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Lihong V.
Wang, Ph.D.
URL:
HTTP://OILAB.SEAS.WUSTL.EDU
Dr.
Lihong Wang studied for his Ph.D. degree at Rice University, Houston, Texas
under the tutelage of Drs. Robert Curl, Richard Smalley and Frank Tittel. He
currently holds the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professorship in the
Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.
He has authored and co-authored two books, including one of the first
textbooks in the field of biomedical optics. He edited the first
comprehensive book on biomedical photoacoustic tomography. He has published
202 peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered 223 keynote, plenary, and
invited talks. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and
Biological Engineering, the Optical Society of America, the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Society of Photo-Optical
Instrumentation Engineers. He was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Biomedical Optics. He serves as an equal co-chair for the annual
conference on Photons plus Ultrasound, the 2010 Gordon Conference on Lasers
in Medicine and Biology, and the 2010 OSA Topical Meeting on Biomedical
Optics. He serves as an equal co-chair for the International Biomedical
Optics Society. He has served as a study section chair or grant reviewer for
NIH and NSF. He is currently a chartered member on an NIH study section. He
serves as the founding chair of the scientific advisory board for a company
commercializing his invention. His research on non-ionizing biophotonic
imaging has been funded with a cumulative budget of >$26M (principal
investigator for 21 research grants) by NIH, NSF, and other funding
agencies. He was a recipient of the NIH FIRST award and NSF CAREER award.
His laboratory invented or discovered frequency-swept ultrasound-modulated
optical tomography, dark-field confocal photoacoustic microscopy (PAM),
optical-resolution PAM, photoacoustic Doppler sensing, photoacoustic
reporter gene imaging, focused scanning microwave-induced thermoacoustic
tomography, exact reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic or
thermoacoustic tomography, sonoluminescence tomography, Mueller-matrix
optical coherence tomography, optical coherence computed tomography, and
oblique-incidence reflectometry. In particular, PAM broke through the
long-standing diffusion limit in penetration of conventional optical
microscopy and reached super-depths for noninvasive biochemical, functional,
and molecular imaging in living tissue at high resolution. His Monte Carlo
model of photon transport in scattering media has been used worldwide. |
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