovic, I. Gannot, J. Dror and N. Croitoru, “Ray model for transmission of IR radiation through multi bent cylindrical waveguides,” Optical Engineering, 30:1886-1891, 1991.
  6. I. Kaplan, S. Giler, J. Dror, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru, “Experimental Surgery on Dog’s Stomach and Liver using CO2 Laser Plastic Hollow Fibers: Technical Method,” Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine & Surgery, 10:115-118, 1992.
  7. S. Brener, I. Gannot and N. Croitoru, “Laser Tissue Interaction, Skin Update,”The Israel Dermatological Society, No. 9:16-22, October 1993.
  8. I. Gannot, J. Dror, N. Croitoru, I. Kaplan and S. Calderon, “Flexible Waveguides for IR Laser Radiation Transmission for Surgery Applications,” Laser Medicine and Surgery, 14(2):184-189, 1994.
  9. I. Gannot, S. Calderon, T. Ertl, S. Schründer, J. Tschepe, J. Dror, G. Müller and N. Croitoru, “In-vitro Experimental Study of Er-YAG and CO2 Lasers in Implant Exposure,” Lasermedizin, 10:165-168, 1994.
  10. S. Calderon, I. Gannot, G. Gal and N. Croitoru, “The Use of Flexible Hollow Waveguides for CO2 Laser Transmission in Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery,”Realites Cliniques, 5:293-300, 1994.
  11. I. Gannot, M. Alaluf, J. Dror, J. Tschepe, G. Müller and N. Croitoru, “Thermal effects due to interaction of IR Radiation with guiding films of hollow waveguides,”Optical Engineering, 34:612-615, 1995.
  12. I. Gannot, S. Schründer, J. Dror, A. Inberg, T. Ertl, J. Tschepe, G. Müller and N. Croitoru, “Flexible waveguides for Er-YAG laser radiation delivery,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 42(10): 967-972, 1995.
  13. A.H. Gandjbakhche and I. Gannot, “Fluorescence imaging of specific markers of disease applying random walk theory,”IEEEJournal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2(4):914-921, 1996.
  14. I. Gannot, A. Inberg, M. Oxman, N. Croitoru and R. W. Waynant, “Current status of flexible waveguides for infrared laser radiation transmission,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 880-889, December 1996.
  15. I. Gannot, A. Inberg, N. Croitoru and R. W. Waynant, “Broadband Flexible Waveguides for Free Electron Laser Radiation Transmission,” Applied Optics, 36(25):6289-6293, 1997.
  16. I. Gannot, A.H. Gandjbakhche, G. Gannot, P.C. Fox, and R.F. Bonner, “Optical Simulations Experiments for Development of a Non-invasive Technique for the Diagnosis of Diseased Salivary Glands in situ,” Medical Physics, 27(7):1139-144, 1998.
  17. V. Chermomordik, D. Hattery, I. Gannot and A. H. Gandjbakhche, “Inverse Method 3-D Reconstruction of Localized in vivo Fluorescence-Application to Sjogren’s Syndrome,”IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 930-935, July/August 1999.
  18. A. M. Sagi-Dolev, G. R. Harris, R. W. Waynant and I. Gannot, “Laser Induced Acoustic Stresses Under Submerged Biological Membranes,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 930-935, July/August 1999.
  19. M. Ben David, A. Inberg, I. Gannot N. Croitoru, “The effect of scattering on the Transmission of Infrared Radiation Through Hollow, Waveguides,”Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 23-30, September 1999.
  20. R. Waynant, I. Ilev and I. Gannot, “Mid IR Medical Applications,”The Royal Society Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 359(1780):635-644, 2001.
  21. F.C. Pascut, P. Xiao, D.G. O’Driscoll, A. Katzir, I. Gannot, N. Croitoru, I. Notingher, R.E. Imhof, “Fibre-optic hand held probe for opto-thermal in-vivo skin measurements,” Analytical Sciences, 17:S368-S370 Sp. Iss. SI, 2001.
  22. D. Hattery, V. Chernomordik, M. Loew, I. Gannot, and A. Gandjbakhche, “Analytical Solutions for Time-Resolved Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Turbid Media Such as Tissue,”Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 18(7):1523-1530, 2001.
  23. I. Gannot, M. Ben-David, A. Inberg and N. Croitoru, “Broadband omnidirectional IR flexible waveguides,”Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 3(4): 933-935, 2001.
  24. I. Gannot, M. Ben David, N. Croitoru, A. Inberg, M. Oksman, R. Waynant, “Beam Shape analysis of waveguide delivered IR lasers,”Journal of Optical Engineering, 41(1):244-250, 2002.
  25. I. Gannot, G. Gannot, A. Garashi, A. Gandjbakhche, A. Buchner and Y. Keisari, “Laser activated fluorescence measurements and morphological features-An in vivo study of clearance time of FITC tagged cell markers,”Journal of Biomedical Optics, 7(1):14-19, 2002.
  26. I. Gannot, A. Langus and C. Fuchs, “Subjects’ dissimilarity in the analysis of laser-tissue dose -response experiments: a potential cause for puzzling results,”Lasers in Medical Sciences, 17:13-18, March 2002.
  27. G. Gannot, I. Gannot, A. Buchner, H. Vered and Y. Keisari, “Increase in immune cell infiltration with progression of oral epithelium from hyperkeratosis to dysplasia and carcinoma,”British Journal of Cancer, 86(9):1444-1448, 2002.
  28. V. Chernomordik, D. W. Hattery, I. Gannot, G. Zaccanti and A. Gandjbakhche, “Analytical Calculation of the Mean Time Spent by Photons inside an Absorptive Inclusion Embedded in a Highly Scattering Medium,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, 7(3): 486-492, 2002.
  29. I. Gannot, A. Garashi, G. Gannot, V. Chernomordik and A. Gandjbakhche,“Quantitative 3-D imaging of tumor labeled with exogenous specific fluorescence markers,”Applied Optics, 42(15): 3073-3080, 2003.
  30. A. H. Gandjbakhche, V. Chernomordik, D. Hattery, M. Hassan and I. Gannot, “Tissue Characterization by Quantitative Optical Imaging Methods,” Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, 2(6), 2003.
  31. I. Gannot, A. Garashi, V. Chernomordik and A. Gandjbakhche, “In-vivo quantitative optical imaging of pharmacokinetics of specific fluorescent tumor markers through turbid media such as tissue,” Optics Letters, 29(7):742-744, 2004.
  32. N. Croitoru, A. Inberg, M. Ben-David and I. Gannot, “Broad Band and Low Loss Mid-IR Flexible Hollow Waveguides,”Optics Express, 12(7):1341-1352, 2004.
  33. V. Gopel, JA Harrington, A. Goren and I. Gannot, “Coherent, hollow-core waveguide bundles for infrared imaging,” Optical Engineering, 43(5):1195-1199, 2004.
  34. A. Dayan, A. Goren and I. Gannot, “Theoretical and experimental investigation of the thermal effects within body cavities during transendoscopical CO2 laser-based surgery,” Lasers Surgery and Medicine, 35(1):18-27, 2004.
  35. I. Gannot, R. Izhar, F. Hekmat, V. Chernomordik and A. Gandjbakhche, “Functional optical detection based on pH dependent fluorescence lifetime,”Journal of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, 35(5):342-348, 2004.
  36. M. Ben-David, IK. Ilev, RW. Waynant, and I. Gannot, “Pulse dispersion in hollow optical waveguides,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, 44(9): 095001, 2005.
  37. G. Fibich, A. Hammer, G. Gannot, A. Gandjbakhche and I. Gannot, “Modeling and Simulations of the Pharmacokinetics of Fluorophore conjugated Antibodies in Tumor Vicinity for the Optimization of Fluorescence Based Optical Imaging,”Journal of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery. 37(2):155-160, 2005.
  38. A. Vogel, A. Gandjbakhche and I. Gannot, “Demistifying Optical Diagnostics,” Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, 14(1):55-72, 2006.
  39. I. Gannot, “Thermal imaging bundle-A potential tool to enhance minimally invasive medical procedures,” IEEE Circuits and Devices, 21(6):28-33, 2005.
  40. J. Raif, M. Vardi, O. Nahlieli and I. Gannot, “An Er:YAG Laser Endoscopic Fiber Delivery System for Lithotripsy of Salivary Stones,” Lasers Surgery and Medicine, March 2006.
  41. G. Fibich, I. Gannot, A. Hammer and S. Schochet, “Chemical kinetics on surfaces: A Singular Limit of a Reaction-Diffusion System in a Model of Antibody Imaging,” SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 38(5):1371-1388, 2006.
  42. I. Ilev, R. Waynant, I. Gannot, and A. Gandjbakhche, “A simple fiber-optic confocal microscopy with nanoscale depth resolution beyond the diffraction barrier,”Review of Scientific Instruments, 78, September 2007.
  43. M. Ben-David, Merav Catalogna, James Harrington and Israel Gannot, “Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Metal Sulfide Dielectric Coatings for Hollow Waveguides,”Optical Engineering, 47(4):045008, 2008.
  44. T. Eruv, M. Ben-David and I. Gannot, “An alternative approach to analyze fluorescence lifetime images for early tumor diagnosis,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 14(1):98-104, 2008.
  45. I. M. Gescheit, M. Ben-David and I. Gannot, “A proposed method for Thermal Specific Bio-Imaging and Therapy Technique for Diagnosis and Treatment of Malignant Tumors by Using Magnetic Nano-Particles,”Advances in Optical Technologies, 275080, July 2008.
  46. M. Ben-David, R. Cantor, N. Balbul, M. Yehuda, I. Gannot, “Measuring tissue heat penetration by scattered light measurements,”Laser Surgery and Medicine, 40(7):494-499, 2008.
  47. Y. Zigel, D. Litvak and I. Gannot, “A method for Automatic Fall Detection of Elderly People using Floor Vibrations and Sound”, Accepted for publication, IEEE Journal of Biomedical Engineering, August, 2009.
  48. M. Tepper, R. Neeman, Y. Milstein, M. Ben David and I. Gannot, “Thermal Imaging Method for Estimating Oxygen Saturation, Accepted for publication, Journal of Biomedical Optics, September 2009.
  49. I. M. Gescheit, A. Dayan, M. Ben-David1 and I. Gannot, Minimal Invasive Thermal Imaging of Malignant Tumor: A simple Model and algorithm, Accepted for publication, Journal of Medical Physics, September 2009.
  50. O. Harbater, M. Ben David, and I. Gannot, “Fluorescence Lifetime and Depth Estimation of a Tumor Site for Functional Imaging Purposes”, Accepted for publication, The IEEE Journal for special Topics in Quantum Electronics-Biophotonics, September 2009.

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