Min Rao, Ph.D
Research Assistant
Department
Affiliations
Medical
Physics
Education
- Ph.D, Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008
- M.S.,
Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
- Ph.D, Physical
Electronics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2003
-
B.S., Physical Electronics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China,
1999
Research
Research
Interests:
Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Elastography
Doctoral
Research Advisor:
Tomy
Varghese, Ph.DDoctoral Dissertation:
Shear Strain
Imaging for Breast Cancer
Diagnosis,
University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 2008.
Positions
- 06/2005-07/2008, Research Assistant, Department of Medical
Physics
- 08/2008-Present, Medical Physicist, Swedish Medical
Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Awards
and
Honors
Memberships
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- The
American Association of Physicists in Medicine, (AAPM)
Publications
@ UW
- H. Xu, M. Rao, T
Varghese, A. Sommer, S.
Baker, TJ Hall, GA
Sisney, ES Burnside, "Axial Shear Strain Imaging for Differentiating
Benign and Malignant Breast Masses", Ultrasound
in Medicine and Biology,
Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 1813"1824, 2010.
doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.07.008. (PMCID: PMC3033738). [Abstract]
- M.
Rao, and T Varghese,
"Estimation of the optimal maximum beam angle and angular increment for
normal and shear strain estimation", IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 760-769, 2009. [Abstract]
- M.
Rao, T
Varghese,
and E.L. Madsen, "Shear strain imaging using shear deformations", Medical
Physics,
Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 412-423, February 2008. Also reproduced in
Virtual Journal of
Biological Physics Research, Vol. 15,
Issue 2, 2008. (PMCID: PMC2481232). [Abstract]
- M.
Rao, T
Varghese, and J.A.
Zagzebski, "Simulation of
ultrasound two-dimensional array transducers using a frequency domain
model", Medical
Physics,
Vol. 35, No. 7, pp. 3162-3169, July 2008. [Abstract]
- M.
Rao, and T
Varghese, "Correlation
analysis of
three-dimensional strain imaging using ultrasound two-dimensional array
transducers", Journal
Acoustic Society America,
Vol. 124, No.3, pp. 1858-1865, 2008. [Abstract]
- M.
Rao, Q. Chen, H. Shi, T
Varghese,
E.L. Madsen, J.A. Zagzebski and T.A. Wilson, "Normal and shear strain
estimation using beam steering on linear-array transducers", Ultrasound
in Medicine and Biology,
Vol. 33, No.1, pp. 57-66, January 2007. (PMCID:
PMC1839057). [Abstract]
- M.
Rao and T
Varghese, "Correlation
analysis for angular
compounding in strain imaging", IEEE
Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control,
Vol. 54, No. 9, pp. 1903-1907, September 2007.
(PMCID:
PMC2442275). [Abstract]
- M.
Rao, Q. Chen, H.
Shi, T
Varghese, "Spatial-angular
compounding for
elastography using beam steering on linear array transducers", Medical
Physics,
Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 618-626, March 2006. (PMCID:
PMC1815397). [Abstract]
- M.
Rao, and T
Varghese, "Correlation
Analysis of the beam
angle dependence for elastography", Journal
Acoustic Society America,
Vol. 119, No. 6, pp. 4093-4101, June 2006. (PMCID:
PMC1785330). [Abstract]
- T. Wilson, J. A.
Zagzebski, T
Varghese, Q. Chen, and M.
Rao, "The
Ultrasonix 500RP: A commercial ultrasound research interface", IEEE
Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control,
Vol. 53, No. 10,
pp. 1772-1782,
October 2006. [Abstract]
- M. Rao, and T
Varghese "Spatial angular
compounding for
elastography without the incompressibility assumption", Ultrasonic
Imaging
Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 256-270, October 2005.(PMCID:
PMC1994653). [Abstract]
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