The invention describes an Electro-Optical instrument and a computational model for functional scanning of human body and recovering its chromophores (water, lipid, oxygenated hemoglobin, and deoxygenated hemoglobin). It is a low cost portable system that integrates frequency domain and continuous wave domain for real time spectroscopic imaging of human tissue.

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) in the form of laparoscopic surgery has dramatically increased in the last decade and has led to reduced access trauma in addition to providing significant benefits for the patient via better recovery times and cosmetics. Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery (RMIS) has also increased in popularity. Both methods require haptic feedback (sense of touch) to be successful. Current haptic feedback methods for tele-operated surgical systems involve integrated force sensors that are difficult to miniaturize, non­sterilizable, non­versatile, delicate, and costly. Haptic feedback methods such as displacement sensors and resistive sensors have a variety of shortcomings. When force is applied to the structure, there is strain, thereby, causing the electrical resistance in the strain gauge to change. Both of these methods are not adaptable to the existing endowrist instruments, and require modifications to the endowrist. Moreover, these methods often involve a trade­off between its function in measuring the magnitude and direction of force and its cost in manufacturing; inventions involving these methods are composed of delicate and complex parts dramatically increasing the cost.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a highly flexible and reconfigurable optical imaging and spectroscopy platform.

UCLA researchers in the Departments of Medicine, Radiology and Bioengineering have developed novel methods for monitoring cardiac autonomic function in vascular and tissue compartments by measuring neurotransmitters and metabolites in vivo.

Minimizing the movement of deployed transcatheter heart valves and stents during detachment using single ended draw lines.

Temperature sensors are routinely found in devices used to monitor the environment, the human body, industrial equipment, and beyond. In many such applications, the energy available from batteries or the power available from energy harvesters is extremely limited, thus the power consumption of sensing should be minimized in order to maximize operational lifetime.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a portable, human exhaled breath sample collector for use in breath tests.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed an apparatus and methods for non-invasive bladder volume sensing, to determine when a patient’s bladder is full.

The invention is a medical handheld device that carries out skin visual inspection simultaneously with blood flow measurements through integrating a Laser Speckle Imaging (LSI) system within a handheld compact dermoscope. Combining both features in one compact, cheap and easy to use device will generate accurate and elaborative functional data that will improve the accuracy and detection of diseases such as cancer.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a novel wireless sensor for external and internal biosensing applications.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a novel wireless sensor and exercise system for real-time exercise promotion and monitoring.

Medical devices are susceptible to contamination by harmful microbes, such as bacteria and fungi, which form biofilms on device surfaces. These biofilms are often resistant to antibiotics and other current treatments, resulting in over 2 million people per year suffering from diseases related to these contaminating microbes. Death rates for many of these diseases are high, often exceeding 50%. Researchers at UCI have developed a novel anti-bacterial and anti-fungal biocomposite that incorporates a nanopillared surface structure that can be applied as a coating to medical devices.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Surgery have developed an air leak detection system for use in patients requiring chest tube placement.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Chemistry have developed a device that allows for quantitative and sensitive assessment of tissues (i.e. tumors) and materials based on local variations in elastic, friction, and cutting forces on needle insertion.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Neurosurgery have developed a method that is capable of mining a collection of monitor alarms to search for specific combinations of encoded monitor alarms to predict certain adverse event, such as in-hospital code blue arrests or other target events.

UCLA Researchers in the Department of Bioengineering have developed a novel technology to simultaneously detect changes in thickness and hydration levels of the cornea.

UCLA researchers have created a method that achieves uniform normal-incident illumination of a spherical surface by first projecting the sphere onto a Cartesian plane and then raster scanning it using an illuminating beam. This allows the scanned object, the illumination source, and the detector to remain stationary.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Bioengineering have invented a novel multi-modal depth-resolved tissue status monitor.

UCLA researchers have developed an automated and unsupervised digital signal processing method to quickly and efficiently minimize and reject artifacts from scalp Electroencephalogram (EEG) and intracranial EEG recordings.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a system for holographic opto-fluidic microscopy.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a novel lensfree super-resolution holographic microscope using wetting films on a chip.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a novel field portable fluorescence microscope that can be used as a smart phone accessory.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a rapid, low-cost, and label-free methodology for nanoparticle sizing.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a color calibration method for lens-free and mobile-phone microscopy images allowing for high resolution and accurate color reproduction.

UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have developed a new diagnostic tool for arthropathic diseases, such as gout.