Vasan Venugopalan

Title(s)Professor & Chair, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
SchoolSamueli School of Engineering
Address916 Engineering Tower
Zot 2575
Irvine CA 92697
Phone(949) 824-6412
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    A Biophotonics Platform for Mechanotransduction and Metabolic Microscopy
    NIH R01GM129426Jun 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2023
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Adaptive optics modeling in nonlinear microscopy to improve deep tissue imaging
    NIH R21GM128135May 4, 2018 - Mar 31, 2021
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Interactive Training in Emergency Operations for the Response Community
    NIH R44ES025448May 11, 2015 - Apr 30, 2020
    Role: Principal Investigator
    A National Short Course in Computational Biophotonics
    NIH R25GM103818Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2018
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Versatile system to select and expand individual or multiple adherent-type cells
    NIH R43RR025980May 1, 2009 - Apr 30, 2011
    Role: Principal Investigator
    An automated platform for kinase assays on patient cells
    NIH R03TW007323Jul 1, 2005 - Jun 30, 2008
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Photon Migration for Measurement of Small Tissue Volumes
    NIH R01EB000345Jul 1, 2001 - Sep 30, 2007
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Photon Migration for Measurement of Small Tissue Volumes
    NIH R01CA092063Jul 1, 2001 - Jun 30, 2006
    Role: Principal Investigator
    IDENTIFICATION OF AN AIRWAY INHIBITORY TRANSMITTER
    NIH R23HL029710Jan 1, 1984 - Dec 31, 1986
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. An optical system for cellular mechanostimulation in 3D hydrogels. Acta Biomater. 2024 Nov; 189:439-448. Sreedasyam R, Wilson BG, Ferrandez PR, Botvinick EL, Venugopalan V. PMID: 39368720.
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    2. Analysis of relative error in perturbation Monte Carlo simulations of radiative transport. J Biomed Opt. 2023 06; 28(6):065001. Parsanasab M, Hayakawa C, Spanier J, Shen Y, Venugopalan V. PMID: 37293394; PMCID: PMC10245552.
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    3. Modeling nonlinear optical microscopy in scattering media, part I. Propagation from lens to focal volume: tutorial. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2023 May 01; 40(5):867-882. Ranasinghesagara JC, Potma EO, Venugopalan V. PMID: 37133184; PMCID: PMC10607893.
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    4. Modeling nonlinear optical microscopy in scattering media, part II. Radiation from focal volume to far-field: tutorial. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2023 May 01; 40(5):883-897. Ranasinghesagara JC, Potma EO, Venugopalan V. PMID: 37133185; PMCID: PMC10614565.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    
    5. Radiance backscattered by a strongly scattering medium in the high spatial frequency limit. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2022 Jul 01; 39(7):1193-1201. Ilan B, Kim AD, Venugopalan V. PMID: 36215605.
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    6. MCCL: an open-source software application for Monte Carlo simulations of radiative transport. J Biomed Opt. 2022 04; 27(8). Hayakawa CK, Malenfant L, Ranasinghesagara J, Cuccia DJ, Spanier J, Venugopalan V. PMID: 35415991; PMCID: PMC9005200.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    
    7. Corneal transparency and scleral opacity arises from the nanoarchitecture of the constituent collagen fibrils. Biomed Opt Express. 2022 Mar 01; 13(3):1485-1496. Tseng SH, Yang CY, Li JH, Jeng YM, Ranasinghesagara JC, Venugopalan V. PMID: 35414992; PMCID: PMC8973168.
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    8. Comparative analysis of discrete and continuous absorption weighting estimators used in Monte Carlo simulations of radiative transport in turbid media: erratum. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2021 May 01; 38(5):749. Hayakawa CK, Spanier J, Venugopalan V. PMID: 33983280.
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    9. Single-shot interferometric measurement of cavitation bubble dynamics. Opt Lett. 2021 Mar 15; 46(6):1409-1412. Wilson BG, Fan Z, Sreedasyam R, Botvinick EL, Venugopalan V. PMID: 33720199; PMCID: PMC9233925.
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    10. Laser cavitation rheology for measurement of elastic moduli and failure strain within hydrogels. Sci Rep. 2020 08 04; 10(1):13144. Luo JC, Ching H, Wilson BG, Mohraz A, Botvinick EL, Venugopalan V. PMID: 32753667; PMCID: PMC7403306.
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    11. Optical sampling depth in the spatial frequency domain. J Biomed Opt. 2019 07; 24(7). Hayakawa CK, Karrobi K, Pera V, Roblyer D, Venugopalan V. PMID: 30218504; PMCID: PMC6675966.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 23     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    12. Recovery of layered tissue optical properties from spatial frequency-domain spectroscopy and a deterministic radiative transport solver. J Biomed Opt. 2018 11; 24(7):1-11. Horan ST, Gardner AR, Saager R, Durkin AJ, Venugopalan V. PMID: 30456934; PMCID: PMC6995875.
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    13. Optical sampling depth in the spatial frequency domain. J Biomed Opt. 2018 08; 23(8):1-14. Hayakawa CK, Karrobi K, Pera V, Roblyer D, Venugopalan V. PMID: 30141285.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    14. Effect of scattering on coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) signals. Opt Express. 2017 Apr 17; 25(8):8638-8652. Ranasinghesagara JC, De Vito G, Piazza V, Potma EO, Venugopalan V. PMID: 28437941; PMCID: PMC5462071.
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    15. Multi-scale silica structures for improved HIV-1 Capsid (p24) antigen detection. Analyst. 2016 Jun 20; 141(13):4181-8. Lin S, Hedde PN, Venugopalan V, Gratton E, Khine M. PMID: 27163263; PMCID: PMC4924925.
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    16. Development of perturbation Monte Carlo methods for polarized light transport in a discrete particle scattering model. Biomed Opt Express. 2016 May 01; 7(5):2051-66. Nguyen J, Hayakawa CK, Mourant JR, Venugopalan V, Spanier J. PMID: 27231642; PMCID: PMC4871102.
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    17. Differential pathlength factor informs evoked stimulus response in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Neurophotonics. 2015 Oct; 2(4):045001. Lin AJ, Ponticorvo A, Durkin AJ, Venugopalan V, Choi B, Tromberg BJ. PMID: 26835482; PMCID: PMC4718154.
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    18. High-throughput optical screening of cellular mechanotransduction. Nat Photonics. 2014 Sep 01; 8:710-715. Compton JL, Luo JC, Ma H, Botvinick E, Venugopalan V. PMID: 25309621; PMCID: PMC4189826.
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    19. Low-density plasma formation in aqueous biological media using sub-nanosecond laser pulses. Appl Phys Lett. 2014 Aug 11; 105(6):063701. Genc SL, Ma H, Venugopalan V. PMID: 25278618; PMCID: PMC4144155.
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    20. Rapid computation of the amplitude and phase of tightly focused optical fields distorted by scattering particles. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2014 Jul 01; 31(7):1520-30. Ranasinghesagara JC, Hayakawa CK, Davis MA, Dunn AK, Potma EO, Venugopalan V. PMID: 25121440; PMCID: PMC4213127.
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    21. Coupled forward-adjoint Monte Carlo simulation of spatial-angular light fields to determine optical sensitivity in turbid media. J Biomed Opt. 2014 Jun; 19(6):065003. Gardner AR, Hayakawa CK, Venugopalan V. PMID: 24972356; PMCID: PMC4073599.
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    22. Time-resolved digital holographic microscopy of laser-induced forward transfer process. Appl Phys B. 2014 Mar 01; 114(3):361-366. Ma H, Venugopalan V. PMID: 24748724; PMCID: PMC3990434.
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    23. Comparative analysis of discrete and continuous absorption weighting estimators used in Monte Carlo simulations of radiative transport in turbid media. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2014 Feb 01; 31(2):301-11. Hayakawa CK, Spanier J, Venugopalan V. PMID: 24562029; PMCID: PMC4106716.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 13     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    24. Hydrodynamic determinants of cell necrosis and molecular delivery produced by pulsed laser microbeam irradiation of adherent cells. Biophys J. 2013 Nov 05; 105(9):2221-31. Compton JL, Hellman AN, Venugopalan V. PMID: 24209868; PMCID: PMC3824719.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 8     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    25. Radiative transport produced by oblique illumination of turbid media with collimated beams. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2013 Jun; 87(6):063308. Gardner AR, Kim AD, Venugopalan V. PMID: 23848807; PMCID: PMC3940417.
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    26. In vivo multiphoton NADH fluorescence reveals depth-dependent keratinocyte metabolism in human skin. Biophys J. 2013 Jan 08; 104(1):258-67. Balu M, Mazhar A, Hayakawa CK, Mittal R, Krasieva TB, König K, Venugopalan V, Tromberg BJ. PMID: 23332078; PMCID: PMC3540245.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 49     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsCTClinical Trials
    27. Impact of release dynamics of laser-irradiated polymer micropallets on the viability of selected adherent cells. J R Soc Interface. 2012 Jun 07; 9(71):1156-67. Ma H, Mismar W, Wang Y, Small DW, Ras M, Allbritton NL, Sims CE, Venugopalan V. PMID: 22158840; PMCID: PMC3350736.
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    28. Analysis of single Monte Carlo methods for prediction of reflectance from turbid media. Opt Express. 2011 Sep 26; 19(20):19627-42. Martinelli M, Gardner A, Cuccia D, Hayakawa C, Spanier J, Venugopalan V. PMID: 21996904; PMCID: PMC3347703.
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    29. Accurate and efficient Monte Carlo solutions to the radiative transport equation in the spatial frequency domain. Opt Lett. 2011 Jun 15; 36(12):2269-71. Gardner AR, Venugopalan V. PMID: 21685989; PMCID: PMC3312025.
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    30. Electric field Monte Carlo simulations of focal field distributions produced by tightly focused laser beams in tissues. Biomed Opt Express. 2011 Jan 06; 2(2):278-90. Hayakawa CK, Potma EO, Venugopalan V. PMID: 21339874; PMCID: PMC3039457.
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    31. Examination of axonal injury and regeneration in micropatterned neuronal culture using pulsed laser microbeam dissection. Lab Chip. 2010 Aug 21; 10(16):2083-92. Hellman AN, Vahidi B, Kim HJ, Mismar W, Steward O, Jeon NL, Venugopalan V. PMID: 20532390; PMCID: PMC3380453.
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    32. Nonspherical laser-induced cavitation bubbles. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Jan; 81(1 Pt 2):016308. Lim KY, Quinto-Su PA, Klaseboer E, Khoo BC, Venugopalan V, Ohl CD. PMID: 20365461.
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    33. Amplitude and phase of tightly focused laser beams in turbid media. Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Jul 24; 103(4):043903. Hayakawa CK, Venugopalan V, Krishnamachari VV, Potma EO. PMID: 19659354; PMCID: PMC2850562.
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    34. Characterization and use of laser-based lysis for cell analysis on-chip. J R Soc Interface. 2008 Oct 06; 5 Suppl 2:S113-21. Lai HH, Quinto-Su PA, Sims CE, Bachman M, Li GP, Venugopalan V, Allbritton NL. PMID: 18583277; PMCID: PMC2706033.
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    35. Mechanisms of pulsed laser microbeam release of SU-8 polymer "micropallets" for the collection and separation of adherent cells. Anal Chem. 2008 Jun 15; 80(12):4675-9. Quinto-Su PA, To'a Salazar G, Sims CE, Allbritton NL, Venugopalan V. PMID: 18489124; PMCID: PMC2525502.
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    36. Biophysical response to pulsed laser microbeam-induced cell lysis and molecular delivery. J Biophotonics. 2008 Mar; 1(1):24-35. Hellman AN, Rau KR, Yoon HH, Venugopalan V. PMID: 19343632; PMCID: PMC3155384.
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    37. Radiative transport in the delta-P1 approximation for semi-infinite turbid media. Med Phys. 2008 Feb; 35(2):681-93. Seo I, Hayakawa CK, Venugopalan V. PMID: 18383690; PMCID: PMC3509770.
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    38. Examination of laser microbeam cell lysis in a PDMS microfluidic channel using time-resolved imaging. Lab Chip. 2008 Mar; 8(3):408-14. Quinto-Su PA, Lai HH, Yoon HH, Sims CE, Allbritton NL, Venugopalan V. PMID: 18305858; PMCID: PMC2525503.
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    39. Optoacoustic imaging based on the interferometric measurement of surface displacement. J Biomed Opt. 2007 Nov-Dec; 12(6):064001. Carp SA, Venugopalan V. PMID: 18163817.
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    40. Laser-induced mixing in microfluidic channels. Anal Chem. 2007 Jun 15; 79(12):4484-92. Hellman AN, Rau KR, Yoon HH, Bae S, Palmer JF, Phillips KS, Allbritton NL, Venugopalan V. PMID: 17508715.
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    41. Perturbation and differential Monte Carlo methods for measurement of optical properties in a layered epithelial tissue model. J Biomed Opt. 2007 Jan-Feb; 12(1):014030. Seo I, You JS, Hayakawa CK, Venugopalan V. PMID: 17343505.
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    42. Mechanisms of laser cellular microsurgery. Methods Cell Biol. 2007; 82:113-51. Quinto-Su PA, Venugopalan V. PMID: 17586256.
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    43. Estimating optical properties in layered tissues by use of the Born approximation of the radiative transport equation. Opt Lett. 2006 Apr 15; 31(8):1088-90. Kim AD, Hayakawa C, Venugopalan V. PMID: 16625912.
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    44. Pulsed laser microbeam-induced cell lysis: time-resolved imaging and analysis of hydrodynamic effects. Biophys J. 2006 Jul 01; 91(1):317-29. Rau KR, Quinto-Su PA, Hellman AN, Venugopalan V. PMID: 16617076; PMCID: PMC1479069.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 51     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    45. Mid-IR laser ablation of articular and fibro-cartilage: a wavelength dependence study of thermal injury and crater morphology. Lasers Surg Med. 2006 Mar; 38(3):218-28. Youn JI, Sweet P, Peavy GM, Venugopalan V. PMID: 16453331.
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    46. Frequency domain photon migration in the delta- P1 approximation: analysis of ballistic, transport, and diffuse regimes. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Aug; 72(2 Pt 1):021903. You JS, Hayakawa CK, Venugopalan V. PMID: 16196600.
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    47. Free electron laser ablation of articular and fibro-cartilage at 2.79, 2.9, 6.1, and 6.45 microm: mass removal studies. Lasers Surg Med. 2005 Mar; 36(3):202-9. Youn JI, Peavy GM, Venugopalan V. PMID: 15704094.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    48. Controlled ablation of microtubules using a picosecond laser. Biophys J. 2004 Dec; 87(6):4203-12. Botvinick EL, Venugopalan V, Shah JV, Liaw LH, Berns MW. PMID: 15454403; PMCID: PMC1304929.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 28     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    49. Use of the delta-P1 approximation for recovery of optical absorption, scattering, and asymmetry coefficients in turbid media. Appl Opt. 2004 Aug 20; 43(24):4677-84. Hayakawa CK, Hill BY, You JS, Bevilacqua F, Spanier J, Venugopalan V. PMID: 15352392.
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    50. Sampling tissue volumes using frequency-domain photon migration. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2004 May; 69(5 Pt 1):051908. Bevilacqua F, You JS, Hayakawa CK, Venugopalan V. PMID: 15244848.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    51. Radiative transport in the delta-P1 approximation: accuracy of fluence rate and optical penetration depth predictions in turbid semi-infinite media. J Biomed Opt. 2004 May-Jun; 9(3):632-47. Carp SA, Prahl SA, Venugopalan V. PMID: 15189103.
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    52. Optoacoustic determination of optical attenuation depth using interferometric detection. J Biomed Opt. 2003 Apr; 8(2):264-72. Payne BP, Venugopalan V, Mikic BB, Nishioka NS. PMID: 12683853.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    53. Optoacoustic tomography using time-resolved interferometric detection of surface displacement. J Biomed Opt. 2003 Apr; 8(2):273-80. Payne BP, Venugopalan V, Mikic BB, Nishioka NS. PMID: 12683854.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 12     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    54. Mechanisms of pulsed laser ablation of biological tissues. Chem Rev. 2003 Feb; 103(2):577-644. Vogel A, Venugopalan V. PMID: 12580643.
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    55. Role of laser-induced plasma formation in pulsed cellular microsurgery and micromanipulation. Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Feb 18; 88(7):078103. Venugopalan V, Guerra A, Nahen K, Vogel A. PMID: 11863944.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 41     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    56. Gene inactivation by multiphoton-targeted photochemistry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Aug 15; 97(17):9504-7. Berns MW, Wang Z, Dunn A, Wallace V, Venugopalan V. PMID: 10944219; PMCID: PMC16894.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 9     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    57. Chemometric analysis of frequency-domain photon migration data: quantitative measurements of optical properties and chromophore concentrations in multicomponent turbid media. Appl Opt. 2000 Apr 01; 39(10):1659-67. Berger AJ, Venugopalan V, Durkin AJ, Pham T, Tromberg BJ. PMID: 18345066.
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    58. Comparison of cortical bone ablations by using infrared laser wavelengths 2.9 to 9.2 microm. Lasers Surg Med. 1999; 25(5):421-34. Peavy GM, Reinisch L, Payne JT, Venugopalan V. PMID: 10602135.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 12     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    59. Non-invasive measurements of breast tissue optical properties using frequency-domain photon migration. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1997 Jun 29; 352(1354):661-8. Tromberg BJ, Coquoz O, Fishkin JB, Pham T, Anderson ER, Butler J, Cahn M, Gross JD, Venugopalan V, Pham D. PMID: 9232853; PMCID: PMC1691955.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 32     Fields:    Translation:Humans
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