MADSEN, Ernest L.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Medical Physics
1300 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706-1532
USA

Phone: (608) 263-7932
Fax: (608) 262-2413
E-Mail: elmadsen@facstaff.wisc.edu

Ernie Madsen

Position: Professor

Education:

B.S., Physics, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD

PH.D. Solid State Physics, Catholic Univ of America, Washington DC, 1968

Research Interests:

My current research interest include the following:

  • Performance testing of ultrasound imagers.
  • Tissue-mimicking materials and phantoms for ultrasound and magnetic resonance.
  • Ultrasound tissue characterization.

    Representative Publications:

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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

    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.