Professor Simon Schultz, photographed with Bioengineering's three-photon microscope facility
Dr Pete Lally is photographed visualising images from a test object to evaluate a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition strategy.
This image from Dr Parry Hashemi depicts a carbon fibre ultra-microelectrode sensing neurotransmitters directly from brain neurons in real time.
Image from Dr Pete Lally showing a subject inside the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner for a brain scan.
Researchers in the Department of Bioengineering create new technologies to sense and image biological signals. These technologies enhance our understanding of biological systems in health and disease and include chemical probes, chemical sensors and biosensors. We also develop low-power circuits for processing and wirelessly transmitting data, real-time signal processing, microfabrication, microfluidics and cells on chips. Additionally, we aim to improve image acquisition, reconstruction, signal processing, and analysis using ultrasound, MRI and optics.
By developing sensing and imaging technologies we can advance care for patients through the identification of new markers of disease, enabling rapid and early diagnosis, and allowing for more frequent or continuous monitoring in hospitals, clinics or even at home. Additionally these technologies allows us to better understand our environment and the evolutionary process to deliver novel interventions towards a sustainable and clean future.
Academic staff in this area
Anil Bharath
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Anil Bharath
Biologically inspired computer vision
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Amanda Foust
Parry Hashemi
Amy Howard
Sylvain Ladame
Pete Lally
Danny O'Hare
Periklis Pantazis
Kim Parker
Chris Rowlands
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Chris Rowlands
Creation of cutting-edge optical technologies critical for new biological and biomedical advances