Dr Zenghai Lu

Research Associate

Address:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Kroto Research Institute, North Campus
Broad Lane, Sheffield S3 7HQ

Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 5177
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 5943

Email: z.lu@sheffield.ac.uk

Zenghai Lu received his MSc in optical engineering from Shandong University, China, in 2001 and PhD in engineering photonics from Cranfield University, UK, in 2008. He joined the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Sheffield in June, 2008.

Research interests

• Development of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and polarization-sensitive OCT systems.
• Applications of OCT&PS-OCT to biological tissue.
• Development of ultra-broadband swept-sources for OCT imaging.

Key publications

• Z-H Lu, D Kasaragod and S J Matcher, “Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography measurements with different phase modulation amplitude when using continuous polarization modulation”, J. Biomed. Opt., 2012 (accepted).
• D Kasaragod, Z-H Lu and S J Matcher, “Experimental validation of an extended Jones matrix calculus model to study the 3D structural orientation of the collagen fibers in articular cartilage using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography”, Biomedical Optical Express, 2012 (accepted).
• Z-H Lu, D Kasaragod and S J Matcher, “Optic axis determination by fiber-based polarization-sensitive swept-source optical coherence tomography”, Phys. Med. Biol., 2011, 56, pp. 1105-22.
• Z-H Lu, D Kasaragod and S J Matcher, “Performance comparison between 8 and 14 bit-depth imaging in polarization-sensitive swept-source optical coherence tomography”, Biomedical Optical Express, 2011, 2(4), pp. 794-804.
• Z-H Lu, D Kasaragod and S J Matcher, “Method to calibrate phase fluctuation in polarization-sensitive swept-source optical coherence tomography”, J. Biomed. Opt., 2011, 16 (7), 070502.
• K. M. Au, Z-H Lu, S. J. Matcher and S. P. Armes, “Polypyrrole Nanoparticles: A Potential Optical Coherence Tomography Contrast Agent for Cancer Imaging”, Advanced Materials, 2011, XX, 1-4.
• D Kasaragod, Z-H Lu and S J Matcher, “A comparative study of the angle-resolved back-scattering properties of collagen fibers in bovine tendon and cartilage”, J. Biomed. Opt., 2011, 16(8), 080501.
• L Smith, V Hearnden, Z-H Lu, et al., “Evaluating the use of optical coherence tomography for the detection of epithelial cancers in vitro”, J. Biomed. Opt., 2011, 16(11), 116015.