Anna Yang - Mechanical model of the breast
- Aid clinicians
- Cancer research
- Segmentation of regions from MR images
- Three interests: Air, skin, fat
- Using active contour models to find a 3D model from a series of pictures.
Matthew Walbran - All fibre Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering
- CARS for spectroscopy
- Multiplex CARS to cut down tuning time.
- Fibre being an optical fibre.
Ihab Ramadaan - Investigating the use of "colour" spectral CT
- Imaging modality
- Distinguishing different oragans/tissues
- Current techiques use markers but triple xray doses and time. Also dual energy scans but again double the time and xray. Also spectral CT works like RGB
- LHC = Large Hadron Collider
- Testing spectral CT and acquisition developed in collaboration with the university of Canterbury.
- Stopping power determined by the sensor layer.
Yukti Srivastava - Construction of an EDFA for use in an adavance lab
Speaker is crazy with the laser pointer. She needs a light saber!
- Amplification of light in long fibres.
- Connectorised components of the lab equipment.
Pratik Raval - LED as replacements to traditional lighting.
- Light is confined in LEDs because of internal reflection. Angle of illumination is small as well.
- Thermal management of LEDs due to thermal output over a small component size.
Jason Kuo - Bacterial tagging with optode
- Using labview and a single fibre probe
- Ended up a two fibre probe to compact coupling issues causing an irregular peak.
Amy Lin - Construction of a femtosecond Kerr shutter
- Need to combact "chirp" in super-continuum production
- Super-continuum source
- Optical delay line
- Polarizer
- Kerr medium
- Orthoginally, a femtosecond pulse source
- Analyzer
Kaidi Liang - Super-continuum generation
- Making tapers for super-continuum generation
- Third order effects most prominent in super-continuum generation
- Taper = heating a fibre and stretching under control.
Neil Alan Campbell - Determining iron loading using MRI T2* decay curves
- Iron loading is the amount of iron in tissue.
- MRI for determining iron loading without having to take biopsies.
