Min Rao

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.D

    Doctoral 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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