7 August 2020: Our collaborative research with Dr. Xueding Wang at the University of Michigan and Urology team (Drs. Joseph Clark and Jay Raman) from the Penn State Cancer Institute titled “Design, development and multi-characterization of an integrated clinical transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic device for human prostate imaging“ is published in a peer reviewed journal Diagnostics. Congratulations to PhD student Sumit (first author) and the team!
10 June 2020: Congratulations to Haoyang Chen for passing the Ph.D. candidacy exam. Well done!
5 May 2020: Congratulations to Tyler Shirley, senior undergrad Electrical Engineering student, for successfully defending his Honors thesis on design and analysis of wearable photoacoustic systems. Well done and Best Wishes for your job in Kimberly-Clark.
5 March 2020: Congratulations to Sumit Agrawal for successfully defending his comprehensive exam! Sumit’s thesis is focused on developing smart multimodal ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging systems integrated with artificial intelligence. Almost there to get his PhD!
15 to 20 February 2020: Chris Fadden attends SPIE Medical Imaging conference and gave a podium presentation titled Thermoacoustic combined tomography of abusive head trauma. Well done Chris!
1 to 6 February 2020: Haoyang attends one of the largest conferences in the Biophotonics field, the SPIE Photonics West Conference, held in San Francisco, California. He presented a poster, interacted with international researchers, and shared his conference notes with other lab members. Great exposure for a first year PhD student!
7 January 2020: Our senior undergraduate student Kerrick Johnstonbaugh publishes first author paper titled “A Deep learning approach to photoacoustic wavefront localization in a deep-tissue medium” in IEEE TUFFC journal. Congratulations Kerrick and Sumit (co-first author) for your hard efforts in developing a novel neural network that demonstrates Deep Learning of optical scattering inside deep tissue medium can help improve the photoacoustic target localization. Well done!
2 January 2020: Dr. Kothapalli joins the editorial team of IEEE Sensors Letters. IEEE Sensors Letters is a rapid disclosure publication focusing on the numerous sensor technologies. For information about Aims and Scope of the journal please check the link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/aboutJournal.jsp?punumber=7782634
11 December 2019: Our paper titled “Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy using transparent ultrasound transducer” is published in Sensors journal. Congratulations Haoyang for your first journal paper! Way to go!
8 November 2019: Our paper titled “Light emitting diode based multispectral photoacoustic computed tomography system” is published in Sensors journal. Congratulations Sumit! Well done!
31 October 2019: Dr. Kothapalli gave an invited talk at the University of Michigan.The title of the talk Photoacoustic Imaging of Mice and Men. Thank you BME-UMichigan for the invitation and arranging meetings with several prominent scientists: Drs. Xueding Wang, Brian Fowlkes, Cheri Deng, Kelly Arnold, Yannis Paulus, Douglas Noll, Lonnie Shea, Zhen Xu, Timothy Hall, and Guan Xu.
2 October 2019: Our paper titled “Lithium niobate-based transparent ultrasound transducers for photoacoustic imaging” is published in Optics Letters journal. Congratulations to Ajay and the team.
21 July 2019: Haoyang Chen joins the lab to pursue his PhD. Welcome Haoyang.
25 April 2019:
The project titled “Design, simulation and development of wearable photoacoustic hat for neonatal brain imaging” wins the 2nd Best Project award in the Capstone Senior Design Project Competition held at the Penn State. More than 100 teams sponsored by industry and academia participated in this competition. Congratulations to the senior design team (Maria Hudock, Willard Wilkinson, Salim Bin Ghouth, Donald Drawbaugh, Tiffany Adrien, and Hanan Adnan) and the lab members for their strong support to the team.
This project also won the Best Capstone Design Project of this year award from the BME Department. Congratulations again to the team. Way to go!
10 April 2019: Gaurav Dutta (EE, MS student) successfully defends his masters thesis on wearable photoacoustic microscope. Congratulations Gaurav.
4 April 2019
Sumit Agrawal (PhD student) wins best poster presentation award at the College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS) for his work on photoacoustic imaging guided device for safer percutaneous needle operations. Congratulations to Sumit and co-authors Jason Zhang (Senior BME student), Ajay Dangi (Postdoctoral Scholar) and Neil Frings (Senior BME student).
2 Feb to 7 Feb 2019: The lab gave 5 presentations (3 podium/oral and 2 poster) at the SPIE Photonics West Conference that was held in San Francisco from 2nd Feb to 7th Feb 2019. Congratulations.
30 October 2018:
Our recent work on “Ring ultrasound transducer based miniaturized photoacoustic imaging system” received 2nd place oral presentation award at this year IEEE Sensors 2018 annual conference. This work is also invited for a full length paper.
Congratulations to Dr. Ajay Dangi and other co-authors Sumit Agrawal (Graduate Student), Jedidiah Lieberknecht (Senior Undergrad, Physics Major) and Jason Zhang (Senior Undergrad, BME Major). We thank Penn State Cancer Institute seed grant for supporting this work.
28 August 2018
Chris Fadden’s research article “A Single Simulation Platform for Hybrid Photoacoustic and RF-acoustic Computed Tomography” is now published in the peer reviewed journal Applied Sciences. This work solves one of the long standing research problems in the filed of thermoacoustic imaging, which is to use a single simulation platform to simulate hybrid Photoacoustic tomography as well as RF-acoustic computed tomography.
Congratulations Chris.
1 July 2018
Collaborative research with Prof. Jian Yang’s group is now published in the peer reviewed journal Advanced Functional Materials. The research article “Development of Citrate-Based Dual-Imaging Enabled Biodegradable Electroactive Polymers” can be accessed using the link https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adfm.201801787.
17 June 2018
It is our great pleasure to host Prof. Khaldon Lweesy, who is on one year sabbatical leave from Jordan University of Science and Technology (Irbid, Jordan). His main research interests are high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), ultrasound imaging, and biomedical signal processing.
15 May 2018
Prof. Kothapalli gave an invited talk in the Annual Musculoskeletal Research Symposium organized by the Penn State Bone and Joint Institute and the Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation.
14 May 2018
Prof. Kothapalli co-chaired a Biomedical Imaging session in the idustryXchange symposium organized by the Penn State. http://www.engr.psu.edu/industryxchange2018/
20 April 2018
BME Junior student, Kerrick wins the Student Engagement Week fellowship of the Penn State. This fellowship will help Kerrick to further continue his research in the lab. Congrats Kerrick and Thanks to PSU for such a wonderful support to our undergrads.
15 April 2018
Sumit’s paper on the development of a simulation platform for the combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging got accepted to the EMBS conference to be held in Hawaii, July 2018. Congratulations Sumit.
29 March 2018
Prof. Raj Kothapalli gave an invited talk in the SPIE/OSA chapter of the Penn State.
23 March 2018
Prof. Kothapalli gave an invited talk in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Notre Dame.
15th Feb 2018
Sumit Agrawal passes his PhD candidacy exam in his first attempt. Congratulations Sumit. Way to go.
8th Feb 2018
Prof. Kothapalli gave an invited talk on Experimental Therapeutics group in the cancer institute. The talk was focused on the Photoacoustic molecular imaging capabilities in cancer diagnosis and therapeutics.
8th January 2018
Chris Fadden, a graduate student in the EE Depart, joins the lab to pursue his Doctoral thesis under the guidance of Prof. Kothapalli. Welcome Chris.
Gaurav Datta, a masters student in the EE Depart, joins the lab to pursue his Master’s thesis under the guidance of Prof. Kothapalli. Welcome Gaurav.
15 December 2017
The lab welcomes 3 more undergraduate students from different departments at PSU. Kerrick Johnstonbaugh (BME), Jed Lieberknecht (Physics), and Neil Frings (BME).
27 October 2017
Prof. Kothapalli gave an invited talk in the Department of Neurosurgery in the College of Medicine in the Penn State Hershey campus. The talk is focused on the In vivo Photoacoustic molecular imaging capabilities and its applications to imaging brain.
15 September 2017
Prof. Kothapalli gave an invited talk in the Molecular Carcinogenesis Symposium organized by the Department of Immunology and Molecular Toxicology.
1 September 2017
Najiyyah Clark and Jason Zhang were awarded College of Engineering Research Initiative (CERI)- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) fellowship. This will allow them to pursue their research interests in the lab. Congrats Najiyyah and Jason. Thanks to PSU for supporting our lab’s research.
21 August 2017
Dr. Ajay Dangi who recently finished his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar. His PhD work is centered around the fabrication of MEMS ultrasonic arrays and electronic integration. Welcome Ajay.
15 May 2017
The lab welcomes 5 undergraduate students from different departments for their summer internship. Matt Homewood (CS), Jason Zhang (BME), Tyler Shirley (ECE), Maryam Freelamban (BME), Najiyyah Clark (BME), and Adil P. Virk (BME). Happy learning in the lab.
31 March 2017
Prof. Kothapalli served as a Focused Group Leader at the retreat of Experimental Therapeutics Program at Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute.
1st May 2017: The lab receives a 3 year R00 grant funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) center of the National Institute of Health. Thanks to NIH for supporting our research on developing novel transrectal ultrasound and Photoacoustic imaging device for human prostate imaging and molecular imaging approaches.
3 April 2017
Prof. Kothapalli gave an invited talk on “Photoacoustic Imaging of Mice and Men” in the School of Acoustics, Pennsylvania State University.
13 April 2017
Prof. Kothapalli gave an invited talk “Bench-to-Bedside translation and First-in-Human results of Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging of Human Prostate” at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute.
2 January 2017
Dr. Raj Kothapalli starts and directs the BioPhotonics and Ultrasound Imaging Lab at Penn State University, which is spread between the engineering campus (State College) and the medical campus (the Cancer Institute in Hershey).
Sumit Agrawal joins the lab to pursue his Ph.D. He completed his Masters of Technology (M. Tech) from I.I.T Kharagpur, India. Welcome Sumit to the group.