Biomedical Acoustics Laboratory
The Biomedical Acoustics Laboratory investigates applications of ultrasound in thermal ablation, drug delivery, and other therapeutic and diagnostic applications.
Research Interests
- Ultrasound image guidance for minimally invasive therapy
- Therapeutic ultrasound for treatment of cancer
- Image analysis to quantify soft tissue biomechanics
- Modeling of bio-heat transfer in thermal therapy
- Passive cavitation detection and imaging
- Ultrasound-mediated drug delivery
- Simulation of ultrasound propagation in inhomogeneous tissue
- Tissue characterization, inverse scattering
- Modeling and analysis of radiation from ultrasound transducers
- Design of minimally invasive medical devices.
NSF-Funded Projects
- R01CA158439 (PI: Mast), "Monitoring and control of human liver cancer ablation using real-time, 3D echo decorrelation imaging" focusing on clinical translation of real-time ultrasound monitoring and control methods for thermal ablation in cancer therapy
- R01DC017301 (mPI: Boyce/Mast/Riley), "Simplified ultrasound biofeedback for speech remediation," translating advances in motor learning research and image processing to improve ultrasound biofeedback therapy for treatment of residual speech sound disorders.
Faculty
T. Douglas Mast
Professor and Graduate Program Director, CEAS - Biomedical Eng
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