Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Carl Herickhoff
Assistant Professor and UMRF Research Professor
University of Memphis
Monday, July 8, 2024, 10:00-11:00 am
B02 CSL Auditorium or Online via Zoom
Title: Enhancing Ultrasound Imaging Through
Transducer Hardware and System Design
Abstract: In recent years,
several new ultrasound-based imaging methods have been developed, mostly within
the limitations of existing transducer array probe and system technology. Our
research aims to further advance the field of ultrasound by creating novel transducer
arrays and systems, to enable unique signal acquisition and processing
approaches toward practical clinical applications. In this talk, we discuss
current and future projects related to transcranial Doppler and
super-resolution 3D functional brain imaging; catheter devices for
intravascular shear wave elastography of coronary plaques; and full-waveform
inversion (aided by neural networks) and scalable 2D matrix array transducer
modules (using additive manufacturing) as part of a quantitative 3D ultrasound
body scanner.
Carl Herickhoff is an
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and UMRF Research Professor at
the University of Memphis. He earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from
Duke University (advisor: Dr. Stephen W. Smith) in 2011, and then worked on the
Advanced Transducer R&D team at Philips Healthcare for 2.5 years before
returning to academia to work with Dr. Jeremy Dahl at Duke and Stanford
University. Dr. Herickhoff joined the University of Memphis Biomedical
Engineering department as faculty in 2020, where he has established an
ultrasound imaging and instrumentation research lab now consisting of 5
graduate students and 3 undergraduates. Dr. Herickhoff was awarded NSF CAREER
and NIH R15 grants in 2023, and his trainees have been awarded multi-year
fellowships from the Acoustical Society of America and the GEM Consortium. He
is a co-inventor on an issued patent and his publications have been cited over
250 times in the past 5 years.
