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Jan 16
Beacon Surgical Presents 3D Needle Tracking Device at London Institute for Healthcare Engineering
The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) #MedTech and #Accelerator Showcase became a defining moment for our research...


Oct 2, 2024
We are at IEEE IUS 2024 @Taipei
Glad to have attended the 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium ! Congratulations to Christian...


Sep 5, 2024
Announcement: the official publication of our book, 'Biomedical Photoacoustics', by Springer Nature!
I am thrilled to announce the official publication of our book, 'Biomedical Photoacoustics: Technology and Applications' , by Springer...

Aug 31, 2024
Congratulations to Mengjie Shi for successfully passing her PhD viva
Congratulations to Mengjie Shi for successfully passing her PhD viva with minor corrections! Over the last four years, Mengjie has...


Jun 28, 2024
PURL members attended the 1st International Workshop on Photoacoustic Phantoms
PURL members Feng HE, Tieming Liu & Dr Wenfeng Xia attended the 1st International Workshop on Photoacoustic Phantom, which took place...


Jun 5, 2024
A new sound-speed correction algorithm using transfer learning has been released
I am glad to share our recent work on sound speed reconstruction from #ultrasound raw data using #transferlearning in a dual-modal...


Feb 18, 2024
Mengjie Shi delivered two fantastic presentations at the @SPIE Photonics West!
Congratulations to Mengjie Shi for delivering two fantastic presentations at the @SPIE Photonics West! She demonstrated how deep...

Dec 1, 2023
€10m ERC Synergy grant win to develop revolutionary cancer treatment robot
Professor Sebastien Ourselin, Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, is part of a research group that has been...


Sep 8, 2023
08/09/2023 Mengjie Shi presented her work on learning-based sound-speed correction for dual-modal photoacoustic/ultrasound imaging at the 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
08/09/23 Mengjie Shi focusing presented her work on learning-based sound-speed correction for dual-modal photoacoustic/ultrasound imaging...


Aug 30, 2023
30/08/2023 Dr Tianrui Zhao has been awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship
30/08/23 Dr Tianrui Zhao has been awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship for his research into new...


Aug 11, 2023
11/08/2023 Dr Tianrui Zhao presented his work at the SPIE Opto-Acoustic Methods and Applications in Biophotonics VI event, part of European Conferences on Biomedical Optics.
11/08/23 Dr Tianrui Zhao presented his work "All-optical multimode fibre photoacoustic endomicroscopy with scalable spatial resolution...


Jul 27, 2023
27/07/2023 Dr Tianrui Zhao and Dr Wenfeng Xia have submitted a patent application for their work on spatial light modulation for endoscopy
Dr Tianrui Zhao and Dr Wenfeng Xia have submitted a patent application for their work on spatial light modulation for endoscopy (Wenfeng...


Jan 31, 2023
31/01/2023 Christian and Mengjie attended SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco.
31/01/23 Christian and Mengjie attended SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco . Christian presented an invited paper on his needle...

Jan 6, 2023
06/01/2023 A new collaborative project "Next-generation 3D ultrasonic needle tracking" with BICI has officially started.
06/01/23 A new collaborative project "Next-generation 3D ultrasonic needle tracking" with BICI has officially started. The project will...


Dec 9, 2022
09/12/2022 Tianrui has had a paper describing his work in photoacoustic microscopy published in Applied Sciences.
09/12/22 Tianrui has had a paper describing his work in photoacoustic microscopy published in Applied Sciences .


Nov 22, 2022
22/11/2022 Christian has had a paper describing his work in automated ultrasound needle tracking published in Sensors.
22/11/22 Christian has had a paper describing his work in automated ultrasound needle tracking published in Sensors .


Nov 14, 2022
14/11/2022 Mengjie has had a paper describing her method for denoising photoacousic images published in Biomedical Optics Express.
14/11/22 Mengjie has had a paper describing her method for denoising photoacousic images published in Biomedical Optics Express .


Sep 12, 2022
12/09/2022 Christian, Mengjie and Tianrui presented three oral papers at IOP Optics + Ultrasound V.
12/09/22 Christian, Mengjie and Tianrui presented three oral papers at IOP Optics + Ultrasound V.


Sep 9, 2022
09/09/2022 Christian and Mengjie presented two oral papers at BioMedEng22.
09/09/22 Christian and Mengjie presented two oral papers at BioMedEng22.


Aug 25, 2022
25/08/2022 Mengjie has had a paper describing her work in photoacoustic visualisation of clinical needles published in Sensors.
25/08/22 Mengjie has had a paper describing her work in photoacoustic visualisation of clinical needles published in Sensors .
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