TRUE lab members have recently returned from 59th annual meeting of the American Association for Physics in Medicine (AAPM) in Denver, CO, where we presented 5  oral presentations about our current research innovation.

TRUE lab graduate student, Pratik Samant’s abstract on “Label­ Free Nanoscale Photoacoustic Tomography (nPAT) for Single Cell Imaging” has been selected as top 10 finalist from 358 submissions for the John R. Cameron YOUNG INVESTIGATOR SYMPOSIUM competition. Congrats!

  Pratik Samant, PhD student at the AAPM Annual Meeting

 Ali Zarafshani, Postdoctoral Fellow at the AAPM Annual Meeting

TRUE lab graduate student, Rowzat Faiz, has recently received a Graduate Research Guide (GRG) award  from The Office of Undergraduate Research (O.U.R.) at The University of Oklahoma. Rowzat will work with Prof. Xiang to add a research experience to the course ECE 2713 Digital Signals and Filtering. Congrats Rowzat!

Rowzat Faiz is a PhD student in TRUE lab. She obtained both her B.Sc. and Master’s Degree from Purdue University.  Now she is focusing on the development of X-ray-induced acoustic computed tomography (XACT) imaging system.

Prof. Xiang has recently received an Undergraduate Research Mentor award  from The University of Oklahoma. The Nancy L. Mergler Faculty Mentor Award for Undergraduate Research was established in 2013 in order to recognize faculty excellence in supporting undergraduate researchers. Prof. Xiang is the only recipient for this award at the University of Oklahoma in 2017.

Dr. Xiang with Vice President for Research, Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, at OU in the 2017 Faculty Tribute Ceremony

More details:  http://curiosity2creativity.net/node/118 

Prof. Liangzhong Xiang is invited to speak in  EMBC’17  on Theranostic with Radiation-induced Ultrasound Emission (TRUE) . The 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’17), in conjunction with International Biomedical Engineering Conference of KOSOMBE, will be held at International Convention Center (ICC), Jeju Island, Korea from July 11 to 15, 2017.

Prof. Xiang has recently received a seed grant from The University of Oklahoma Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Technology (IBEST) in partnership with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). Dr. Liangzhong Xiang at OU Norman and Dr. Kelly Stratton (Urologic Oncologist) from OUHSC are developing a new medical imaging device, called Photoacoustic Cystoscope, for prostate cancer (PCa) imaging and image-guided biopsy. It will help identify and monitor patients who need no further treatment, as well as aid in reducing false negative results due to poor cancer targeting of transrectal ultrasound biopsy needles.