Assistant Professor Yu Chen

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2003

Room 2330A Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: yuchen@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-3439
Fax: (301) 314-9953

Research Interests

• Biomedical optical imaging
• Optical coherence tomography (OCT)
• Optical coherence microscopy (OCM)
• Diffuse optical spectroscopy and imaging
• Molecular imaging
• Early cancer diagnosis
• Neuroimaging

Honors and Awards

• 2006: Outstanding Instrumentation Research Paper of 2005
  (Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology)
• 2004–2006: Postdoctoral Fellowship
  (Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation)
• 2003: Finalist – Young Investigator Competition
  (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation andWhitaker Foundation)
• 2003: Solomon R. Pollack Award for Excellence in Graduate Bioengineering  Research
  (University of Pennsylvania)

• 2002: Poster Award
  (28th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society)

• 2000: Student Fellowship
  (Education Foundation, Society of Nuclear Medicine)

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Selected Refereed Publications

S. Yuan, Q. Li, J. Jiang, A. Cable, Y. Chen, "Three-Dimensional Co-Registered Optical Coherence Tomography and Line-Scanning Fluorescence Laminar Tomography," Optics Letters, E-Pub ahead of Print (2009).

Y. Chen, A.D. Aguirre, P. Hsiung, S. Huang, H. Mashimo, S. Desai, J. Schmitt, J.G. Fujimoto, "Comparison of Ultrahigh and Standard Resolution Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography for Gastrointestinal Imaging," Optics Express, 16, 2469-2485 (2008).

Y. Chen, A.D. Aguirre, L. Ruvinskaya, A. Devor, D.A. Boas, J.G. Fujimoto, "Optical coherence tomography (OCT) reveals depth-resolved dynamics during functional brain activation", Journal of Neuroscience Methods 178, 162–173 (2009).

P.M. Andrews, Y. Chen, S. Huang, D. Adler, R. Huber, J. Jiang, S. Barry, A. Cable, J.G. Fujimoto, "High-Speed Three-Dimensional Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of Kidney Ischemia In Vivo," Laboratory Investigation, 88, 441-449 (2008).

D. Adler, Y. Chen, R. Huber, J.M. Schmitt, J. Connolly, J.G. Fujimoto, "Three-Dimensional Endomicroscopy with Optical Coherence Tomography," Nature Photonics, 1, 709-176 (2007).

P. Hsiung, D. Phatak, Y. Chen, A.D. Aguirre, L. Pantanowitz, J.G. Fujimoto, J.L. Connolly, "Ultrahigh Resolution and 3D Optical Coherence Tomography Ex Vivo Imaging of Malignant and Benign Lesions in Human Breast," Radiology, 244, 865-874 (2007).

Y. Chen, S. Huang, A.D. Aguirre, J.G. Fujimoto, "High-Resolution Line-Scanning Optical Coherence Microscopy," Optics Letters, 32, 1971-1973 (2007).

Y. Chen, A.D. Aguirre, P. Hsiung, S. Desai, P.R. Herz, M. Pedrosa, Q. Huang, M. Figueiredo, S. Huang, A. Koski, J.M. Schmitt, J.G. Fujimoto, H. Mashimo, "Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography of Barrett’s Esophagus – Preliminary Descriptive Clinical Study Correlating Images with Histology," Endoscopy, 39, 599-605 (2007).  (Featured on the Journal Cover)

Y. Chen, P.M. Andrews, A.D. Aguirre, J.M. Schmitt, J.G. Fujimoto, "High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of Kidney Microanatomy Ex Vivo," Journal of Biomedical Optics, 12, 034008 (2007).

A.D. Aguirre, Y. Chen, L. Ruvinskaya, A. Devor, D.A. Boas, J.G. Fujimoto, "Cross-sectional Imaging of Functional Activation in the Rat Somatosensory Cortex with Optical Coherence Tomography," Optics Letters, 31, 3459-3461 (2006).

P. Hsiung, L. Pantanowitz, A.D. Aguirre, Y. Chen, D. Phatak, J.L. Connolly, H. Mashimo, J.G. Fujimoto, "Ultrahigh Resolution and 3D Optical Coherence Tomography Ex Vivo Imaging of the Large and Small Intestine," Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 62, 561-574 (2005).

Y. Chen, X. Intes, B. Chance, "Development of High Sensitivity Near-Infrared (NIR) Fluorescence Imaging Device for Early Cancer Detection," Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology, 39, 75-85 (2005).  (Outstanding Instrumentation Research Paper)

P.R. Herz, Y. Chen, A. Aguirre, K. Schneider, P. Hsiung, K. Madden, J. Schmitt, J. Goodnow, C. Petersen, J.G. Fujimoto, "Micro-Motor Endoscope Catheter for In Vivo Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography," Optics Letters, 29, 2261-2263 (2004).

P.R. Herz, Y. Chen, A. Aguirre, J.G. Fujimoto, H. Mashimo, J. Schmitt, A. Koski, J. Goodnow, C. Petersen, "Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Biopsy with Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography," Optics Express, 12, 3532-3542 (2004)

Y. Chen, G. Zheng, Z. Zhang, D. Blessington, Q. Liu, X. Intes, L. Zhou, H. Li, M. Zhang, S. Achilefu, B. Chance, "Metabolism Enhanced Tumor Localization by Fluorescence Imaging: In Vivo Animal Studies," Optics Letters, 28, 2070-2072 (2003).

X. Intes, J. Ripoll, Y. Chen, S. Nioka, A.G. Yodh, B. Chance, "In Vivo Continuous Wave Optical Breast Imaging Enhanced by Indocyanine Green," Medical Physics, 30, 1039-1047 (2003).

Y. Chen, D. Tailor, X. Intes, B. Chance, "Correlation between Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Rat Brain Oxygenation Modulation," Physics in Medicine and Biology, 48, 417-427 (2003).

Y. Chen, C. Mu, X. Intes, B. Chance, "Adaptive Calibration for Object Localization in Turbid Media with Interfering Diffuse Photon Density Waves," Applied Optics, 41, 7325-7333 (2002).

X. Intes, Y. Chen, X. Li, B. Chance, "Detection Limit Enhancement of Florescent Heterogeneities in Turbid Media by Dual Interfering Excitation," Applied Optics, 41, 3999-4007 (2002).

Y. Chen, C. Mu, X. Intes, B. Chance, "Signal-to-Noise Analysis for Detection Sensitivity of Small Absorbing Heterogeneity in Turbid Media with Single-source and Dual-Interfering-Source," Optics Express, 9, 212-224 (2001).

Y. Chen, S. Zhou, C. Xie, S. Nioka, M. Papadopoulos, E. Anday, B. Chance, "Preliminary Evaluation of Dual Wavelength Phased Array Imaging on Neonatal Brain Function," Journal of Biomedical Optics, 5, 194-200 (2000).

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Books and Chapters

Y. Chen, A.D. Aguirre, D. Adler, H. Mashimo, J.G. Fujimoto, "Endoscopy," in Translational Multimodality Optical Imaging, X. Intes, F. Azar, Eds., Artech House (2008).

W. Drexler, Y. Chen, A. Aguirre, B. Povazay, A. Unterhuber, J.G. Fujimoto, "Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography," in Optical Coherence Tomography: Technology and Applications, J.G. Fujimoto and W. Drexler, Eds., Springer (2008).

A. Unterhuber, B. Povazay, A. Aguirre, Y. Chen, F.X. Kartner, J.G. Fujimoto, W. Drexler, "Broad Bandwidth Laser and Nonlinear Optical Light Sources for OCT," in Optical Coherence Tomography: Technology and Applications, J.G. Fujimoto and W. Drexler, Eds., Springer (2008).

J.G. Fujimoto, Y. Chen, A. Aguirre, "Biomedical Imaging using Optical Coherence Tomography," in Biomedical Optics Handbook, Oxford University Press (2008).

J.G. Fujimoto, A. Aguirre, Y. Chen, P. Herz, P. Hsiung, T. Ko, N. Nishizawa, F. Kaertner, "Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography using Femtosecond Lasers," in Ultrashort Laser Pulse in Biology and Medicine, M. Braun, P. Gilch, W. Zinth, Eds., Springer (2007).

Professional Affiliations

• Optical Society of America (OSA)
• International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Sigma Xi