1. 1 Representative Recent Research in Medical Imaging Murray Loew Biomedical Engineering Program Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering June 27, 2007

2. 2 With R. Brem, M.D., GWU, F. Razjouyan, B.S. student, and I. Kopriva, Ph.D., visiting scientist

3. 3 Thermo-elastic modeling of breast tissue with gravity-induced deformation We can model the shape of the breast under realistic conditions of position and orientation And can then model the thermal state of the tissue – in 3-d – under the influence of a source (e.g., a tumor) at an arbitrary position Strain Temperature This information is useful for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy With L. Jiang, doctoral student

4. 4 With J. Reinhardt, Ph.D., U. of Iowa, and Z. Markowitz, doctoral student

5. 5 With H. Kundel, M.D., U. of Pennsylvania, and P. Perconti, doctoral student

6. 6 With G. Sharp, Ph.D. and S. Straub, Ph.D., Cornell U., and T. McClanahan, doctoral student

7. 7 Other current work Optical coherence tomography (OCT) of the bladder (with J. Zara, Ph.D., ECE; M. Manyak, M.D., Urology; A. Lingley, doctoral student) Task-based measures of image quality for image compression (with D. Li, doctoral student) Diffusion-tensor imaging in MRI (with P. Basser, Ph.D., NIH; R. Freidlin, doctoral student)