Multimodal Imaging: Photoacoustic Imaging and More

Transenergy imaging modalities have been significantly explored to overcome existing problems in conventional imaging modalities with respect to spatial/temporal resolutions, penetration depth, signal-to-noise ratio, contrast, and so on. Among these modalities, photoacoustic imaging - an emerging hybrid modality that can provide strong endogenous and exogenous optical absorption contrasts with high ultrasonic spatial resolution - has overcome the fundamental depth limitation while keeping the spatial resolution. The image resolution, as well as the maximum imaging depth, is scalable with ultrasonic frequency within the reach of diffuse photons. Kim discusses the topics of multimodal, multiscale, and multiparametric photoacousitc imaging systems; novel deep learning-powered image processing; recent clinical study results; and efforts to commercialize.

About the presenter
Chulhong Kim, Ph.D., received his doctorate degree from and completed his postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis. He holds the POSTECH Young Distinguished Professorship and Mueunjae Chair Professorship of Electrical Engineering, and is a professor of convergence IT engineering and mechanical engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in the Republic of Korea. He is also director of the Medical Device Innovation Center and CEO of Opticho Inc. He has been recipient of the IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer, the IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, the KAST Young Scientist Award, and the IFMBE Nightingale Award. Kim has published 163 peer-reviewed journal articles in publications such as Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences, and Light: Science & Applications. His Google Scholar h-index and citations have reached 57 and over 11,700, respectively, and his group's works have been selected for the Seno Medical Best Paper Award finalists continuously, the Hitachi High-Tech Best Presentation Award, the Microscopy Today Innovation Award, and Industry-Academia Project Challenge Award. Kim serves as a section editor of Photoacoustics, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and a topical editor of IEEE Access. He is a fellow of SPIE.