Hannah Nijsse successfully completed her Bachelor End Project (BEP) on 10 July 2019. She developed a method for quantifying image sharpness in MR images after FatNav motion correction.

The research team of Koen van Dongen received a grant of € 38.095,00 for their project on “Real-time dose reconstruction for proton therapy based on proton acoustics”. This grant will allow the team to conduct a feasibility study at HollandPTC.

Onderzoekers Nico de Jong (Imaging Physics) en Toeno van der Sar (Quantum Nanoscience) hebben van NWO financiering gekregen binnen het programma van de Nationale Wetenschapsagenda: Onderzoek op Routes door Consortia (NWA-ORC). Beide onderzoekers gaan een interdisciplinair consortium leiden dat zich richt op een bepaalde wetenschappelijke en maatschappelijke uitdaging.

De Executive Council van de Acoustical Society of America heeft Martin Verweij verkozen tot Fellow voor zijn bijdragen aan niet-lineaire medische echografie. De prestigieuze Fellow-titel wordt door academische verenigingen toegekend aan leden die een blijvende invloed hebben gehad op hun wetenschappelijk vakgebied en een belangrijke bijdrage hebben geleverd aan de organisatie van de vereniging.

Reconstructing the phase of a field from intensity measurements is a long-standing and ubiquitous challenge, known as the phase retrieval problem. The new phase reconstruction method by Yifeng Shao, PhD student @ImPhys, overcomes several challenges of conventional iterative CDI algorithms and holographic methods.

On May 17th, 2019 Jeroen Heldens successfuly defended his PhD thesis on "Raman based identification of on-chip trapped single micro-organisms".

Christiano Glessi is a PhD student, on a secondment from Oslo University, as part of the ELENA Marie Curie programme. He is working on tests of novel precursors for electron beam induced processing. Christiano collaborates with Aya Mahgoub and is supervised by Kees Hagen.

Joseph Braat, a former professor of optics in the ImPhys department, has finally wrapped up his contribution to the book Imaging Optics. The book was officially published in print by Cambridge University Press on the 2nd of May 2019. In the accompanying text, you can read about his book-writing Odyssey of 10 years.

A team of scientists at Harvard University, led by professor dr. Adam Cohen and first author dr. Yoav Adam, and including Imaging Physics’ dr. Daan Brinks, today published a paper in Nature, for the first time showing a ‘live broadcast of the brain’, ‘transforming neural electrical signals into sparks visible through a microscope.’

“On-chip silicon Mach–Zehnder interferometer sensor for ultrasound detection”. This experimental work on a novel ultrasound sensor is the result of a collaboration of members of three ImPhys sections and a partner of Ghent University. In the Letter we report an integrated photonics Mach-Zehnder interferometer for ultrasound detection, fabricated in silicon-on-insulator technology.