Doan Trang Nguyen
I am a PhD student at CARLab. My main interest is in biomedical engineering especially in the fields of bioelectronics, medical signals and image processing.
My PhD research aims at producing both hardware and software of a complete Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) system, which will be capable of mapping perfusion in both the lung and the heart. Combining this with traditional pulmonary ventilation EIT, the resulting system will be able to map both ventilation and perfusion distribution, which would give a unique insight into lung physiology and pathophysiology. This system can be used to monitor and validate new ventilation strategies, supportive therapies in acute respiratory failure and lung embolism. Furthermore, the cardiac perfusion component of the work can be used to monitor cardiac activities and diagnosis of heart failure. Currently, the assessment of cardiac function and pulmonary perfusion in critically unwell patients are two important problems that do not have satisfactory solutions. The following techniques will be explored in this project:
improve the spatial resolution of EIT,
improve signal separation between ventilation, perfusion and cardiac mechanical actions for regional perfusion EIT in different parts of the lung,
apply the techniques for lung perfusion imaging to cardiac perfusion imaging for studies on cardiac tissues.
Prizes and Scholarship
- 2011-2014 International Postgraduate Reasearch Scholarship, Australian Government - Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. [ click here for more information]
- 2011-2014 Internation Postgraduate Award, The University of Sydney. [click here for more information]
- 2011-2014 Norman I Price Scholarship, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The Universtiy of Sydney.
- 2012 Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) Award, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney.
- 2012 ResMed Prize for Biomedical Engineering, Conversazione 2012, Faculty of Engineering and IT, The University of Sydney, sponsored by ResMed
1. D T Nguyen, R Kosobrodov, M A Barry, W Chik, J Pouliopoulos, T I Oh, A Thiagalingam and A McEwan, Preliminary Results on Diﬀerent Impedance Contrast Agents for Pulmonary Perfusion Imaging with Electrical Impedance Tomography, XV International Conference on Electrical Bio-Impedance and the XIV Conference on Electrical Impedance Tomography, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 434 (2013) 012079 [Link]
2. D T Nguyen, R Kosobrodov, M A Barry, W Chik, C Jin, T I Oh, A Thiagalingam and A McEwan, Electrode-Skin contact impedance: In vivo measurements on an ovine model, XV International Conference on Electrical Bio-Impedance and the XIV Conference on Electrical Impedance Tomography, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 434 (2013) 012023 [Link]
D T Nguyen, R Kosobrodov, M A Barry, W Chik, J Pouliopoulos, T I Oh, A Thiagalingam and A McEwan, An expedient method to obtain true thorax shapes for pulmonary Electrical Impedance Tomography with fiberglass casting tape, XV International Conference on Electrical Bio-Impedance and the XIV Conference on Electrical Impedance Tomography, April 2013, Germany.[Abstract].
D.T. Nguyen, C. Jin, A. Thiagalingam, A.L. McEwan, A review on electrical impedance tomography for pulmonary perfusion imaging, Physiol. Meas., vol.33, pp 695–706, 2012. [link]
GD Gargiulo, G Cohen, AL McEwan, TI Oh, A Mohamed, J Tapson, DT Nguyen, A van Schaik, A Wabnitz, Active electrode design suitable for simultaneous EIT and EEG, Electronics Letters 48 (25), 1583-1584. [link]
D.T. Nguyen, C. Jin, A. Thiagalingam, A.L. McEwan, A Computer Simulation Study on the Applicability of 3D Electrical Impedance Tomography for Pulmonary Perfusion Defect Imaging, IFMBE conference series of the 2012 World Congress in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (Beijing), 2012. [poster]