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Prof. Adrian Podoleanu

Professor of Biomedical Optics Head of Applied Optics Group Ingram Building,  Room 301 Telephone: 01227 823272 Fax: 01227 827558, Email:a.g.h.podoleanu

Expertise

-Non-invasive imaging of the tissue, especially optical coherence tomography and confocal microscopy
-Optical sensing
-Fast optoelectronics

Biography

Adrian Gh. Podoleanu received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics from the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Technical University of Bucharest, Romania in 1984. He began his career teaching at the Technical University Bucharest, Romania. As an associate professor, he taught Physics, Optics and Optoelectronics and developed research on Lasers and fast optoelectronics.
Since 2004 he is a Full Professor of Biomedical Optics in the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK and heads the Applied Optics Group.
His research interests focus on optical coherence tomography (OCT), imaging the eye, distance measurements using low coherence interferometry, subnanosecond dwell time multichannel digital correlation, sensing and secure optical communications. He contributed towards development of the en-face OCT imaging as a
novel technology to complement the more conventional longitudinal OCT imaging and towards Fourier domain OCT with no mirror terms (using Talbot bands).
He is involved in teaching of non-invasive optical imaging methods with emphasis on OCT, Electromagnetism and Optics and Medical Physics. 

AWARDS

• European Research Concil, Advanced Research Fellowship, 2010-2015;
• Ambassador’s Diploma, Embassy of Romania in the UK, 24 Oct. 2009;
• Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2004 – 2006;
• The Romanian Academy “Constantin Miculescu” prize for research in Lasers and Nonlinear Optics in 1984.
  

RESEARCH OUTPUT

Book chapters: 6
Articles in peer reviewed journals: 130
Communications at conferences: over 400 (resulting in proceedings of or longer than 3 pages: over 190);
Patents: 15 patents, 11 awarded (11 distinct plus 2 divisional), 9 in good standing, 6 sole author, 14 first author).
Invited talks and seminars: over 46.

He is one of the topical editors of the
Applied Optics (Optical Society of America) for the Biomedical Optics division [1]
and member in the editorial boards of
Research letters in Optics (Hindawi journals) [2],
Advances in optoelectronics (Hindawi journals) [3] and
Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications (National Institute of Optoelectronics, Bucharest, Romania) [4]. 

He is director of Optopod Ltd, a spin-out of the University of Kent involved in spectral OCT and a visiting professor in the New York Medical College.

	Optical Coherence Tomography
	Marie Curie Training Site
	Optoelectronics
	Sensing
	Laser stimulation
	INTAS

 

Some Recent Publications

• I. Trifanov, P. Caldas, L. Neagu, R. Romero, M. O. Berendt, J. R. Salcedo, A. Gh. Podoleanu,  A.B.Lobo Ribeiro, Combined Neodymium-Ytterbium Doped ASE Fiber Optic Source for Optical Coherence Tomography Applications, Vol. 23, No. 1, January 1, 2011, 21 – 23. Initially published online, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2010.

• A. Bradu, L. Neagu, A. Podoleanu,  Extra long imaging range swept source optical coherence tomography using re-circulation loops, Opt. Express 18, 25361-25370 (2010).

  E. Ödlund, H.-F. Raynaud, C. Kulcsár, F. Harms, X. Levecq, F. Martins, N. Chateau, A. Gh. Podoleanu, Control of an electromagnetic deformable mirror using high speed dynamics’ characterization and identification, Applied Optics, Vol. 49 Issue 31, pp.G120-G128 (2010)

• Liviu Neagu, Adrian Bradu, L. Ma, J. W. Bloor, A.Gh. Podoleanu, Multiple-depth en face optical coherence tomography using active recirculation loops, Optics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 13 / July 1, 2010, 2296-2298.</>

  S. Van der Jeught, A. Bradu, A. Gh. Podoleanu, Real-time resampling in Fourier domain optical coherence tomography using a graphics processing unit, JBO Letters, Vol. 15, Issue 3, 030511 (2010),  doi:10.1117/1.3437078.

• M.Khandwala, B. R. Penmetsa, S Dey, J B Schofield, C A Jones, A.Podoleanu, Imaging of periocular basal cell carcinoma using en face optical coherence tomography: a pilot study,   Clinical science: Br J Ophthalmol. published 1 June 2010, Vol. 94: pp. 1332 - 1336. doi:10.1136/bjo.2009.170811, ISSN 0007-1161

• A. Gh. Podoleanu, Fiber Optics, from Sensing to Non Invasive High Resolution Medical Imaging [11], Journal of Lightwave Technology, Publication Date: Feb.15, 2010, Volume: 28,  Issue: 4, p. 624-640, ISSN: 0733-8724, DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2032787
  First Published: 2009-09-22, Current Version Published: 2010-02-08

• S. Tuohy,  A. Gh. Podoleanu, Depth-resolved wavefront aberrations using a coherence-gated Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, Opt. Express 18, 3458-3476 (2010) [12]

• M. Hughes, M. Spring, A. Podoleanu, Speckle noise reduction in optical coherence tomography of paint layers,"             Appl. Opt. 49, 99-107 (2010), [13]
  and in Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, Vol. 5, Iss. 2 [14]

• A. Meadway, S. H. H. Darbrazi, G. Dobre, R. B Rosen, A. Gh Podoleanu, A rapid method of measuring dispersion in low coherence interferometry and optical coherence tomography systems [15], J. Opt. 12 (2010) 015302 (6pp) doi:10.1088/2040-8978/12/1/015302

• A. Bradu, L. Ma, J. W. Bloor, A. Podoleanu Dual optical coherence tomography/fluorescence microscopy for monitoring of Drosophila melanogaster [16]
  larval heart, [17] 2009 by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim J. Biophoton. 2, No. 6–7 (2009), p. 380 – 388. DOI 0.1002/jbio.200910021

  
  All publications, peer reviewed papers and conference proceedings [18]