The department's biophysics lab has created a new research program which uses quantitative magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the accuracy of new radiation cancer therapy methods. This research is done in collaboration with the radiation oncology department at U. of California at San Francisco and the imaging center at the TTU Medical Center. Professor Kelvin Cheng and a PhD student, Richard L. Cardenas, are involved in this project.

In addition to magnetic resonance imaging, the TTU biophysics research group, a medical research team at U. of Helsinki, and a theorist at the U. of California-Irvine have jointly proposed an innovative superlattice model in self assembling organic lipid membranes. Time-resolved fluorescence and infrared spectroscopy are being used to investigate the physical properties of the proposed superlattice domains in membranes. This work, supported by the R.A. Welch Foundation, has been published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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