Prof. Guoqiang Yu

University of Kentucky, USA

Email：[email protected]

Qualifications

2000 Ph.D., Tianjin University of China, Biomedical Engineering

Publications (Selected)

1. Safavi, P., Mohtasebi, M., Azimul Haque, C., Akbari, F., Liu, X., Yuan, Y., Chen, L. and others. Noninvasive diffuse optical monitoring of cerebral blood flow and oxygenation responses to intermittent hypoxia in neonatal rats. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 31(4), 047001, 2026. 
2. Chapman, R., Liu, X., Mohtasebi, M., Mazdeyasna, S., Saatman, K.E., Yu, G. and others. Fabrication of an Expandable Brain Matrix Customizable Across Developmental Stages. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), e68638, 2026. 
3. Fathi, F., Zhang, P., Mohtasebi, M., Mos, P., Bruschini, C., Charbon, E., Chen, J. and others. Time-Resolved Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (TR-LSCI) of Cerebral Blood Flow Response to Intracranial Pressure Elevation. bioRxiv, 2026. 
4. Rabienia Haratbar, S., Hamedi, F., Mohtasebi, M., Chen, L., Wong, L., Yu, G. and others. Perioperative diffuse optical imaging of blood flow distributions for porcine skin flap viability assessment. medRxiv, 2026. 
5. Yu, G., Akbari, F., Hamedi, F., Mohtasebi, M., Fathi, F., Yeo, C., Chen, L. and others. Programmable scanning diffuse speckle contrast imaging (ps-dsci) of deep tissue optical properties, hemodynamics, and function. US Patent App. 18/985,503, 2025. 
6. Hamedi, F., Akbari, F., Mohtasebi, M., Huang, C., Chen, L., Chen, L. and Yu, G. Affordable miniaturized speckle contrast diffuse correlation tomography device for depth-sensitive mapping of cerebral blood flow in rodents. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 30(10), 106007, 2025. 
7. Fathi, F., Tus Sadia, R., Mohtasebi, M., Mos, P., Bruschini, C., Charbon, E. and others. Using the latent diffusion model to enhance time-resolved laser speckle contrast imaging (TR-LSCI) of cerebral blood flow. Biomedical Optics Express, 16(10):3895-3911, 2025. 
8. Rabienia Haratbar, S., Hamedi, F., Mohtasebi, M., Fathi, F., Akbari, F., Singh, D. and others. Noncontact diffuse optical imaging of blood flow and oxygenation distributions in reconstructive rat skin flaps. Biomedical Optics Express, 16(9):3740-3758, 2025. 
9. Akbari, F., Hamedi, F., Haratbar, S.R., Chen, L. and Yu, G. Simultaneous extraction of tissue blood flow and surface geometry using innovative scDCT (Conference Presentation). Multimodal Biomedical Imaging XX, PC1330905, 2025. 
10. Safavi, P., Yeo, C., Chen, L. and Yu, G. Wearable fiber-free optical sensor for continuous monitoring of cerebral blood flow (CBF) responses to intracranial pressure (ICP) elevations in rats (Conference Presentation). Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XXV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics, PC1331604, 2025. 
11. Safavi, P., Haque, C.A., Chen, L. and Yu, G. Noninvasive and continuous monitoring of cerebral blood flow (CBF) responses to intermittent hypoxia (IH) in neonatal rats (Conference Presentation). Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XXV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics, PC1331608, 2025. 
12. Yeo, C., Haque, C.A. and Yu, G. Wearable pulse-mode fiber-free diffuse speckle contrast flowmetry (PM-DSCF) sensor for deep cerebral blood flow measurements (Conference Presentation). Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XXV: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics, PC1331602, 2025. 
13. Akbari, F., Hamedi, F., Chen, L. and Yu, G. DMD-based programmable scanning diffuse speckle contrast imaging (PS-DSCI) of cerebral blood flow. Biomedical Light Scattering XV, PC1332008, 2025. 
14. Fathi, F., Akbari, F., Haratbar, S.R., Singh, D., Mohtasebi, M., Bruschini, C. and others. Fast, high-density, and depth-sensitive time-resolved laser speckle contrast imaging (TR-LSCI) of cerebral blood flow. Multiscale Imaging and Spectroscopy VI, PC133270J, 2025. 
15. Haratbar, S.R., Hamedi, F., Akbari, F., Fathi, F., Mohtasebi, M., Singh, D., Liu, X. and others. Noncontact optical imaging of blood flow and oxygenation distributions in reconstructive skin flaps of rats. Multiscale Imaging and Spectroscopy VI, PC133270Q, 2025. 
16. Hamedi, F., Akbari, F., Chen, L. and Yu, G. Improved depth sensitivity in tissue blood flow measurements using 1064 nm laser in speckle contrast diffuse correlation tomography (scDCT). Biomedical Light Scattering XV, PC1332009, 2025. 
17. Hamedi, F., Haratbar, S.R., Akbari, F., Lynch, E., Chen, L., Wong, L. and Yu, G. Intraoperative optical imaging of tissue hemodynamic variations in mastectomy skin flaps for identifying ischemic/hypoxic tissues. Multiscale Imaging and Spectroscopy VI, PC133270P, 2025.  
18. Yeo, C., Liu, X., Mohtasebi, M., Akbari, F., Fathi, F. and Yu, G. An affordable, wearable, fiber-free pulsed-mode diffuse speckle contrast flowmetry (PM-DSCF) sensor for noninvasive measurements of deep cerebral blood flow. arXiv, arXiv:2502.08000 v1, 2025. 
19. Akbari, F., Liu, X., Hamedi, F., Mohtasebi, M., Chen, L., Chen, L. and Yu, G. Programmable scanning diffuse speckle contrast imaging of cerebral blood flow. Neurophotonics, 12(1), 015006, 2025. 
20. Fathi, F., Mazdeyasna, S., Singh, D., Huang, C., Mohtasebi, M., Liu, X. and others. Time-resolved laser speckle contrast imaging (TR-LSCI) of cerebral blood flow. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 44(3):1206-1217, 2024.

Personal Details

WoS Researcher ID: N-9953-2018

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