Hao Chen, Ph.D
Research Assistant
Department Affiliations
Medical PhysicsElectrical and Computer Engineering
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Darmouth, 2002
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, China, 1997
Research
Research Interests:
Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound ElastographyDoctoral Research Advisor:
Tomy Varghese, Ph.DDoctoral Dissertation:
Cardiac Strain Imaging, University of Wisconsin-Madison.Positions
- 11/2004-05/2009, Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics
- 02/2009-12/2011, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Emory University, USA
- 01/2012-03/2015, Medical Physics Resident, University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, USA
- 04/2015-10/2016, Medical Physicist, Provison Center for Proton Therapy / ProNova Solutions, Knoxville, TN, USA
- 10/2016-Present, Medical Physicist, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington D.C., USA
Awards and Honors
Memberships
- Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publications @ UW
- H. Chen, and T Varghese, "Three Dimensional Canine Heart Model for Cardiac Elastography," Medical Physics, Vol. 37, No. 11, pp. 5876-5886, 2010. doi:10.1118/1.3496326. Also reproduced in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Vol. 20, Issue 9, 2010. (PMCID: PMC2980546). [Abstract]
- H. Chen, T Varghese, PS. Rahko, J.A. Zagzebski, "Ultrasound frame rate requirements for elastography during cyclic compressions: Experimental and in-vivo results", Ultrasonics, (Epub 2008 Jun 20), Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 98-111, 2009. [Abstract]
- H. Chen, and T Varghese, "Principal component analysis of shear strain effects", Ultrasonics, Vol. 49, No. 4-5, pp. 472-483, 2009. [Abstract]
- H. Chen, and T Varghese, "Multi-level hybrid 2-D strain imaging algorithm for ultrasound sector/ phased arrays", Medical Physics, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 2098-2106, 2009. (PMCID: PMC2832063). [Abstract]
- H. Chen, and T Varghese, "Noise analysis and improvement of displacement vector estimation from angular displacements", Medical Physics, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 2007-2017, May 2008. (PMCID: PMC2673636). [Abstract]
- H. Chen, H. Shi, and T Varghese, "Improvement of elastographic displacement estimation using a two-step cross-correlation method," Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 33, No.1, pp. 48-56, January 2007. (PMCID: PMC1829320). [Abstract]
