Welcome to master student Hans LigtenbergDecember 20th, 2012 - BMPI welcomes a new master student: Hans Ligtenberg.
Hans is a Biomedical Engineering student and his project in BMPI will be the last hurdle before becoming MSc.
In the coming months, Hans will do research on the building of a phase-conjugating mirror and how this can be used in combination with ultrasound imaging.

BMPI congratulates Sanne, MSc and Stefan, MScDecember 7th, 2012 - Last month, two master students from our group graduated! BMPI congratulates Sanne Slegers (BME) and Stefan Sandker (TM) with obtaining the title of Master of Science (MSc).

Rogier Wildeboer (BSc, BME) wins prize for best bachelor research performed in the Netherlands with his research performed in BMPINovember 22nd, 2012 - BMPI congratulates Rogier Wildeboer with his prize for the best bachelor research performed in the Netherlands last year. The student biomedical technology performed his bachelor research in BMPI in the spring of 2012. He investigated the use of higher harmonics to improve the image quality of photoacoustic images.
Wednesday November 21st, sixty preselected students had to present their bachelor research at the Student Research Conference in Utrecht. Rogier won the first prize: 1500 euro.

IVO VELLEKOOP STARTS TENURE TRACK AT BMPISeptember 1st, 2012 - Ivo Vellekoop has started as an assistant professor in BMPI. Ivo received his masters and PhD degrees in the Complex Photonic Systems group of the University of Twente and worked as a postdoc at the Physical Systems Biology group of the University of Zurich, and at the Biophotonics Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology.

Paper on the potential of superparamagnetic iron nanoparticles (SPIOs) as photoacoustic contrast agentsOctober 31st 2012 - In the first volume of 2013, the paper of Diederik Grootendorst et al:
“Evaluation of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (Endorem®) as a photoacoustic contrast agent for intra-operative nodal staging”
Will be published in Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging (Vol. 8, (1), pp. 83, January/February 2013 doi: 10.1002/cmmi.1498)

The work summarized in this paper was performed by researchers from BMPI in strong collaboration with researchers from various other groups within MIRA (NeuroImaging, Biomedical Chemistry, Nanobiophysics) and the Netherlands Cancer Institute Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (NKI-AVL).

Stefan Sandker awarded 2nd poster prizeOctober 8th, 2012 - Stefan Sandker (master student Technical Medicine) won the 2nd prize with his poster on the ‘science symposium 2012’ (wetenschapssymposium 2012) of the Medisch Spectrum Twente hospital in Enschede.

BMPI welcomes two new membersOctober 1st 2012 - Gerrit Held and Pim van den Berg joined BMPI as a master student Biomedical Engineering and PhD student respectively. Both will work on photoacoustic imaging for clinical applications.
BMPI whishes Gerrit and Pim good luck with their project in the group.

'European Hospital' pays attention to photoacoustic imagingSeptember 24th 2012 - One of the techniques under investigation in BMPI is photoacoustic imaging for various medical applications. Professor Wiendelt Steenbergen recently outlined the highly promising potentials of this technology in medical research during an interview with ‘European Hospital’

http://www.european-hospital.com/en/article/10017-Boosting_the_potential_of_ultrasound.html

Paper on photoacoustic imaging of human lymph nodes published in Lasers in Surgery and MedicineAugust 15th 2012 - On the 6th of August, the paper entitled:
“First experiences of photoacoustic imaging for detection of melanoma metastases in resected human lymph nodes”
Was first published online in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine (Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, vol.44, issue 6, 2012, DOI 10.1002/lsm.22058)
The work summarized in this paper was performed by researchers from BMPI (Diederik Grootendorst, Jithin Jose, Ton van Leeuwen, Wiendelt Steenbergen and Srirang Manohar) in strong collaboration with the Netherlands Cancer Institute Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (NKI-AVL) and the nanobiophysics group of the University of Twente.

First MIRA Imaging and Diagnostics colloquium: June 19th, 12.30, NH 1.24The Imaging and Diagnostics colloquium is a new initiative within MIRA. This will be a series of presentations given mainly by PhD students, postdocs and other researchers within the Imaging and Diagnostics track of MIRA. The purpose of the colloquium is to bring together researchers working on Imaging and Diagnostics, so that they know about each other’s work and find it easier to get in touch for help and cooperation.

Samir Kumar Biswas joined BMPIBMPI welcomes a new postdoctoral researcher: Samir Kumar Biswas. Samir will be involved in the Indo-Dutch project on photoacoustic imaging of finger joints for diagnosis and disease monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis.

Paper and press-release on photoacoustic mammographyOn May 7th 2012, the research paper entitled:
“Visualizing breast cancer using the Twente photoacoustic mammoscope: What do we learn from twelve new patient measurements?”
Written by researchers from BMPI and the Medisch Spectrum Twente Hospital, was published in Optics Express.

Together with the online publication of the manuscript, OSA distributed a press release concerning the work.

BMPI welcomes six new bachelor studentsSix new bachelor students (Biomedical Technology and Advanced Technology) joined BMPI on the 23rd of April. In the coming 10 weeks, the students will work on an individual research project to obtain their bachelor degree.

Review on acousto-optics publishedIn April 2012, the review entitled:
“State-of-the art of acousto-optic sensing and imaging of turbid media”
Written by Steffen Resink and Wiendelt Steenbergen from BMPI and Claude Boccara from the Langevin Institute (ESPCI ParisTech), was published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics

BMPI congratulates dr. Jithin Jose!!On Thursday the 5th of April 2012, BMPI member Jithin Jose successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled:
“Prospects of passive element enriched photoacoustic computed tomography (PER-PACT)"
After which he obtained the degree of doctor.

Chiel Grijsen graduated!On the 7th of March Chiel Grijsen (BME) succesfully defended his master thesis. His work was graded with an 8.

A new master student joins BMPIBMPI welcomes a new master student: Mithun Kuniyil Ajith Singh. In the coming months, Mithun will study the preamplifiers for the ultrasound detectors used in photoacoustic imaging.

New master student in BMPISanne Slegers joined BMPI on the first of February. The project with the miniature photoacoustic imager will be the last part of Sanne’s master in Biomedical Engineering.

PhD Defence Jithin Jose on April 5, 2012On Thursday the 5th of April, BMPI member Jithin Jose will defend his PhD thesis entitled:
“Prospects of passive element enriched photoacoustic computed tomography (PER-PACT)"

The defence will start with a short introduction at 16.30 hrs in the Prof. Dr. G. Berkhoff-zaal in the Waaier at the University of Twente.

Michelle Heijblom awarded presentation prize at BIOS 2012Michelle Heijblom has won the 2nd prize in the Best Paper competition at the BIOS in San Francisco.