CUA

Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering

202-319-6247 phone
202-319-4287 fax

http://faculty.cua.edu/ramella

Education:

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, 2004

M.S., Electrical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, 2004

Laurea, Electrical Engineering, Universita di Pavia, Italy, 1993

Biography in Brief:

Jessica Ramella-Roman’s research is in the field of Biomedical Optics, the study of light interacting with biological media. Her main interests are polarized light imaging and modeling, spectroscopic diagnostic of skin lesions and Port-wine stains and optical fiber instrumentation.

Representative Publications:

J.C. Ramella-Roman, K. Lee, S.A. Prahl, S.L. Jacques. “Design, testing and clinical studies of a hand-held polarized light camera,” J. of Biomedical Optics 9:5, 2004

J.C. Ramella-Roman, P.R. Bargo, S.A. Prahl, and S.L. Jacques. “Evaluation of spherical particle sizes with an asymmetric illumination microscope,” IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 9:2, pp. 301–307. 2003.

S.L. Jacques, J.C. Ramella-Roman, K. Lee. “Imaging skin pathology with polarized light,” J. of Biomedical Optics, 7:3, pp. 329–340. 2002.

S. L. Jacques, J.C. Ramella-Roman, K. Lee. “Imaging Superficial Tissues with Polarized Light.” Lasers Surg. Med. 26, pp. 119–129. 2000

Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Don Duncan, Thomas A. Germer. “Out-of-plane polarimetric imaging of skin: Surface and subsurface effects” Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5686. 2005

S.L. Jacques, S. L. and J.C. Ramella-Roman, “Polarized light imaging of tissue.” In Laser and current optical techniques in biology, Comprehensive series in Photo-Sciences Vol. 5 Giuseppe Palumbo and Riccardo Pratesi Editors, ESP book series, 2004

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