Hans-Peter Brecht, Ph.D.

After military service in the German Air force, Peter studied Applied Laser Technology at the University of Applied Science in Emden Germany. Peter focused his studies on laser based measurement techniques and the medical application of lasers. As part of his undergraduate degree he spent one year as a visiting student at the Bioengineering department at Rice University in Houston, where he helped setting up an optical tweezer system for the study of Outer Hair Cell Basal Membrane properties.

He did his work for his undergraduate thesis at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB), where he worked on the optoacoustic determination of total hemoglobin concentration in the radial artery. After finishing his engineering degree, he enrolled at UTMB as a graduate student. He continued to work in the same Laboratory and wrote his doctoral thesis on the determination of blood oxygenation in large veins. During his work at UTMB Peter built optoacoustic detectors, designed and programmed positioning equipment and wrote programs for data acquisition and analysis.

At Fairway Peter is currently responsible for the optoacoustic mouse imaging system. His work includes system design and building, experimental design, data and image processing.

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications

M. Fronheiser, S.A. Ermilov, H.-P. Brecht, A. Conjusteau, R. Su, K. Mehta, and A.A. Oraevsky, “Real–Time Optoacoustic Monitoring and 3D Mapping of a Human Arm Vasculature”, J. Biomed. Opt. (submitted)

M.A. Yaseen, S.A. Ermilov, H.-P. Brecht, R. Su, A. Conjusteau, M. Fronheiser, B.A. Bell, M. Motamedi, and A.A. Oraevsky, “Optoacoustic Imaging of the Prostate: Development Towards Image–Guided Biopsy”, J. Biomed. Opt. (submitted)

H.-P. Brecht, R. Su, M. Fronheiser, S.A. Ermilov, A. Conjusteau, and A.A. Oraevsky, “Whole Body Three-Dimensional Optoacoustic Tomography System for Small Animals,” J. Biomed. Opt. 14, 064007 (2009)

A. Conjusteau, S.A. Ermilov, R. Su, H.-P. Brecht, M. Fronheiser, and A.A. Oraevsky, “Measurement of the Spectral Directivity of Optoacoustic and Ultrasonic Transducers with a Laser Ultrasonic Source”, Rev. Sci. Inst. 80, 093708 (2009)

H. P. Brecht, D. S. Prough, Y. Y. Petrov, I. Patrikeev, I. Y. Petrova, D. J. Deyo, I. Cicenaite, and R. O. Esenaliev, "In vivo monitoring of blood oxygenation in large veins with a triple-wavelength optoacoustic system," Opt. Express 15, 16261-16269 (2007)

I. Y. Petrova, R. O. Esenaliev, Y. Y. Petrov, H. P. F. Brecht, C. H. Svensen, J. Olsson, D. J. Deyo, and D. S. Prough, "Optoacoustic monitoring of blood hemoglobin concentration: a pilot clinical study," Optics Letters 30, 1677-1679 (2005).

Z. Li, B Anvari, M. Takashima, P. Brecht, J.H. Torres, W.E. Brownell, “Membrane tether formation form outer hair cells with optical tweezers,” Biophys J, 82:1386-95 (2002)