Kostadinka Bizheva

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Associate Professor

Office: PHY 247
Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 37517
Email: kbizheva@uwaterloo.ca

Research interests

  • Biomedical optics
  • Optical coherence tomography
  • Tissue optics
  • Optical spectroscopy
  • Confocal and fluorescence microscopy
  • Ultrafast optics

Grants

Title: "Functional optical coherence tomography of neuron cells activity"
Principle investigators: Dr. K. Bizheva and Dr. W. Drexler (Dept. of Medical Physics, Medical University of Vienna)
Collaborators: Dr. H. Reitsamer (Dept. of Physiology, Medical University of Vienna)
Submitted to: Österreichische National Bank - Jubiläumsfonds (funded: 80,000 / year)

Selected publications

  • Bizheva K., Unterhuber A., Hermann B., Povazay B., Sattmann H., Fercher A.F., Drexler W., Preusser M., Budka H., Stingl A. and Le T.,
    "Imaging ex-vivo healthy and pathological human brain tissue with ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography",
    J. Biomed. Opt. 10, 1-6 (2005).
  • Hermann B., Bizheva K., Unterhuber A., Povazay B., Sattmann H., Schmetterer L., Fercher A.F. and Drexler W.,
    "Precision of extracting absorption profiles from weakly scattering media with spectroscopic time-domain optical coherence tomography",
    Opt. Express 12, 1677-1688 (2004).
  • Unterhuber A., Povaay B., Bizheva K., Hermann B., Sattmann H., Stingl A., Le T., Seefeld M., Menzel R., Preusser M., Budka H., Schubert Ch., Reitsamer H.A., Ahnelt P.K., Morgan J. E., Cowey A. and Drexler W.,
    "Advances in broad bandwidth light sources for ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography",
    Phys. Med. Biol. 49, 1-12 (2004).
  • Bizheva K., Unterhuber A., Hermann B., Povazay B., Sattmann H., Fercher A.F., Drexler W. (corresponding author), Mei M., Holzwarth R., Stingl A., Le T., Reitsamer H.A., Morgan J.E., Cowey A.,
    "Imaging in vitro brain morphology in animal models using ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography",
    J. Biomed. Opt. 9, 719-724 (2004).
  • Povazay B., Bizheva K., Hermann B., Unterhuber A., Sattmann H., Fercher A.F., Drexler W. (corresponding author), Schubert C., Ahnelt P.K., Mei M., Holzwarth R., Wadsworth W., Knight J., Russell P.St.J.,
    "Enhanced visualization of choroidal vessels using ultrahigh resolution ophthalmic optical coherence tomography at 1050 nm",
    Opt. Express. 11, 1980-1986 (2003).
  • Bizheva K., Povazay B., Hermann B., Sattmann H., Drexler W. (corresponding author), Mei M., Holzwarth R., Hoelzenbein T., Wacheck V., Pehamberger H.,
    "Compact, broad bandwidth fiber laser for sub-2 5m axial resolution optical coherence tomography in the 1300 nm wavelength region",
    Opt. Lett. 28, 707-709 (2003).
  • Povazay B., Bizheva K., Unterhuber A., Hermann B., Sattmann H., Fercher A.F., Drexler W. (corresponding author), Apolonski A., Wadsworth W., Knight J., Russell P., Vetterlein M. and Scherzer E.,
    "Submicrometer axial resolution optical coherence tomography",
    Opt. Lett. 27, 1800, (2002).
  • Bizheva K., Dunn A.K., Siegel A.M., and Boas D.A.,
    "Detection of multiply scattered light in Optical Coherence Microscopy",
    in Waves and imaging through complex media, Kluwer Verlag, chapter 1, part 5, p.277 (2000).
  • Bizheva K., Siegel A. M. and Boas D. A.,
    "Pathlength resolved dynamic light scattering in highly scattering random media: the transition to diffusing wave spectroscopy",
    Phys. Rev. E 58 7664-7667 (1998).
  • Boas D.A., Bizheva K., and Siegel A.M.,
    "Using Dynamic Low Coherence Interferometry to image Brownian motion within highly scattering media",
    Opt. Lett. 23 319-321 (1998).
  • Bizheva K.,
    "Molecular Beam Epitaxy as a method for preparation of two-dimensional electron gas in a single quantum well heterostructure of GaAs/AlGaAs:Si",
    M.S. thesis, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (1993).