My full CV can be found here (Last update: 2025.05.27)

 Journals

1.     Zijian Wu, Hamid Moradi, Shuojue Yang, Hyunwoo Song, Emad M. Boctor, Septimiu E. Salcudean, “Automatic Search for Photoacoustic Marker Using Transrectal Ultrasound robot”, Journal of Biomedical Optics (2023): 6016-6030.

2.     Hyunwoo Song, Shuojue Yang, Zijian Wu, Hamid Moradi, Russell H. Taylor, Jin U. Kang, Septimiu E. Salcudean, Emad M. Boctor, “Arc-to-line registration method for ultrasound and photoacoustic image-guided intraoperative robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy”, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. Awarded “Siemens Best Paper Award: Runner-up” at the 14thInternational Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI 2023) 🎉.

3.     Hyunwoo Song, Jeeun Kang, and Emad M. Boctor. "Synthetic Radial Aperture Focusing to Regulate Manual Volumetric Scanning for Economic Transrectal Ultrasound Imaging." Ultrasonics (2022): 106908.

4.     Hyunwoo Song, Jeeun Kang, and Emad M. Boctor. "A novel design framework of synthetic radial aperture focusing for volumetric transrectal ultrasound imaging." Journal of Computational Design and Engineering 9, no. 5 (2022): 1852-1865.

5.     Hyunwoo Song, Hamid Moradi, Baichuan Jiang, Keshuai Xu, Yixuan Wu, Russell H. Taylor, Anton Deguet, Jin U. Kang, Septimiu E. Salcudean, and Emad M. Boctor. "Real-time intraoperative surgical guidance system in the da Vinci surgical robot based on transrectal ultrasound/photoacoustic imaging with photoacoustic markers: an ex vivo demonstration." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2022).

6.     Bae Sua, Hyunwoo Song, and Tai-Kyong Song. "Analysis of the Time and Phase Delay Resolutions in Ultrasound Baseband I/Q Beamformers." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 68, no. 5 (2020): 1690-1701.

Conference presentations

1.     Hyunwoo Song, Thomas Johnson, Alexandra Patterson, Jeeun Kang, Jeongwon Shin, Cindy Berlinicke, Chad Weiler, Keshuai Xu, David Shrekenhamer, James B. Spicer, Seth Billings, Donald J. Zack, Emad M. Boctor, “Remote and dynamically configurable photoacoustic stimulation of retinal ganglion cells for high resolution visual function restoration”, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2025 Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 2025.

2.     Hyunwoo Song, Emad M. Boctor, Jeeun Kang, “Grating Lobe Suppression using Synthetic Optically-Tracked Sparse Aperture Focusing for Non-contact Ultrasound Imaging”, International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization 2025, Silver Spring, MD, USA, May 2025

3.     Patterson, Alexandra, Hyunwoo Song, Keshuai Xu, Jeeun Kang, Emad M. Boctor, and James B. Spicer. "Performance Limits of a Polymer Matrix Nanocomposite as a Photoacoustic Transmitter for Retinal Stimulation.", In 2024 IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC), pp. 234-237. IEEE, 2024.

4.     Patterson, Alexandra L., Hyunwoo Song, Jeeun Kang, Emad M. Boctor, and James B. Spicer. "Synthesis and Characterization of a Biocompatible, Polymer Matrix Nanocomposite for Photoacoustic Applications." In 2024 IEEE 24th International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO), pp. 272-276. IEEE, 2024.

5.     Hyunwoo Song, Alexandra Patterson, Jeeun Kang, Jie Cheng, Casey Keuthan, Cindy Berlinicke, Chad Weiler, Keshuai Xu, Nora Lane, David Shrekenhamer, Peter Gehlbach, James B. Spicer, Seth Billings, Donald J. Zack, Emad M. Boctor, “Towards visual function restoration through photoacoustic stimulation”, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2024 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA, May 2024. Honored as “Robertson Translational Research Grant” 🎉.

6.     Hyunwoo Song, Emad M. Boctor, Jeeun Kang, “Spectral Doppler Estimation in Laser Ultrasound: Feasibility Study”, International Conference of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2023), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sep. 2023.

7.     James B. Spicer, Hyunwoo Song, Alexandra Patterson, Jeeun Kang, Emad Boctor, “Photoacoustic Emission Efficiency of Polymer Matrix Nanocomposites for Use in Epiretinal Prosthetics”, IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC 2023), Paestum, Italy, Oct. 2023. 

8.     Moradi Hamid, Keshuai Xu, Hyunwoo Song, Septimiu E. Salcudean, and Emad M. Boctor. "Towards photoacoustic prostate imaging using continuous wave laser excitation." In Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2023, vol. 12379, pp. 363-369. SPIE, 2023.

9.     Hyunwoo Song, Hamid Moradi, Baichuan Jiang, Keshuai Xu, Yixuan Wu, Russell H. Taylor, Anton Deguet, Jin U. Kang, Septimiu E. Salcudean, Emad M. Boctor, “Real-time intraoperative surgical guidance system in the da Vinci surgical robot based on transrectal ultrasound/photoacoustic imaging with photoacoustic markers: an ex vivo demonstration”, The 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022)

10.  Hyunwoo Song, Jeeun Kang, Emad M. Boctor, “Radial synthetic aperture focusing to regulate scanning angle disorientation in a low-cost 3D transrectal ultrasound imaging”, International Conference of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2022), Virtual

11.  Hyunwoo Song, Jeeun Kang, Emad M. Boctor, “Analysis on the radial synthetic aperture focusing for low-cost 3D transrectal ultrasound imaging to regulate scanning angle disorientation”, International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization 2022, Virtual

12.  Hyunwoo Song, Jeeun Kang, Emad M. Boctor, “Functional guidance of nerve graft surgery using dual-modal photoacoustic and fluorescence imaging of voltage-sensitive dye: ex vivo proof-of-concept study”, SPIE, Photonics West 2021, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2022.

13.  Hyunwoo Song, Jeeun Kang, Emad Boctor, “An optimization of volumetric transrectal ultrasound imaging using radial synthetic aperture focusing: a closed-form analytic solution”, Oral Presentation, International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization (UITC 2021), Washington DC, Jun. 2021.

14.  Hyunwoo Song, Jeeun Kang, Emad Boctor, “A volumetric transrectal ultrasound imaging robust to scanning-angle disorientation using radial synthetic aperture focusing technique”, International Conference of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2020), Las Vegas, NV, Sep. 2020.

15.  Hyunwoo Song, Jeeun Kang, Emad Boctor, “Differential ultrasound neuromodulatory responses of rat primary cortical neurons (PCN) with oxygen deprivation in vitro”, Poster Presentation, International Conference of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2020), Las Vegas, NV, Sep. 2020.

16.  Jintae Jang, Sua Bae, Hyunwoo Song, Gangsik Kim, T. K. Song, “Determination of Delay Resolution in Baseband I/Q Beamformer Using Error Model of Array Gain”, Proc. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2018), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 2018

17.  Hyunwoo Song, T. K. Song “A New Synthetic Aperture Technique Using Plane Waves: Exact Solution and Experimental Verification”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2017), Seogwipo, Republic of Korea, Jul. 2017.

18. Pilsu Kim, Hyunwoo Song, Sua Bae, and T. K. Song, “Ultrasound Tissue Harmonic Imaging Using Nonlinear Chirp Coded Excitation: In Vitro Study and Analysis”, Proc. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2016), Tours, France, Sep. 2016