David A. Boas, PhD
Professor
Boston University College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

PhD, University of Pennsylvania
BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute



David Boas, Ph.D. (Professor, Biomedical Engineering) is Director of the Neurophotonics Center at Boston University. He received his BS in Physics at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute and PhD in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. During his academic career, he has supervised 44 students and post-doctoral fellows, and he has published over 250 papers that have received over 30,000 citations and an h-index of 101. He is the founding President of the Society for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy and founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neurophotonics published by SPIE. Dr. Boas was awarded the Britton Chance Award in Biomedical Optics in 2016 for his development of several novel, high-impact biomedical optical technologies in the neurosciences, as well as following through with impactful application studies, and fostering the widespread adoption of these technologies. He was elected a Fellow of AIMBE, SPIE, and OSA in 2017.

As Director of the Neurophotonics Center, he facilitates the development and application of novel optical methods to address a broad range of neuroscience questions from basic science to clinical translation. His own research efforts focus on neurovascular coupling, cerebral oxygen delivery and consumption, functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), and physiological modeling. Studies are done in rodents and humans, invasively and non-invasively, microscopically and macroscopically, providing a powerful ability to translate findings from animals to humans, and conversely to address in animals questions raised during human studies. One example of this that will tie together many of Dr. Boas’ activities is studying functional brain recovery in survivors of stroke. Human neuroimaging by fMRI and fNIRS measures hemodynamic functional recovery but it is not known if neuro-vascular coupling differs in these patients compared to healthy subjects. Animal studies will answer this question enabling more quantitative interpretation of the human neuroimaging studies.

Director
Neurophotonics Center




Neurophotonic Advances for Mechanistic Investigation of the Role of Capillary Dysfunction in Stroke Recovery
09/27/2022 - 08/31/2027 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
1R01NS127156-01A1

Computational Miniature Mesoscope for Cortex-wide, Cellular resolution Ca2+ Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice
04/01/2022 - 03/31/2027 (Co-Investigator)
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
1R01NS126596-01

The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function
09/22/2020 - 05/31/2025 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering
5U01EB029856-03

Time-Gated Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy for functional imaging of the human brain
09/21/2019 - 06/30/2024 (Subcontract PI)
Massachusetts General Hospital NIH NIBIB
5U01EB028660-04

Multispectral and Hyperspectral Preclinical Imager Spanning the Visible, NIR-I and NIR-II
09/01/2021 - 08/31/2023 (PI)
NIH/Office of the Director
1S10OD030510-01

The impact of microvascular (dys)regulation on cerebral flow and oxygen heterogeneity
09/01/2018 - 05/31/2023 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
5R01NS108472-05

Imaging and Analysis Techniques to Construct a Cell Census Atlas of the Human Brain
08/22/2018 - 05/31/2023 (Subcontract PI)
Massachusetts General Hospital NIH NIMH
5U01MH117023-05

Establishing an fNIRS Ecosystem for Open Software-Hardware Dissemination
01/01/2018 - 12/31/2022 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
5R24NS104096-04

Comparing laser speckle contract and diffuse correlation spectroscopy measurements in human brain function
04/20/2021 - 12/13/2022 (PI)
Facebook Technologies, LLC


NRT UtB: Neurophotonics
09/01/2016 - 08/31/2022 (Multi-PI)
PI: David A. Boas, PhD
National Science Foundation
DGE-1633516

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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2022 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 5U01EB029856-03
2022 The impact of microvascular (dys)regulation on cerebral flow and oxygen heterogeneity 5R01NS108472-05
2022 Imaging and Analysis Techniques to Construct a Cell Census Atlas of the Human Brain 5U01MH117023-05
2021 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 5U01EB029856-02
2021 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 3U01EB029856-02S1
2021 The impact of microvascular (dys)regulation on cerebral flow and oxygen heterogeneity 5R01NS108472-04 4
2021 Imaging and Analysis Techniques to Construct a Cell Census Atlas of the Human Brain Admin Supplement 3U01MH117023-04S1 5
2021 Imaging and Analysis Techniques to Construct a Cell Census Atlas of the Human Brain 5U01MH117023-04 5
2021 Establishing an fNIRS Ecosystem for Open Software-Hardware Dissemination 5R24NS104096-04 1
2020 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 1U01EB029856-01
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  1. Li B, Yabluchanskiy A, Tarantini S, Allu SR, Sencan-Egilmez I, Leng J, Alfadhel MAH, Porter JE, Fu B, Ran C, Erdener SE, Boas DA, Vinogradov SA, Sonntag WE, Csiszar A, Ungvari Z, Sakadžic S. Measurements of cerebral microvascular blood flow, oxygenation, and morphology in a mouse model of whole-brain irradiation-induced cognitive impairment by two-photon microscopy and optical coherence tomography: evidence for microvascular injury in the cerebral white matter. Geroscience. 2023 Feb 16. PMID: 36792820
     
  2. Giblin JT, Park SW, Jiang J, Kiliç K, Kura S, Tang J, Boas DA, Chen IA. Measuring capillary flow dynamics using interlaced two-photon volumetric scanning. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2023 Apr; 43(4):595-609. PMID: 36495178
     
  3. Tucker S, Dubb J, Kura S, von Lühmann A, Franke R, Horschig JM, Powell S, Oostenveld R, Lührs M, Delaire É, Aghajan ZM, Yun H, Yücel MA, Fang Q, Huppert TJ, Frederick BB, Pollonini L, Boas D, Luke R. Introduction to the shared near infrared spectroscopy format. Neurophotonics. 2023 Jan; 10(1):013507. PMID: 36507152; PMCID: PMC9732807; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.10.1.013507;
     
  4. Yang J, Chang S, Chen IA, Kura S, Rosen GA, Saltiel NA, Huber BR, Varadarajan D, Balbastre Y, Magnain C, Chen SC, Fischl B, McKee AC, Boas DA, Wang H. Volumetric Characterization of Microvasculature in Ex Vivo Human Brain Samples By Serial Sectioning Optical Coherence Tomography. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2022 Dec; 69(12):3645-3656.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35560084
     
  5. Zilpelwar S, Sie EJ, Postnov D, Chen AI, Zimmermann B, Marsili F, Boas DA, Cheng X. Model of dynamic speckle evolution for evaluating laser speckle contrast measurements of tissue dynamics. Biomed Opt Express. 2022 Dec 01; 13(12):6533-6549. PMID: 36589566; PMCID: PMC9774840; DOI: 10.1364/BOE.472263;
     
  6. Mächler P, Fomin-Thunemann N, Thunemann M, Sætra MJ, Desjardins M, Kiliç K, Amra LN, Martin EA, Chen IA, Sencan-Egilmez I, Li B, Saisan P, Jiang JX, Cheng Q, Weldy KL, Boas DA, Buxton RB, Einevoll GT, Dale AM, Sakadžic S, Devor A. Baseline oxygen consumption decreases with cortical depth. PLoS Biol. 2022 Oct; 20(10):e3001440.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36301995; PMCID: PMC9642908; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001440;
     
  7. Ortega-Martinez A, Rogers D, Anderson J, Farzam P, Gao Y, Zimmermann B, Yücel MA, Boas DA. How much do time-domain functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) moments improve estimation of brain activity over traditional fNIRS? Neurophotonics. 2023 Jan; 10(1):013504. PMID: 36284602; PMCID: PMC9587749; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.10.1.013504;
     
  8. Ayaz H, Baker WB, Blaney G, Boas DA, Bortfeld H, Brady K, Brake J, Brigadoi S, Buckley EM, Carp SA, Cooper RJ, Cowdrick KR, Culver JP, Dan I, Dehghani H, Devor A, Durduran T, Eggebrecht AT, Emberson LL, Fang Q, Fantini S, Franceschini MA, Fischer JB, Gervain J, Hirsch J, Hong KS, Horstmeyer R, Kainerstorfer JM, Ko TS, Licht DJ, Liebert A, Luke R, Lynch JM, Mesquida J, Mesquita RC, Naseer N, Novi SL, Orihuela-Espina F, O'Sullivan TD, Peterka DS, Pifferi A, Pollonini L, Sassaroli A, Sato JR, Scholkmann F, Spinelli L, Srinivasan VJ, St Lawrence K, Tachtsidis I, Tong Y, Torricelli A, Urner T, Wabnitz H, Wolf M, Wolf U, Xu S, Yang C, Yodh AG, Yücel MA, Zhou W. Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report. Neurophotonics. 2022 Aug; 9(Suppl 2):S24001.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36052058; PMCID: PMC9424749; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.9.S2.S24001;
     
  9. Ortega-Martinez A, Von Lühmann A, Farzam P, Rogers D, Mugler EM, Boas DA, Yücel MA. Multivariate Kalman filter regression of confounding physiological signals for real-time classification of fNIRS data. Neurophotonics. 2022 Apr; 9(2):025003.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35692628; PMCID: PMC9174890; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.9.2.025003;
     
  10. Aykan SA, Xie H, Zheng Y, Chung DY, Kura S, Han Lai J, Erdogan TD, Morais A, Tamim I, Yagmur D, Ishikawa H, Arai K, Abbas Yaseen M, Boas DA, Sakadzic S, Ayata C. Rho-Kinase Inhibition Improves the Outcome of Focal Subcortical White Matter Lesions. Stroke. 2022 Jul; 53(7):2369-2376. PMID: 35656825; PMCID: PMC9245195; DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.037358;
     
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Bar chart showing 349 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 23 publications in 2009

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20048
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201815
201913
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