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Jonathan Ophir, Ph.D.
Professor of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Director, Ultrasonics Laboratory
Jonathan Ophir, Ph.D.
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UT-Houston Medicine (scroll to p.11)
Spring, 2003
October, 2003

Elastography.com

Professional Focus:
The major focus of Dr. Ophir’s work is to develop novel techniques and instrumentation for high resolution imaging of the elastic characteristics of breast and prostate cancers in vivo.  Dr. Ophir is also Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston and at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Ophir has co-authored more than 100 original research papers in refereed journals, and has 15 U.S. and foreign issued patents in the field of diagnostic ultrasound instrumentation. Dr. Ophir is Associate Editor of Ultrasonic Imaging, and member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine an Biology and the Journal of Clinical Ultrasound.He has served on numerous review bodies, including National Institutes of Health Study Sections, National Science Foundation, and the Medical Research Council of Canada. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), Past Chairman of the Technical Standards Committee, and past member of the Board of Governors.

Please take a moment to visit our website:www.elastography.com

Active Working Grants:
Title granting agency years held
Elastograpy: Clinical and Basic Science NCI 10

Major Honors or Awards:
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

Publications:
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)
 
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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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. Download/View PDF 2.17 MB

Book and Book Chapters:
Ophir, J., Cespedes, I., Maklad, N. F. and Ponnekanti, H.: “Elastography: A Method for Imaging the Elastic Properties of Tissue In-Vivo”.Chapter 7 in Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization, M. Tanaka et al., eds., Springer Verlag, Publ., Tokyo, pp. 95-123, 1996.

Major Offices Held in National or International Professional Societies:
Governor, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 1992-1995
Past Chairman, Standards Committee, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 1991-1992
Chairman, Standards Committee, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 1998-1991

Graduate/Medical Degrees:
Doctor of Engineering, 1977 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
MSEE, 1973 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Postgraduate Training:
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


Staff  Assistant: Manette Price
Office Address: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
6431 Fannin Street, MSB 2.100
Houston, TX  77030
Office Phone: 713-500-7687

Office Fax:

713-500-7694
E-mail Address: Jonathan.Ophir@uth.tmc.edu

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