The Advanced Imaging and Inverse Methods Group

 

We are an energetic group of people working in the area of plasma physics research, but with a particular interest in novel imaging systems and associated inverse methods that also have a range of important applications in science and industry. 

 

We develop plasma imaging systems spanning the microwave to optical and xray regions with applications including time-resolved tomographic reconstruction of basic properties such as temperature, density and flow.

 

Our instruments and techniques have also found application in blackbody temperature imaging and multi-spectral colour discrimination.  Our new quadrant-imaging dual-colour coherence-pyrometry system (patent pending) will undergo final trials at Bluescope Steel in November 2005

 

More recently we have established a collaboration with the Group for Electromagnetic, Bio and Plasma Physics at Chalmers University in Sweden in relation to the use of microwaves for human tissue imaging.  This work is ARC funded and PhD research projects are available.

 

If you are a prospective student looking for an interesting project, please visit the student projects page.

 

 

 

We are now also advertising attractive top-up scholarships for APA award holders and/or applicants 

 

 

Tomographic reconstructions of brightness of coherent instability in H-1	Reconstructions of plasma brightness for resonant and standard magnetic configurations in the H-1 heliac
Four quadrant coherence image of scalpel blade back-illuminated by diffuse monochromatic source.  The interference fringes are produced by a birefringent optical delay plate.	Antiphase interferometric images of the radiant intensity from a molten iron stream at Bluescope steel mills.  The images are processed to obtain the iron surface temperature and emissivity.