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Caption: Figure: Micro-vascular flow in a rabbit kidney visualised non-invasively by advanced ultrasound imaging technique developed in Professor Mengxing Tang’s lab. Colour shows direction of the blood flow.

Martyn Boutelle

Manos Drakakis

Despite the huge advances in the past decades, the demand for imaging techniques with better resolution, higher sensitivity and contrast, and more accessibility and affordability has never been higher. Investigators in the Department of Bioengineering seek to develop advanced image acquisition, image reconstruction, signal processing, and image analysis tools with ultrasound, MRI and optics and apply these tools to a wide range of medical and biological applications including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, neurology, and musculoskeletal diseases.

Development of sensing technologies can bring about advances in patient care through identification of new markers of disease, rapid diagnoses and more frequent or continuous monitoring, in the hospital, the clinic or ideally in the home. The enabling technology for these exciting developments ranges from molecular probes to whole measurement systems and encompasses chemical sensors and biosensors, low power circuits for data processing and wireless transmission, and novel real-time signal processing.

Academic staff in this area

Professor Anil Bharath

Professor Anil Bharath
Biologically inspired computer vision

Professor Martyn Boutelle

Professor Martyn Boutelle
Traumatic brain injury, microdialysis, microfluidics

Dr Hayriye Cagnan

Dr Hayriye Cagnan
Single and multi-unit neural activity, local field potentials, and neuroimaging (EEGs and OPMs)

Dr James Choi

Dr James Choi
Super resolution elasticity imaging using ultrasound and microbubbles

Professor Manos Drakakis

Professor Manos Drakakis
Circuits and systems for and from biology

Dr Amanda Foust

Dr Amanda Foust
Development of holographic microscope systems to manipulate and monitor neural activity

Dr Andrei Kozlov

Dr Andrei Kozlov
Auditory neuroscience and biophysics

Dr Sylvain Ladame

Dr Sylvain Ladame
Biosensor development and molecular diagnostics based on cell-free nucleic acid biomarkers

Dr Pete Lally

Dr Pete Lally
Developing MRI techniques to diagnose and track disease

Dr Sophie Morse

Dr Sophie Morse
Imaging cell activity in response to ultrasound stimulation

Dr Nic Newell

Dr Nic Newell
Using MRI to measure strains within internal structures of the spine

Professor Danny O'Hare

Professor Danny O'Hare
miRNA detection, cancer, exhaled breath condensate (EBC) analysis

Professor Darryl Overby

Professor Darryl Overby
Biosensors for nitric oxide & organ-on-chip,real-time confocal imaging of cellular mechanics in sit

Dr Periklis Pantazis

Dr Periklis Pantazis
Capturing the dynamics of development and disease through cutting-edge live imaging

Dr Chris Rowlands

Dr Chris Rowlands
We develop novel optical instruments, for use in neuroscience, cancer, drug synthesis and more

Professor Simon Schultz

Professor Simon Schultz
In vivo two photon brain imaging and electrophysiological sensing

Professor Molly Stevens

Professor Molly Stevens
Multifunctional imaging probes and ultrasensitve disease diagnostics

Dr Majid Taghavi

Dr Majid Taghavi
Propericeptive artificial muscles, self-powered tactile sensors

Professor Mengxing Tang

Professor Mengxing Tang
Imaging in cancer, cardiovascular and neurological diseases, super-resolution and ultrasound imaging

Dr Julien Vermot

Dr Julien Vermot
Biomechanics and signalling in the cardiovascular system

Professor Peter D. Weinberg

Professor Peter D. Weinberg
Diagnosis of heart failure by assessment of waves in peripheral arteries

Dr Guang Yang

Dr Guang Yang
Compressive sensing, AI for fast Imaging, and Machine Learning Based Diagnosis and Prognosis

Dr Dandan Zhang

Dr Dandan Zhang
Biomedical & bio-inspired robotics, micromanipulation, human-robot interaction,multimodality sensing