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Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Linfeng Tang
Wuhan University
2
Chonghe Wang
University of California San Diego
3
Baptiste Heiles
Delft University of Technology
4
Youjuan Wang
Zhejiang Cancer Hospital
5
Thuy Giang Nguyen Cao
University Medical Center
6
Shunyao Luan
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
7
Melissa Y. Lucero
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8
Xinyang Li
Zhejiang University
9
Haithem Hermessi
Tunis El Manar University
10
Spicer Daniel B.
Primary Source

Papers

1
In vivo ultrasound-induced luminescence molecular imaging
Nature Photonics|2024
150 cit.
2
Enhancing Fractionated Cancer Therapy: A Triple-Anthracene Photosensitizer Unleashes Long-Persistent Photodynamic and Luminous Efficacy
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2024
94 cit.
3
Ultrabright and ultrafast afterglow imaging in vivo via nanoparticles made of trianthracene derivatives
Nature Biomedical Engineering|2024
46 cit.
4
AI-powered ultrasonic thermometry for HIFU therapy in deep organ
Ultrasonics Sonochemistry|2024
45 cit.
5
DRMF: Degradation-Robust Multi-Modal Image Fusion via Composable Diffusion Prior
Unknown Journal|2024
31 cit.
6
C2RF: Bridging Multi-modal Image Registration and Fusion via Commonality Mining and Contrastive Learning
International Journal of Computer Vision|2025
31 cit.
7
See how your body works in real time — wearable ultrasound is on its way
Nature|2024
18 cit.
8
Nonlinear sound-sheet microscopy: Imaging opaque organs at the capillary and cellular scale
Science|2025
18 cit.
9
Real-Time Reconstruction of HIFU Focal Temperature Field Based on Deep Learning
BME Frontiers|2024
14 cit.
10
Mask-DiFuser: A Masked Diffusion Model for Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2025
13 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Kanyi Pu
Nanyang Technological University
2
Mikhail G. Shapiro
California Institute of Technology
3
Oliver T. Bruns†
Nationales Centrum für Tumorerkrankungen Dresden
4
Tim Bashford
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
5
Chengbo Liu
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science
6
Chengbo Liu
XinHua Hospital
7
Sheldon J. J. Kwok
Massachusetts Medical Society
8
Jerel K. Mueller
University of Minnesota
9
Xiaoyu Chen
Changzhou University
10
Xiangxiang Jing
Shanxi Medical University

Papers

1
Focused ultrasound excites cortical neurons via mechanosensitive calcium accumulation and ion channel amplification
Nature Communications|2022
477 cit.
2
Nanoparticles with ultrasound-induced afterglow luminescence for tumour-specific theranostics
Nature Biomedical Engineering|2022
252 cit.
3
Ultrasound-controllable engineered bacteria for cancer immunotherapy
Nature Communications|2022
241 cit.
4
Molecular radio afterglow probes for cancer radiodynamic theranostics
Nature Materials|2023
190 cit.
5
Renal clearable polyfluorophore nanosensors for early diagnosis of cancer and allograft rejection
Nature Materials|2022
189 cit.
6
A Dual‐Locked Activatable Phototheranostic Probe for Biomarker‐Regulated Photodynamic and Photothermal Cancer Therapy
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2022
169 cit.
7
Activatable near-infrared probes for the detection of specific populations of tumour-infiltrating leukocytes in vivo and in urine
Nature Biomedical Engineering|2023
157 cit.
8
Catalytical nano-immunocomplexes for remote-controlled sono-metabolic checkpoint trimodal cancer therapy
Nature Communications|2022
139 cit.
9
Two-Dimensional MXene-Originated <i>In Situ</i> Nanosonosensitizer Generation for Augmented and Synergistic Sonodynamic Tumor Nanotherapy
ACS Nano|2022
137 cit.
10
Genomically mined acoustic reporter genes for real-time in vivo monitoring of tumors and tumor-homing bacteria
Nature Biotechnology|2023
134 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Lihong V. Wang
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
2
Vasilis Ntziachristos
Helmholtz Zentrum München
3
Kullervo Hynynen
University of Toronto
4
Mathias Fink
Institut Langevin
5
Stanislav Emelianov
The University of Texas at Austin
6
Xiaowei Zhuang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
7
Arjun G. Yodh
University of Pennsylvania
8
Karen Egiazarian
Tampere University
9
Daniel Razansky
University of Zurich
10
Chulhong Kim
Pohang University of Science and Technology

Papers

1
Image Denoising by Sparse 3-D Transform-Domain Collaborative Filtering
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2007
9.2k cit.
2
Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM)
Nature Methods|2006
8.3k cit.
3
MCML—Monte Carlo modeling of light transport in multi-layered tissues
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine|1995
3.3k cit.
4
Spatially resolved, highly multiplexed RNA profiling in single cells
Science|2015
3.1k cit.
5
Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging by Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy
Science|2008
2.9k cit.
6
Photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine
Review of Scientific Instruments|2006
2.7k cit.
7
Supersonic shear imaging: a new technique for soft tissue elasticity mapping
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control|2004
2.4k cit.
8
Functional photoacoustic microscopy for high-resolution and noninvasive in vivo imaging
Nature Biotechnology|2006
1.8k cit.
9
High Weight Fraction Surfactant Solubilization of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Water
Nano Letters|2003
1.8k cit.
10
Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable AI meta-surfaces: an idea whose time has come
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking|2019
1.8k cit.

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