BME Seminar: Mohammad Mehrmohammadi
Monday, December 6th, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Mohammad Mehrmohammadi
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Wayne State University
"Light And Sound Work Together to Enable the Next Generation of Intelligent Theranostic Systems"
Keating 103
Live Zoom | Passcode: BearDown
(Instructor permission required for enrolled students to attend via Zoom)
Hosts: Dr. Beth Hutchinson and Dr. Russ Witte
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ABSTRACT:
Ultrasound (US) imaging (aka sonography) has been widely used in clinical practice for various screening and diagnostic applications due to its notable advantages such as being non-ionizing, non-invasive, cost-effective, portable, real-time, possessing reasonable imaging contrast, and scalable spatial resolution. Conventional US imaging is often used to reveal morphological and structural abnormalities. However, with advancements in the field of medical diagnostics, functional and molecular imaging have also become integral parts of today’s medicine. Photoacoustic (PA) and Elasticity (EL) imaging, developed around US scanners, enable US imaging to acquire intricate functional and molecular information from tissues, including molecular composition and biomechanical properties. The advantage of these adjunct-to-US imaging modalities is they can be implemented on a single US-acquisition core without any advanced fusion algorithm to combine the multi-modal images. We have been developing various US/PA/EL imaging instruments ranging in sizes from miniaturized endoscopic systems for imaging hard-to-access tissues (such as cervix), to whole tomographic systems for imaging large tissues (such as breast). This talk will cover the use of the developed devices in two major applications: more accurate cervical imaging to predict preterm birth, and the US/PA tomographic system for breast cancer theranostics.
BIO:
Mohammad Mehrmohammadi is an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering with joint appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State University. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran), an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Wayne State University, Mohammad worked at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (Rochester, Minnesota) as a Senior Research. Mohammad’s research interest includes biomedical applications of ultrasound ranging from novel functional, cellular and molecular ultrasound imaging to ultrasound tissue elastography. His research activities are focused on the design, development and clinical validation of novel ultrasound and optical modalities ranging from basic science to clinical translational research. Mohammad is the recipient of a number of awards such as the National Institute of Health R01, Department of Defense Breakthrough Award, DMC Foundation research grant, College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Research award, and Karmanos Cancer Institute pilot research grant.