DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL PHYSICS

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN -School of Medicine & Public Health

 

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DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL PHYSICS 

 

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Ernest L. Madsen, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor, Medical Physics

 

1157 Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research

UW-Medical Physics, Ultrasound Imaging

Madison, WI 53705

 

Telephone: 608/263-7932(office)

Fax: 608/262-2413

E-mail:  elmadsen@wisc.edu

 

  

PROFILE LINKS

  
 

OTHER DEPARTMENT AFFILIATIONS [back to top of page]

  • Medical Physics

 

EDUCATION [back to top of page]

  
 

  • B.S.,    University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Physics)

  • Ph.D., Catholic University of America, Washington DC (Solid State Physics)

 
  RESEARCH INTEREST [back to top of page]  
 

  • Performance testing of ultrasound imagers, tissue-mimicking materials & phantoms for ultrasound & magnetic resonance, and ultrasound tissue characterization

  

POSITIONS [back to top of page]

  • 3/1985-7/1993     Associate Professor of Medical Physics, U of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

  • 7/1993-Present    Professor of Medical Physics, University of  Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS [back to top of page]

  
 

  • Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine in 1988.

  • Elected Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in 2001.

 

MEMBERSHIPS [back to top of page]

  
 

  • American Acoustical Society (AAS)

  • American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)

  • Member of the Technical Standards Committee

  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

  

 

PATENTS [back to top of page]

  

  1. U.S. Patent No. 4, 277, 367 issued 7/7/81 to WARF: "Phantom Material and Method," E.L. Madsen, J.A.  Zagzebski, R.A. Banjavic, and M.M. Burlew.

  2. U.S. Patent No. 4,843,866 issued 7/4/89 to WARF: "Ultrasound Phantom," E.L.Madsen, J.A. Zagzebski, and G.R. Frank.

  3. U.S. Patent No. 5,312,755 issued 5/17/94 to WARF : "Contrast Resolution Tissue- mimicking Phantoms for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Stable NMR Properties," E.L. Madsen, J.C. Blechinger, and G.R. Frank.

  4. U.S. Patent No. 5,574,212 issued 11/12/97 to WARF: "Automated System and Method for Testing Resolution of Ultrasound Scanners," E.L. Madsen, J.A. Zagzebski, G.R. Frank, and J.J. Rownd.

  5. U.S. Patent No. 5,625,137 issued 4/29/97 to WARF: "Very Low Scatter Liquid and Solid Tissue Mimicking Material for Ultrasound Phantoms and Method for Making the Same," E.L. Madsen, and G.R. Frank.

  6. U.S. Patent No. 5,670,719 issued 9/23/97 to WARF:  "Automated System and Method for Testing Resolution of Ultrasound Scanners," E.L. Madsen, and G.R. Frank.

  7. U.S. Patent No. 5,827,942 issued 11/27/98 to WARF: "System and Method for Testing Imaging Performance of Ultrasound Scanners and Other Medical Imagers," E.L. Madsen, and J.M. Koer.

  8. U.S. Patent No. 5,902,748 issued 5/11/99 to WARF: "Method of Making a Solid Tissue Mimicking Material for Ultrasound Phantoms," E.L. Madsen, and G.R. Frank.

  9. U.S. Patent No. 6,190,915 issued 02/20/01 to WARF: "Ultrasound Phantoms," E.L. Madsen, and G.R. Frank.

  10. U.S. Patent No. 6,238,343 issued 06/28/99 to WARF: "Quality Assurance Ultrasound Phantoms,"  E.L. Madsen, and G.R. Frank.

  11. U.S. Patent No. 6,318,146 issued 11/20/01 to WARF: "Multi-imaging Modality Tissue Mimicking Materials for Imaging Phantoms," E.L. Madsen, W.D. D'Souza, and G.R. Frank.

  12. U.S. Patent No. 6,352,860 issued 03/05/02 to WARF: "Liquid and Solid Tissue Mimicking Materials for Ultrasound Phantoms and Method of Making the Same," E.L. Madsen, and G.R. Frank.

 

PUBLICATIONS [back to top of page]

 
 

  1. Rownd J, Madsen EL, Zagzebski JA, Frank G, and Dong F: Phantoms and Automated System for Testing Resolution of Ultrasound Scanners. Ultrasound in Med. and Biol., 23: 245-260, 1997.

  2. Knipp BS, Zagzebski JA, Wilson TA, Dong F, and Madsen EL: Ultrasound Attenuation and Backscatter Estimates Using Video Signal Analysis Applied to B-mode scans. Ultrasonic Imaging, 19:221-233, 1997.

  3. Madsen EL, Frank GR, and Dong F: Liquid or Solid Ultrasonically Tissue-mimicking Materials With Very Low Scatter. Ultrasound in Med.\ Biol., 24:535-542, 1998.

  4. Chen J-F, Zagzebski JA, and Madsen EL: Estimating the Spatial Autocorrelation Function for Ultrasound Scatterers in Isotropic Media. Med.\ Phys., 25(5):648-655, 1998.

  5. Rice JR, Milbrandt RH, Madsen EL, Frank GR, and Boote EJ: Acoustic Measurements in a Tissue-mimicking Liquid. J. Ultrasound in Med. (in press).

  6. Dong F, Madsen EL, Macdonald MC, and Zagzebski JA: Nonlinearity Parameter for Tissue-mimicking Materials. Submitted to Ultrasound in Med. & Biol. Madsen, El.L., Dong, F., Frank, G.R., et al. : Interlaboratory Comparison of Ultrasonic Backscatter, Attenuation, and Speed. Submitted to J. Ultrasound in Med.

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