Tissue-realistic ultrasound simulation

Bradley Treeby (ANU)

APPLIED SIGNAL PROCESSING SERIES

DATE: 2011-08-18
TIME: 11:00:00 - 12:00:00
LOCATION: RSISE Seminar Room, ground floor, building 115, cnr. North and Daley Roads, ANU
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ABSTRACT:
I will give an overview of the recent initiative at the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science to establish a visualization and ultrasound laboratory. In particular, I will describe recent progress in the development of full-wave nonlinear ultrasound models and their efficient implementation using graphical processing units (GPUs). The potential applications of these models to ultrasound treatment planning and multi-modality image registration will also be discussed.
BIO:
Bradley Treeby is currently a Research Fellow in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at The Australian National University. He completed his PhD in the area of acoustics and auditory modelling at the University of Western Australia in 2007. He then spent two and a half years working as a Research Associate in the Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering at University College London. He has worked extensively in the areas of photoacoustics, ultrasound, and medical imaging, and has published articles in leading international journals on theoretical, experimental and computational aspects of these technologies. He has also collaborated with a large number of researchers and clinicians, including those working in applied mathematics, physics, cell biology, and haematology. Since 2007 he has co-authored 14 journal articles and presented numerous papers at leading international conferences. He is also the co-author of an open source acoustics and ultrasound simulation toolbox for MATLAB.