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Lihong Wang

Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering; Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair; Executive Officer for Medical Engineering
B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1984; M.S., 1987; Ph.D., Rice University, 1992. Visiting Associate, Caltech, 2016; Bren Professor, 2017-; Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair, 2022-; Executive Officer, 2022-.
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Research interests: photoacoustic tomography (microscopy and computed tomography), thermoacoustic tomography, light-speed compressed ultrafast photography, time-reversal optics/wavefront shaping, quantum imaging and physics

Overview

Professor Wang's research focuses on biomedical imaging. In particular, his lab has developed photoacoustic imaging that allows peering noninvasively into biological tissues. Compared to conventional optical microscopy, his techniques have increased the penetration by nearly two orders of magnitude, breaking through the optical diffusion limit. The Wang lab has invented or discovered functional photoacoustic tomography, 3D photoacoustic microscopy, optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy, photoacoustic Doppler effect, photoacoustic reporter gene imaging, microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography, universal photoacoustic reconstruction algorithm, time-reversed ultrasonically encoded optical focusing, and compressed ultrafast photography (world's fastest camera capable of 10 trillion frames per second). Combining rich optical contrast and scalable ultrasonic resolution, photoacoustic imaging is the only modality capable of providing multiscale high-resolution structural, functional, metabolic, and molecular imaging of organelles, cells, tissues, and organs as well as small-animal organisms in vivo. Broad applications include early-cancer detection, surgical guidance, and brain imaging. For example, it can help surgeons effectively remove breast cancer lumps, reducing the need for follow-up surgeries. Professor Wang's Monte Carlo model of photon transport in scattering media is used worldwide as a standard tool.

Related News

Quantum Entanglement of Photons Doubles Microscope Resolution
Wavefront Shaping: From Telescopes to Biological Tissue
Seeing More with a Needle-Shaped Laser
High-speed Camera Captures Signals Traveling Through Nerve Cells
Laser Light Offers New Tool for Treating Bone Cancer
New Graduate Track to Combine Study of Medical and Electrical Engineering
Recording Brain Activity with Laser Light
Studying Chaos with One of the World's Fastest Cameras
Lihong Wang Named to National Academy of Inventors
Lihong Wang Receives NIH BRAIN Grant
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Related Courses

2022-23
MedE 100 abc – Medical Engineering Seminar
MedE/EE/BE 168 abc – Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging
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