Projects

• Image-guided ultrasound potentiated therapies
• Local harmonic motion imaging guidance and monitoring for thermal surgery
• Magnetic resonance-guided adaptive ultrasound therapy for localized prostate cancer
• Opening of the blood-brain barrier for molecular imaging
• Simultaneous ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging
• Ultrasound systems for cardiac ablation
• Ultrasound therapy delivery through intact skull
• Magnetic resonance imaging-guided focused ultrasound therapy for ischemic stroke

Past High School Student Projects

Engineering and technology development

• Designing and building circuit boards
• Design of a verification system for multichannel phased array
• Miniaturisation of high-intensity focused ultrasound amplifier electronics using gallium nitride technology

Experimental work

• Focused ultrasound hyperthermia using acoustic lenses for heating large tissue volumes: a simulation study
• Activation of nanodroplets for drug delivery

Programming

• Skull segmentation for real-time monitoring of acoustic emissions during transcranial focused ultrasound therapy and stroke therapy
• Graphics processing unit-based beamforming for real-time microbubble mapping during focused ultrasound therapy
• Develop and test the accuracy of a photogrammetry-based image registration pipeline
• Develop graphical user interface for bench top equipment tests

Biology

• Effects of focused ultrasound on glial cell activation in a model of Alzheimer’s disease
• Effects of focused ultrasound on beta-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease
• Studying the effects of focused ultrasound on neuromodulation using microscopy