Cardiovascular optoacoustics: From mice to men – A review
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Angelos Karlas studied Medicine (M.D.) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a Master of Science in Medical Informatics (M.Sc.) from the same university and a Master of Research (M.Res.) in Medical Robotics and Image-Guided Intervention from Imperial College London, UK. He currently works as clinical resident at the Department for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery of the Rechts der Isar University Hospital in Munich, Germany. He holds the position of the Clinical Translation Manager at the Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging of the Helmholtz Center Munich and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, while pursuing his Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in Experimental Medicine at the same university. He also serves as the Group Leader of the Clinical Translation Group at the Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. His research interests are in the areas of innovative vascular imaging and image-guided vascular interventions.
Professor Vasilis Ntziachristos received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, followed by a postdoctoral position at the Center for Molecular Imaging Research at Harvard Medical School. Afterwards, he became an Instructor and following an Assistant Professor and Director at the Laboratory for Bio-Optics and Molecular Imaging at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Currently, he is the Director of the Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich, Germany, as well as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Medicine and Chair for Biological Imaging at the Technical University Munich. His work focuses on novel innovative optical and optoacoustic imaging modalities for studying biological processes and diseases as well as the translation of these findings into the clinic.