Adrian Bradu’s website

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November 2023, according to Google Scholar:

Citations: 2717

h-index: 29

i10-index: 66

Currently, I am a senior lecturer in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kent and a member of the Applied Optics Group, where I develop imaging techniques for applications in biosciences and medicine. In particular, my research is focused on imaging techniques based on optical coherence tomography, elastography and photoacoustic.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6890-1599

I began my career at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi and graduated in 1997 with a BSc in Physics. After graduation, I studied for my MSc degree in Optics, Optoelectronics and Microwaves at École Nationale Supérieure d’Électronique et de Radioélectricité de Grenoble (ENSERG), Grenoble, France; my MSc thesis was Spectrophotometry of turbid media using optical fibre probes. I completed my PhD in the group of Prof. Jacques Derouard at Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, in 2004. My PhD thesis title was Methodes Optiques d’exploration des tissus biologiques. Spectrometrie des tissus cerebraux au moyen des sondes miniatures a fibres optiques et imagerie par Tomographie Optique Coherente (pardon my French). The thesis can be downloaded from here: 📚

My current research activities are focused on developing Optical Coherence Tomography instrumentation (see for example the NEXTGB and VISOCT projects) but also on photo-acoustics tomography (project PARS). the core of the instruments I am developing is the Master-Slave technique. This is a novel method introduced by Prof. Podoleanu and myself last year to produce optical coherence tomography images. We submitted a patent and already published more than 10 journal papers in this respect.

Other research activities I am involved with:

Development of dedicated software to acquire data, display and analyse the images using cutting-edge techniques and methods for camera, swept source, master-slave interferometry based Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems, and not only. Combining spectral interferometry principles with time-domain interferometry principles to implement novel configurations up to proof of concept, applicable to bio-sensing and cell, tissue imaging or imaging of different organs.
Imaging systems, combining coherence-gated wave-front sensors with one or more of the following imaging channels, optical coherence tomography, confocal microscopy, non-linear microscopy and then combining coherence-gated wave-front sensing with optical coherence tomography, using different or similar principles of time domain and spectral domain interferometry. Extending the axial range in swept-source optical coherence tomography using re-circulation loops is quite a hot topic in the OCT community. The motivation for this work is related to the fact that one of the main drawbacks of swept-source optical coherence tomography is its limited axial range. Novel interferometer configurations are tested, equipped in each arm with adjustable path length rings. By compensating for the losses in the rings using semiconductor optical amplifiers, multiple paths A-scans can be obtained, which, when combined axially, can lead to an extremely long overall axial range. The effect of the re-circulation loops is equivalent to extending the coherence length of the swept source. In this way, the axial imaging range in swept-source optical coherence tomography can be extended well beyond the limit imposed by the coherence length of the laser to exceed, in principle, many centimetres.
Non-invasive imaging of biological tissues: optical coherence tomography and confocal microscopy techniques for biological tissue imaging and adaptive optics techniques for retinal imaging.
Spectroscopy of biological media (development, measurements, interpretation; spectroscopic techniques and numerical simulations applied to biological media, optical phantoms preparation and handling).
Spectroscopy of the turbid media (development, measurements, interpretation, etc).