Pantea Tavakolian
- Assistant Professor, College of Engineering & Mines
Contact Info
- Email: pantea.tavakolian@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.4429
Office Address
Columbia Hall Room 2370R
501 N Columbia Road Stop 8155
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8155
Websites
Biography
Pantea Tavakolian is a biomedical engineering scientist with extensive experience developing medical imaging systems (photoacoustic, thermal imaging modalities) and data analysis. She was a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, exploring the development of thermophotonic sensors for detecting inflammation in the intestine. Before joining Harvard Medical School, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and a scientific manager at the Center for Advanced Diffusion-Wave and Photoacoustic Technologies for two and half years. She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Toronto. She developed a 3D thermal imaging system for non-destructive testing of industrial materials, early detection of carious regions in dental samples, and early detection of tumors in mice. She is an enthusiastic scientist with a research interest in medical imaging, image and signal processing, and machine learning.
Pantea is also a graduate coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering program.
BME 220 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
BME 180
BME 181
BME 670
Biophotonics, thermal imaging, medical imaging, image and signal processing, and Machine Learning (ML)
- Welch, R., Sivagurunathan, K., Tavakolian, P., Mandelis, A. “Three-dimensional thermophotonic image optimization modalities of truncated correlation photothermal coherence tomography” J. of Biophotonics, 15 (7), e202200018 (2022).
- Thapa D., Welch R., Dabas R.P., Salimi M., Tavakolian P., Sivagurunathan K., Ngai K., Huang B., Finer Y., Abrams S., Mandelis A., and Tabatabaei, N. “Comparison of Long-Wave and Mid-Wave Infrared Imaging Modalities for Photothermal Coherence Tomography of Human Teeth” IEEE Transaction of Biomedical Engineering (2022).
- Risheh A., Tavakolian P., Mandelis, A., “Infrared Computer vision in non-destructive imaging: Sharp delineation of subsurface defect boundaries in enhanced truncated correlation photothermal coherence tomography images using K-means clustering” J. of NDT & E International, 125, 102568 (2022).
- Roointan S., Tavakolian P., Sivagurunathan K., Mandelis A., Abrams S.H., “Detection and Monitoring of Controlled Dental Caries and Erosion Using Three-Dimensional enhanced Truncated Correlation Photothermal Coherence Tomography (eTC-PCT) Imaging, J. of Biomedical Optics, 26(4), 046004 (2021).
- Pantea Tavakolian, Sohrab Roointan, Andreas Mandelis ‘Non-Invasive In-Vivo 3-D Imaging of Small Animals Using Spatially Filtered Enhanced Truncated-Correlation Photothermal Coherence Tomography’ Scientific Reports, 13743,10 (2020).
- Pantea Tavakolian, Roointan S., Sivagurunathan K., Mandelis A., “3D Thermophotonic Imaging Informs Biomedicine,” BioPhotonics Magazine Page: 28-33, (Sep/Oct 2020).
- Pantea Tavakolian, Elnaz B. Shokouhi, Stefano Sfarra, Gianfranco Gargiulo, Andreas Mandelis, ‘Non-destructive Imaging of Ancient Marquetries using Enhanced Truncated-Correlation Photothermal Coherence Tomography’ of Cultural Heritage, 1296-2074, Pages:1-6 (2020).
- Pantea Tavakolian, Sohrab Roointan, Koneswaran Sivagurunathan, Marie Floryan, Andreas Mandelis, Stephen Abrams, “3D Dental Subsurface Imaging Using Enhanced Truncated-Correlation Photothermal Coherence Tomography,” Scientific Report 9, 16788(2019).
- Pantea Tavakolian, Hai Zhang, Andreas Mandelis, Wei Shi, Fei-Fei Liu, “Truncated-correlation photothermal coherence tomography derivative imaging modality for small animal in vivo early tumor detection” Optics letters, 44(3), pp. 675-678 (2019).
- Pantea Tavakolian, Stefano Sfarra, Koneswaran Sivagurunathan, and Andreas Mandelis, “Photothermal coherence tomography for 3-D visualization and structural non-destructive imaging of a wood inlay” Journal of Infrared Physics, 91(2018), 206-213.
- Pantea Tavakolian, Andreas Mandelis, “Perspective: Principles and Specifications of Photothermal Imaging Methodologies and Their Applications to Non-Invasive Biomedical and Non-Destructive Materials Imaging,” Journal of Applied Physics, 124, 160903 (2018).
- Pantea Tavakolian, Koneswaran Sivagurunathan, and Andreas Mandelis, “Enhanced truncated-correlation photothermal coherence tomography with application to deep subsurface defect imaging and 3-dimensional reconstructions” Journal of Applied Physics, 122(2),023103 (2017).
Ph.D. University of Toronto (2019)
M.Sc. University of Western Ontario (2014)