Emad S. Ebbini
Professor

  

Area of expertise: Image-guided surgery, 3-D cardiac imaging.
Arrays and beamforming, motion tracking in speckle imaging.

Education
Ph.D., EE, 1990, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States
M.S., EE, 1987, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States
B.S., EE, 1985, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Contact information
Office: 6-163 Keller Hall
Telephone: (612) 625-1852
E-mail: emad (at) umn.edu
Personal Web Site http://www.ece.umn.edu/~emad/

Honors and Awards
Fellow, IEEE

Synopsis
My research covers various aspects of imaging and therapy with ultrasound phased-array systems. The overall goal of my work is to develop an image-guided ultrasound phased-array system for noninvasive surgery. Under this umbrella, my students and I have worked on a number of novel approaches involving realtime 3-D imaging, noninvasive temperature imaging, and self-focusing array systems in the presence of strongly scattering objects.

Selected publications
E. S. Ebbini. "Two-dimensional Speckle Tracking Algorithm". IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 53.5 (May 2006): 972-990.

P. Phukpattaranont and E. S. Ebbini. "Post-beamforming second-order Volterra filter for pulse-echo ultrasonic imaging". IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 52.8 (2003): 987-1001.

E. S. Ebbini, H. Yao, and A. Shrestha. "Dual-Mode Ultrasound Phased Arrays for Image-guided Surgery". Ultrasonic Imaging, 28.1 (April 2006): 65-82.