David Boas

About

David Boas, PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Boston University College of Engineering. He is also the Director of the Neurophotonics Center. His educational background includes a PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Boas's research focuses on neurophotonics, functional near infrared spectroscopy, biomedical optics, oxygen delivery and consumption, neuro-vascular coupling, and physiological modeling. He has made significant contributions to the field of biomedical optics and neurophotonics, serving as the founding editor-in-chief of Neurophotonics and the founding president of SfNIRS. His work combines expertise from neuroscience, engineering, photonics, and computer science to better understand how the brain processes noise, among other topics. Dr. Boas has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Arthur G. B. Metcalf Chair, fellowships of OSA, SPIE, and AIMBE, and awards such as the Britton Chance Award for Biomedical Optics.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Psychology
• Physics
• Neuroscience
• Data science
• Optics
• Acoustics
• Mathematics
• Materials science

Selected publications

• Best practices for fNIRS publications

  Neurophotonics · 2021 · 472 citations

  The application of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in the neurosciences has been expanding over the last 40 years. Today, it is addressing a wide range of applications within different populations and utilizes a great variety of experimental paradigms. With the rapid growth and the diversification of research methods, some inconsistencies are appearing in the way in which methods are presented, which can make the interpretation and replication of studies unnecessarily challenging.…

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• Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report

  Neurophotonics · 2022 · 171 citations

  This report is the second part of a comprehensive two-part series aimed at reviewing an extensive and diverse toolkit of novel methods to explore brain health and function. While the first report focused on neurophotonic tools mostly applicable to animal studies, here, we highlight optical spectroscopy and imaging methods relevant to noninvasive human brain studies. We outline current state-of-the-art technologies and software advances, explore the most recent impact of these technologies on neu…

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• Dynamic light scattering imaging

  Science Advances · 2020 · 149 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  We introduce dynamic light scattering imaging (DLSI) to enable the wide-field measurement of the speckle temporal intensity autocorrelation function. DLSI uses the full temporal sampling of speckle fluctuations and a comprehensive model to identify the dynamic scattering regime and obtain a quantitative image of the scatterer dynamics. It reveals errors in the traditional theory of laser Doppler flowmetry and laser speckle contrast imaging and provides guidance on the best model to use in cerebr…

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• Single-shot 3D widefield fluorescence imaging with a computational miniature mesoscope

  Science Advances · 2020 · 88 citations

  Fluorescence imaging is indispensable to biology and neuroscience. The need for largescale
\nimaging in freely behaving animals has further driven the development in miniaturized
\nmicroscopes (miniscopes). However, conventional microscopes / miniscopes are inherently
\nconstrained by their limited space-bandwidth-product, shallow depth-of-field, and inability
\nto resolve 3D distributed emitters. Here, we present a Computational Miniature Mesoscope
\n(CM2) that overcomes the…

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• Toward Neuroscience of the Everyday World (NEW) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

  Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering · 2021 · 71 citations

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Recent grants

• The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function

  NIH · $5.3M · 2020–2025

• NIH Grant R29NS038842

  NIH · $581k · 2003

• NIH Grant R01GM104986

  NIH · $2.1M · 2017

Frequent coauthors

• Sava Sakadžić

  623 shared

• Anna Devor

  Boston University

  542 shared

• Maria Angela Franceschini

  Semmelweis University

  416 shared

• Louis Gagnon

  Université Laval

  350 shared

• Stefan A. Carp

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  349 shared

• Meryem A. Yücel

  Boston University

  336 shared

• Juliette Selb

  307 shared

• Mohammad A. Yaseen

  University of Mosul

  291 shared

Labs

• Bio Optical & Acoustic Spectroscopy LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1992

• M.S., Electrical Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1988

• B.S., Electrical Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1986

Awards & honors

• 2022 Arthur G. B. Metcalf Chair
• 2018 Elected Fellow of OSA
• 2017 Elected Fellow of SPIE and AIMBE
• 2016 Britton Chance Award for Biomedical Optics
• 2013 Neurophotonics, Founding Editor-in-Chief

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