Michigan State University - Research Groups

Here is a photo of Cori, Eric and Jake at IITs campus in Chennai, India.

More photos will follow.
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This past week has been a busy one for MSUs IIT interns.

Most notably, Pavel and Eric traveled to Bangalore to meet with Dr. Chand The head of the neurosurgery department at Saint Marys Hospital. After a long conversation we now have several ideas for new non destructive sensors that would improve success rates for certain types of brain surgeries. Then we thought we were lucky enough to be able to watch an MRI scan in progress, we watched the scan and then they got out the drill... Now we have a pretty good idea of how a brain biopsy on an awake patient looks like! Thanks Dr. Chand for your hospitality and stimulating conversations.

Pavels Update

1. Reconstruction codes for 2D tomography, specifically the C++ codes for solver are being worked upon. Got some good initial inputs from Kavitha  ( Dr. Kavitha Arunachalam, Asst. Professor, IIT-M )
2. Setting up 2D scanning system for free space measurements for property measurements of dielectric and other materials.
3. Running some patch antenna simulations for antenna array for the microwave tomography project.
4. Looking for ways to create solid tissue phantoms for experiments on the Brain project

Coris Update

                So they say time flies when you’re having fun or something like that, and let me tell you, they weren’t lying. It’s unbelievable that we have been here for almost two and a half weeks already. I will say that the experiences that I have had in these past weeks on the other side of the world have been absolutely amazing. Nothing back home could ever compare to the things that we have seen here.