Eman Namati, Ph.D.

Medical device executive driven to advance human health through the development of transformative medical technologies.

  • Email : eman@namati.com
  • Company : SpectraWAVE, Inc.
  • Address : 12 Oak Park Drive, Bedford, MA 01730





Publications

International Journal Articles (in chronological order).

[1] Namati, E., Chon, D., Thiesse, J., Hoffman, E. A., de Ryk, J., Ross, A., and McLennan, G., "In vivo micro-CT lung imaging via a computer-controlled intermittent iso-pressure breath hold (IIBH) technique," Physics in medicine and biology, vol. 51, pp. 6061-75, Dec 7 2006.
[2] McLennan, G., Namati, E., Ganatra, J., Suter, M., O'Brien, E. E., Lecamwasam, K., Van Beek, E. J. R., and Hoffman, E., "Virtual Bronchoscopy," MRI, vol. 11, pp. 10-20, 04/2008 2007.
[3] de Ryk, J., Thiesse, J., Namati, E., and McLennan, G., "Stress distribution in a three dimensional, geometric alveolar sac under normal and emphysematous conditions," Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis, vol. 2, pp. 81-91, 06/2007 2007.
[4] Baker, K. M., Namati, E., Hoffman, E., Van Beek, E. J. R., Ross, A., and McLennan, G., "Virtual bronchoscopy: new applications for MDCT in pulmonology," Advances in MDCT, vol. 3, pp. 10-18, 11/2007 2007.
[5] de Ryk, J., Thiesse, J., Namati, E., and McLennan, G., "Stress distribution in a three dimensional, geometric alveolar sac under normal and emphysematous conditions," International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, vol. 2, pp. 81-91, 2007.
[6] Namati, E., De Ryk, J., Thiesse, J., Towfic, Z., Hoffman, E., and McLennan, G., "Large image microscope array for the compilation of multimodality whole organ image databases," Anatomical record, vol. 290, pp. 1377-87, Nov 2007.
[7] Namati, E., Thiesse, J., de Ryk, J., and McLennan, G., "In vivo assessment of alveolar morphology using a flexible catheter-based confocal microscope," IET Computer Vision, vol. 2, pp. 228-235, 12/2008 2008.
[8] de Ryk, J., Namati, E., Weydert, J., Thiesse, J., and McLennan, G., "New imaging approaches for understanding lung cancer response to treatment," Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, vol. 84, pp. 517-22, Oct 2008.
[9] Rogers, C. S., Abraham, W. M., Brogden, K. A., Engelhardt, J. F., Fisher, J. T., McCray, P. B., Jr., McLennan, G., Meyerholz, D. K., Namati, E., Ostedgaard, L. S., Prather, R. S., Sabater, J. R., Stoltz, D. A., Zabner, J., and Welsh, M. J., "The porcine lung as a potential model for cystic fibrosis," American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology, vol. 295, pp. L240-63, Aug 2008.
[10] Namati, E., Thiesse, J., de Ryk, J., and McLennan, G., "Alveolar dynamics during respiration: are the pores of Kohn a pathway to recruitment?," American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology, vol. 38, pp. 572-8, May 2008.
[11] Namati, E., Thiesse, J., Sieren, J. C., Ross, A., Hoffman, E. A., and McLennan, G., "Longitudinal assessment of lung cancer progression in the mouse using in vivo micro-CT imaging," Medical physics, vol. 37, pp. 4793-805, Sep 2010.
[12] Thiesse, J., Namati, E., Sieren, J. C., Smith, A. R., Reinhardt, J. M., Hoffman, E. A., and McLennan, G., "Lung structure phenotype variation in inbred mouse strains revealed through in vivo micro-CT imaging," Journal of applied physiology, vol. 109, pp. 1960-8, Dec 2010.
[13] Meyerholz, D. K., Stoltz, D. A., Namati, E., Ramachandran, S., Pezzulo, A. A., Smith, A. R., Rector, M. V., Suter, M. J., Kao, S., McLennan, G., Tearney, G. J., Zabner, J., McCray, P. B., Jr., and Welsh, M. J., "Loss of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator function produces abnormalities in tracheal development in neonatal pigs and young children," American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, vol. 182, pp. 1251-61, Nov 15 2010.
[14] Sieren, J. C., Weydert, J., Bell, A., De Young, B., Smith, A. R., Thiesse, J., Namati, E., and McLennan, G., "An automated segmentation approach for highlighting the histological complexity of human lung cancer," Annals of biomedical engineering, vol. 38, pp. 3581-91, Dec 2010.
[15] Sieren, J. C., Weydert, J., Namati, E., Thiesse, J., Sieren, J. P., Reinhardt, J. M., Hoffman, E. A., and McLennan, G., "A process model for direct correlation between computed tomography and histopathology application in lung cancer," Academic radiology, vol. 17, pp. 169-80, Feb 2010.
[16] Yoo, H., Kim, J. W., Shishkov, M., Namati, E., Morse, T., Shubochkin, R., McCarthy, J. R., Ntziachristos, V., Bouma, B. E., Jaffer, F. A., and Tearney, G. J., "Intra-arterial catheter for simultaneous microstructural and molecular imaging in vivo," Nature medicine, vol. 17, pp. 1680-4, Dec 2011.
[17] Sieren, J. C., Smith, A. R., Thiesse, J., Namati, E., Hoffman, E. A., Kline, J. N., and McLennan, G., "Exploration of the volumetric composition of human lung cancer nodules in correlated histopathology and computed tomography," Lung cancer, vol. 74, pp. 61-8, Oct 2011.
[18] Unglert, C. I., Warger, W. C., Hostens, J., Namati, E., Birngruber, R., Bouma, B. E., and Tearney, G. J., "Validation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional measurements of subpleural alveolar size parameters by optical coherence tomography," Journal of biomedical optics, vol. 17, p. 126015, Dec 2012.
[19] Unglert, C. I., Namati, E., Warger, W. C., 2nd, Liu, L., Yoo, H., Kang, D., Bouma, B. E., and Tearney, G. J., "Evaluation of optical reflectance techniques for imaging of alveolar structure," Journal of biomedical optics, vol. 17, p. 071303, Jul 2012.
[20] Namati, E., Warger, W. C., 2nd, Unglert, C. I., Eckert, J. E., Hostens, J., Bouma, B. E., and Tearney, G. J., "Four-dimensional visualization of subpleural alveolar dynamics in vivo during uninterrupted mechanical ventilation of living swine," Biomedical optics express, vol. 4, pp. 2492-506, 2013.
[21] Conti de Freitas, L. C., Phelan, E., Liu, L., Gardecki, J., Namati, E., Warger, W. C., Tearney, G. J., and Randolph, G. W., "Optical coherence tomography imaging during thyroid and parathyroid surgery: A novel system of tissue identification and differentiation to obviate tissue resection and frozen section," Head & neck, Aug 16 2013.
[22] Hoegger, M. J., Awadalla, M., Namati, E., Itani, O. A., Fischer, A. J., Tucker, A. J., Adam, R. J., McLennan, G., Hoffman, E. A., Stoltz, D. A., and Welsh, M. J., "Assessing mucociliary transport of single particles in vivo shows variable speed and preference for the ventral trachea in newborn pigs," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111, pp. 2355-60, Feb 11 2014.

 

International Conference Proceedings (in chronological order).

[1] Namati E, de Ryk J, McLennan G, Hoffman E, and Piker C, A Novel Whole-organ Serial Sectioning and Image Acquisition System. Proceedings of the 2003 World Congress on Biomdeical Engineering Proceedings; 2003 08/10/2003; Sydney, Australia
[2] de Ryk J, Namati E, Reinhardt JM, Piker C, Xu Y, Liu L, Hoffman EA, and McLennan G, A whole organ serial sectioning and imaging system for correlation of pathology to computer tomography. Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XI; 2004 of Conference 01/20/2004; San Jose, CA, USA, SPIE; 2004 Published. p. 224-234.
[3] Namati E and Li J, A Novel Shape Descriptor Based on Empty Morphological Skeleton Subsets. In: D. P. K. Lun, editors. 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing; 2004 of Conference 10/22/2004; Hong Kong, IEEE; 2004 Published. p.
[4] Thiesse JR, Namati E, de Ryk J, Hoffman EA, and McLennan G, Bright field segmentation tomography (BFST) for use as surface identification in stereomicroscopy. Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XI; 2004 of Conference 01/20/2004; San Jose, CA, USA, SPIE; 2004 Published. p. 216-223.
[5] de Ryk J, Thiesse JR, Namati E, Reinhardt J, Hoffman E, and McLennan G, A novel microscopy system for Assessing the Accuracy of CT in soft tissue diagnostic imaging. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2005 05/25/2005; San Diego, CA
[6] Thiesse J, Reinhardt JM, de Ryk J, Namati E, Leinen J, Recheis WA, Hoffman EA, and McLennan G, Three-dimensional visual truth of the normal airway tree for use as a quantitative comparison to micro-CT reconstructions. Medical Imaging 2005: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images; 2005 of Conference 02/14/2005; San Diego, CA, USA, SPIE; 2005 Published. p. 50-57.
[7] Thiesse JR, de Ryk J, Bond S, Vislisel J, Hoffman E, Namati E, Reinhardt J, and McLennan G, Assessment of mouse lung fixation pressures using computed tomography. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2005 05/25/2005; San Diego, CA
[8] Chon D, Namati E, Fuld MK, Sieren J, McLennan G, and Hoffman EA, In Vivo Assessment of Regional Lung Function in Mice Via Micro CT. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2006 05/24/2006; San Diego, CA
[9] Namati E, Chon D, Thiesse J, Hoffman EA, Ross A, and McLennan G, In vivo micro-CT imaging of mice lungs using a novel breath hold technique. Proceedings of the Society for Molecular Imaging; 2006 09/02/2006; Hawaii, Big Island
[10] Namati E, Chon D, Thiesse J, McLennan G, Sieren J, Ross A, and Hoffman EA, In vivo micro-CT imaging of the murine lung via a computer controlled intermittent iso-pressure breath hold (IIBH) technique. Medical Imaging 2006: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images; 2006 of Conference 02/14/2006; San Diego, CA, USA, SPIE; 2006 Published. p. 614305-6.
[11] Namati E, Chon D, Thiesse J, Ross A, McLennan G, and Hoffman EA, Comparison of Four Micro-CT Gating Techniques for Physiologic and Anatomical Analysis of Mouse Lungs In-Vivo. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2006 05/23/2006; San Diego, CA
[12] Thiesse J, Namati E, de Ryk J, Hoffman E, Reinhardt J, and McLennan G, Three Dimensional Anatomical Description of the Normal Airway Tree in Three Strains of Mice. Proceedings of the Society for Molecular Imaging; 2006 09/02/2006; Hawaii, Big Island
[13] de Ryk J, Raghavan M, Reinhardt J, Thiesse J, Namati E, and McLennan G, A Finite Element Model of the Human Alveolar Sac to Investigate Normal and Emphysematous States. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Soceity; 2007 05/21/2007; San Francisco, CA
[14] de Ryk J, Weydert J, Thiesse J, Namati E, Reinhardt J, Lynch W, and McLennan G, Lung Adenocarcinoma: 3D Tissue Content and Distribution. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2007 05/20/2007; San Francisco, CA
[15] de Ryk J, Weydert J, Christensen G, Thiesse J, Namati E, Reinhardt J, Hoffman E, and McLennan G, Three-dimensional histopathology of lung cancer with multimodality image registration. Medical Imaging 2007: Image Processing; 2007 of Conference 02/14/2007; San Diego, CA, USA, SPIE; 2007 Published. p. 65122F-8.
[16] Namati E, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, and McLennan G, In vivo imaging of alveoli. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2007 05/21/2007; San Francisco, CA
[17] Namati E, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, and McLennan G, Imaging of Fresh Intact Mice Lungs during Respiration. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2007 05/21/2007; San Francisco, CA
[18] Namati E, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, and McLennan G, Dynamic in vivo Alveolar Morphology Using a Novel Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope. 9th Biennial Conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2007); 2007 of Conference 05/12/2007; Adelaide, Australia, IEEE; 2007 Published. p. 99-105.
[19] O'Brien EE, Reinhardt J, Towfic Z, Namati E, Ferguson JS, and McLennan G, Quantitative Color and Texture Analysis of Human Airways. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2007 05/22/2007; San Francisco, CA
[20] Thiesse J, Namati E, de Ryk J, Reinhardt J, Hoffman E, and McLennan G, 3D Anatomy of the Normal Airway Tree in Three Strains of Mice Using Micro-CT and Pathology Techniques. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2007 05/21/2007; San Francisco, CA
[21] de Ryk J, Namati E, Thiesse J, Reinhardt J, Hoffman E, and McLennan G, Establishment of a Process Model for the Collection of Multi-Modality Data Relating to Human Lung Cancer Nodules. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2008 05/19/2008; Toronto, Canada
[22] de Ryk J, Thiesse J, Namati E, Weydert J, Reinhardt J, Hoffman E, and McLennan G, Automated Classification of Lung Cancer Histopathology with 3D Correlation to Density Representation in CT. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2008 05/20/2008; Toronto, Canada
[23] de Ryk J, Weydert J, Thiesse J, Namati E, Reinhardt J, Hoffman E, and McLennan G, Lung Cancer: An Evaluation of Volumetric Histopathological Content and Correlation to Computed Tomography. Proceedings of the Future of Quantitative and Functional Lung Imaging; 2008 09/03/2008; Coralville, USA
[24] Namati E, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, and McLennan G, In vivo and ex vivo imaging of alveolar structure and function using a custom fiber optic laser scanning confocal microscope. Medical Imaging 2008: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images; 2008 of Conference 02/20/2008; San Diego, CA, USA, SPIE; 2008 Published. p.
[25] Namati E, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, and McLennan G, In Vivo Catheter-Based Histopathology of Lung Cancer in Mice. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2008 05/20/2008; Toronto, Canada
[26] Namati E, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, and McLennan G, Longitudinal Multi-Modality Three-Dimensional Imaging of Lung Cancer in Mice. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2008 05/19/2008; Toronto, Canada
[27] Namati E, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, Stessman A, and McLennan G, Longitudinal Assessment of Lung Cancer in Mice. Proceedings of the Future of Quantitative and Functional Lung Imaging; 2008 09/03/2008; Coralville, USA
[28] Thiesse J, Namati E, de Ryk J, Reinhardt J, Hoffman E, Shi L, and McLennan G, Phenotype Characterization of the Normal Lung in Three Strains of Mice Using Micro-CT and 3D Microscopy Techniques. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2008 05/20/2008; Toronto, Canada
[29] Thiesse J, Namati E, Smith AR, de Ryk J, Reinhardt J, Hoffman E, and McLennan G, Micro-Computed Tomography and the Microscope: Phenotyping Differences in the Lungs of Inbred Mouse Strains. Proceedings of the Future of Quantitative and Functional Lung Imaging; 2008 09/03/2008; Coralville, USA
[30] Namati E, Smith AR, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, and McLennan G, In vivo microscopic assessment of lung cancer in mice using a high speed catheter based confocal microscopy system. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2009 05/17/2009; San Diego, CA
[31] Namati E, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, and McLennan G, In vivo Imaging of Alveoli using a High Speed Catheter Based Confocal Microscope. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2009 05/17/2009; San Diego, CA
[32] Namati E, Thiesse J, de Ryk J, and McLennan G, Catheter-Based Confocal Microscopy for Assessment of Lung Cancer in Mice. Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West; 2009 01/24/2009; San Jose, CA
[33] Sieren JC, Weydert J, Thiesse J, Namati E, Reinhardt J, Hoffman E, and McLennan G, Radiological and histopathological heterogeneity in human lung cancer nodules are related. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2009 05/19/2009; San Diego, CA
[34] Stessman A, Namati E, Thiesse J, Fisher J, Sieren JC, Engelhardt JF, and McLennan G, Phenotyping the Normal Lung in the Domestic Ferret using High Resolution Computer Tomography. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2009 05/18/2009; San Diego, CA
[35] Thiesse J, Namati E, Smith AR, Sieren JC, Reinhardt JM, Hoffman EA, and McLennan G, Discerning the Anatomical Structures of the Lung in Inbred Mouse Strains Using micro-CT and Microscopy Techniques. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society; 2009 05/18/2009; San Diego, CA
[36] Amendola R, Hummel J, Journot B, Namati E, Buckwalter J, and Martin J, A Novel Device to Arthroscopically Image Chondrocytes. Proceedings of the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting; 2010 01/13/2010; New Orleans, LO
[37] Namati E, Unglert C, Bouma B, and Tearney GJ, High-speed three-dimensional imaging of alveoli in an isolated swine lung. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Soceity; 2010 05/17/2010; New Orleans, LO, Am J Respir Crit Care Med;
[38] Namati E, Unglert C, Bouma B, and Tearney GJ, High-speed three-dimensional imaging of the pulmonary alveoli. Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West; 2010 01/23/2010; San Francisco, CA, SPIE;
[39] Namati E, Unglert C, Bouma B, and Tearney GJ, Three-dimensional imaging of the pulmonary alveoli. Proceedings of the Gordon Research Conference Lasers in Medicine; 2010 07/25/2010; New Hampshire
[40] Unglert C, Namati E, Bouma B, and Tearney GJ, Variation of the focusing parameters for three-dimensional optical frequency domain imaging of the peripheral lung. Proceedings of the European Respiratory Society; 2010 09/21/2010;
[41] Unglert C, Namati E, Yoo H, Liu L, Bouma B, and Tearney GJ, Reflectance Microscopy Techniques for 3-Dimensional Imaging of the Alveolar Structure. Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West; 2010 01/23/2010; San Francisco, CA, SPIE;
[42] Unglert C, Namati E, Yoo H, Liu L, Kang D, Bouma B, and Tearney GJ, High Resolution Reflectance Microscopy Techniques for 3-Dimensional Imaging of the Alveolar Structure. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Soceity; 2010 05/19/2010; New Orleans, LO, Am J Respir Crit Care Med;
[43] Yoo H, Shishkov M, Namati E, Bouma B, Jaffer F, and Tearney GJ, An intra-arterial catheter for simultaneous optical frequency domain imaging and near-IR fluorescence imaging. Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West; 2010 San Francisco
[44] Mingtao Z, Tanaka A, Oh W, Vakoc B, Namati E, van Soest G, Regar E, Tearney GJ, and Bouma B, Intracoronary assessment of plaque birefringence with polarization- sensitive optical frequency domain imaging. Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West; 2011 San Francisco
[45] Namati E, Unglert C, Bouma B, and Tearney GJ, Four-dimensional peripheral lung dynamics assessed through catheter-based optical frequency domain imaging. Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West; 2011 San Francisco
[46] Unglert C, Namati E, Bouma B, and Tearney GJ, Optimization of the focal parameters for three-dimensional optical frequency domain imaging of air-filled alveoli. Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West; 2011 San Francisco
[47] Warger WI, Gardecki J, Namati E, Suter MJ, Bouma B, Velmahos G, and Tearney GJ, Needle-Probe Techniques for Trachea Identification. Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West; 2011 San Francisco
[48] Yoo H, Kim J, Shishkov M, Namati E, Morse T, Shubochkin R, McCarthy J, Bouma B, Jaffer F, and Tearney GJ, Dual-modality catheter for optical frequency domain imaging and near- infrared fluorescence imaging. Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West; 2011 San Francisco