Caroline Magnain PhD

Dr. Magnain is an assistant professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School and an assistant in physics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Throughout her career, she has strived to apply optical imaging to various domains, from cultural heritage to biomedical science, and has developed experimental set-ups, optical simulations, and image analysis software.

In 2011, Dr. Magnain joined the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging as a postdoctoral fellow to initiate a collaboration between the Optics Division and the Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging. She was the first to apply optical coherence tomography and microscopy (OCT/OCM) to image the human brain postmortem to visualize its cellular and fiber organizations. Dr. Magnain is involved in improving the imaging system, automating the acquisition, and writing image processing software. She also dedicates significant time to comparing and validating OCT/OCM data with gold-standard methods used by collaborators, mostly doctors, neuroanatomists, and neuropathologists.