Exploring diagnosing brain disease with quantum entanglement (Conference Presentation)

Enrique J. Galvez; Faith Williams; Baibhav Sharma; Aayam Bista; Behzad Khajavi; Jhonny Castrillon; Lingyan Shi; Sandra Mamani; Lin Zhang; Laura A. Sordillo; Robert R. Alfano

doi:10.1117/12.2545447

9 March 2020 Exploring diagnosing brain disease with quantum entanglement (Conference Presentation)

Enrique J. Galvez, Faith Williams, Baibhav Sharma, Aayam Bista, Behzad Khajavi, Jhonny Castrillon, Lingyan Shi, Sandra Mamani, Lin Zhang, Laura A. Sordillo, Robert R. Alfano

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Proceedings Volume 11234, Optical Biopsy XVIII: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis; 112340J (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2545447
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We present a study of a potential technique to diagnose brain disease using quantum-entangled twin photons. Our method consists of preparing polarization-entangled photon pairs and sending one member of each pair through brain tissue that is either healthy or suffering brain disease, such as Alzheimers, glioblastoma or other. The tissue imparts a decohering effect on the state of the light that we examine via quantum state tomography. Our preliminary experimental data shows a difference in the entanglement measures between healthy tissue and tissue bearing Alzheimers disease. We also explore an imaging technique of brain tissue based on quantum entanglement.

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Enrique J. Galvez, Faith Williams, Baibhav Sharma, Aayam Bista, Behzad Khajavi, Jhonny Castrillon, Lingyan Shi, Sandra Mamani, Lin Zhang, Laura A. Sordillo, and Robert R. Alfano "Exploring diagnosing brain disease with quantum entanglement (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11234, Optical Biopsy XVIII: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 112340J (9 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2545447

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