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FoLSM Early Career Researcher Conference 2024
November 6th, 2024
The QUIIN lab were represented at the recent early career researcher conference for the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine here at KCL.
Paul from our lab, along with our regular collaborator Paul Cressey from the Thanou lab presented posters showcasing our exciting research.
New Scientist Live
October 12-14th, 2024
The QUIIN lab was excited to showcase their research at this year's New Scientist Live, hosted at the ExCeL Arena in London. Over three days, visitors had the chance to engage hands-on with ultrasound imaging, perhaps performing their very first ultrasound scan, and witnessing firsthand the fascinating interaction between sound waves and bubbles.
It was a fantastic experience for the lab, and they hope to have inspired a future wave of ultrasound pioneers!
ISTU and IUS 2024
September 19-26th, 2024
The lab traveled to Taipei, Taiwan for the back-to-back conferences The 23rd Annual International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound and 2024 Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium in September. Our group was well represented, presenting seven talks and eight posters across the two conferences.
Lambeth Country Show
June 8th & 9th, 2024
Along with other groups from KCL, the QUIIN lab presented at Lambeth Country show, in Brockwell Park. Over the two days lots of adults and kids were able to get to hands on with ultrasound imaging, performing their first scans using the butterfly probe.
Action Medical Research Reception
April 18, 2024
Antonis presented a poster on targeted gene therapy of pediatric brain tumors in the Action Medical Research (AMR) Symposium. He engaged with donors and discussed ongoing work in the QUIIN lab. Many thanks to AMR and Arcobaleno Cancer Trust for supporting our vision!
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Outreach activity - Harrodian School
March 14, 2024
The QUIIN lab held an outreach activity at the Harrodian School in West London. Lab members introduced students to echo location, "seeing" with sound using a Butterfly probe and a tablet, and finally, making bubbles dance to pop music!
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More information can be found here.
Anglo-French Physical Acoustics Conference 2024
January 17-19, 2024
Paul and Rachel attended and spoke at the AFPAC 2024 conference organized by the Institute of Physics. The conference covered a wide range of physical acoustics topics such as material characterization, biomedical ultrasound, and imaging.
Rachel spoke about her work in 'Evaluating the physical limits of acoustic holograms for transcranial brain applications'.
Paul gave a talk titled 'Coherent Multi-Transducer Ultrasound (CoMTUS) imaging: Towards large field-of-view imaging with three probes'.
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Girls in Engineering event
November 2023
In November, Rachel visited the Boeing flight services site to volunteer at a Girls in Engineering STEM event. 3 schools took part in the event and the girls were split into groups of 5 to compete in 3 different engineering challenges. Rachel gave a talk to the year 8 girls about her path through engineering as a woman and discussed her current work with acoustic holograms.
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The event was a great success! The girls were excited to try all the activities and came away with a better understanding of the broad range of STEM subjects available.
New Scientist Live
October 7-9, 2023
The QUIIN lab were pleased to have the opportunity to host demonstrations of their research at this year's New Scientist Live, held at the ExCel Arena in London. Across three days attendees were able to get to grips with ultrasound imaging, performing hopefully the first of many ultrasound scans and to see up-close the effect sound can have on bubbles.
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The lab had a great time at the event and hopefully inspired the next generation of ultrasound experts!
IUS 2023
September 3 - 8, 2023
The lab travelled to Montreal for the annual IEEE Interal Ultrasonics Symposium in September. Our presentations and posters included:
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Micro-Vasculature Phantom for Ultrasound Super-Resolution Imaging
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Multi-Modal Confirmation of Thermosensitive Liposome Delivery to the Brain After FUS-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening for the Treatment of Diffuse Midline Glioma
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Measuring MRI Signal of Gd-Labelled An�bodies and Liposomes for Confirming UltrasoundMediated Delivery Into the Brain
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The 2023 Artimino Conference on Medical Ultrasound Technology
June 2023
In June 2023 Jaime and Paul attended the Artimino Conference on Medical Ultrasound Technology in Tuscany, Italy. Paul presented his work on three-probe ultrasound imaging, and the conference featured many other interesting talks.
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The conference was also a great opportunity to catch up with our collaborators and hosts from the MSE Lab in Florence.
Winter School on Therapeutic Ultrasound 2023
March 2023
In March 2023 Amelia and Rachel attended a one week course in Les Houches, France, on Therapeutic Ultrasound, hosted by Ecole de Physiques des Houches.
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Lectures and Presentations included:
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Focusing Ultrasound in complex media: the role of Time Reversal Mirrors, by Jean-Francois Aubry
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Histology for therapeutic ultrasound, by Gail ter Haar
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Histotripsy, by Vera Khokhlova
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and many more interesting talks
The school was also a great opportunity to meet other PhD students and learn about the amazing work they are doing.
IUS 2022
October 10 - 13, 2022
This October the QUIIN lab and collaborators will be presenting at the International Ultrasonics Symposium in Venice!
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Lectures and Presentations include:
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Specific Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming for 2-D and 3-D Coherent Multi-Transducer Ultrasound Imaging
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Towards multi-probe high frame rate volumetric vector Doppler imaging: a feasibility study
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Experimental demonstration of the coherent use of two sparse arrays for 3-D imaging
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Classification of Cortical Bone Thicknesses Based on RF Signal Spectral Analysis
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Estimation of Cortical Bone Strength Using CNN-Based Regression Model
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Come and find us! We look forward to meeting you.
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Link to IUS Website: https://2022.ieee-ius.org
Superheroes unlimited
August 20, 2022
Kirsten and Antonis had fun discussing ultrasound and scanning buckets with sponges, together with enthusiastic young scientists! In an event full of hands-on activities and superheroes, more than 30 children did their first ultrasound scan - but not the last!
Stay tuned for more outreach activities from our group!
Meet the superheroes: UltraSonic
August 9, 2022
Kirsten will show off her UltraSonic superpowers in the Superheroes Unlimited 2022 event at the Institute of Physics. The event will take place on Saturday 20 August 2022, 10am - 4pm, and it will be suitable for families. Please join her to discover the power of ultrasound and bubbles!
Our lab was awarded the 2022 Little Princess Trust Innovation Grant! The award will support a 3-year project on paediatric brain tumour treatment using focused ultrasound and thermosensitive liposomes. A big thank you to the Little Princess Trust for making this work possible!
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Little Princess Trust Innovation Grant awarded to our lab!
July 6, 2022
QUIIN website is live!
June 28, 2022
Our brand new website is launched! The Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging & Interventions (QUIIN) laboratory at King's College London was established in 2022. We are in the process of setting up our group and are excited to embark on this journey!
Stay tuned for more content and updates from the QUIIN lab.
