Peder C. Pedersen
Professor
Director, Denmark Project Center
pedersen@ece.wpi.edu
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Phone: +1-508-831-5641
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B.S., Aalborg Engineering College
M.E., University of Utah
Ph.D, University of Utah
Peder C. Pedersen received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Aalborg Engineering College in Aalborg, Denmark, in 1971, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in bioengineering from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1974 and 1976, respectively.
He joined the WPI faculty in 1987. Previously, he was an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University and a core faculty member of Drexel's Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute.
Pedersen’s research areas include wireless integration of portable ultrasound systems; development of 3D imaging systems; tissue characterization with ultrasound; atherosclerotic plaque classification; modeling and optimizing pulse-echo ultrasound systems; ultrasound methods for assessing bone micro-architecture for improved fracture risk assessment in osteoporosis; and characterization of rough surfaces.
Center Projects
Reconfigurable Portable Ultrasound System
Freehand 3D Ultrasound Imaging with Registration
Atherosclerotic Plaque Classification by Means of Ultrasound
Notable Publications
Cakaresk, Z., and P. C. Pedersen, "On the variance of mean integrated backscatter from moving blood," 2001 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings, Atlanta, Ga., pp. 1285-1289, October 2001.
Cakareski, Z., and P. C. Pedersen, "Statistics of the integrated backscatter estimate from moving blood," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, pp. 1555-1567, November 2001.
Chen, Z. Q., J. C. Hermanson, M. A. Shear, and P. C. Pedersen, "Ultrasonic monitoring of interfacial motion of condensing and non-condensing liquid films," Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, Vol. 16, pp. 353-364, December 2005.
Pedersen, P. C., and A. Grebe, "Application of time delay spectrometry for rough surface characterization," Ultrasonics, Vol. 39, pp. 101-108, March 2001.
Pedersen, P. C., R. Lara-Montalvo, and J. Charareski, "Absolute Measurement of Integrated Backscatter from Arterial Wall Structures," in Plaque Imaging: Pixel to Molecular Level. Series in Health Technology and Informatics, J. Suri, C. Yuan, D. L. Wilson, and S. Laxminarayan, editors, IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 208-240, 2005.
Pedersen, P. C., and Y. Sun, "Broadband ultrasound attenuation for bone mass density evaluation-effect of anisotropy and microarchitecture," ASME 2001 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Snowbird, Utah, pp. 303-304, June 2001.
Pedersen, P. C., and L. Wan, "Optimization of Pulse-Echo Array Transducer System for Identification of Specified Targets," 26th International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging, Windsor, Canada, September 2001.
Wan, L., P. C. Pedersen, and S. K. Jespersen, "Modeling of received signals from annular array ultrasound transducers due to extended reflectors," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, pp. 1525-1541, November 2003.
Wilhjelm, J. E., P.C. Pedersen, and S. Mehl Jacobsen, "The influence of roughness, angle, range and transducer type on the echo signal from planar interfaces," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, pp. 511-521, March 2001.
Zamaneh, Z., and P. C. Pedersen, "Acoustic attenuation properties of the lung: An open question," Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 28, No. 9, pp. 1209-1216, 2002
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