NIRScout 
NIRScout Xtended 
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Randall L. Barbour, Ph. D.: Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Barbour is the originator of the field of diffuse optical tomography and co-founder of the company. He has an extensive background in a broad range of medical and scientific and technical fields.
His formal biomedical training includes a Ph. D. degree in biochemistry from Syracuse University and a post-doctoral fellowship in Laboratory Medicine from SUNY Buffalo. Dr. Barbour is currently Professor of Pathology at SUNY Downstate, and Research Professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic University. Dr. Barbour is also active in a number of professional societies and related organizations.
Dr. Barbour has an extensive research and publication record. He has been awarded more than $7 million dollars in peer reviewed grants from NIH and other government agencies, and he has published more than 150 peer review and conference papers; he is co-editor on three books; and he holds four patents. His publications cover a broad range of subject matter.
Christoph H. Schmitz, Ph. D.: Director, NIRx Medizintechnik GmbH
Dr. Schmitz has a strong background in physics with wide expertise in laser optics, medical physics, data acquisition, and the design of analog and digital electronics.
In 1998 he received his Ph. D. degree in Physics from the University of Hannover, Germany, where he worked on non-invasive in vivo evaluation of tissue optical properties.
In 1999, Dr. Schmitz joined the Optical Tomography Group at SUNY Downstate as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Barbour and subsequently joined NIRx where he has played a key role in the development of the DYNOT system.
Dr. Schmitz has published more than 20 peer review and conference papers. He has received two grants as Principal Investigator; a Phase I NIH SBIR grant from the National Cancer Institute and a two-year grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the early detection of breast cancer.
Harry L. Graber Ph.D.: Senior Applications Specialist
Dr. Graber received his A.B. in Chemistry from Washington University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1998.
Dr. Graber has carried out research in many areas of diffuse optical tomography during the past 15 years.
More recently Dr. Graber has worked in the area of biological signal analysis, with particular attention on signal decomposition and nonlinear time series analysis.
Dr. Graber has published sixteen peer review papers and is a co-inventor on four patents. He has been awarded a Phase I SBIR grant from NINDS as Principal Investigator and serves as Research Assistant Professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Yong Xu, Ph.D.: Assistant Director of Software Development
Dr. Xu obtained his M.S. Degree in Physics from Chengdu University of Science and Technology and in 1995 received his Ph.D. Degree in Physics from the Southwest Jiaotong University.
Dr. Xu is experienced in the use of mathematical and experimental techniques for acquiring and analyzing optical tomographic data. He is the primary author of 14 peer review and conference papers.
Dr Xu has been published in the foremost international journals dealing with optical tomography, including the Journal of Biomedical Optics and Applied Optics.
He is also Research Assistant Professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Thomas Betz: Production, Applications Development and Customer Support Specialist
Thomas Betz graduated from the University of Applied Science Koblenz, Germany in 2006 with a degree (Dipl.-Ing. (FH)) in Laser Technology. His graduate work included biomedical imaging, fluorescence molecular tomography, and ps-laser pulse detection.
He has multiple years of industry experience in high-power and precision laser technology, and has a strong background in laser optics, medical physics and data acquisition.
Thomas Betz is responsible for production, applications development and customer support.
Arne Ewald: Staff Researcher and Software Developer
Arne Ewald received his Bachelor of Science in General Engineering Science in 2008 and his Diploma in Computer Science and Engineering in 2009 from the Hamburg University of Technology in Germany.
Since then he has worked in the field of neurophysiological data analysis and software engineering in the Berlin Brain Computer Interfacing (BBCI) group and at the Fraunhofer Institute FIRST. Currently, Arne Ewald is pursuing his PhD degree in computational neuroscience on novel and improved methods for brain connectivity in single (NIRS, EEG, MEG) and multimodal (NIRS and EEG, EEG and MEG, NIRS and fMRI) measurement environments.
Arne Ewald is employed as Staff Researcher and Software Developer at NIRx Medizintechnik GmbH, Berlin.