Areas of Research
Research Focus
- Current research activities cover the areas of modeling, materials and fabrication required for high-frequency ultrasonic imaging transducers used in ophthalmological, vascular, and dermatological applications. There exists a wide variety of projects and interests in the Center, though they can be narrowed into three core areas of research:
- Novel piezoelectric and passive material design for high frequency transducers
- Single element and array transducer design and fabrication
- High frequency ultrasonic imaging system electronics
Current Collaborators
- The Center's current activites also tend to engage our researchers and students in collaborative investigation with outside groups, both academic and private. Presently, the Center's collaborators are:
- Dr. Katherine Ferrara
- The University of California, Davis, Davis, CA.
- Dr. Ferrara is involved with blood flow mapping in ocular tissues.
- Dr. Patrick Jensen
- The Wilmer Eye Institute, Baltimore, MD.
- Dr. Nitish Thakor
- The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
- Dr. Jensen and Dr. Thakor are working on a system which can examine characteristics of structure in the posterior eye region during vitreo-retinal surgery.
- Dr. David Sahn
- Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), Portland, OR.
- Dr. Sahn is working on development of integrated IVUS (Intravascular Ultrasound) arrays for intracardiac applications.
- Dr. Ron Silverman
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY.
- Dr. Silverman is working on very high frequency ultrasonic characterization of eye tissues.
- Dr. David Vilkomerson
- DVX, Inc., Princeton, NJ.
- DVX is interested in the development of high frequency blood flow measurement using implantable ultrasonic diffraction grating transducers.