Paul C. Beard

15.3k citations

250 papers · 11.6k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Biomedical Engineering top 0.05%
- Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
- Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
- Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
- Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging top 0.1%
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography

Papers in

Acoustics and Ultrasonics 7
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 139
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques 103
- Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography 39

Co-authors: Edward Zhang Ben Cox Jan Laufer Simon Arridge Sarah E. Bohndiek Judith Weber Timothy N. Mills Thomas J. Allen
Journals: Biomedical Optics Express (16 papers)Journal of Biomedical Optics (15 papers)IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (10 papers)The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (7 papers)Scientific Reports (6 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Australia United States

In The Last Decade

Paul C. Beard

239 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Ultrasensitive plano-concave optical microresonators for ultrasound sensing 2017 · 287 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Nature Photonics
2016 Nature Methods
2015 Nature Photonics
2012 Journal of Biomedical Optics
2011 Interface Focus

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All Works

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1	High sensitivity detectors in photoacoustic imaging: how close are we to the ultimate limits of NEP? (Conference Presentation) James A. Guggenheim, Thomas J. Allen, Olumide Ogunlade, Paul C. Beard	2025	0
2	Dual-modality rigid endoscope for photoacoustic imaging and white light videoscopy Journal of Biomedical Optics ·Rehman Ansari, Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard	2024	4
3	Laser frequency noise characterization using high-finesse plano–concave optical microresonators Optics Letters ·Amanda Runa Rasita Milasari, Edward Zhang, Dharampal, James A. Guggenheim, Zhixin Liu, Paul C. Beard	2024	0
4	All-optical multimode fibre photoacoustic endomicroscopy with scalable spatial resolution and field-of-view Tianrui Zhao, A. Mancera Martinez, Vitória Macêdo Costa Brandão, Michelle Ma, Sébastien Ourselin, Tom Vercauteren, Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard, Wenfeng Xia	2023	1
5	Miniaturised all-optical ultrasound probe for thrombus imaging L Teng, Chung Sim Lim, Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard, Adrien E. Desjardins, Richard J. Colchester	2023	3
6	An optical coherence photoacoustic microscopy system using a fiber optic sensor APL Photonics ·Miaomiao Ying, Richard Haindl, Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard, 敏明小篠, Caterina Sturtzel, Qian Li, Sharad S. Singhal, Harald Sattmann, Rainer A. Leitgeb, Yi Yuan, Leopold Schmetterer, Manojit Pramanik, Martin Distel, Wolfgang Drexler, Mengyang Liu	2021	13
7	Photoacoustic Reconstruction Using Sparsity in Curvelet Frame: Image Versus Data Domain IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging ·成美八木, Simon Arridge, Felix Lucka, Ben Cox, Nam Huynh, Paul C. Beard, Edward Zhang, Marta M. Betcke	2021	7
8	CuInS₂ Quantum Dot and Polydimethylsiloxane Nanocomposites for All‐Optical Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging Advanced Materials Interfaces ·E. S. Gepp, Richard J. Colchester, Thomas J. Macdonald, Filip Ambrož, ASLIHAN YALÇINKAYA DUMAN, Sunish Mathews, Donald William John Sargent, Efthymios Maneas, María Fernanda Serrano B., R. Beltrame, Paul Collier, Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard, Ivan P. Parkin, Adrien E. Desjardins, Sacha Noimark	2021	18
9	Novel method for the analysis of clathrates UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Thomas Stahl, Todd M. Allen, James A. Guggenheim, Paul C. Beard	2020	1
10	Longitudinal Photoacoustic Imaging of the Pharmacodynamic Effect of Vascular Targeted Therapy on Tumors Clinical Cancer Research ·Sean Peter Johnson, Olumide Ogunlade, Mark F. Lythgoe, Paul C. Beard, R. Barbara Pedley	2019	29
11	Photoacoustic imaging of the human placental vasculature Journal of Biophotonics ·Efthymios Maneas, Rosalind Aughwane, Nam Huynh, Wenfeng Xia, Rehman Ansari, Mithun Kuniyil Ajith Singh, J. Ciaran Hutchinson, Neil J. Sebire, Owen J. Arthurs, Jan Deprest, Sébastien Ourselin, Paul C. Beard, Andrew Melbourne, Tom Vercauteren, Anna L. David, Adrien E. Desjardins	2019	48
12	Analysis of the Directivity of Glass-Etalon Fabry–Pérot Ultrasound Sensors IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control ·Hüseyin Gökalp, Eleanor Martin, James A. Guggenheim, Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard, Bradley E. Treeby, Ben Cox	2019	5
13	Reverberant cavity photoacoustic imaging Optica ·Michael Brown, Edward M. McCarthy, Bradley E. Treeby, Paul C. Beard, Ben Cox	2019	10
14	Large area laser scanning optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy using a fibre optic sensor Biomedical Optics Express ·Thomas J. Allen, Olumide Ogunlade, Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard	2018	33
15	All-optical forward-viewing photoacoustic probe for high-resolution 3D endoscopy Light Science & Applications ·Rehman Ansari, Edward Zhang, Adrien E. Desjardins, Paul C. Beard	2018	147
16	Ultrasensitive plano-concave optical microresonators for ultrasound sensing Nature Photonics ·James A. Guggenheim, Ari Chanen, Thomas J. Allen, Richard J. Colchester, Sacha Noimark, Olumide Ogunlade, Ivan P. Parkin, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Adrien E. Desjardins, Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard Hit paper breakdown →	2017	287
17	In vitro characterization of genetically expressed absorbing proteins using photoacoustic spectroscopy Biomedical Optics Express ·Jan Laufer, Amit P. Jathoul, Martin Pulé, Paul C. Beard	2013	63
18	A miniature all-optical photoacoustic imaging probe Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard	2011	89
19	The challenges for quantitative photoacoustic imaging Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Ben Cox, Jan Laufer, Paul C. Beard	2009	107
20	Photoacoustic characterisation of vascular tissue at NIR wavelengths Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Thomas J. Allen, Paul C. Beard	2009	27

About Paul C. Beard

Paul C. Beard is a scholar working on Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Biophysics, having authored 250 papers that have together received 11.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (239 papers), Thermography and Photoacoustic Techniques (113 papers), Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (103 papers), Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography (39 papers), Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (38 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (36 papers), Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (30 papers) and Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biomedical Engineering (10.6k citations), Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (5.5k citations), Mechanics of Materials (4.9k citations), Acoustics and Ultrasonics (115 citations) and Biophysics (405 citations). Paul C. Beard has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Frequent co-authors include Edward Zhang, Ben Cox, Jan Laufer, Simon Arridge, Sarah E. Bohndiek, Judith Weber, Timothy N. Mills, Thomas J. Allen, Adrien E. Desjardins and Kornel P. Köstli. Their work appears in journals such as Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of Biomedical Optics, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Scientific Reports.

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