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  • 2009 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2007 - OSA Fellows For pioneering contributions to the development of functional optical coherence tomography (F-OCT), including Doppler, polarization-sensitive, phase-resolved, and second-harmonic OCT.

Overview

Zhongping Chen is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, in the United States. Their research spans medicine and engineering, with a significant focus on biomedical engineering and imaging technologies. The scientist's work integrates cross-disciplinary areas such as radiology, nuclear medicine, and surgery.

Their publication record includes key topics such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) applications, photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging, ultrasound imaging and elastography, glaucoma and retinal disorders, corneal surgery and disorders, concrete and cement materials research, and pelvic floor disorders treatments.

Frequent coauthors include Yan Li, Brian J. F. Wong, Yusi Miao, Qifa Zhou, and Lidek Chou, reflecting collaborative efforts in their research field.

Chen's research has appeared regularly in several journals and venues, including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
  • Light Science & Applications
  • APL Bioengineering

The scientist has contributed to numerous papers, with notable recent publications such as:

  • Ultrahigh-sensitive optical coherence elastography, 2020, Light Science & Applications
  • Validation of a Point-of-Care Optical Coherence Tomography Device with Machine Learning Algorithm for Detection of Oral Potentially Malignant and Malignant Lesions, 2021, Cancers
  • High resolution optical coherence elastography of retina under prosthetic electrode, 2020, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
  • Advances in Endoscopic Photoacoustic Imaging, 2021, Photonics
  • Sustainable solutions: Transforming waste shield tunnelling soil into geopolymer-based underwater backfills, 2024, Journal of Cleaner Production

Chen's work covers advanced imaging modalities that include functional OCT techniques such as Doppler, polarization-sensitive, and phase-resolved OCT, considering their earlier recognition as an OSA Fellow for contributions to the development of functional optical coherence tomography. This includes second-harmonic OCT methods.

In 2007, Chen was recognized as an OSA Fellow specifically for pioneering contributions to functional OCT. In 2009, they were named a SPIE Fellow.

Best Publications

  • Phase-resolved optical coherence tomography and optical doppler tomography for imaging fluid flow in tissue with fast scanning speed and high velocity sensitivity

    Zhongping Chen;Yonghua Zhao;J. Stuart Nelson;Johannes F. DeBoer

  • Noninvasive imaging of in vivo blood flow velocity using optical Doppler tomography

    Zhongping Chen;Thomas E. Milner;Shyam Srinivas;Xiaojun Wang

  • Optical Doppler tomographic imaging of fluid flow velocity in highly scattering media.

    Z Chen;T E Milner;D Dave;J S Nelson

  • Determination of the depth-resolved Stokes parameters of light backscattered from turbid media by use of polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.

    JF de Boer;TE Milner;JS Nelson

  • Imaging thermally damaged tissue by Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography.

    JF de Boer;S. M. Srinivas;A Malekafzali;ZP Chen

  • High-resolution optical coherence tomography over a large depth range with an axicon lens.

    Zhihua Ding;Hongwu Ren;Yonghua Zhao;J Stuart Nelson

  • Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography by broadband continuum generation from a photonic crystal fiber

    Yimin Wang;Yonghua Zhao;J S Nelson;Zhongping Chen

  • Doppler standard deviation imaging for clinical monitoring of in vivo human skin blood flow

    YH Zhao;ZP Chen;CE Saxer;QM Shen

  • High-speed fiber–based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography of in vivo human skin

    CE Saxer;JF de Boer;B.H. Park;YH Zhao

  • Removal of a mirror image and enhancement of the signal-to-noise ratio in Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography using an electro-optic phase modulator

    Jun Zhang;J Stuart Nelson;Zhongping Chen

  • Optical Doppler tomography

    Zhongping Chen;Yonghua Zhao;S.M. Srinivas;J.S. Nelson

  • Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle-embedded encapsulated microbubbles as dual contrast agents of magnetic resonance and ultrasound imaging.

    Fang Yang;Yixin Li;Zhongping Chen;Yu Zhang

  • Determination of burn depth by polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

    Shyam M. Srinivas;Johannes F. de Boer;Hyle Park;Kourosh Keikhanzadeh

  • Polarization effects in optical coherence tomography of various biological tissues

    J.F. de Boer;S.M. Srinivas;B.H. Park;T.H. Pham

  • Optimal wavelength for ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography.

    Yimin Wang;J Nelson;Zhongping Chen;Bibiana Reiser

  • An optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based air jet indentation system for measuring the mechanical properties of soft tissues.

    Yan-Ping Huang;Yong-Ping Zheng;Shu-Zhe Wang;Zhong-Ping Chen

  • Method and apparatus for optical Doppler tomographic imaging of fluid flow velocity in highly scattering media

    John Stuart Nelson;Thomas Edward Milner;Zhongping Chen

  • Improved phase-resolved optical Doppler tomography using the Kasai velocity estimator and histogram segmentation

    Victor X.D Yang;Victor X.D Yang;Maggie L Gordon;Maggie L Gordon;Alvin Mok;Alvin Mok;Yonghua Zhao

  • High speed spectral domain functional optical coherence tomography and optical doppler tomography for in vivo blood flow dynamics and tissue structure

    Zhongping Chen;Jun Zhang;J. Stuart Nelson

  • Imaging blood flow in human port-wine stain in situ and in real time using optical Doppler tomography.

    J. Stuart Nelson;Kristen M. Kelly;Yonghua Zhao;Zhongping Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Qifa Zhou
Qifa Zhou University of Southern California
J. Stuart Nelson
J. Stuart Nelson University of California, Irvine
K. Kirk Shung
K. Kirk Shung University of Southern California
Ning Gu
Ning Gu Southeast University
Sukant K. Tripathy
Sukant K. Tripathy University of Massachusetts Lowell
Qinghua Li
Qinghua Li Lingnan Normal University
Jayant Kumar
Jayant Kumar University of Massachusetts Lowell
Frank W. Wise
Frank W. Wise Cornell University
Jing Wang
Jing Wang Tsinghua University
Michael W. Berns
Michael W. Berns University of California, Irvine

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