About Us
The Biomedical Ultrasound Group at University College London (UCL) was formed in 2013 to bring together researchers in acoustics, medical physics, and computer science with doctors and front-line users in medicine and the life sciences. The group comprises research staff with expertise including physical acoustics, numerical modelling, therapeutic ultrasound, ultrasonic and optical instrumentation, ultrasound metrology, in vivo experimentation, and laser-generated ultrasound.
The advanced computer models developed in the group to predict how ultrasound waves propagate in the human body have many applications in therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound, including imaging, treatment planning, image reconstruction, and hardware design. Many of these are packaged in an open-source acoustics toolbox called k-Wave. The toolbox is widely used in both academia and industry.
The group maintains strong collaborative links with many groups around the world, in particular the Supercomputing Group at Brno University of Technology, the Physiological Neuroimaging Group at the University of Oxford, the Computational Imaging Group at CWI Amsterdam, Multi-Modality Medical Imaging Group (M3I) at the University of Twente, and
the National Physical Laboratory, the UK’s National Metrology Institute. Within UCL, the group maintains close links to the Photoacoustic Imaging Group, the Centre for Medical Image Computing, and the Multimodal Interventional Sensing and Imaging group.
