LITMUS
LABORATORY ON INNOVATIVE TECH
IN MEDICAL ULTRASOUND
Imaging Innovations
Enabling lucid, time-resolved visualization of physiological dynamics by devising new imaging strategies and signal processing algorithms.
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Investigative Tool Design
Engineering implementation solutions and test methods that are critical to clinical translation of next-generation ultrasound imaging techniques.
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Discoveries in Ultrasound Biophysics
Honing the therapeutic dimension of ultrasound by making key discoveries on sonoporation biophysics and wave-cell interactions.
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Cellular Bioeffect Investigations
Developing a proper account on downstream cellular behavior to boost our mechanistic understanding of therapeutic ultrasound.
Learn more »LITMUS – Advancing Medical Ultrasound
LITMUS is a vibrant research group with long-standing interest in tackling frontier problems in diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound.
Our Mission and VisionNEWS
Read more »LITMUS in the RIA Highlights
May 2020
Our high-frame-rate imaging research has been featured in the RIA's latest research highlights. Go check it out!
Faculty position for Jason!
May 2020
Jason Au has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at UW Kinesiology! Congrats! We are looking forward to work closely with Prof. Au in his new capacity.
Another NSERC Scholarship for Rebekah
Apr 2020
Rebekah Maffett has been awarded an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship to support her PhD studies. Well done and congrats!
Engineering Research Excellence Award
Jan 2020
Many thanks to UW Faculty of Engineering for selecting Alfred as the recipient of the 2019 Engineering Research Excellence Award. Our lab is grateful for the school's endorsement over our research endeavors. Thank you!
Takuro now a PI at Tohoku University in Japan!
Jan 2020
We are pleased to announce that Takuro Ishii has started his PI career as a tenure-track assistant professor at Tohoku University - an Imperial university with strong presence in ultrasonics. He is now a PI of the prestigious JSPS Leaders Program. Congrats!
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Recent publications »Indulgence in Flow Phantoms
Jul 2019
Want to join our fun on designing flow phantoms? We have built walled phantoms of urethra, carotid bifurcation, and vessels with regional stiffness variations, as well as wall-less phantoms with omnidirectional flow and patient-specific geometries.
Cellular Bioeffect Investigation Protocol
Jun 2019
Our best practices in designing platforms to study the cellular bioeffects of LIPUS and sonoporation have now been published. Feel free to build similar platforms to study bioeffects such as ER stress, morphological repression, and cell-cycle arrest.
Doppler Ultrasound Bandwidth Imaging
May 2019
Ever wondered if flow instability can be visualized in flow diagnostics? Our new DUBI technique may provide an answer. It can track unstable flow at 10,000 fps. This is another imaging innovation after our previous success with VPI and CESI.
Open-Platform Ultrasound Scanner
Jan 2019
Our 2nd-gen high-frame-rate imaging platform is now ready! This software-based platform, with live imaging functionality that our 1st-gen platform didn't have, was done in collaboration with US4US in Poland. It has uniquely integrated our GPU innovations and our CESI technique.
The Classic: Adaptive Clutter Filtering
May 2018
Our classic work in eigen-based and SVD-based clutter filters has become very hot in ultrasound flow imaging. We have recently devised GPU-based eigen-filter algorithms and have conducted an ROC analysis on these adaptive filters.
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