Liu Quan
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Biography
Dr. Quan Liu received the PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interest is focused on optical imaging and spectroscopy for medical diagnostics. Dr. Liu has published nearly forty journal papers and held twelve US patents/applications in the field of biomedical optics. He has also secured a total mount of external funding more than 3 million USD to support his group. Dr. Liu has served as a reviewer for several top journals, such as Optics Letters, Optics Express and Nature Communication, and multiple international funding agencies as well as a subcommittee member and session chair for multiple international conferences such as European Conferences in Biomedical Optics (ECBO) and Photonics West. Dr. Liu is a senior SPIE member and a regular OSA member.
Research Interest
Biophotonics, Biomedical optical spectroscopy and imaging, Non-invasive medical diagnostics, Biomedical instrumentation, Computer simulation of electromagnetic wave in tissue.
Publications
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Malathi Mathiyazhakan, Yuanxiang Yang, Yibo Liu, Caigang Zhu, Q. Liu, Claus Dieter Ohl, Kam Chiu Tam, Yu Gao, Chenjie Xu. (2015). Non-invasive controlled release from gold nanoparticle integrated photo-responsive liposomes through pulse laser induced microbubble cavitation. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 126, 569-574.
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Ravi Kumar Kannadorai, Geraldine Giap Ying Chiew, Kathy Luo Qian and Quan Liu. (2015). Dual functions of gold nanorods as photothermal agents and autofluorescence enhancer to track cell death during plasmonic photothermal therapy. Cancer letters, 357(1), 152-159.
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Manish Verma and Quan Liu. (2017). Evaluation of the optimal steepest ascent algorithm for focusing light through turbid media. European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), Germany.
