Personal Statement
As
a retired member of the Carleton
University Physics
Department, which offers graduate and honours undergraduate programs in
Physics, I have taught and participated in numerous facets of activities
at both graduate
and undergraduate
level. This
participation, apart from membership on number of departmental,
faculty, and university committees, included advising graduate
students
in medical physics (former Academic Officer) and undergraduate students
(former Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, former program
advisor, etc.).
Research in
the Department is focused in two key areas, Medical and Particle
Physics. My affiinity is Medical Physics.
My
research pertains to medical
ultrasound. More specifically, as described in more detail
in
Research we are interested in
interstitial deposition of ultrasound into abnormal tissue with the goal
of elevating the tissue temperature to a pre-determined level.
This procedure, known as thermal therapy, leads eventually to tissue
necrosis.
Our past experimental work
concentrated on development of
interstitial applicator, temperature measurement, determination of
heating effects in tissue phantoms and in tissue in vitro and in
vivo. The current efforts focus on 3-D Finite
Element Analysis computations of heating effects for the organ of
interest, the brain, with realistically
shaped models. Our computations evalute the role of the blood flow and
other sructural details in achieving the required thermal dose.
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