| Medical Imaging
 The
field of medical imaging has experienced phenomenal
growth within the last century. Whereas imaging was
the prerogative of the defense and the space science
communities in the past, with the advent of powerful,
less-expensive computers, new and expanded imaging systems
have found their way into the medical field. Systems
range from those devoted to planar imaging using x-rays
to technologies that are just emerging, such as virtual
reality. Hardware design and software algorithm development
for a wide array of imaging technologies applicable
to medicine, including MRI, fMRI, PET, CT.
Current faculty research projects related to Medical
Imaging include:
Button:
- High resolution computer aided tomography
Diaz:
- Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for the treatment
of brain malignancies
Fowler:
- PET radiotracer development
Gatley:
- Development of radioactive probes for patterned
PET imaging
Gindi:
- Algorithm development for medical imaging
Huang:
- Breast MR imaging and spectroscopy
Kaufman:
- Volume visualization of biological tissues
Khalsa:
- Development of bioMEMS neural sensor
Kirz:
- X-ray optics of biological substrates
Liang:
- Development of quantitative SPECT systems, 3D virtual
endoscopy, and computer aided diagnosis
Metcalf:
- Interaction between laser light and atoms, and optical
forces on atoms
Mueller:
- Cone-beam computed tomography (CT)
- Functional imaging (SPECT, PET)
- Medical visualization
- Human brain mapping
- PACS
Reinstein:
- Neutron capture therapy
- Electronic portal imaging devices
Springer:
- Hyperfine shift nuclear magnetic resonance studies
Volkow:
- Positron emission tomography
- Substance abuse, psychopharmacology, aging
Wishnia:
- Applications of nuclear magnetic resonance Imaging
Medical Instrumentation
 Today's
medical instruments are considerably more complicated
and diverse, primarily because they incorporate electronic
systems for sensing, transducing, manipulating, storing,
and displaying data or information. Medical diagnostic
today more and more relies on detailed and accurate
measurements of a vast number of physiologic parameters
for diagnosing illnesses and prescribe complicated procedures
for treating these. While medical instruments acquire
and process information and data for monitoring patients
and diagnosing illnesses, medical devices use electrical,
mechanical, chemical, or radiation energy for achieving
a desired therapeutic purpose, maintaining physiologic
functions, or assisting a patient's healing process.
Development of novel clinical diagnostic, therapeutic,
and prosthetic devices based on advances in physiology
research, materials, electronics, and computational
capabilities. Ongoing work includes use of vibromyography
for diagnosis of osteoporosis, neural networks applied
to heart auscultation, rapid sequencing of the human
genome, self assembled materials, surface coatings to
enhance tissue ingrowth, and ultrasonic measurements
of bone quality. The research topics include: Ultrasound
- Diagnostic, Treatment, Biosensors
Current faculty research projects related to Medical
Instrumentation include:
Bluestein:
- Heart valve design with low cardioembolic potential
Chon:
- Noninvasive cardiovascular measurement devices
Luryi:
- Automated genome sequencers
Qin:
- Ultrasonic measurements of bone mechanical properties
Rubin:
- Exogenous mechanical stimulation of the musculoskeletal
system
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