Professor Bingquan Chen
B607 201-216-5587

Research Interest

  • Biomedical optics, optical imaging techniques in random media as well as its applications in medical diagnoses
  • Fiber optical sensors for nondestructive monitoring, imaging, testing and evaluation
  • Diffraction theory and diffraction tomography, scattering and inverse scattering, focusing of waves, numerical modeling of wave propagation, wave and laser beam propagation in random media
  • Ocean optics, atmospheric optics, radiation transport in planetary media including the coupled atmosphere-snow/ice-ocean system, optical/satellite remote sensing
  • Modeling and simulation of radiowave propagation for wireless communication systems

Publication

  1. Bingquan Chen, "Diffraction Tomography and Its Applications for Optical Imaging in Random Media", University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 1996, ISBN 82-994032-0-0, 157 P.

  2. Bingquan Chen and Jakob J. Stamnes, "Diffraction effects on laser computed tomography and time-resolved imaging in random media," in Photon Propagation in Tissues II, Eds. B. Chance, D. A. Benaron, and G. J. Mueller, SPIE Vol. 2925, 89-105 (1996).

  3. Bingquan Chen and Jakob J. Stamnes, "Scattering by simple and nonsimple shapes by the combined method of ray tracing and diffraction: application to circular cylinders," Applied Optics, Vol. 37, 1999-2010 (1998).

  4. Bingquan Chen and Jakob J. Stamnes, "Validity of diffraction tomography based on the first Born and the first Rytov approximations," Applied Optics, Vol. 37, 2996-3006 (1998).

  5. Bingquan Chen, Jakob J. Stamnes and Knut Stamnes, "Reconstruction algorithm for diffraction tomography of diffuse photon density waves in a random medium," Pure and Applied Optics, Vol. 7, 1161-1180 (1998).

  6. Bingquan Chen, Jakob J. Stamnes, Anthony J. Devaney, Hans M.Pedersen, and Knut Stamnes, "Two-dimensional optical diffraction tomography for objects embedded in a random medium," Pure and Applied Optics, Vol. 7, 1181-1199 (1998).

  7. Bingquan Chen, Knut Stamnes, Banghua Yan, Oyvind Frette, and Jakob J. Stamnes, "A new approach to atmospheric correction of ocean color imagery based on radiative transfer simulations of the atmosphere-ocean system," in the Proceedings of The 4th Pacific Ocean Remote Sensing Conference (PORSEC'98), 38-42 (1998).

  8. J.J. Stamnes, S.R. Erga, O. Frette, K. Stamnes, B. Chen, L.H. Pettersson, T. Sveno, E. Sakshaug, E. Aas, "Light and life in coastal waters," in the Proceedings CD of Ocean Optics XIV (Kailua-Kona Hawaii, USA, November 10-13, 1998), paper number 1246js (1998).

  9. Bingquan Chen, Knut Stamnes, Banghua Yan, Oyvind Frette, and Jakob J. Stamnes, "Water-leaving radiance in the NIR spectral region and its effects on atmospheric correction of ocean color imagery," J. Adv. Mar. Sci. Tech. Soci. Vol. 4, No. 2, 329-338 (1998).

  10. Knut Stamnes and Bingquan Chen, "Assessment of the contribution of the atmosphere to uncertainties in normalized water-leaving radiance: a combined modeling and data analysis approach," NASA/TM-1999-208645, Eds. C. R. McClain and G. S. Fargion, Chapter 24 (1999).

  11. Bingquan Chen, Jakob J. Stamnes, and Knut Stamnes, "Image reconstructions in diffraction tomography from limited transmitted field data sets," Applied Optics, Vol. 39, 2904-2911 (2000).

  12. Wei Li, Xiaozhen Xiong, Knut Stamnes, and Bingquan Chen, "Snow grain size determination from AVIRIS data over Arctic Ocean," in the Proceedings of 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology (Long Beach, California, January 9-14, 2000, AMS), 465-468 (2000).

  13. Bingquan Chen, Knut Stamnes, and Jakob J. Stamnes, "Light propagation in a multi-layered biological tissue: noninvasive imaging using reflected and transmitted photons," in Biomedical Topical Meetings, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2000), 371-373 (2000).

  14. Masahiro Hori, Teruo Aoki, Knut Stamnes, Bingquan Chen, Wei Li, "Preliminary validation of the GLI cryosphere algorithms with MODIS daytime data," Polar Meteorology and Glaciology, ISSN 0914-2037, No. 15, 1-14 (2001).

  15. Wei Li, Knut Stamnes, Bingquan Chen, and Xiaozhen Xiong, "Retrieval of the depth dependence of snow grain size from near-infrared radiances at multiple wavelengths," Geophysical Research Letter, Vol. 28, 1699-1702 (2001).

  16. Bingquan Chen, Knut Stamnes, and Jakob J. Stamnes, "Validity of the diffusion approximation in bio-optical imaging," Applied Optics, Vol. 40, 6356-6366 (2001).

  17. Banghua Yan, Knut Stamnes, Wei Li, Bingquan Chen, Jakob J. Stamnes, and Si-Chee Tsay, "Pitfalls in atmospheric correction of ocean color imagery: How should aerosol optical properties be computed?" Applied Optics, Vol. 41, 412-423 (2002).

  18. Banghua Yan, Bingquan Chen, and Knut Stamnes, "Role of oceanic air bubbles in atmospheric correction of ocean color imagery," Applied Optics, Vol. 41, 2202-2212 (2002).