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Isaac Gallegos

Postbaccalaureate Research Engineer in Biomedical Optics & Imaging

I am a Research Engineer at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, a joint institute of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, leveraging my skills and experience in Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Optics to solve problems in Biomedical Imaging. My work focuses on developing novel computational methods for spectroscopic Photoacoustic Imaging (sPAI) and spectroscopic Optical Coherence Tomography (sOCT).

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Research Focus

Intravascular Spectroscopic OCT

Developing computational methods for chemical characterization of coronary plaques for the future of intravascular OCT.

Spectroscopic Photoacoustic Imaging

Developing novel spectroscopic Photoacoustic Imaging computational approaches enabling high contrast, label-free imaging and discrimination of endogeneous chromophores.

Key Presentations & Projects

Quantitative spectroscopic optical coherence tomography for compositional characterization of coronary plaques

Isaac Gallegos et al. | Northeastern Symposium of Biomedical Optics (NESBO) at MIT

Developed a quantitative spectroscopic OCT framework that mitigates the effects of coherent noise in the chemical characterization of ex vivo tissue-mimiking phantoms.​

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Multi-Spectral NIR-II Photoacoustic Microscopy Utilizing Compact Custom All-Fiber Amplifier

Isaac Gallegos et al. | Celebration of Science (COS) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Developed quantitative algorithmic approaches for robust discrimination of lipids and collagen in tissues imaged by custom-built multi-spectral fiber amplifier.

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Passions & Outreach

Entrepreneurship

I engage with entrepreneurship groups and attend seminars to be a part of communities passionate about changing the world with novel, meaningful products!

Photography

In my free time, I enjoy wildlife and astrophotography. Photography allows us to capture moments in time!