Education
Ph.D., Duke University, 2001
B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1996
Biography

Professor Jason Zara has worked for 18 years in the development of novel imaging instrumentation and software to approach the detection and evaluation of epithelial cancers, epilepsy, and other human diseases. In 2006, Professor Zara received the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Translational Research Award for his work in microfabricated OCT scanners. He holds seven U.S. patents and previously founded two start-up companies, including a GW spin-off, Lumacoustic Systems, LLC.

Publications
  • Mills P, Zara J, “3D Simulation of an Audible Ultrasonic Electrolarynx Using Difference Waves.” PLOS ONE, 9(11) e113339, 2014.
  • Li J, Liu X, Zhou J, Gullapalli RP, Zara JM, “An Automatic Rat Brain Extraction Based on a Deformable Surface Model.” Neuroscience Methods 218, 72-82, 2013.
  • Ejofodomi OA, Zderic V, Zara JM, “Development of novel imaging probe for optical/acoustic radiation imaging (OARI).” Medical Physics, 40(11), 1119190-1-111, 2013.
  • Oweis KJ, Berl MM, Duke E, Blackstone K, Loew MH, Gaillard WD, Zara JM, “The Forward Scanning-Contagious Voxel Algorithm: 3D Connected Components Algorithm.” Dirasat, Engineering Sciences, Volume 39, No. 1, 2013.
  • Ejofodomi OA, Zderic V, Zara JM, “Optical/Acoustic Radiation Imaging in Tissue-Mimicking Bladder Wall Phantoms.” Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 524-527, 2011.
  • Li J, Liu X, Zhuo J, Gullapalli RP, Zara JM, “A Deformable Surface Model Based Automatic Rat Brain Extraction Method.” Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 1741-1745, 2011.
  • Ejofodomi O, Zderic V, Zara JM, “Soft Tissue Phantoms for Acoustic, Optical, and Elasticity Imaging.” Medical Physics, 37 (4): 1440-1448, 2010.