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

Anil Bharath
Biologically inspired computer vision

Martyn Boutelle

Martyn Boutelle
Traumatic brain injury, microdialysis, microfluidics

Amanda Foust

Amanda Foust
Developoment of holographic microscope systems to manipulate and monitor neural activity

Parry Hashemi

Parry Hashemi
Real-time neurotransmitter sensors towards the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses

Amy Howard

Amy Howard
Combining MRI and microscopy to probe tissue microstructure & connectivity, mostly in the brain

Sylvain Ladame

Sylvain Ladame
Biosensor development and molecular diagnostics based on cell-free nucleic acid biomarkers

Pete Lally

Pete Lally
Developing MRI techniques to diagnose and track disease

Danny O'Hare

Danny O'Hare
miRNA detection, cancer, exhaled breath condensate (EBC) analysis

Periklis Pantazis

Periklis Pantazis
Capturing the dynamics of development and disease through cutting-edge live imaging

Kim Parker

Kim Parker
Heamodynamics of the heart

Chris Rowlands

Chris Rowlands
Creation of cutting-edge optical technologies critical for new biological and biomedical advances

Simon Schultz

Simon Schultz
Two photon imaging of neural activity

Mengxing Tang

Mengxing Tang
Imaging in cancer, cardiovascular and neurological diseases, super-resolution and ultrasound imaging

Peter Weinberg

Peter Weinberg
Diagnosis of heart failure by assessment of waves in peripheral arteries

Guang Yang

Guang Yang
Compressive sensing, AI for fast imaging, and Machine Learning based diagnosis and prognosis

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