Cheng Ma

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Cheng Ma is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Acoustics and Ultrasonics. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng Ma has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Acoustics and Ultrasonics. Recurrent topics in Cheng Ma's work include Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (24 papers), Random lasers and scattering media (15 papers) and Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (11 papers). Cheng Ma is often cited by papers focused on Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (24 papers), Random lasers and scattering media (15 papers) and Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (11 papers). Cheng Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Cheng Ma's co-authors include Lihong V. Wang, Yan Liu, Yuecheng Shen, Junhui Shi, Xiao Xu, Liren Zhu, Wanyi Chen, Junjie Yao, Lidai Wang and Li Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Cheng Ma

52 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Single-impulse panoramic photoacoustic computed tomography of small-animal whole-body dynamics at high spatiotemporal resolution

2017 355 citations Lei Li, Liren Zhu et al. Nature Biomedical Engineering profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cheng Ma China	20	1.0k	578	340	327	298	55	1.7k
Jiamiao Yang China	15	423 0.4×	341 0.6×	382 1.1×	64 0.2×	158 0.5×	52	862
Jung‐Hoon Park South Korea	19	601 0.6×	615 1.1×	470 1.4×	51 0.2×	219 0.7×	69	1.3k
Huanhao Li Hong Kong	17	364 0.4×	399 0.7×	230 0.7×	81 0.2×	72 0.2×	34	712
Haowen Ruan United States	15	694 0.7×	1.0k 1.8×	498 1.5×	140 0.4×	118 0.4×	26	1.3k
David Kittle United States	14	858 0.9×	189 0.3×	180 0.5×	170 0.5×	171 0.6×	33	1.7k
Martin Laurenzis France	21	352 0.3×	290 0.5×	126 0.4×	61 0.2×	404 1.4×	91	1.4k
Moonseok Kim South Korea	16	674 0.7×	798 1.4×	544 1.6×	93 0.3×	232 0.8×	26	1.3k
Tongyi Zhang China	21	338 0.3×	51 0.1×	389 1.1×	93 0.3×	326 1.1×	102	1.5k
Martin Plöschner United Kingdom	15	702 0.7×	446 0.8×	446 1.3×	42 0.1×	277 0.9×	29	1.2k
Mooseok Jang South Korea	15	489 0.5×	629 1.1×	357 1.1×	80 0.2×	88 0.3×	31	943

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cheng Ma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cheng Ma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cheng Ma based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cheng Ma. Cheng Ma is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Guo, Yunpeng, Cheng Ma, & Huanglong Li. (2025). Temporal Dynamics Makes Memristive Physical Unclonable Functions More Secure and Ultra‐Lightweight. Advanced Electronic Materials. 11(20).

Liu, Mingyuan, et al.. (2024). Oxygenation heterogeneity facilitates spatiotemporal flow pattern visualization inside human blood vessels using photoacoustic computed tomography. Biomedical Optics Express. 15(5). 2741–2741.

Guo, Yunpeng, Xue Liu, Xinxin Wang, et al.. (2023). Generative complex networks within a dynamic memristor with intrinsic variability. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6134–6134. 19 indexed citations

Chen, Chaoyi, Yuwen Chen, Lulu Zhang, et al.. (2022). Dual-targeting nanozyme for tumor activatable photo-chemodynamic theranostics. Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 20(1). 466–466. 13 indexed citations

Qiao, Hui, et al.. (2021). Deep learning in photoacoustic imaging: a review. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 26(4). 59 indexed citations

Wang, Xuanhao, Yan Luo, Chaoyi Chen, et al.. (2021). A Skull-Removed Chronic Cranial Window for Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging of the Rodent Brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15. 673740–673740. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Xuanhao, et al.. (2020). Adaptive photoacoustic computed tomography. Photoacoustics. 21. 100223–100223. 23 indexed citations

Li, Lei, Liren Zhu, Cheng Ma, et al.. (2017). Single-impulse panoramic photoacoustic computed tomography of small-animal whole-body dynamics at high spatiotemporal resolution. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 1(5). 355 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Yan, Cheng Ma, Yuecheng Shen, Junhui Shi, & Lihong V. Wang. (2017). Focusing light inside dynamic scattering media with millisecond digital optical phase conjugation. Optica. 4(2). 280–280. 130 indexed citations

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Shen, Yuecheng, Yan Liu, Cheng Ma, & Lihong V. Wang. (2017). Sub-Nyquist sampling boosts targeted light transport through opaque scattering media. Optica. 4(1). 97–97. 27 indexed citations

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Zhu, Liren, Yu‐Jia Chen, Jinyang Liang, et al.. (2016). Space- and intensity-constrained reconstruction for compressed ultrafast photography. Optica. 3(7). 694–694. 49 indexed citations

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Lan, Qing, Ailin Chen, Tan Zhang, et al.. (2016). Development of Three-Dimensional Printed Craniocerebral Models for Simulated Neurosurgery. World Neurosurgery. 91. 434–442. 39 indexed citations

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Liu, Yan, Puxiang Lai, Cheng Ma, et al.. (2015). Optical focusing deep inside dynamic scattering media with near-infrared time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) light. Nature Communications. 6(1). 5904–5904. 162 indexed citations

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Ma, Cheng, et al.. (2015). Single-exposure optical focusing inside scattering media using binarized time-reversed adapted perturbation. Optica. 2(10). 869–869. 40 indexed citations

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Ma, Cheng, Xiao Xu, & Lihong V. Wang. (2015). Analog time-reversed ultrasonically encoded light focusing inside scattering media with a 33,000× optical power gain. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8896–8896. 7 indexed citations

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Ma, Cheng, Xiao Xu, Yan Liu, & Lihong V. Wang. (2014). Time-reversed adapted-perturbation (TRAP) optical focusing onto dynamic objects inside scattering media. Nature Photonics. 8(12). 931–936. 108 indexed citations

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Fan, Wenhui, et al.. (2013). Novel models and algorithms of load balancing for variable-structured collaborative simulation under HLA/RTI. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 26(4). 629–640. 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Cheng, Brian L. Scott, Gary Pickrell, & Anbo Wang. (2010). Porous capillary tubing waveguide for multigas sensing. Optics Letters. 35(3). 315–315. 12 indexed citations

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Ma, Cheng & Anbo Wang. (2010). Multimode excitation-induced phase shifts in intrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometric fiber sensor spectra. Applied Optics. 49(25). 4836–4836. 6 indexed citations

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Pickrell, Gary, Cheng Ma, & Anbo Wang. (2008). Bending-induced optical loss in random-hole optical fibers. Optics Letters. 33(13). 1443–1443. 3 indexed citations

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