About Qifa Zhou’s work
Based at Zhongshan University, Qifa Zhou held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from March to June 1997.
Biography
Qifa Zhou received his PhD from the Department of Electronic Materials and Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 1993. He is one of the leading principle investigators at the NIH Resource Center on Medical Transducer Technology. Zhou is a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Zhou has developed high frequency ultrasound composite and single crystal ultrasound transducers and arrays, fabricated by MEMS technology for various biomedical imaging applications.
His lab is the first to have developed high sensitivity PMN-PT single crystal transducers for ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging. He and his collaborators have been developing a novel imaging tool for characterizing elastic properties of retinal and corneal tissue by acoustic radiation force induced optical coherence electrography. His lab is also investigating high resolution ultrasonic elastographic imaging techniques using high frequency ultrasound. He is also actively exploring ultrasonic mediated therapeutic technology including trans-sclera drug delivery, as well as ultrasound for retinal and brain stimulation.