Nicholas Rubert, Ph.D

Research Assistant

Department Affiliations

Medical Physics

Education

• B.S., Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 2008
• M.S., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
• Ph.D., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013

Research

Research Interests:

Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Elastography

Doctoral Research Advisor:

Tomy Varghese, Ph.D

Doctoral Dissertation: 

Quantitative ultrasound imaging of thermal ablation therapy in the liver, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 2013.

Positions

• 06/2008-12/2013, Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics
• 01/2013-11/2015, Diagnostic Imaging Resident, Department of Medical Physics
• 11/2015-Present, Assistant Professor, Medical Physicist, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern university, Chicago, IL

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

• Rubert N, Varghese T, "Mean scatterer spacing estimation in normal and thermally coagulated ex vivo bovine liver", Ultrasonic Imaging, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 79-97, 2014. [Abstract]
• Rubert, N,Varghese T,  "Scatterer number density considerations in reference phantom based attenuation estimation",  Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 40, No. 7, pp. 1680-1696, 2014.  [Abstract]
• Rubert N, Varghese T, Mean scatterer spacing estimation using multi-taper coherence estimates, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 60, No. 6, pp. 1061-1073, 2013. [Abstract]
• Nam K, Rosado-Mendez IM, Rubert N, Madsen EL, Zagzebski JA, Hall TJ, Ultrasound attenuation measurements using a reference phantom with sound speed mismatch, Ultrasonic Imaging, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 251-263, 2011. [Abstract]
• McCormick MM, Rubert N, Varghese T, Bayesian regularization applied to ultrasound strain imaging, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1612-1620, 2011. [Abstract]
• Rubert N, Bharat S, DeWall RJ, Andreano A, Brace C, Jiang J, Sampson L, Varghese T., Electrode displacement strain imaging of thermally-ablated liver tissue in an in vivo animal model, Med Phys. 2010 Mar;37(3):1075-82. [Abstract]
• Jiang J, Brace C, Andreano A, DeWall RJ, Rubert N, Fisher TG, Varghese T, Lee F Jr, Hall TJ., Ultrasound-based relative elastic modulus imaging for visualizing thermal ablation zones in a porcine model., Phys Med Biol. 2010 Apr 21;55(8):2281-306. Epub 2010 Mar 30. [Abstract]

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