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Paul C. Beard is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research is centered predominantly within the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Biomedical Engineering as well as related subfields including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Mechanics of Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Acoustics and Ultrasonics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography Applications, Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography, Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications, Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, Thermography and Photoacoustic Techniques, and Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques.

Among recent notable publications are:

  • A fast all-optical 3D photoacoustic scanner for clinical vascular imaging (2024, Nature Biomedical Engineering)
  • Miniature all-optical flexible forward-viewing photoacoustic endoscopy probe for surgical guidance (2020, Optics Letters)
  • Modelling Fabry-Pérot etalons illuminated by focussed beams (2020, Optics Express)
  • Broadband All-Optical Plane-Wave Ultrasound Imaging System Based on a Fabry-Perot Scanner (2020, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control)
  • Freehand and video-rate all-optical ultrasound imaging (2021, Ultrasonics)

Paul C. Beard has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Edward Zhang (44 joint publications)
  • Adrien E. Desjardins (20 joint publications)
  • James A. Guggenheim (11 joint publications)
  • Richard J. Colchester (11 joint publications)
  • Nam Huynh (9 joint publications)

The scientist has published multiple works in prominent venues such as:

  • Optics Express (5 publications)
  • Biomedical Optics Express (5 publications)
  • Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2021 (5 publications)
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces (4 publications)
  • Journal of Biomedical Optics (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Biomedical photoacoustic imaging

    Paul Beard

  • Contrast agents for molecular photoacoustic imaging

    Judith Weber;Paul C Beard;Sarah Elizabeth Bohndiek

  • Quantitative spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging: a review.

    Ben Cox;Jan G. Laufer;Simon R. Arridge;Paul C. Beard

  • Backward-mode multiwavelength photoacoustic scanner using a planar Fabry-Perot polymer film ultrasound sensor for high-resolution three-dimensional imaging of biological tissues

    Edward Zhang;Jan Laufer;Paul Beard

  • Deep in vivo photoacoustic imaging of mammalian tissues using a tyrosinase-based genetic reporter

    Amit P. Jathoul;Jan Laufer;Jan Laufer;Jan Laufer;Olumide Ogunlade;Bradley Treeby

  • Quantitative spatially resolved measurement of tissue chromophore concentrations using photoacoustic spectroscopy: application to the measurement of blood oxygenation and haemoglobin concentration

    Jan Laufer;Dave Delpy;Clare Elwell;Paul Beard

  • In vivo high-resolution 3D photoacoustic imaging of superficial vascular anatomy

    E Z Zhang;J G Laufer;R B Pedley;P C Beard

  • Ultrasensitive plano-concave optical microresonators for ultrasound sensing

    James A. Guggenheim;Jing Li;Thomas J. Allen;Richard J. Colchester

  • In vivo preclinical photoacoustic imaging of tumor vasculature development and therapy.

    Jan Laufer;Peter Johnson;Edward Zhang;Bradley Treeby

  • Model-Based Learning for Accelerated, Limited-View 3-D Photoacoustic Tomography

    Andreas Hauptmann;Felix Lucka;Marta Betcke;Nam Huynh

  • Two-dimensional quantitative photoacoustic image reconstruction of absorption distributions in scattering media by use of a simple iterative method

    Benjamin T. Cox;Simon R. Arridge;Kornel P. Köstli;Paul C. Beard

  • A Fabry–Pérot fiber-optic ultrasonic hydrophone for the simultaneous measurement of temperature and acoustic pressure

    Paul Morris;Andrew Hurrell;Adam Shaw;Edward Zhang

  • Transduction mechanisms of the Fabry-Perot polymer film sensing concept for wideband ultrasound detection

    P.C. Beard;F. Perennes;T.N. Mills

  • Spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging of lipid-rich plaques in the human aorta in the 740 to 1400 nm wavelength range.

    Thomas J Allen;Andrew Hall;Amar P Dhillon;James S Owen

  • Two-dimensional photoacoustic imaging by use of Fourier-transform image reconstruction and a detector with an anisotropic response.

    Kornel P. Köstli;Paul C. Beard

  • In vitro measurements of absolute blood oxygen saturation using pulsed near-infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy: accuracy and resolution

    Jan Laufer;Clare Elwell;Dave Delpy;Paul Beard

  • k-space propagation models for acoustically heterogeneous media: application to biomedical photoacoustics.

    B. T. Cox;S. Kara;S. R. Arridge;P. C. Beard

  • Fast calculation of pulsed photoacoustic fields in fluids using k-space methods.

    B. T. Cox;P. C. Beard

  • Estimating chromophore distributions from multiwavelength photoacoustic images.

    B. T. Cox;S. R. Arridge;P. C. Beard

  • Accelerated high-resolution photoacoustic tomography via compressed sensing.

    Simon Arridge;Paul Beard;Marta Betcke;Ben Cox

  • The challenges for quantitative photoacoustic imaging

    B. T. Cox;J. G. Laufer;P. C. Beard

  • Multimodal photoacoustic and optical coherence tomography scanner using an all optical detection scheme for 3D morphological skin imaging.

    Edward Z. Zhang;Boris Povazay;Jan Laufer;Aneesh Alex

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Cox
Ben Cox University College London
Adrien E. Desjardins
Adrien E. Desjardins University College London
Simon R. Arridge
Simon R. Arridge University College London
Sebastien Ourselin
Sebastien Ourselin King's College London
Ioannis Papakonstantinou
Ioannis Papakonstantinou University College London
Ivan P. Parkin
Ivan P. Parkin University College London
Paul Morris
Paul Morris University College London
Tom Vercauteren
Tom Vercauteren King's College London
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Jan Deprest
Jan Deprest KU Leuven

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