Xu Li
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan
Evanston , IL 60208
Tel: (847) 491-3055, Fax: (847) 491-4928
E-mail:
xuli@northwestern.edu
Fields
of Interests
Publicaitons
Available Positions
Xu Li
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
Northwestern University
2145
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Education
·
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
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M. S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2000
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B. E., Biomedical Engineering,
Fields of Interests
·
Optical imaging,
diagnosis and sensing techniques for biomedical applications
·
Computational
electromagnetics
·
Propagation and
scattering of electromagnetic waves in random media, especially in biological
tissues
·
Microwave
imaging and sensing techniques for biomedical applications
·
Nanophotonic
devices
Refereed Journal Publications
1.
X.
Li, A. Taflove, and V. Backman, “Recent progress in exact and
reduced-order modeling of light-scattering properties of complex
structures,” IEEE
Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics on Biophotonics, Vol. 11(4), pp. 759-765 2005. view PDF
2.
Y.
Liu, X. Li, Y. Kim, and V. Backman, “Elastic backscattering spectroscopic
microscopy,” Optics
Letters, Vol. 30,
pp. 2445-2447, 2005. view PDF
3.
X. Li, E. J. Bond, S. C.
Hagness, and B. D. Van Veen, “An Overview of ultrawideband microwave
imaging for early-stage breast cancer detection via space-time beamforming,”
IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine, Vol. 47 (1), pp. 19-34, 2005. view PDF
4.
X.
Li, A. Taflove, and V. Backman, “Quantitative analysis of the depolarization
of backscattered light by stochastically inhomogeneous dielectric
particles,” Optics
Letters, Vol. 30,
pp. 902-904, 2005. view PDF
5.
X. Li, A. Taflove, and V. Backman, “Modified
FDTD near-to-far field transformation for improved backscattering calculation
of strongly forward-scattering objects,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 4, pp. 35-38,
2005. view PDF
6.
X.
Li, Z. Chen, A. Taflove, and V. Backman, “Optical analysis of
nanoparticles via enhanced backscattering facilitated by 3-D photonic
nanojets,” Optics Express, Vol.
13 (2), pp. 526-533, 2005. view
PDF
7.
Y.
Liu, Y. L. Kim, X. Li, and V. Backman, “Investigation of depth
selectivity of polarization gating for tissue characterization,” Optics Express, Vol. 13 (2), pp.
601-611, 2005. view PDF
8.
X. Li, Z. Chen, A. Taflove, and V. Backman,
“Equiphase-Sphere approximation for light scattering by stochastically
inhomogeneous particles,” Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 70 (5), 056610, 2004. view PDF
9.
X. Li, S. K. Davis, S. C. Hagness, D. W. van der
Weide, and Barry D. Van Veen, “Microwave imaging via space-time
beamforming: Experimental investigation of tumor detection in multilayer breast
phantoms,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 52
(8), pp. 1856-1865, August 2004. view
PDF
10.
X. Li, Z. Chen, A. Taflove, and V. Backman,
“Equiphase-sphere approximation for analysis of light scattering by
arbitrarily-shaped nonspherical particles,” Applied Optics, Vol. 43 (23),
pp. 4497-4505, August 2004. view PDF
11.
X. Li, Z. Chen, J. Gong, A. Taflove, and V.
Backman, “Analytical techniques to address the forward and inverse
problems in light scattering by irregularly shaped particles,” Optics
Letters, Vol. 29, pp. 1239-1241, June 2004. view PDF
12.
R. Nilavalan, A. Gbedemah, I. J. Craddock, X. Li
and S. C. Hagness, “Numerical investigation of breast tumor detection
using multi-static radar,” Electronics Letters, vol. 39, no. 25, pp. 1787-1788,
December, 2003. view PDF
13.
X. Li, S. C. Hagness, M. K. Choi, and D. W. van der
Weide, “Numerical and experimental investigation of an ultrawideband
ridged pyramidal horn antenna with curved launching plane for pulse
radiation,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 2, pp. 259-262, 2003. view PDF
14.
E. J. Bond, X. Li, S. C. Hagness, and B. D. Van
Veen, “Microwave imaging via space-time beamforming for early detection
of breast cancer”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol.
51, no. 8, pp. 1690-1705, August 2003. view PDF
15.
S. Davis, E. J. Bond, X. Li, S. C. Hagness, and B.
D. Van Veen, “Microwave imaging via space-time beamforming for
early-stage breast cancer detection: Beamformer design in the frequency
domain,” Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 17, no.
2, pp. 357-381, 2003. view PDF
16.
E. Fear, X. Li, S. C. Hagness, and M. Stuchly,
“Confocal microwave imaging for breast cancer detection: Localization of
tumors in three dimensions”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 812-822, August 2002. view PDF
17.
X. Li and S. C. Hagness, “A confocal
microwave imaging algorithm for breast cancer detection,” IEEE Microwave
and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 130-132, March 2001. view PDF
18.
M. Liang, X. Li, X. Wu, D. Liu, and J. Bai,
“A pulse-rate monitoring and alarming system”, Beijing Biomedical
Engineering, vol. 17, no. 1, 1998.
Research positions for Ph. D and
master students:
Currently we have research positions open for
potential graduate students
with interests in experimental optics and computational electromagnetics. The
projects involve the development of optical laboratory and clinical
instruments, optical measurements on biological samples, computational EM
modeling, and signal processing. Solid experimental skills in optical
engineering and/or a strong background in electromagnetics theory and numerical
techniques are highly desirable.
Previous experience with biomedical applications is also desired.
Interested applicants can contact Prof. Li (xuli@northwestern.edu) for details.
Last
updated: 12/05/05