Michelle Graham
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About
Dr. Michelle Graham is pioneering the use of photoacoustic imaging and robotic visual servoing to make cardiac and abdominal surgeries safer. Her research focuses on replacing harmful fluoroscopic guidance—which exposes patients and clinicians to ionizing radiation—with non-ionizing, depth-sensitive alternatives. In her landmark 2019 study (76 citations), she provided the first *in vivo* demonstration of photoacoustic image guidance combined with robotic visual servoing for cardiac catheter-based interventions, proving that catheters can be navigated toward the heart with reduced radiation risk. She has also shown that photoacoustic imaging can visualize major blood vessels in the pancreas and liver during surgery (44 citations), offering a potential solution to prevent life-threatening intra-abdominal hemorrhages. Her 2020 follow-up work (14 citations) further refined this approach for cardiac catheter interventions, addressing the critical lack of depth information in standard fluoroscopy. Dr. Graham’s contributions are not only technically innovative but clinically urgent, directly tackling the dual challenges of procedural safety and radiation exposure in interventional medicine.
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