Chi Ma, M.S.,Ph.D

Research Assistant

Department Affiliations

Medical Physics

Education

• B.S., Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2007
• M.S., Physics, University of Notre Dame, 2009
• M.S., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011
• Ph.D., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014

Research

Research Interests:

Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Elastography

Doctoral Research Advisor:

Tomy Varghese, Ph.D

Doctoral Dissertation: 

Echocardiographic Lagrangian strain imaging using radiofrequency signals, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014.

Positions

• 08/2009-05/2014, Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, WI, USA
• 06/2014-06/2016, Diagnostic Imaging Resident, Mayo Clinic, MN, USA.
• 06/2016-11/2016, Diagnostic Medical Physicist, Landauer Medical Physics, Memphis, TN, USA.
• 01/2017-Present, Diagnostic Medical Physicist at Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA.

Awards and Honors

Memberships

• Student Member, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)
• Student Member, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
• Student Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publications @ UW

• C. Ma, T Varghese,  "Comparison of cardiac displacement and strain imaging using ultrasound radiofrequency and envelope signals",  Ultrasonics, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 782-792, 2013. [Abstract]
• C. Ma, T Varghese,  "Lagrangian deformation tracking using a polar-grid between endocardial and epicardial contours for cardiac strain imaging",  Medical Physics, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 1779-1792, 2012. [Abstract]
• C. Ma, Varghese T,  "Analysis of two-dimensional ultrasound cardiac strain imaging using joint probability density functions",  Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1118-1132, 2014.  [Abstract]

Browse Dr. Ma's publications on PubMed