PI, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Tsinghua University      Associate Professor,  Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University     Office:Rohm Building 4-110, Tsinghua University      Phone: 6278 1780      E-mail：cheng_ma (at) tsinghua.edu.cn

[Research Focus]

My research interests encompass innovative optical and acoustic imaging technologies and their biomedical applications. I am currently focused on deep-tissue biophotonic imaging, especially photoacoustic computed tomography.

[Education & Experience]                           

[Selected Publications]                            

• Yuwen Chen^#, Haoyu Yang^#, Yan Luo^#, Yijun Niu^#, Muzhou Yu, Shanjun Deng, Xuanhao Wang, Handi Deng, Haichao Chen, Lixia Gao, Xinjian Li, Pingyong Xu, Fudong Xue, Jing Miao, Song-Hai Shi, Yi Zhong, Cheng Ma*, Bo Lei*, "Photoacoustic Tomography with Temporal Encoding Reconstruction (PATTERN) for cross-modal individual analysis of the whole brain." Nature Communications 15 (1), 4228 (2024).
• Siying Kong, Hongzhi Zuo, Chuhua Wu, Mingyuan Liu, Cheng Ma*, Oxygenation heterogeneity facilitates spatiotemporal flow pattern visualization inside human blood vessels using photoacoustic computed tomography, Biomedical Optics Express 15 (5), 2741 – 2752 (2024).
• Handi Deng^#, Yizhou Bai^#, Jiaxuan Xiang, Zhaoyue Li, Peiliang Zhao, Yawen Shi, Wubing Fu, Yuwen Chen, Minggang Fu, Cheng Ma*, Bin Luo*, Photoacoustic/ultrasound dual-modality imaging for marker clip localization in neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer, Journal of Biomedical Optics 29 (S1), S11525 (2024).
• Liujie Gu^#, Handi Deng^#, Yizhou Bai^#, Jianpan Gao, Xuanhao Wang, Tong Yue, Bin Luo*, Cheng Ma*, Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Patients with Breast Cancer Using a Photoacoustic/ultrasound dual-modality imaging system with carbon nanoparticles as the contrast agent – a pilot study, Biomedical Optics Express 14 (3), 1003 – 1014 (2023).
• Lei Li^#, Liren Zhu^#, Cheng Ma^#, Li Lin^#, Junjie Yao, Lidai Wang, Konstantin Maslov, Ruiying Zhang, Wanyi Chen, Junhui Shi, and Lihong V. Wang*, Single-impulse panoramic photoacoustic computed tomography of small-animal whole-body dynamics at high spatiotemporal resolution, Nature Biomedical Engineering 1, 71 (2017).
• Cheng Ma, Xiao Xu, Yan Liu, and Lihong V. Wang*, Time-reversed adapted-perturbation (TRAP) optical focusing onto dynamic objects inside scattering media, Nature Photonics 8, 931-936 (2014).