| 2001
AIUM Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award, March 2001 |
| Distinguished
Contribution, The B. F. Goodrich
Collegiate Inventors Program, 1999 National Competition with Elisa Konofagou |
|
Outstanding
Achievement in Research citation,
UTHSCH Honors Convocation, spring 1999 |
| Medal
of the Tohoku (Japan) Medical Society, October 1998 |
| Inventor
of the Year Award from Houston Mayor
Bob Lanier and the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association, February
1995 |
| Commissioned
as an Honorary Admiral in the Texas Navy by Governor George W. Bush,
1995 |
| Dean’s
Teaching Excellence Award List, UTHSCH Graduate
School of Biomedical Sciences, August 1994 |
| Terrance
Matzuk Memorial Award for “distinction
for innovative research in the development of ultrasonic instrumentation
and technology”, AIUM March 1992 |
| For a complete listing of publications, please click here. |
| 2006 |
| Hoyt, K., Forsberg,
F. and Ophir, J: Comparison of shift estimation strategies in spectral elastogaphy.
Ultrasonics 44, pp. 99-108, 2006. Download/View
PDF (327
KB) |
| Hoyt, K., Forsberg,
F. and Ophir, J: Analysis of hybrid spectral strain estimation technique
in elastography. Physics in Medicine and Biology, Institute of Physics Publishing,
5, pp. 197-209, 2006. Download/View
PDF (283 KB) |
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| 2005 |
| Righetti, R., Ophir,
J. and Krouskop, TA: A method for generating permeability elastograms and
poisson's ratio time-constant elastograms. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology,
Vol. 31, No. 6 pp. 803-816. 2005. Download/View
PDF (95 KB) |
| Hoyt, K., Forsberg,
F., Merritt, C.R.B., Liu, J.B. and Ophir, J: In vivo elastographic investigation
of ethanol induced hepatic lesions. Ultrasound Med Bioliogy, Vol. 31, No.
5, pp. 607-612, 2005. Download/View
PDF (219 KB) |
Doyley, MM., Srinivasan,
S., Pendergrass, SA., Wu, Z and Ophir, J.: Comparative Evaluation of strain-based
and model-based modulus elastography. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology,
Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 787-802, 2005.
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PDF (7925 KB) |
| Hoyt, K., Forsberg,
F. and Ophir, J: Investigation of parametric spectral estimation techniques
for elasticity imaging. Ultrasound In Medicine and Biology,Vol. 31, No.
8, pp. 1109-1121, 2005. Download/View
PDF (544 KB) |
| Doyley, MM, Srinivasan,
S, Dimidenko, E, Soni, N, and Ophir, J: Enhancing the perfomance of model-based
elastography by incorporating additional a priori information in the modulus
image reconstruction process. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 50, pp. 1-18,
2005. Download/View
PDF 1.24 MB |
| ThitaiKumar, A., Ophir,
J. and Krouskop, TA: Noise performance and signal-to-noise ratio of shear
strain elastograms. Ultrasonic Imaging, 27, pp 145-165. September 2005.
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PDF 2.17 MB |
| Intellectual
Property and Technology Transfer |
AUTM,
San Francisco, California |
| Digital
Signal Processing |
University
of Houston, Houston, Texas |
| Image
Processing |
University
of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas |
| Charge
Coupled Devices |
UCLA,
Los Angeles, California |
| AAPM,
Physics of Nonionizing Radiation |
University
of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado |