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Nanguang Chen

University of Connecticut

Electrical & Computer Engineering Department

371 Fairfield Road, Unit 1157

Storrs, CT 06269

Phone:  (860)486-1818

Email:   chenng@engr.uconn.edu

Research Interests

Education

Professional Positions

Teaching Experiences

Awards and Honors

Patent

Grants

Professional Memberships

Invited Talks

Publications

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Diffusive and near diffusive optics

Near infrared imaging for biomedicine

Ultra-fast optical coherence imaging (OCT) and confocal microscopy

Novel fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging techniques

 

Education

2000                Ph. D. in Biomedical Engineering,

Department of Electrical Engineering,                Tsinghua University.

1994                M. S. in Theoretical Physics,

Department of Physics,                                     Peking University.

1988                B. S. in Electrical Engineering,

Department of Electrical Engineering,                Hunan University.

 

Professional Positions

Current position:

Jan. 2002 – now           Assistant Research Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut.

 

Previous employment:

Feb 2000- Dec 2001   Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut.

1994 – 1997                Lecturer, Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University.

1988 – 1991                Instrumentation Engineer, Hunan Detergent Factory.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

Course taught at the University of Connecticut (2002)

            BME354: Biomedical Instrumentation

Courses taught at Hunan Normal University (1994-1997)

            Electrical and Electronic Circuits

            Principle of Microcomputers

            Auto Control Theory and Devices

            Fundamentals of Digital Communications

            Microwave and Antenna

 

Awards and Honors

2001   Postdoctoral Training Award, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program of the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.

2001    Excellent Ph. D. Dissertation Award, Tsinghua University.

1999    Guanghua Prize, by Guanghua Foundation and Tsinghua University.

1999    C. C. Lin Award for Applied Mathematics

1998    Siemens Prize, jointly granted by Siemens Ltd. China and Tsinghua University for outstanding academic performance.

 

U.S. Patent

U.S Patent Application: “Rotary Mirror Array for Fast Optical Tomography”, by Chen, N.G. and Zhu, Q. (filed Jan 17 2003)

    

Grants

DoD:   

PI, “Ultrasound Assisted Optical Imaging,” DAMD17-01-1-0216.  

Donaghue Medical Research Foundation:

Co-Investigator, “3D simultaneous Ultrasound and Near Infrared Diffusive Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection.”

NIH:   

Co-Investigator, “Near Infrared Diffused Light Imaging with Ultrasound Guidance.”

 

Professional Association Membership

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

Optical Society of America (OSA)

 

Invited talks

[1]               “Ultra-fast optical coherence tomography with rotary mirror array,” Polymer division, NIST, Oct. 2003.

[2]               “Time-resolved diffusive optical imaging for medical diagnoses – a spread spectrum approach,” Lucas MRS imaging center, Stanford University, Sept. 2003.

[3]               “Novel optical imaging methods for biomedical applications,” Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington, Apr. 2003.

[4]                “Diffusive and Coherent Imaging Methods for Biomedical Applications,” Steele Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Dec. 2002.

[5]                “Advances in Biomedical Optical Imaging Technology,” Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Nov. 2002.

[6]                “Advances in Biomedical Optical Imaging Technology,” Robarts Research Institute and University of West Ontario, Aug. 2002.

 

 

Publications

Journals
  1. N. G. Chen and Q. Zhu, “Time-resolved diffusive optical tomography using pseudo-random sequences,” Optics Express, Vol. 11, No. 25, pp 3445-3454 (2003).
  2. Q. Zhu, M. Huang, N. G. Chen, K. Zarfos, B. Jagjivan, M. Kane, S. H. Kurtzman, “Ultrasound-guided optical tomographic imaging of malignant and benign breast lesions: initial clinical results of 19 cases,” Neoplasia, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp 379-389 (2003).
  3. M. Huang, T. Xie, N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, “NIR imaging reconstruction with ultrasound localization,” Applied Optics, Vol 42, No. 19, pp 4102-4114 (2003).
  4. Q. Zhu, N. G. Chen, and S. Kurtzman, “Imaging tumor angiogenesis using combined near infrared diffusive light and ultrasound,” Optics Letters, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp 337-339 (2003).
  5. N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, “Time-resolved optical measurements with spread spectrum excitations,” Optics Letters, Vol. 27, No. 20, pp 1806-1808 (2002).
  6. N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, “Rotary mirror array for high speed optical coherence tomography,” Optics Letters, Vol. 27, No. 8, pp 607-609 (2002).
  7. N. G. Chen and Q. Zhu, “Characterization of small absorbers inside turbid media,”  Optics Letters, Vol 27, No. 4, pp 252-254 (2002).
  8. Q. Zhu, N. G. Chen, P. Y. Guo, S. K. Yan, and D. Q. Piao, “Near infrared diffusive light imaging with ultrasound localization,” OSA Optics and Photonics News, Optics in 2001, 12:31, December 2001
  9. N. G. Chen, P. Guo, S. Yan, D. Piao, and Q. Zhu, “Simultaneous near infrared diffusive light and ultrasound imaging,” Applied Optics, vol. 40, No. 34, pp 6367-6280, 2001.

10.  Q. Zhu, N. G. Chen, X. H. Ding, D. Piao, and P. Guo, “Design of near infrared imaging probe with the assistance of ultrasound localization,” Applied Optics, vol. 40, No. 19, pp 3288-3303, 2001.

11.  H. Xu, Y. Zhang, N. G. Chen, and J. Bai "NIR diffusive optical imager for breast cancer detection", Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument, Vol.21, Number5, Oct., 2000.

  1. N. G. Chen and J. Bai, “Estimation of Quasi-Straight-Forward Propagating Light in Tissue,” Physics in Medicine & Biology, Vol. 44, No. 7, pp1669-1676, (1999).
  2. N. G. Chen and J. Bai, “Monte-Carlo Approach to Modeling of Boundary Conditions for the Diffusion Equation,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 80, pp5321-5324, (1998).
  3. N. G. Chen, and K. T. Chao, "The quark axial-vector coupling and heavy meson decays," Physics Letters B, Vol. 345, No. 1, pp67-73 (1995).

 

Proceedings

1.      N. G. Chen, H. Xia, D. Piao, and Q. Zhu, “Portable multi-channel multi-wavelength near infrared diffusive light imager,” SPIE Proceedings, vol. 4955, pp 175-182 (2003).

2.      N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, “Spread spectrum time-resolved photon migration imaging system: the principle and simulation results,” SPIE Proceedings, vol. 4955, pp 474-479 (2003).

3.      N. G. Chen and Q. Zhu, “Fluorescence decay profile measured with spread spectrum excitations,” SPIE Proceedings, vol. 4963, pp 201-208 (2003).

4.      N. G. Chen and Q. Zhu, “Fast scanning confocal microscopy with a rotary mirror array,” SPIE Proceedings, vol. 4964, pp 33-40 (2003).

5.      Q. Zhu, S. Kurtzman, N. G. Chen, C. Zarfos, M. Huang, and M. Kane, “Breast lesion diagnosis using combined near infrared diffusive light and ultrasound: initial clinical results,” SPIE Proceedings, vol. 4955, pp 70-83 (2003).

6.      M Huang, T. Xie, N. G. Chen, D. Piao, and Q. Zhu, “ 2-D NIR image reconstruction with ultrasound guidance,” Proceedings, 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, pp1031-1034 (Washington D.C., 2002).

7.      N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, “Nonlinear correction method for characterizing small absorbers in turbid media,” Technical Digest of OSA Biomedical Topical Meeting, pp 84-87 (Miami Beach, 2002).

8.      N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, “12 kHz linear optical delay line,” Technical Digest of  OSA Biomedical Topical Meeting, pp287-289 (Miami Beach, 2002).

  1. M. Huang, T. Xie, N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, “ NIR imaging reconstruction with ultrasound guidance: finite element method,” Technical Digest of OSA Biomedical Topical Meeting, pp689-691 (Miami Beach, 2002).
  2. D. Piao, N. G. Chen, Q. Zhu, N. K. Dutta, L. L. Otis, " Imaging of fluid flow velocity using Doppler optical coherence tomography: preliminary results," Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Storrs, 2001), pp 55-56.
  3. M. Huang, P. Guo, N. G. Chen, and Quing Zhu, "Preliminary experiment results of 1.75D ultrasound array," Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Storrs, 2001), pp 51-52.
  4. N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, "Novel Image Reconstruction Algorithm for NIR Diffusive Tomography," Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Storrs, 2001), pp 43-44.
  5. Q. Zhu, N. G. Chen, P. Guo, S. Yan, D. Piao, "Design of combined ultrasound and near infrared diffusive-light imaging probe," SPIE proceedings, Vol. 4256, 2001
  6. N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, “Optical Tomography with Early Arriving Photons: Sensitivity and Resolution Analysis,” SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 4250, pp37-44, 2001.
  7. N. G. Chen, and Q. Zhu, “Ultrasound Assisted NIR imaging for Breast Cancer Detection,” SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 4250, pp546-557, 2001.

16.  N. G. Chen, J. Bai, and Quing Zhu, “Application of the most probable diffuse paths to localizing absorbers in turbid media,” Proc. of the IEEE 26th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, (Storrs, 2000), pp67-68.

  1. N. G. Chen and J. Bai, “Effective Near Infrared Source Terms,” Proc. of the 13th Annual Meeting of German-Chinese and Chinese-German Societies for Medicine, (Guangzhou, 1998), pp9-10.

18.  N. G. Chen, and J. Bai, “Fast algorithm for Simulation of Near-Infrared Light Transport,” Proc. of Satellite Symposium of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, (Beijing, 1998), pp218-219.

 

 

Last updated: 12/30/2003