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Fogarty Receives Fellowship to Advance Post-Stroke Imaging Research
WashU Medicine clinical coordinator Dana Wilhelm, to the left, alongside Morgan
Fogarty, a PhD candidate (to the right), assess the extremely high-density diffuse optical
tomography imaging system on PhD scholar Wiete Fehner. Fogarty has
been awarded a SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship to advance this
technology as a clinical instrument for stroke rehabilitation. (Image courtesy of WashU Medicine)

SPIE, the global institution for optics and photonics, has granted the esteemed SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship in Problem-Driven Biomedical Optics and Analytics to Morgan Fogarty, a postgraduate scholar at WashU Medicine. The fellowship, valued at $75,000, will support Fogarty’s postdoctoral endeavors in the laboratory of Joseph Culver, the Sherwood Moore Professor of Radiology at the WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, where Fogarty is concluding her PhD. 

Fogarty employs an imaging technique known as diffuse optical tomography (DOT) to observe language capabilities and recovery in post-stroke individuals experiencing aphasia (loss of language). DOT is a non-invasive method that evaluates how near-infrared wavelengths of light interact with biological tissues to identify variations in tissue density, blood volume, or other tissue irregularities. Fogarty has contributed to the advancement of a very-high-density diffuse optical tomography system that captures 10,000 measurements, more than double the capacity of existing high-density DOT systems. 

Fogarty expressed her intention to build upon DOT mapping and characterization research carried out during her doctoral studies for her postdoctoral investigations, transforming the technology into clinical tools to facilitate the recovery of post-stroke patients confronting aphasia.

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