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2026

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102
Citations
41606
World Ranking
135
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to optical biomedical imaging
  • 2009 - OSA Fellows For developing and translating innovative technologies in biophotonics and biomedical optics to applications in biology, medicine, and surgery.
  • 2009 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Stephen A. Boppart is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, primarily focusing on the intersection of engineering, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The scientist's work is notably concentrated in biomedical engineering, biophysics, and molecular biology, with additional attention to pulmonary and respiratory medicine as well as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The main research topics explored by Boppart include advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, optical coherence tomography applications, photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging, spectroscopy techniques in biomedical and chemical research, ear surgery and otitis media, cell image analysis techniques, and extracellular vesicles in disease.

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Eric J. Chaney, Marina Marjanović, Darold R. Spillman, Janet E. Sorrells, and Rishyashring R. Iyer.

Stephen A. Boppart has published extensively in venues such as UNC Libraries, Biomedical Optics Express, Scientific Reports, Journal of Biomedical Optics, and Optics Letters.

  • Large-scale tumor-associated collagen signatures identify high-risk breast cancer patients (2021, Theranostics)
  • Label-free biomedical optical imaging (2023, Nature Photonics)
  • Emergency ventilator for COVID-19 (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • The Cholesterol Metabolite 27HC Increases Secretion of Extracellular Vesicles Which Promote Breast Cancer Progression (2021, Endocrinology)
  • Differentiation of breast tissue types for surgical margin assessment using machine learning and polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (2021, Biomedical Optics Express)

The scientist has received several awards and recognitions including becoming a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2019, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2014, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013, IEEE Fellow in 2011 for contributions to optical biomedical imaging, SPIE Fellow in 2009, and OSA Fellow in 2009 for work in developing and translating innovative technologies in biophotonics and biomedical optics into applications in biology, medicine, and surgery.

Best Publications

  • In Vivo Endoscopic Optical Biopsy with Optical Coherence Tomography

    Guillermo J. Tearney;Mark E. Brezinski;Brett E. Bouma;Stephen A. Boppart

  • In vivo ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography.

    W. Drexler;U. Morgner;F. X. Kärtner;C. Pitris

  • Optical Coherence Tomography: An Emerging Technology for Biomedical Imaging and Optical Biopsy

    James G. Fujimoto;Costas Pitris;Costas Pitris;Stephen A. Boppart;Stephen A. Boppart;Mark E. Brezinski

  • Optical biopsy and imaging using optical coherence tomography.

    James G. Fujimoto;Mark E. Brezinski;Guillermo J. Tearney;Stephen Allen Boppart

  • Method and device for performing optical measurement by using optical fiber imaging guide wire, catheter or endoscope

    Stephen A Boppart;Brett E Bouma;Mark Brezinski;James G Fujimoto

  • Methods and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments

    Stephen A. Boppart;Gary J. Tearney;Brett E. Bouma;Mark E. Brezinski

  • Single-mode fiber-optic catheter/endoscope for optical coherence tomography

    G. J. Tearney;S. A. Boppart;B. Bouma;M. E. Brezinski

  • Optical coherence tomography: a review of clinical development from bench to bedside

    Adam M. Zysk;Freddy T. Nguyen;Amy L. Oldenburg;Daniel L. Marks

  • Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging

    Constantinos Pitris;Stephen A Boppart;Xingde Li;Mark Brezinski

  • Fiber optic imaging endoscope interferometer with at least one faraday rotator

    Guillermo Tearney;Stephen A. Boppart;Brett E. Bouma;Mark Brezinski

  • High-resolution optical coherence tomographic imaging using a mode-locked Ti:Al(2)O(3) laser source.

    B. Bouma;G. J. Tearney;Stephen Allen Boppart;M. R. Hee

  • Biomechanical Properties of In Vivo Human Skin From Dynamic Optical Coherence Elastography

    Xing Liang;S.A. Boppart

  • Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy

    Tyler S. Ralston;Daniel L. Marks;P. Scott Carney;Stephen A. Boppart

  • Assessing atherosclerotic plaque morphology: comparison of optical coherence tomography and high frequency intravascular ultrasound.

    M. E. Brezinski;G. J. Tearney;N. J. Weissman;Stephen Allen Boppart

  • Intraoperative evaluation of breast tumor margins with optical coherence tomography

    Freddy T. Nguyen;Adam M. Zysk;Eric J. Chaney;Jan G. Kotynek

  • Rapid acquisition of in vivo biological images by use of optical coherence tomography

    G. J. Tearney;B. E. Bouma;S. A. Boppart;B. Golubovic

  • Optical Biopsy in Human Gastrointestinal Tissue Using Optical Coherence Tomography

    G. J. Tearney;M. E. Brezinski;J. F. Southern;B. E. Bouma

  • High resolution in vivo intra-arterial imaging with optical coherence tomography

    J. G. Fujimoto;Stephen Allen Boppart;G. J. Tearney;B. E. Bouma

  • Forward-imaging instruments for optical coherence tomography

    S. A. Boppart;B. E. Bouma;C. Pitris;G. J. Tearney

  • Imaging of Coronary Artery Microstructure (In Vitro) With Optical Coherence Tomography

    Mark E. Brezinski;Guillermo J. Tearney;Brett E. Bouma;Stephen A. Boppart

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel L. Marks
Daniel L. Marks Duke University
Brett E. Bouma
Brett E. Bouma Harvard University
Kenneth S. Suslick
Kenneth S. Suslick University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jesper Lægsgaard
Jesper Lægsgaard Technical University of Denmark
Cynthia A. Toth
Cynthia A. Toth Duke University
Yang Xu
Yang Xu Zhejiang University
Martin Gruebele
Martin Gruebele University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael F. Insana
Michael F. Insana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lutgarde Raskin
Lutgarde Raskin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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