Research
Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy
The research activities of the Photoacoustic (PA) Imaging and Spectroscopy Group are focussed on the development of the instrumentation, methodologies, and genetic reporters for molecular an functional imaging through an interdisciplinary research programme that is conducted in collaboration with groups at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and other institutions involving physicists, engineers, life scientists and clinicians.
PA image of a melanin expressing tumour and the surrounding normal vasculature.
Current research projects
- Development of electro-optically tuneable Fabry-Pérot polymer film ultrasound sensors
- Development of computational and experimental methods for the quantitative PA tomography of blood oxygenation
- PA imaging of fluoroescent dyes and contrast agents using pump-probe excitation
- Development of optically controlled genetic reporters for PA imaging
- PA microscopy of vascularisation
- Pre-clinical applications