David Miller

Research Scientist

David studied biomedical engineering at Purdue University (BS '18) where he developed an interest in optical microscopy as an undergraduate research assistant in the Huang Group. After graduating, David joined the Functional Optical Imaging Lab (FOIL) at Northwestern University as a biomedical engineering graduate student (MS '20, PhD '23). At Northwestern, David focused on the development of visible-light optical coherence tomography (vis-OCT), and developed a novel extension of vis-OCT called vis-OCT fibergraphy, which enables in vivo visualization and quantification of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axon bundles in the retina. In addition, David introduced techniques for improving noise suppression in OCT images. David joined the BIOS lab at Duke in 2023, where he focuses on research for low-cost OCT and spectroscopic OCT techniques.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Research Scientist

Contact Information

  • Email Address: david.a.miller@duke.edu

Representative Publications

  • Miller, David A., Marta Grannonico, Mingna Liu, Elise Savier, Kara McHaney, Alev Erisir, Peter A. Netland, Jianhua Cang, Xiaorong Liu, and Hao F. Zhang. “Visible-Light Optical Coherence Tomography Fibergraphy of the Tree Shrew Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Bundles.” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 43, no. 8 (August 2024): 2769–77. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmi.2024.3380530.
  • Gupta, Deven K., Robert Highland, David A. Miller, and Adam Wax. “Utilizing quantitative phase microscopy to localize fluorescence in three dimensions via the transport of intensity equation.” Optics Letters 49, no. 15 (August 2024): 4457–60. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.532991.
  • Zhang, Haoran, Evan T. Jelly, David A. Miller, and Adam Wax. “Recovery of angular scattering profiles through a flexible multimode fiber.” Optics Express 32, no. 12 (June 2024): 21092–101. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.522905.
  • Miller, David A., Roman Kuranov, and Hao F. Zhang. “Adaptive balanced detection spectral domain optical coherence tomography.” Biomedical Optics Express 14, no. 10 (October 2023): 5208–22. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.495622.
  • Chang, Shichu, Wenjin Xu, Weijia Fan, John A. McDaniel, Marta Grannonico, David A. Miller, Mingna Liu, Hao F. Zhang, and Xiaorong Liu. “Alignment of Visible-Light Optical Coherence Tomography Fibergrams with Confocal Images of the Same Mouse Retina.” Journal of Visualized Experiments : JoVE, no. 196 (June 2023). https://doi.org/10.3791/65237.