2019

3D microvascular imaging using high frame rate ultrasound and ASAP without contrast agents: development and initial in vivo evaluation on non-tumour and tumour models.

C. H. Leow, N. L. Bush, A. Stanziola, M. Braga, A. Shah, J. Hernández-Gil, N. J. Long, E. O. Aboagye, J. C. Bamber and M.X. Tang.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2019.

10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2906434

Quantification of Vaporised Targeted Nanodroplets Using High-Frame-Rate Ultrasound and Optics.

G. Zhang, S. Lin, C.H. Leow, K.T. Pang, J. Hernández-Gil, N. Long, R. J. Eckersley, T. Matsunaga, and M.X. Tang.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2019.01.009

Fast Acoustic Wave Sparsely Activated Localization Microscopy (fast-AWSALM): Ultrasound Super-Resolution using Plane-Wave Activation of Nanodroplets.

G. Zhang, S. Harput, H. Hu, K. Christensen-Jeffries, J. Zhu, J. Brown, C. H. Leow, R. J. Eckersley, C. Dunsby, M.-X. Tang.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2019.

10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2906496

Development of 68Ga-labelled Ultrasound Microbubbles for Whole-body PET Imaging.

J. Hernandez-Gil, M. Braga, B. Harriss, L.S. Carroll, C. Leow, M.-X. Tang, E.O. Aboagye, N.J. Long.

Chemical Science, 2019.

10.1039/c9sc00684b

Poisson Statistical Model of Ultrasound Super-Resolution Imaging Acquisition Time.

K. Christensen-Jeffries, J. Brown, S. Harput, G. Zhang, J. Zhu, M.-X. Tang, C. Dunsby, R.J. Eckersley.

IEEE transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2019.

10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2916603

Diagnosing and Managing the Malignant Axilla in Breast Cancer.

K. Cox, M.-X. Tang, J. Zhu.

Current Breast Cancer Reports, 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12609-019-0299-x

3D Flow Reconstruction Using Divergence Free Interpolation of Multiple 2D Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Particle Imaging Velocimetry Measurements.

X. Zhou, V. Papadopoulou, C.H. Leow, P. Vincent, M.-X. Tang.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2018.10.031

Investigation of Microbubble Detection Methods for Super-resolution Imaging of Microvasculature.

J. Brown, K. Christensen-Jeffries, S. Harput, G. Zhang, J. Zhu, C. Dunsby, MX Tang, and R. J. Eckersley.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2019.

10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2894755

3D super-resolution ultrasound imaging of rabbit lymph node vasculature in vivo using microbubbles.

J. Zhu, E.M. Rowland, S. Harput, K. Riemer, C.H. Leow, B. Clark, K. Cox, A. Lim, K. Christensen-Jeffries, G. Zhang, J. Brown, C. Dunsby, R.J. Eckersley, P.D. Weinberg, M.-X. Tang.

Radiology, 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2019182593

Measurement of Flow Volume in the Presence of Reverse Flow with Ultrasound Speckle Decorrelation.

X. Zhou, X. Zhou, C.H. Leow, M.-X. Tang.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2019.07.001

Optimization of 3-D Divergence-Free Flow Field Reconstruction Using 2-D Ultrasound Vector Flow Imaging.

X. Zhou, P. Vincent, X. Zhou, C.H. Leow, M.-X. Tang.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2019.06.402

High Frame Rate Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging for Slow Lymphatic Flow: Influence of Ultrasound Pressure and Flow Rate on Bubble Disruption and Image Persistence.

J. Zhu, S. Lin, C.H. Leow, E.M. Rowland, K. Riemer, S. Harput, P.D. Weinberg, M.-X. Tang.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2019.05.016

2018

Motion Artefacts and Correction in Multi-Pulse High Frame Rate Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound.

A. Stanziola*, M. Toulemonde*, Y. Li, V. Papadopoulou, R. Corbett, N. Duncan, R J. Eckersley, and M-X. Tang.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2018.

10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2887164

High-Frame-Rate Contrast Echocardiography using diverging waves: initial in-vitro and in-vivo evaluation.

M. Toulemonde, Y. Li, S. Lin, F. Cordonnier, M. Butler, W. C. Duncan, R. J. Eckersley, V. Sboros, and M-X. Tang.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2018.

10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2856756

3D velocity and volume flow measurement in vivo using speckle decorrelation and 2D high frame rate contrast-enhanced ultrasound.

X. Zhou, C.H. Leow, E. Rowland, K. Riemer, J. M. Rubin, P. D. Weinberg, and M-X. Tang.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2018.

10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2850535

Acoustic Wave Sparsely-Activated Localization Microscopy (AWSALM): Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging using Acoustic Activation and Deactivation of Nanodroplets.

G. Zhang, S. Harput, S. Lin, K. Christensen-Jeffries, C.H. Leow, J. Brown, C. Dunsby, R. Eckersley, M-X. Tang.

Applied Physics Letter, 2018.

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5029874

Two-Stage Motion Correction for Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging in Human Lower Limb.

S. Harput, K. Christensen-Jeffries, J. Brown, Y. Li, K. J. Williams, A. H. Davies, R. J. Eckersley, C. Dunsby, and M-X. Tang.

IEEE transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2018.

10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2824846

ASAP: Super-Contrast Vasculature Imaging using Coherence Analysis and High Frame- Rate Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound.

A. Stanziola, C.H. Leow, E. Bazigou, P.D. Weinberg, and M-X. Tang.

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2018.

 10.1109/TMI.2018.2798158

Fully Automatic Myocardial Segmentation of Contrast Echocardiography Sequence Using Random Forests Guided by Shape Model.

Y. Li, C.P. Ho, M. Toulemonde, N. Chahal, R. Senior, M-X. Tang.

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2018.

10.1109/TMI.2017.2747081

Spatio-Temporal Flow and Wall Shear Stress Mapping Based on Incoherent Ensemble-Correlation of Ultrafast Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Images.

C.H. Leow, and M-X. Tang.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2018.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2017.08.930

2017

Microbubble Axial Localization Errors in Ultrasound Super-Resolution Imaging.

K. Christensen-Jeffries, S. Harput, J. Brown, P. N. T. Wells, P. Aljabar, C. Dunsby, M-X. Tang, and R. J. Eckersley.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2017.

10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2741067

3-D In Vitro Acoustic Super-Resolution and Super-Resolved Velocity Mapping Using Microbubbles.

K. Christensen-Jeffries, J. Brown, P. Aljabar, M-X. Tang, C. Dunsby, and R. J. Eckersley.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2017

10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2731664

High Frame-Rate Contrast Echocardiography: In-Human Demonstration.

M. Toulemonde, R. Corbett, V. Papadopoulou, N. Chahal, Y. Li, C. H. Leow, D. O. Cosgrove, R. J. Eckersley,N. Duncan, R. Senior, and M-X. Tang.

JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, 2017.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2017.09.011

Effects of microchannel confinement on acoustic vaporisation of ultrasound phase change contrast agents.

S. Lin, G. Zhang, C.H. Leow, and M-X. Tang.

Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2017.

10.1088/1361-6560/aa8076

Optically and acoustically triggerable sub-micron phase-change contrast agents for enhanced photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging.

S. Lin, A. Shah, J. Hernández-Gil, A. Stanziola, B I. Harriss, T O. Matsunaga, N. Long, J. Bamber, M-X. Tang.

Photoacoustics, 2017.

10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2824846

Characterisation of Contrast Agent Microbubbles for Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy Research.

H. Mulvana, RJ. Browning, Y. Luan, N. de Jong, M-X Tang, RJ. Eckersley and E. Stride.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2017.

10.1109/TUFFC.2016.2613991

2016

Power Doppler Quantification in Assessing Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia.

Y Li, MX Tang, R Agarwal, D Patel, RJ Eckersley, G Barrois, ME Roddie, L Dayal, PM Savage, MJ Seckl, A Lim.

Ultraschall in der Medizin-European Journal of Ultrasound, 2016.

10.1055/s-0041-111065

Contrast enhancement of carotid adventitial vasa vasorum as a biomarker of radiation-induced atherosclerosis.

DM Gujral, WK Cheung, BN Shah, NS Chahal, S Bhattacharyya, J Hooper, R Senior, MX Tang, KJ Harrington and CM Nutting.

Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2016

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2016.06.007

Rapid short-pulse sequences enhance the spatiotemporal uniformity of acoustically driven microbubble activity during flow conditions.

AN Pouliopoulos, C Li, M Tinguely, V Garbin, MX Tang, JJ Choi.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016

10.1121/1.4964271

Ultrasound Imaging with Microbubbles.

A Stanziola, M Toulemonde, Y Yildiz, R Eckersley and MX Tang.

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2016

10.1109/MSP.2015.2496914

2015

Flow Velocity Mapping Using Contrast Enhanced High-Frame-Rate Plane Wave Ultrasound and Image Tracking: Methods and Initial in Vitro and in Vivo Evaluation.

Leow, Chee Hau; Bazigou, Eleni; Eckersley, Robert J; Yu, Alfred; Weinberg, Peter; and Tang, Meng-Xing.

Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2015.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.06.012

Microbubble Void Imaging: A Non-invasive Technique for Flow Visualisation and Quantification of Mixing in Large Vessels Using Plane Wave Ultrasound and Controlled Microbubble Contrast Agent Destruction.

Leow, Chee Hau; Iori, Francesco; Corbett, Richard; Duncan, Neill; Caro, Colin; Vincent, Peter; Tang, Meng-Xing.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2015

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.06.023

In Vivo Acoustic Super-Resolution and Super-Resolved Velocity Mapping Using Microbubbles.

Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten; Browning, Richard J.; Tang, Meng-Xing; Dunsby, Christopher; Eckersley, Robert J.

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2015.

10.1109/TMI.2014.2359650

Correction of nonlinear propagation artefact in contrast enhanced ultrasound imaging of carotid arteries: methods and in vitro evaluation.

Y Yildiz, RJ Eckersley, R Senior, A Lim, DO Cosgrove and MX Tang.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2015

10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.03.014

Attenuation correction and normalisation for quantification of contrast enhancement in ultrasound images of carotid arteries.

WK Cheung, DM Gujral, BN Shah, NS Chahal, S Bhattacharyya, DO Cosgrove, RJ Eckersley, KJ Harrington, R Senior, CM Nutting and MX Tang.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2015

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.02.010

Quantifying activation of perfluorocarbon based phase-change contrast agents using simultaneous acoustic and optical observation.

S Li, S Lin, Y Cheng, T Matsunaga, R Eckersley and MX Tang.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2015

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.12.021

Detecting tissue optical and mechanical properties with an ultrasound modulated optical imaging system in reflection detection geometry.

Cheng, Yi; Li, Sinan; Eckersley, Robert J.; et al.

Biomed Optics Express, 2015

10.1364/BOE.6.000063

Dual shear wave induced laser speckle contrast signal and the improvement in shear wave speed measurement.

S Li, Y Cheng, R Eckersley, D Elson and MX Tang.

Biomed Optics Express, 2015

10.1364/BOE.6.001954

Decompression induced bubble dynamics on ex-vivo fat and muscle tissue surfaces with a new experimental set up.

Papadopoulou V, Evgenidis S, Eckersley RJ, Mesimeris T, Balestra C, Kostoglou M, Tang MX, Karapantsios TD.

Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2015

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2015.03.027

Surface Charge Measurement of SonoVue, Definity and Optison: A Comparison of Laser Doppler Electrophoresis and Micro-Electrophoresis.

Ja’afar, Fairuzeta; Leow, Chee Hau; Garbin, Valeria; Tang, Meng-Xing and Sedon, John.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2015

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.07.001

Quantitative Ultrasound Molecular Imaging.

JSM Yeh, CA Sennoga, E McConnell, R Eckersley, M-X Tang, S Nourshargh, JM Seddon, DO Haskard and Petros Nihoyannopoulos.

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2015

10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.04.011

A Targeting Microbubble for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging.

JSM Yeh, CA Sennoga, E McConnell, R Eckersley, M-X Tang, S Nourshargh, JM Seddon, DO Haskard and Petros Nihoyannopoulos.

PLOS ONE, 2015

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129681