Nick Everdell
Senior Research Associate

Department of Medical Physics
 Malet Place Engineering Building
University College London
London WC1E 6BT
UK

    Phone: (44-20) 7679-0267
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I joined the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory in 2001.  For the past few years I have been working on near infrared imaging systems. They are being used for topographic imaging of the brain cortex amongst other things. Click here to look at our web page about optical topography, and here to look at a journal article about the system (pdf format). I also help to develop and maintain the MONSTIR system, which is used for tomographic imaging of the brain and breast. Another project I've been working on recently is a new light source for a retinal imaging camera. There's some more details about that here. I've also been working on a wireless, portable spectroscopy system, designed primarily to look at muscle tissue oxygenation.

I did my PhD at Middlesex University, finishing in 2001. It involved designing and building a haemodialysis system for treating premature babies with acute renal failure. Such a system is needed because these babies are too small to be treated using conventional paediatric dialysis systems. The work was done in cooperation with the paediatric nephrology department of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. Click here for a short tv appearance that the system made recently (the video will take a while to start so be patient, or download it first).

Before that I did an MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Surrey University (Guildford).
My 1st degree was in Engineering, specializing in fluid mechanics.  



Publications

Refereed articles

Hebden, JC, Correia, T, Khakoo, I, Gibson, AP, and Everdell, N (submitted) "A dynamic optical imaging phantom based on an array of semiconductor diodes" Physics in Medicine and Biology

Lloyd-Fox, S, Blasi, A, Volein, A, Everdell, N, Elwell, CE, and Johnson, MH (in press) "Social Perception in Infancy: A near infrared spectroscopy study" Child Development.

Hebden, JC, Brunker, J, Correia, T, Price, BD, Gibson, AP, and Everdell, N (2008): An electrically-activated dynamic tissue-equivalent phantom for assessment of diffuse optical imaging systems, Physics in Medicine and Biology 53, 329-337. Download PDF file.

Blasi, A, Fox, S, Everdell, N, Volein, A, Tucker, L, Csibra, G, Gibson, AP, Hebden, JC, Johnson, MH, and Elwell, CE (2007): Investigation of depth dependent changes in cerebral haemodynamics during face perception in infants, Physics in Medicine and Biology 52, 6849-6864. Download PDF file.

Enfield, LC, Gibson, AP, Everdell, NL, Delpy, DT, Schweiger, M, Arridge, SR, Richardson, C, Keshtgar, M, Douek, M, and Hebden, JC (2007): Three-dimensional time-resolved optical mammography of the uncompressed breast, Applied Optics 46, 3628-3638. Download PDF file.

Everdell N L (2007) "A haemodialysis system for the treatment of acute renal failure and metabolic disorders in neonates"  Medical Engineering and Physics 29(4),516-524.

Gibson A P, T Austin, N L Everdell, M Schweiger, S R Arridge, J Meek, J S Wyatt, D T Delpy, J C Hebden (2006) "Three-dimensional whole-head optical tomography of passive motor evoked responses in the neonate" Neuroimage 30, 521-528.

Everdell, NL, Gibson, AP, Tullis, IDC, Vaithianathan, T, Hebden, JC, and Delpy, DT (2005): A frequency multiplexed near infrared topography system for imaging functional activation in the brain, Review of Scientific Instruments 76(9).

Austin T, Gibson AP, Everdell NL, et al. (2005): Three dimensional optical imaging of neonatal brain activation,
Pediatric Research 58 (2): 357-357

Yates, TD, Hebden, JC, Gibson, AP, Enfield, L, Everdell, NL, Arridge, SR, and Delpy, DT (2005): Time-resolved optical mammography using a liquid coupled interface, Journal of Biomedical Optics  10(5) 054011

Everdell N L, M G Coulthard, J Crosier, M J Kier (2005)  "A machine for haemodialysing very small infants"  Pediatric Nephrology 20(5) 636-643.

Yates T D, J C Hebden, A P Gibson, N Everdell, S R Arridge, and M Douek (2005) "Optical tomography of the breast using a multi-channel time-resolved imager" Phys. Med. Biol. 50, 2503-2517.

Hebden J C, T D Yates, A P Gibson, N Everdell, S R Arridge, D W Chicken, M Douek, M R S Kashtgar (2005) "Monitoring recovery following laser surgery of the breast using optical tomography: a case study" Appl. Opt. 44(10), 1898-1904

Gibson, A P, J C Hebden, J Riley, N Everdell, M Schweiger, S R Arridge, D T Delpy (2005) "Linear and non-linear reconstruction for optical tomography of phantoms with non-scattering regions" Appl. Opt. 44(19), 3925-3936

Vaithianathan T, I D C Tullis, N Everdell, T Leung, A P Gibson, D T Delpy (2004): The Design of a  portable infrared mapping system for functional imaging on babies Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75 (10) p3276-3283 .

Hebden J C, A Gibson, T Austin, R Md Yusof, N Everdell, D T Delpy, S R Arridge, J H Meek, J S Wyatt (2004) "Imaging changes in blood volume and oxygenation in the newborn infant brain using three-dimensional optical tomography" Phys. Med. Biol. 49(7) p1117-1130

Gibson A P, R Md Yusof, H Dehghani, J Riley, N Everdell, R Richards, J C Hebden, M Schweiger, S R Arridge, D T Delpy (2003). "Optical tomography of a realistic neonatal head phantom" Applied Optics 42(16) p1-8

Hebden J C, F M Gonzalez, A P Gibson, E M C Hillman, R Md. Yusof, N Everdell, D T Delpy, G Zaccanti and F Martelli (2003). "Assessment of an in situ temporal calibration method for time-resolved optical tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 8(1) p87-92

Hebden J C, A P Gibson, R Md Yusof, N Everdell, E M C Hillman, D T Delpy, S R Arridge, T Austin, J Meek, J S Wyatt (2002). "Three-dimensional optical tomography of the premature infant brain" Phys. Med. Biol. 47: 4155-4166



Selected conference proceedings


Becker, W, Bergmann, A, Gibson, A, Everdell, N, Jennions, D, Schweiger, M, Arridge, SR, and Hebden, JC (2005): Multi-dimensional time-correlated single photon counting applied to diffuse optical tomography, Proc. SPIE 5693, 34-42.

Everdell N, A Gibson, I D C Tullis, T Vaithanian, J Hebden, D Delpy (2004). "A frequency multiplexed near infra-red topography system for imaging functional activation in the brain." OSA Biomedical Topic Meetings, Miami.

Hebden J C, Gibson, A P, Everdell N, Yusof R Md, Delpy D T (2004). "Three-dimensional optical imaging of hemodynamic and oxygenation changes in the newborn infant brain" OSA Biomedical Topic Meetings, Miami

Yates T D, J C Hebden, A P Gibson, S R Arridge, N L Everdell, M Douek, W Chicken, D T Delpy (2004). "Clinical results from a 32-channel time resolved system used to image the breast" OSA Biomedical Topic Meetings, Miami.

Yusof R Md, J C Hebden, A Gibson, N Everdell, T Austin, J H Meek, S R Arridge, J S Wyatt, D T Delpy (2003). "Validation of the use of homogenous reference phantoms for optical tomography of the neonatal brain" SPIE Proc. "Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue V" Vol. 4955, pages 6-11.

Gibson A, R Md Yusof, H Dehghani, J Riley, N Everdell, R Richards, J Hebden, M Schweiger, S Arridge, D T Delpy (2002). "Optical tomography of a realistic head-shaped phantom". OSA Biomedical Topic Meetings, Miami.

Bland T, J Hebden, E M C Hillman, A Gibson, N Everdell, D T Delpy, S R Arridge, M Douek (2002). "Optical Tomography of the breast using a 32-channel time-resolved imager." OSA Biomedical Topic Meetings, Miami.

Hebden J, E M C Hillman, A Gibson, N Everdell, R Yusof, D T Delpy, S R Arridge, T Austin, J H Meek (2002). "Time resolved optical imaging of the newborn infant brain: initial clinical results". OSA Biomedical Topic Meetings, Miami.

Vaithianathan T, I D C Tullis, N  Everdell, T Leung, J Meek, D T Delpy (2003): Functional imaging of the brain using a portable NIR instrument, Proceedings of SPIE, San Jose, USA.

Vaithianathan T, I D C Tullis, N Everdell, J Meek, T Austin, D T Delpy (2002): A portable near infrared spectroscopy system for mapping functional activation in infants, 8th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Sendai, Japan.


PhD

N. Everdell (2001) "A Haemodialysis System for the Treatment of Acute Renal Failure and Metabolic Disorders in Neonates". Middlesex University


Last update: July 15th  2009