Summary
Professor Mengxing Tang joined the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2006 and became a Professor in 2018. Before moving to London, he was a postdoc researcher and then a Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. Dr Tang founded the Ultrasound Laboratory for Imaging and Sensing (ULIS). His current research mainly focuses on developing new imaging techniques of ultrahigh temporal resolution (up to tens of thousands of frames per second) and spatial resolution (down to tens of microns at multi-centimeter depth) using ultrasound, signal and image processing techniques, for visualising and quantifying macro- and micro-vascular structure and flow dynamics. He also works on developing ultrasound tomography technologies for imaging the human brain, as well as using ultrasound as a brain-computer interface. Professor Tang has a wide range of collaborations with clinicians, biologists, and engineers/physicists. His clinical interests include cardiovascular diseases, cancer, neurological conditions, gut and reproductive system diseases.
Mengxing’s research publications can be found at the tab above, or on Google Scholar
We are constantly looking for talented PhD candidates, postdoc researchers and project students in the area of ultrasound super-resolution imaging / localisation microscopy, ultrasound data acquisition and reconstruction, and signal and image processing. We are also welcoming PhD applications in related areas, with studentships available for both home and international students. If you are interested please contact Prof. Mengxing Tang (mengxing.tang@ic.ac.uk ) with you CV.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Yan J, Wang B, Riemer K, et al., 2023, Fast 3D super-resolution ultrasound with adaptive weight-based beamforming, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol:70, ISSN:0018-9294, Pages:2752-2761
Riemer K, Toulemonde M, Yan J, et al., 2023, Fast and selective super-resolution ultrasound in vivo with acoustically activated nanodroplets, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol:42, ISSN:0278-0062, Pages:1056-1067
Tang M, 2022, Super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy of microvascular structure and flow for distinguishing metastatic lymph nodes – an initial human study, Ultraschall in der Medizin, Vol:43, ISSN:0172-4614, Pages:592-598
Yan J, Zhang T, Broughton-Venner J, et al., 2022, Super-resolution ultrasound through sparsity-based deconvolution and multi-feature tracking, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol:41, ISSN:0278-0062, Pages:1938-1947
Guasch L, Calderon Agudo O, Tang M-X, et al., 2020, Full-waveform inversion imaging of the human brain, Npj Digital Medicine, Vol:3, ISSN:2398-6352, Pages:1-12
Dewey M, Siebes M, Kachelrieß M, et al., 2020, Clinical quantitative cardiac imaging for the assessment of myocardial ischaemia, Nature Reviews Cardiology, Vol:17, ISSN:1759-5002, Pages:427-450
Zhu J, Rowland E, Harput S, et al., 2019, 3D super-resolution ultrasound imaging of rabbit lymph node vasculature in vivo using microbubbles, Radiology, Vol:291, ISSN:0033-8419, Pages:642-650
Zhang G, Harput S, Hu H, et al., 2019, Fast acoustic wave sparsely activated localization microscopy (fast-AWSALM): ultrasound super-resolution using plane-wave activation of nanodroplets, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:66, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:1039-1046
Hernandez-Gil J, Braga M, Harriss B, et al., 2019, Development of Ga-68-labelled ultrasound microbubbles for whole-body PET imaging, Chemical Science, Vol:10, ISSN:2041-6520, Pages:5603-5615
Leow CH, Bush N, Stanziola A, et al., 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, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:66, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:939-948
Brown J, Christensen-Jeffries K, Harput S, et al., 2019, Investigation of microbubble detection methods for super-resolution imaging of microvasculature, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:66, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:676-691
Stanziola A, Toulemonde M, Li Y, et al., 2019, Motion artifacts and correction in multipulse high-frame rate contrast-enhanced ultrasound, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:66, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:417-420
Zhou X, Leow CH, Rowland E, et al., 2018, 3D velocity and volume flow measurement in vivo using speckle decorrelation and 2D high frame rate contrast-enhanced ultrasound, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:65, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:2233-2244
Toulemonde MEG, Li Y, Lin S, et al., 2018, High-frame-rate contrast echocardiography using diverging waves: initial in-vitro and in-vivo evaluation, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:65, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:2212-2221
Stanziola A, Leow CH, Bazigou E, et al., 2018, ASAP: super-contrast vasculature imaging using coherence analysis and high frame- rate contrast enhanced ultrasound, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol:37, ISSN:0278-0062, Pages:1847-1856
Zhang G, Harput S, Lin S, et al., 2018, Acoustic wave sparsely activated localization microscopy (AWSALM): super-resolution ultrasound imaging using acoustic activation and deactivation of nanodroplets, Applied Physics Letters, Vol:113, ISSN:0003-6951, Pages:014101-1-014101-5
Toulemonde MEG, Corbett R, Papadopoulou V, et al., 2018, High frame rate contrast echocardiography –in human demonstration, JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging, Vol:11, ISSN:1936-878X, Pages:923-924
Li Y, Ho CP, Toulemonde M, et al., 2018, Fully automatic myocardial segmentation of contrast echocardiography sequence using random forests guided by shape model, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol:37, ISSN:0278-0062, Pages:1081-1091
Harput S, Christensen-Jeffries K, Brown J, et al., 2018, Two-stage motion correction for super-resolution ultrasound imaging in human lower limb, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:65, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:803-814
Lin S, Zhang G, Jamburidze A, et al., 2018, Imaging of vaporised sub-micron phase change contrast agents with high frame rate ultrasound and optics., Phys Med Biol, Vol:63, Pages:065002-065002
Leow C, Tang M, 2017, Spatio-temporal Flow and Wall Shear Stress Mapping based on Incoherent Ensemble-correlation of Ultrafast Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Images, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol:44, ISSN:0301-5629, Pages:134-152
Christensen-Jeffries K, Harput S, Brown J, et al., 2017, Microbubble Axial Localization Errors inUltrasound Super-Resolution Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:64, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:1644-1654
Lin S, Zhang G, Leow CH, et al., 2017, Effects of microchannel confinement on acoustic vaporisation of ultrasound phase change contrast agents, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol:62, ISSN:0031-9155, Pages:6884-6898
Christensen-Jeffries K, Brown J, Aljabar P, et al., 2017, 3-D In Vitro Acoustic Super-Resolution andSuper-Resolved Velocity Mapping UsingMicrobubbles, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:64, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:1478-1486
Li Y, Chahal N, Senior R, et al., 2017, Reproducible computer assisted quantification of myocardial perfusion with contrast enhanced ultrasound, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, Vol:43, ISSN:1879-291X, Pages:2235-2246
Lin S, Shah A, Hernández-Gil J, et al., 2017, Optically and acoustically triggerable sub-micron phase-change contrast agents for enhanced photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging, Photoacoustics, Vol:6, ISSN:2213-5979, Pages:26-36
Leow C, Tang M, Bazigou E, et al., 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, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol:41, ISSN:0301-5629, Pages:2913-2925
Christensen-Jeffries K, Browning RJ, Tang M-X, et al., 2015, In vivo acoustic super-resolution and super-resolved velocity mapping using microbubbles, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol:34, ISSN:0278-0062, Pages:433-440
Cheung W, Gujral DM, Shah BNA, et al., 2014, Attenuation correction and normalisation for quantification of contrast enhancement in ultrasound Images of carotid arteries, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol:41, ISSN:0301-5629, Pages:1876-1883
Li S, Cheng Y, Song L, et al., 2014, Tracking shear waves in turbid medium by light: theory, simulation, and experiment, Optics Letters, Vol:39, ISSN:0146-9592, Pages:1597-1600
Viessmann OM, Eckersley RJ, Christensen-Jeffries K, et al., 2013, Acoustic super-resolution with ultrasound and microbubbles, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol:58, ISSN:0031-9155, Pages:6447-6458
Zhou B, Fraser KH, Poelma C, et al., 2013, ULTRASOUND IMAGING VELOCIMETRY: EFFECT OF BEAM SWEEPING ON VELOCITY ESTIMATION, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol:39, ISSN:0301-5629, Pages:1672-1681
Hosny NA, Mohamedi G, Rademeyer P, et al., 2013, Mapping microbubble viscosity using fluorescence lifetime imaging of molecular rotors, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol:110, ISSN:0027-8424, Pages:9225-9230
Tang M-X, Mulvana H, Gauthier T, et al., 2011, Quantitative contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging: a review of sources of variability, Interface Focus, Vol:1, ISSN:2042-8898, Pages:520-539
Tang M-X, Kamiyama N, Eckersley RJ, 2010, EFFECTS OF NONLINEAR PROPAGATION IN ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT IMAGING, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol:36, ISSN:0301-5629, Pages:459-466
Tang, M, Eckersley, et al., 2006, Nonlinear propagation of ultrasound through microbubble contrast agents and implications for imaging, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol:53, ISSN:0885-3010, Pages:2406-2415