About Andrea Curatolo

Andrea Curatolo is a Research Associate in the Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (OBEL), at The University of Western Australia. He is currently working on optical coherence tomography (OCT). His work includes diagnostic imaging systems engineering design, technology development and supervision of endoscopic and interstitial OCT imaging system prototypes deployed in clinical settings, for pulmonary and oncology applications. He is also active in the study of image formation in the context of coherent imaging modalities and intrinsic noise - speckle. In this area he has worked on developing processing methods to increase the information content extracted from an image (multiple scattering detection), techniques to reduce intrinsic noise and imaging artefacts (i.e. image quality improvement), and tools (structured phantoms) to verify and validate those methods and techniques.

Prior to joining OBEL in 2008, he worked for a year in industry as a Systems Engineer. His background is in photonics, having completed his MSc in 2006 in physics engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, with a thesis on the development of a portable multispectral imaging system. He attended the first year of his master's degree at the Institute of Technology (LTH) in Lund, Sweden.