Applied Radiology reports that UB has received a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new, portable breast-imaging system that has the potential to better identify breast cancer.
Optics.org published an item on research led by Jun Xia, associate professor of biomedical engineering, whose team has developed a technique that uses photoacoustic tomography to map the precise network of blood vessels in a subject's fingers in 3D. The technology has potential applications in biometric authentication.
Several scientific media outlets, including Bioengineer, published the research findings of Jun Xia, associate professor of biomedical engineering, that showed biometric authentication can replace the need for passwords.
Jun Xia, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded a 2020 Qualcomm Faculty Award to support his research on the application of photoacoustic imaging in wearable technologies.
Medical Xpress reported on a new, portable breast imaging system that has the potential to better identify breast cancer in women with dense breast tissue and quotes study lead author Jun Xia, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
