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 »Billy -> Dr. Yiu from today onward
Aug 2019
Well done, Dr. Billy Yiu! What an amazing performance he has had today at his PhD defense. The committee was highly impressed by his wide range of accomplishments. Totally nailed it! Congrats!
LITMUS to host CREATE program
Jul 2019
Our lab will be leading an NSERC-funded multidisciplinary research platform specializing in next-generation innovations in ultrasonics. Join N-GENIUS! This will be a great home to develop your research credentials.
ASA Best Student Paper Award
May 2019
At the 2019 Acoustical Society of America Spring Meeting held in Louisville, Billy Yiu has won 1st place in the Biomedical Acoustics Best Student Paper Competition. What an excellent achievement! Congrats and well done!
Call for new graduate students
May 2019
If you wish to engage in the next generation of innovations in ultrasonics, we could be a great home for your research training! Application deadline for Spring 2020 admission is October 1, 2019.
Congrats to Rebekah’s NSERC Scholarship!
Apr 2019
Rebekah Maffett has been awarded a prestigious NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship for her second year of graduate studies. Nice achievement! 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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