Haowen Ruan

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Haowen Ruan is a scholar working on Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Haowen Ruan has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Acoustics and Ultrasonics, 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Haowen Ruan's work include Random lasers and scattering media (19 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (12 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (9 papers). Haowen Ruan is often cited by papers focused on Random lasers and scattering media (19 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (12 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (9 papers). Haowen Ruan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Haowen Ruan's co-authors include Changhuei Yang, Roarke Horstmeyer, Mooseok Jang, Haojiang Zhou, Benjamin Judkewitz, Joshua Brake, Yan Liu, Daifa Wang, Jian Xu and Euiheon Chung and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Photonics and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Haowen Ruan

25 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Guidestar-assisted wavefront-shaping methods for focusing light into biological tissue

2015 440 citations Roarke Horstmeyer, Haowen Ruan et al. Nature Photonics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Haowen Ruan United States	15	1.0k	694	498	326	155	26	1.3k
Moonseok Kim South Korea	16	798 0.8×	674 1.0×	544 1.1×	187 0.6×	122 0.8×	26	1.3k
Antonio M. Caravaca-Aguirre United States	10	994 1.0×	655 0.9×	545 1.1×	257 0.8×	112 0.7×	25	1.3k
Donald B. Conkey United States	15	873 0.8×	635 0.9×	588 1.2×	276 0.8×	102 0.7×	34	1.4k
Mooseok Jang South Korea	15	629 0.6×	489 0.7×	357 0.7×	200 0.6×	88 0.6×	31	943
Salma Farahi Switzerland	13	684 0.7×	620 0.9×	353 0.7×	93 0.3×	81 0.5×	22	1.0k
Changhyeong Yoon South Korea	11	711 0.7×	457 0.7×	401 0.8×	158 0.5×	103 0.7×	19	947
Pere Clemente Spain	17	1.0k 1.0×	373 0.5×	677 1.4×	498 1.5×	169 1.1×	36	1.5k
Stephen S. Welsh United Kingdom	6	1.1k 1.0×	344 0.5×	401 0.8×	475 1.5×	210 1.4×	11	1.2k
Jiamiao Yang China	15	341 0.3×	423 0.6×	382 0.8×	158 0.5×	62 0.4×	52	862
Sungsam Kang South Korea	13	365 0.4×	407 0.6×	413 0.8×	93 0.3×	83 0.5×	32	881

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ruan, Haowen, Jian Xu, & Changhuei Yang. (2021). Optical information transmission through complex scattering media with optical-channel-based intensity streaming. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2411–2411. 24 indexed citations

Liu, Yan, et al.. (2020). Imaging through highly scattering human skulls with ultrasound-modulated optical tomography. Optics Letters. 45(11). 2973–2973. 12 indexed citations

Ruan, Haowen, Yan Liu, Jian Xu, Yujia Huang, & Changhuei Yang. (2020). Fluorescence imaging through dynamic scattering media with speckle-encoded ultrasound-modulated light correlation. Nature Photonics. 14(8). 511–516. 43 indexed citations

Liu, Yan, Yuecheng Shen, Haowen Ruan, et al.. (2018). Time-reversed ultrasonically encoded optical focusing through highly scattering ex vivo human cataractous lenses. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 23(1). 1–1. 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Shulian, et al.. (2018). Ultrasound modulated laser confocal feedback imaging inside turbid media. Optics Letters. 43(6). 1207–1207. 21 indexed citations

Ruan, Haowen, Joshua Brake, J. Elliott Robinson, et al.. (2017). Deep tissue optical focusing and optogenetic modulation with time-reversed ultrasonically encoded light. Science Advances. 3(12). eaao5520–eaao5520. 71 indexed citations

Brake, Joshua, Hee‐Jae Jeon, Haowen Ruan, et al.. (2017). In vivo study of optical speckle decorrelation time across depths in the mouse brain. Biomedical Optics Express. 8(11). 4855–4855. 56 indexed citations

Ruan, Haowen, Tom Haber, Yan Liu, et al.. (2017). Focusing light inside scattering media with magnetic-particle-guided wavefront shaping. Optica. 4(11). 1337–1337. 42 indexed citations

Zhou, Haojiang, Atsushi Shibukawa, Joshua Brake, Haowen Ruan, & Changhuei Yang. (2016). Glare suppression by coherence gated negation. Optica. 3(10). 1107–1107. 7 indexed citations

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Ruan, Haowen, Melissa L. Mather, & Stephen P. Morgan. (2015). Ultrasound modulated optical tomography contrast enhancement with non-linear oscillation of microbubbles.. PubMed. 5(1). 9–16. 4 indexed citations

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Horstmeyer, Roarke, Haowen Ruan, & Changhuei Yang. (2015). Guidestar-assisted wavefront-shaping methods for focusing light into biological tissue. Nature Photonics. 9(9). 563–571. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruan, Haowen, Mooseok Jang, & Changhuei Yang. (2015). Optical focusing inside scattering media with time-reversed ultrasound microbubble encoded light. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8968–8968. 50 indexed citations

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Wang, Daifa, Haojiang Zhou, Joshua Brake, et al.. (2015). Focusing through dynamic tissue with millisecond digital optical phase conjugation. Optica. 2(8). 728–728. 187 indexed citations

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Ruan, Haowen, Mooseok Jang, Benjamin Judkewitz, & Changhuei Yang. (2014). Iterative Time-Reversed Ultrasonically Encoded Light Focusing in Backscattering Mode. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 7156–7156. 36 indexed citations

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Zhou, Haojiang, Haowen Ruan, Changhuei Yang, & Benjamin Judkewitz. (2014). Focusing on moving targets through scattering samples. Optica. 1(4). 227–227. 104 indexed citations

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Jang, Mooseok, Haowen Ruan, Ivo M. Vellekoop, et al.. (2014). Relation between speckle decorrelation and optical phase conjugation (OPC)-based turbidity suppression through dynamic scattering media: a study on in vivo mouse skin. Biomedical Optics Express. 6(1). 72–72. 68 indexed citations

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Jang, Mooseok, Haowen Ruan, Haojiang Zhou, Benjamin Judkewitz, & Changhuei Yang. (2014). Method for auto-alignment of digital optical phase conjugation systems based on digital propagation. Optics Express. 22(12). 14054–14054. 56 indexed citations

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Ruan, Haowen, Melissa L. Mather, & Stephen P. Morgan. (2013). Pulsed ultrasound modulated optical tomography with harmonic lock-in holography detection. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 30(7). 1409–1409. 8 indexed citations

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Ruan, Haowen, Melissa L. Mather, & Stephen P. Morgan. (2012). Pulse inversion ultrasound modulated optical tomography. Optics Letters. 37(10). 1658–1658. 11 indexed citations

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Huynh, Nam, et al.. (2012). Effect of object size and acoustic wavelength on pulsed ultrasound modulated fluorescence signals. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 17(7). 760081–760081. 7 indexed citations

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