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Frederic Leblond

Frederic Leblond

Assistant Professor of Engineering
1-603-646-3056
Frederic.Leblond@Dartmouth.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, McGill University (2003)
  • M.Sc., Physics, Université Laval (1998)
  • B.Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal (1996)

Research Interests

Biomedical optics technology for cancer imaging; small animal fluorescence imaging; fluorescence-guided surgery; diffuse optical tomography; multi-modality medical imaging; models for light propagation in tissue; inverse problem resolution methods

Current Research Projects

Selected Publications

  • F. Leblond, H. Dehghani, D. Kepshire, B.W. Pogue, "Early-photon fluorescence tomography: spatial resolution improvements and noise stability considerations," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26, 06 (2009)
  • D. Kepshire, N. Mincu, M. Hutchins, J. Gruber, H. Deghani, J. Hypnarowski, F. Leblond, M. Khayat, B. W. Pogue, “A microcomputed tomography guided fluorescence tomography system for small animal molecular imaging,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 043701 (2009)
  • D.S. Kepshire, S.L. Gibbs-Strauss, J. O'Hara, M. Hutchins, N. Mincu, F. Leblond, M. Khayat, H. Dehghani, S. Srinivasan, B.W. Pogue, "Imaging of glioma tumor with endogenous fluorescence tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 14(03), 030501 (2009)
  • F. Leblond, D. Marolf and R.C. Myers, "Tall tales from de Sitter space I: Renormalization group flows," J. High Energy Physics 0206, 052 (2002)
  • F. Leblond, "Geometry of large extra dimensions versus graviton emission," Phys. Rev. D64, 045016 (2001)

Selected Patents

  • F. Leblond, D.W. Roberts, K.D. Paulsen, A. Hartov, B.W. Pogue, "Method and Apparatus for Depth-Resolved Fluorescence Imaging for Tumor Identification During Surgery," filed January 20, 2009, U.S. Provisional Patent application
  • F. Leblond, S. Fortier, "Diffuse optical fluorescence tomography using time resolved data acquired in transmission," filed January 2007, U.S. Provisional Patent application
  • N. Mincu, F. Leblond, O. Guilman, X. Intes, M. Khayat, "Method and apparatus for optical image reconstruction using contour determination," filed December 2006, U.S. Provisional Patent application

Awards

  • NIH - NCI K-25 Career Development Award (2009 - )
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Post Doctoral Fellowship (2003-2005)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Fellowship (1999-2001)
  • Clay Mathematics Institute Scholarship (2001)
  • Research Fund for Nature and Technology Postgraduate Fellowship (1998-1999)

Professional Activities

  • Reviewer: Journal of Biomedical Optics, Journal of Optical Society of America A, Optics Letters, Medical Physics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Inverse Problems, Biophysical Journal, IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging
  • Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • Member, SPIE
  • Member, The Society for Molecular Imaging (SMI)
  • Member, International Society for Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (ISIPSE)

In the News

In Dartmouth Engineer Magazine