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Welcome to the official account of SPIE, the international society for optics and #photonics. Over the past five years, we have invested over $25M in the international optics community! 💡
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And that’s a wrap on a great week at #SPIEMedicalImaging! Thankful for meeting many wonderful researchers, sharing our work, and visiting Vancouver!
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February 19, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Did you even go to a conference if you didn't pose for (at least) one group photo during the week? 😉📸

📍 Snapshots from #SPIEMedicalImaging 2026 in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada.
February 20, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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“We already live instrumented lives… we can re-think how we do medical imaging beyond diagnoses.”

Bennett Landman, director of VALIANT + #SPIE_JMI EIC, presents the transformative idea of “clinical phenotypes” to better understand the healthcare journey.

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February 19, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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“Photoacoustic imaging has the potential to provide new information for diagnostic, surgical, and interventional applications.”

Muyinatu Bell, professor @jhu.edu, director of the PULSE lab, and #SPIE_JBO EIC, delivers the first keynote today at #SPIEMedicalImaging. ✨💡
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February 19, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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“Perception is decision making — by both humans and machines.” 👀⚙️

Murray Loew, emeritus professor of #BiomedicalEngineering at George Washington University, enlightens the audience with a keynote on perception as an inverse problem.

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February 18, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Exposure to radiation from CT exams — especially in children — can be an emotionally charged debate.

Cynthia McCollough (Mayo Clinic) explores studies that assess the benefits + risks of CT, highlighting the importance of justification + optimization.

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February 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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It’s #WiOWednesday!

We’re celebrating Rekha Gautam, Senior Scientist and Raman Team Lead at @tyndallinstitute.bsky.social. Her research in Raman spectroscopy & biological screening continues to advance #optics and #photonics. 💡

Read her 2026 SPIE Women in Optics profile: https://bit.ly/4trhqYp
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February 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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“AI is not going anywhere… we need to develop Al tools with careful consideration for challenges in adoption including data quality, reader biases, and ethical dilemmas.”

Pallavi Tiwari, professor @wiscmedphys.bsky.social, wrapped up today’s keynote with words of wisdom. #SPIEMedicalImaging
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February 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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There were great talks all around at the 3-Minute Poster Competition at #SPIEMedicalImaging! Super excited to share our work on crossing white matter fibers and win 3rd place!
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February 17, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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You know your actual age, but do you know your biological age? 🎂🥼

By harnessing AI tools for value-added opportunistic CT screening, Perry Pickhardt @uwiscradiology.bsky.social shares how assessing “biological age” can help predict chances of future cardiometabolic events.

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February 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Algorithms are critical, but we also need people to make them accurate + efficient + trustworthy! ⚡️

The first poster session at #SPIEMedicalImaging 2026 highlighted how machine learning continues to reshape medical imaging across modalities. Thank you to all the presenters! 👏
February 17, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Behind every breakthrough in optics and photonics is someone whose passion drives the field forward. 💡

If you know a woman whose work inspires you, nominate her for the 2027 Women in Optics Notebook!

Nominations close soon. Honor a colleague (or yourself!): https://bit.ly/3ZByiOu #WomenInSTEM
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February 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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It’s been so great to see the medical imaging community gather in Vancouver, BC, this week. 👋

Thank you to everyone attending and sharing their work at #SPIEMedicalImaging 2026! ✨
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February 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Excited to be at @spie.org Medical Imaging! Come hear about our work with large scale traumatic brain injury imaging at 2:10 in Ballroom C! #SPIEMedicalImaging
February 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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“It’s good. But it’s not good enough. So, we keep working.”

Ionizing radiation acoustic imaging for in vivo dose mapping in radiotherapy is a promising technology that Xueding Wang, Prof in Dept. of Biomedical Engineering @umich.edu, & his team are excited to continue pursuing.
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February 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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“Why use quantitative MRI?”

Physicist & prof at UBC, @correelaule.bsky.social, proposes that qMRI can provide more specific info regarding prognosis, biomarkers for trials, & treatment planning in situations of traumatic spinal cord injury. 📝

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February 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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“Improving image quality is the fastest path to scalable, decentralized ultrasound Al.”

Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Associate Prof @ubcmedicine.bsky.social & Co-Founder of PONS Inc, takes the stage to open today’s keynote session at #SPIEMedicalImaging.

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February 16, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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We are pleased to welcome NIH Senior Investigator Adrienne Campbell-Washburn to #SPIE Medical Imaging 2026!

Campbell-Washburn is delivering the opening plenary presentation for the conference, discussing how her lab is rethinking mid-field MRI imaging. 🤔

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February 16, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is breaking the visible diffraction limit.

Techniques like STED, single-molecule localization, and expansion microscopy reveal nanoscale cell structures, sometimes approaching electron-microscope detail.

Learn more in #PhotonicsFocus: https://bit.ly/4qmXAL4
A mouse cancer cell at the onset of cell division. On the left, conventional microscopy with a resolution of 250 nm or so. On the right, super-resolution structured illumination microscopy with a resolution of about 110 nm. Four key structures are fluorescently labelled: microtubules (magenta), actin filaments (cyan), mitochondria (yellow), and DNA (white, packed in chromosomes). The cell diameter is about 30 μm. Photo credit: Markus Sauer, University of Wuerzburg.
February 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Skyrmions are moving from magnetism into #photonics.

Researchers are creating stable, topologically protected structures of light, opening new possibilities for imaging, communication, and quantum tech. 💡

Learn more in #PhotonicsFocus: https://bit.ly/4bFWBBX
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February 13, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Tianjin Univ. has developed a new THz spectroscopy system: spatial-resolved asynchronous-sampling terahertz spectroscopy (SPRATS). ⚡️

SPRATS achieved a spatial resolution of 20 µm + spectral resolution of up to 100 MHz, while maintaining robust dynamic range & bandwidth. 📻 https://bit.ly/4qUT1bZ
Diagram of the new system, including a graph and a computer-made model of waves passing through a sheet.
February 13, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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We look forward to seeing everyone next week in Vancouver, Canada, for #SPIEMedicalImaging 2026! 🤩
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February 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Join us for this Henri Poincaré webinar on 24 February at 1:00 PM PT.💡

Siddharth Ramachandran will examine a light-transport mechanism in which topologically charged photons form long-lived, unbound states that circumvent the limits of internal reflection.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4cpzEmR
Webinar announcement for the Poincaré Webinar Series featuring Siddharth Ramachandran from Boston University. Topic: Long-lived photons in forbidden states. Date: 24 February 2026, 1:00 PM PT.
February 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Join us to the SPIE Optics+Photonics, held from August 23-27, in San Diego. Submit an abstract by February 11 to the the „Organic, Hybrid, and Perovskite Photovoltaics XXVII“: with fantastic invited speakers including Thuc-Quyen Nguyen , Christine Luscombe , Martin Heeney and many more! Go, Submit!
February 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Quantum is moving from theory to deployment. ⚛️
SPIE Quantum West 2026 showcased Quantum 2.0 scalable, applied tech for real-world systems. The winter Quantum Focus covers key breakthroughs, funding wins, and photonic advances shaping quantum’s future. optics.org/quantum

#Quantum #Photonics #SPIE
February 10, 2026 at 4:45 PM