News
November 12,2008
New paper by Dr. Andrei Karpiouk et al., in Journal of Biomedical Optics. details
November 4, 2008
Bo Wang is a recipient of the Best Student Paper award at the 2008 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium held Nov. 2-5, 2008 in Beijing, China. Bo has received this award for her presentation entitled “Design of Catheter for Combined Intravascular Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging” co-authored by Bo Wang (presenter), Andrei Karpiouk, and Stanislav Emelianov. Her presentation was selected from more than 150 student papers. More...
October 24, 2008
On October 24, 2008, Jignesh Shah successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled: "Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging to Guide and Monitor Photothermal Therapy" at The University of Texas at Austin. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Stanislav Emelianov (UT-Austin), Dr. Jonathan Valvano (UT-Austin), Dr. Salavat Aglyamov (UT-Austin), Dr. Thomas Milner (UT-Austin) and Dr. Konstantin Sokolov (UT-Austin). Jignesh will join Volcano Corporation as a Signal Processing Engineer on December 1, 2008.
September 1, 2008
Dr. Suhyun Park joined General Electric's Corporate Research and Development as a Systems Engineer and Scientist. Good luck, Suhyun!
August 25, 2008
Min Qu and Soon Joon Yoon joined the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory. Welcome!
August 18, 2008
On August 18, Srivalleesha Mallidi, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, presented her PhD Qualifying proposal entitled: "Molecular Specific Photoacoustic Imaging."
July 28, 2008
On July 28 2008, Suhyun Park successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled: "Integrated System for Ultrasonic, Elasticity and Photoacoustic Imaging" at The University of Texas at Austin. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Stanislav Emelianov (UT-Austin), Dr. Mark Hamilton (UT-Austin), Dr. Jonathan Rubin (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Dr. Salavat Aglyamov (UT-Austin), Mr. Guy Scott (Winprobe Inc.) and Dr. Thomas Milner (UT-Austin).
July 26 2008
BME Department and Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory are moving in nice new building! The address of new building is 107 W. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78712
April 30, 2008
This month Kimberly Homan, a PhD. student in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, was selected as the recipient of the 2008-2009 University Continuing Fellowship. The award is made to a student who is currently enrolled in a graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin and who is recognized for outstanding accomplishments since entering Graduate School.
April 28, 2008
Seung Yun Nam, Jason Cook and Kimberly Homan join the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory. Welcome!
April 21, 2008
Jignesh Shah, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, won first place at the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Graduate Student Research Showcase" on April 18th 2008. Jignesh's talk was titled "Image guided photothermal cancer therapy." The presenters were graduate students from difference departments including Government, Sociology, Curriculum etc. and 10 papers were selected for oral presentation from the received abstracts including 2 panel discussions.
March 24, 2008
Min Qu has accepted an invitation to join our lab starting this fall (2008). Min - welcome aboard!
February 14, 2008
Srivalleesha Mallidi, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, was awarded the "Innovation Grand Prize" for her research "Molecular Specific Photoacoustic Imaging using Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles" that is given to the most innovative research at the fourth annual Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN) 2008 conference as determined by the Chair of Free Enterprise. She was selected from more than 100 graduate students participating in GAIN 2008.
August 9, 2007
On July 17 2007, Shriram Sethuraman successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled: "Combined Intravascular Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging" at The University of Texas at Austin. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Stanislav Emelianov (UT-Austin), Dr. Richard Smalling (UT-Medical School, Houston), Dr. Salavat Aglyamov (UT-Austin), Dr. Thomas Milner (UT-Austin) and Dr. Xiaojing Zhang (UT-Austin). Shriram will join Philips Research North America as a Senior Member Research Staff in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy Department in Fall 2007.
July 1, 2007
Suhyun Park, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, has been selected as the recipient of the 2007-2008 Wendell Gordon Fellowship - one of the most competitive awards given by the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin.
July 18, 2006
Dr. Stanislav Emelianov receives a grant to fight the chief cause of heart attacks with new image techniques more »
July 1, 2006
Shriram Sethuraman, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, has been selected as the recipient of the 2006-2007 University Continuing Fellowship. The award is made to a student who is currently enrolled in a graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin and who is recognized for outstanding accomplishments since entering Graduate School.
February 11, 2006
Srivalleesha Mallidi, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory, has won the “Honorable Mention” award for her poster entitled “Functional and morphological ultrasonic biomicroscopy for tissue engineers” at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging conference held at San Diego, California.
