Research Highlight
News & Events
- Dr. Guohua Cao joined the Joint School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences of Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University as a tenure-track assistant professorship in Aug 2011. -08/2011
- Graduate student Mike Hadsell has won one of the "Best in Physics" awards at the annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) meeting in Vancouver. He was selected based on his abstract entitled: "Pilot Study for the Development of Clinical Microbeam Radiation Therapy Using a Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Micro-CT Scanner." His co-authors are: J Zhang, G Cao, E Schreiber, J Lu , S Chang, and O Zhou, from Physics and Radiation Oncology at UNC.
- Matt Wait graduated from UNC Physics and enrolled in the graduate Medical Physics program at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas in Aug 2011.
- Dr. Sigeng Wang started his Medical Physics Residency program at the Department of Radiation Oncology at UNC in July 2011.
- Dr. Yueh Lee becomes a fellow of Neuroradiology at the Department of Radiology at UNC since July 2011
Welcome to the home page of the Zhou lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The research in our lab focuses on developing advanced instrumentations for diagnostic medical imaging and radiation therapy utilizing the carbon nanotube based field emission x-ray source technology pioneered by our team at UNC. Our interdisciplinary and translational research team consists of a large group of students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, and collaborators with training and expertise in materials sciences, physics, biomedical engineering, radiology and radiation oncology. We also work closely with industrial partners.
Our current research projects include:
- High resolution physiologically gated micro-computed tomography for in vivo small animal imaging;
- Digital breast tomosynthesis for early detection of human breast cancer;
- Microbeam radiation therapy for potential treatment of brain tumor.
The above research projects are generously supported by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, The University Cancer Research Fund, the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, and private industries.