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Peder C. Pedersen

Publications

Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journal Articles

• Z.Q. Chen, 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, December 2005, pp. 353- 364.

• L. Wan, 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,  November 2003, pp. 1525 - 1541.

• M. Zamaneh and P.C. Pedersen, “Acoustic attenuation properties of the lung: An open question,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 28, No. 9, 2002, pp. 1209 -1216.

• Z. Cakareski and P.C. Pedersen, “Statistics of the integrated backscatter estimate from moving blood, IEEE  Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Nov. 2001, pp. 1555 - 1567.

• J.E. Wilhjelm, 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, March 2001, pp. 511 - 521.

• P.C. Pedersen and A. Grebe, “Application of time delay spectrometry for rough surface characterization,” Ultrasonics, Vol. 39,  March 2001, pp. 101 - 108.

• P.C. Pedersen, Z. Cakareski, and J. Hermanson, "Ultrasonic monitoring of film condensation, with application in reduced gravity," Ultrasonics, February 2000, pp. 486 - 490.

• S.K. Jespersen, P.C. Pedersen and J.E. Wilhjelm, "The Diffraction Response Interpolation method," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Nov. 1998, pp. 1461 - 1475.

• P.C. Pedersen and Z. Cakareski, 'Determination of ultrasound backscatter level of vascular structures, with application to arterial plaque characterization," 24th International Symposium on Accoustical Imaging, Santa Barbara, CA, Sept. 23 - 25, 1998.

• P.C. Pedersen, "Numerical Techniques for Modeling Ultrasound Systems," 23rd International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging, Boston, MA, April 13 - 16, 1997, pp. 375 - 384.

• J.E. Wilhjelm and P.C. Pedersen, "Analytical and experimental comparison between the FM-fsm and the PW-tsm Doppler systems," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Dec., 1996, pp. 3957 - 3970.

• P.C. Pedersen and D.P. Orofino, “Modeling of received ultrasound signals from finite planar targets,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control,  March, 1996, pp. 303 - 311.

• J.C. Berrios and P.C. Pedersen,"Ultrasonic Measurement of Forced Diameter Variations in an Elastic Tube," Ultrasonic Imaging, Vol. 16, pp. 124 - 142, 1994.

• J.E. Wilhjelm and P.C. Pedersen, "Target Velocity Estimation with FM and PW Echo-Ranging Doppler Systems. Part II: Systems Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, July, 1993, pp. 373-380.

• J.E. Wilhjelm and P.C. Pedersen, "Target Velocity Estimation with FM and PW Echo-Ranging Doppler Systems. Part I: Signal Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, July 1993, pp. 366-372.

• D.P. Orofino and P.C. Pedersen, "Efficient Angular Spectrum Decomposition for Acoustic Sources. Part I: Theory," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, May, 1993, pp. 238-249.

• D.P. Orofino and P.C. Pedersen, "Efficient Angular Spectrum Decomposition for Acoustic Sources. Part II: Results," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, May, 1993, pp. 250-257.

• D.P. Orofino and P.C. Pedersen, "Evaluation of IP-ASD for Elastic Media with Angular Spectrum Decomposition," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 93, March 1993, pp. 1235-1248.

• D.P. Orofino and P.C. Pedersen, "Angle-dependent Spectral Distortion for an Infinite Planar Fluid-Fluid Interface", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 92, March 1992, pp. 2883-2899.

• D.P. Orofino and P.C. Pedersen, "Multirate Digital Signal Processing Algorithm to Calculate Complex Acoustic Pressure Fields," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 92, July 1992, pp. 563-582

Conference Publications/Proceedings, Reviewed

• M. Rowan and P.C. Pedersen, “An Injury Mimicking Ultrasound Phantom as a Training Tool for Diagnosis of Internal Trauma,” 2006 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings, Vancouver, Canada, Oct., 2006, pp. 1613 - 1617

• R.J. Duckworth, P. Cordeiro and P.C. Pedersen, “Clinical evaluation of wearable ultrasound imaging system,” 2006 American Telemedicine Assoc., San Diego, CA, May, 2006.

• P.C. Pedersen, P. Cordeiro, R.J. Duckworth and T.L. Szabo, “Development and testing of wireless wearable ultrasound scanner,” 2006 AIUM Annual Convention, Washington DC, March 23 – 26, 2006.

• P.C. Pedersen, V. Mitra and J. Dey, “Boundary detection in 3D ultrasound reconstruction using nearest neighbor map,” Medical Imaging 2006: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. Edited by Emelianov, Stanislav; Walker, William F. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6147, San Diego, CA, Febr. 11 - 16, 2006, pp. 57-67, 2006

• J. Dey, D.A. Tighe, G. Vijayaraghavan, V. Mitra and P.C. Pedersen, “Prior-shape based segmentation of various objects in ultrasound images after speckle-reduction using level-set-based curvature reduction,” Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing. Edited by Reinhardt, Joseph M.; Pluim, Josien P. W. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6144, San Diego, CA, Febr. 11 - 16, 2006, pp. 1515-1523, 2006.

• C. Poulsen, P. C. Pedersen and T.L. Szabo, “An optical registration method for 3D ultrasound freehand scanning,” 2005 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings, Rotterdam, Holland, Sept., 2005, pp. 1236 - 1240.

• P. C. Pedersen and A. Nadkarni, “Optimization of an array based pulse-echo system for identification of reflector geometry,” 2004 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings, Montreal, Canada, Aug., 2004.

• D. Tulsiani and P.C. Pedersen,“Measurement of condensation in reduced gravity using fringe projection,”SEM X In’l Congress and Exposition, Costa Mesa, CA, June, 2004.

• P. C. Pedersen, “Field Deployable Ultrasound Imaging System,”2004 American Telemedicine Assoc., Tampa, FL, May, 2004.

• A. Nadkarni and P. C. Pedersen, “Ultrasound image enhancement based on an annular array pulse-echo system,” Proc. of the 30th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Springfield, MA, April, 2004.

• D. Sebastian and P. C. Pedersen, “Development of a field-deployable voice-activated ultrasound scanner system,” Proc. of the 30th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Springfield, MA, April, 2004.

• P.C. Pedersen, Z. Cakareski and R. Lara-Montalvo “Ultrasound characterization of arterial wall structures based on integrated backscatter profiles,” 2003 SPIE Int’l Symposium on Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, Febr. 15 - 20, 2003, pp. 115 – 126.

• J.C. Hermanson, P.C. Pedersen, J.S. Allen, M.A. Shear, Z.Q. Chen, A.N. Alexandrou, and W.W. Durgin, “Stability and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Condensing Films,” Sixth Microgravity Fluid Physics and Transport Phenomena Conference, August 14-16, 2002, Cleveland, OH.

Book Chapters

• P.C. Pedersen, 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, Editors J. Suri, C. Yuan, D.L. Wilson and S. Laxminarayan, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 208 - 240.

• P.C. Pedersen, "Ultrasound measurements," in The Measurement, Instrumentation and Sensors Handbook, Editor J.G. Webster, CRC Press and IEEE Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1998, pp. 26-33 to 26-57.

• P.C. Pedersen and H.S. Ozcan, "Acoustic Properties of Lung tissues," in Tissue Characterization with Ultrasound. Volume II Results and Applications, Editor J.F. Greenleaf, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1986, pp. 61-94.

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