Invited Talk by Dr. Marie-Luise Wille

Talk Overview

Title: Ultrasound Transit Time Spectroscopy – a novel approach to tissue characterisation.

Abstract: Ultrasound transit time spectroscopy (UTTS) approximates ultrasound propagation through composite media as an array of parallel sonic rays. Via deconvolution of experimentally derived ultrasound input and output signals the resulting impulse response of the test sample, being dependent upon its composition and structure. Applications of UTTS include estimation of bone volume fraction of composites and improving image axial resolution. This talk will provide an overview of the UTTS research within our Quantitative Ultrasound and Image Characterisation (QUIC) research group at QUT.

Biography: Dr Marie-Luise Wille is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Quantitative Ultrasound and Image Characterisation and the Regenerative Medicine Group at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc (Physics) from the University of Basel and completed her PhD^?, titled “ultrasound transit time spectroscopy of complex porous media”, at QUT under supervision of Professor Christian Langton in 2015. Her current research interests are ultrasound signal analysis of different composites and micro CT imaging and analysis. Since 2015 she is also the Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering Queensland Section.