We are developing X-ray induced acoustic computed tomography (XACT), a new imaging paradigm with potential applications in biomedicine, including real-time monitoring of radiation therapy in vivo and diagnosis as an alternative to CT imaging.
Selected papers:
- Siqi Wang, Vassili Ivanov, Prabodh Pandey, and Liangzhong Xiang. X-ray-induced acoustic computed tomographic imaging with single-shot nanosecond X-ray. Applied Physics Letters. 119, 183702 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0071911
- Elijah R Robertson, Pratik Samant, Siqi Wang, Tiffany Tran, Xuanrong Ji, Liangzhong Xiang. X-ray-Induced Acoustic Computed Tomography (XACT): Initial Experiment on Bone Sample. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2021 Apr; 68(4):1073-1080. https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2020.3032779
- Pratik Samant, Luis Trevisi, Xuanrong Ji, Liangzhong Xiang. X-ray induced acoustic computed tomography. Photoacoustics, 19, 100177 (2020). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213597920300173
- Liangzhong Xiang, Shanshan Tang, Moiz Ahmad & Lei Xing. High Resolution X-ray-Induced Acoustic Tomography, Scientific Report, 6, 26118(2016). Available from: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep26118 .
- Liangzhong Xiang, Bin Han, Colin Carpenter, Guillem Pratx, Yu Kuang, and Lei Xing. X-ray acoustic computed tomography with pulsed X-ray beam from a medical linear accelerator, Medical Physics, 40 (1),010701 (2013).