News

2024

2023

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  The MISI group welcomes Shaoyan Zhang to the team, who as post-doctoral researcher will be working on optical ultrasound for robot-assisted endobronchial ultrasound imaging.
• Fraser Watt and Erwin Alles present at Optics + Ultrasound VI in Nottingham.
• Erwin Alles is co-investigator on an EPSRC grant led by Prof. Adrien Desjardins.
• Members of and work by MISI feature prominently in the Annual Report of the department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (pp. 21, 27 and 29).
• Fraser Watt and Erwin Alles present at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2023, in Montréal, Canada.
• Sergi Kavtaradze and Nasir Yousufi represent MISI with a stand at Fitzrovia Fete.
  
• Fraser Watt and Erwin Alles present at the WEISS away day
• Erwin Alles presents work from the MISI group at the MediCCS summer school
• The MISI group expands to include Donny Liu and Sergi Kavtaradze, who will be undertaking summer studentships with the group. A very warm welcome to both!
  
• Erwin Alles presented work from the MISI group at one of the lab tours run during ICRA 2023
• The MISI group contributed to the Science of Surgery public engagement event

2022

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  Congratulations to Robert Stafford-Williams for winning the WEISS Early Career Researcher of the Year award! 
• Robert Stafford-Williams presents at the Basic Vascular Science spring meeting in Leiden, The Netherlands: “Real-time, minimally invasive optical ultrasound imaging of cardiovascular anatomy”
• The MISI group present at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2022 in Venice:
  • "Fabrication of an Array of Eccentric Sources for Freehand Optical Ultrasound Imaging"
  • "Developing Real-Time Implementations of Non-Linear Beamformers for Enhanced Optical Ultrasound Imaging"
  • "Real-Time Optical Ultrasound Imaging of Needle Insertions with Artefact Suppression"
  • "Fibre-Optic Hydrophones for High Intensity Ultrasound Fields- Modelling and Measurement Study"
• Robert Stafford-Williams presents at Optics and Ultrasound V in London: “Real-time, minimally invasive optical ultrasound imaging of cardiovascular anatomy”
• Erwin Alles delivers a presentation and demo at the WEISS International Advisory Board meeting.
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  Robert Stafford-Williams and Fraser Watt present at the BioMedEng22 Conference, London:
  • “Real-time 2D imaging via scanning of a fibre-optic ultrasound probe”
  • “Fabrication of near-infrared optical waveguides using a consumer SLA printer”
• Erwin Alles delivers a guest lecture during the Frontiers in Human Health summer school at St. George’s University of London.
• The MISI group contributes to the WEISS Science of Surgery Event.
• Erwin Alles wins a Springboard award from the Academy of Medical Sciences.

2021

• Erwin Alles delivers an invited talk at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham
• Robert Stafford-Williams and Erwin Alles present at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2021 in Xian, China (virtual):
  • “Single Sensor Interventional All-Optical Ultrasound Imaging: Beam Characteristics and Bandwidth Performance”
  • “Direct Model-Based Inversion for Improved Freehand Optical Ultrasound Imaging”
• Erwin Alles presents at the WEISS away day (7 July 2021).
• Erwin Alles and Adrien Desjardins organise a virtual symposium: “Towards Clinical Translation of Optical Ultrasound”. We are grateful to the international speakers for a terrific set of talks. Thank you to WEISS for hosting and to Callum Little and Malcolm Finlay for co-Chairing the discussion section. Recordings of part of the talks can be found here.

2020