The Backman Research Group is located in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern University . Our research areas are:

• Optical imaging, Minimally invasive optical diagnosis and imaging of early cancer.
• Coherent backscattering spectroscopy for tissue diagnosis.
• Fractal organization of cells and tissues.
• Analysis of nano- and micro-architecture of living tissues using light scattering spectroscopy.
• Light scattering and propagation in random/turbid media.