The Catholic University of America

Jessica Ramella-Roman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
202-319-6247 phone
202-319-4287 fax
ramella@cua.edu
 

Education
Laurea, Electrical Engineering, Universita di Pavia, Italy, 1993 
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, 2004
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, 2004

Biography
Jessica Ramella-Roman’s research is in the field of Biomedical Optics, the study of light interacting with biological media. Her main interests are polarized light imaging and modeling, spectroscopic diagnostic of skin lesions and Port-wine stains and optical fiber instrumentation. 
 
Representative Publications
J.C. Ramella-Roman, K. Lee, S.A. Prahl, S.L. Jacques. “Design, testing and clinical studies of a hand-held polarized light camera,” J. of Biomedical Optics 9:5, 2004.
 
J.C. Ramella-Roman, P.R. Bargo, S.A. Prahl, and S.L. Jacques. “Evaluation of spherical particle sizes with an asymmetric illumination microscope,” IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 9:2, pp. 301–307. 2003.
 
S.L. Jacques, J.C. Ramella-Roman, K. Lee. “Imaging skin pathology with polarized light,” J. of Biomedical Optics, 7:3, pp. 329–340. 2002.
 
S. L. Jacques, J.C. Ramella-Roman, K. Lee. “Imaging Superficial Tissues with Polarized Light.” Lasers Surg. Med. 26, pp. 119–129. 2000.
 
Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Don Duncan, Thomas A. Germer. “Out-of-plane polarimetric imaging of skin: Surface and subsurface effects” Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5686, 2005.
 
S.L. Jacques, S. L. and J.C. Ramella-Roman, “Polarized light imaging of tissue.” In Laser and current optical techniques in biology, Comprehensive series in Photo-Sciences Vol. 5Giuseppe Palumbo and Riccardo Pratesi Editors, ESP book series, 2004.