MRes Bioengineering research project (new)
Title of the project:
Ultrafast contrast enhanced ultrasound imaging of cancer perfusion with microbubbles
Supervisor 1: Dr. Mengxing Tang
Department: Bioengineering
Imperial College campus: SK
email: mengxing.tang@ic.ac.uk
Supervisor 2: (if applicable)
Department:
Imperial College campus:
email:
Project Description: (up to 200 words)
Ultrasound imaging is one of the most frequently used clinical imaging modalities and is the first line
imaging technique for a wide range of diseases. Comparing with other existing clinical imaging
modalities ultrasound imaging is non-ionizing, affordable and accessible, and works in real time.
A recent advance in medical ultrasound is the development of ultrafast ultrasound imaging systems.
The technique offers super high frame rates (thousands of frames per second) and has potential to
revolutionise the field of both clinical and pre-clinical ultrasound. The potential application of the
ultrafast ultrasound in cancer imaging offers exciting new opportunities in generating high quality
images, given the large amount of data available.
This project will explore these opportunities opened up by applying ultrafast ultrasound to cancer
imaging and address the challenges in the large methodology gap between ultrafast platforms
available and the cancer applications.
Key techniques: (please include only the names of techniques, not a description)
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Ultrasound pulse-echo imaging and signal processing
Contrast enhanced ultrasound
Design of experiments, data acquisition and data analysis
References: (up to 3 references related to the project)
Tanter, M.; Fink, M., "Ultrafast imaging in biomedical ultrasound," Ultrasonics,
Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, IEEE Transactions on , vol.61, no.1, pp.102,119,
January 2014