Presentations

  1. “Research in the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Pennsylvania” (included my presentation of current research), 18th Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Philadelphia, 10 November 1965.
  1. “Representation of Human Electrocardiograms by Addition of Quadrupole to Dipole Terms” 40th American Heart Association Meeting, San Francisco, 22 October 1967.
  1. “The Path of Cardiac Excitation and Recovery Determined from Surface Electrocardiograms” Cardiac Electrophysiology Group, Atlantic City, 5 May 1968.
  1. “Infinite Medium Approximation to the Forward Problem of Electrocardiography” 23rd Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Washington, 18 November 1970.
  1. “Direct Calculation of Neural Discharge Probabilities Using Macromodular Computer Systems” 24th Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Las Vegas, 2 November 1971.
  1. “Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit Electrical System Design” 25th Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Bal Harbor, Florida, 5 October 1972.
  1. “Broadcast Administration of Questionnaires Developed on MUMPS-Based Systems” MUMPS User’s Group, Denver, 20 September 1974.
  1. “Evaluation of Argus-Sentinel, an Arrhythmia Monitoring System” Computer in Cardiology, Bethesda, Maryland, 1974.
  1. “A Preprocessor for Pediatric ECG’s” 10th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Boston, 18 March 1975.
  1. “Continuing Education for Clinical Engineers” (Invited Paper), 28th Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, New Orleans, 23 September 1975.
  1. “A Real-Time Digital Echocardiograph” 48th American Heart Association Meeting, Anaheim, California, 17 November 1975.
  1. “Training Engineers to Use Computers in Health Care Delivery” (Invited Paper), 11th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Atlanta, 24 March 1976.
  1. “Curriculum for the Technology in Health Care Program” (Invited Paper), Conference on Clinical Engineering Education, Baltimore, 3 May 1976.
  1. “Experience with Clinical Engineering Internships at Washington University” 84th Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 15 June 1976.
  1. “Interactive Acquisition of Diagnostic Electrocardiogram,” Computers in Cardiology 1976, Louis, 8 October 1976.
  1. “Assessment of Electrocardiographic Signal Quality During Acquisition” Computers in Cardiology, Stanford, California, 13 September 1978.
  1. “Obstacles to Career Opportunities for Clinical Engineers” (Invited Paper), 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, San Francisco, 17 April 1980.
  1. “An Adaptive Beamformer for Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization” 7th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 7 June 1982.
  1. “Diffraction-Limited Lateral Resolution of Ultrasonic Phased Arrays” 8th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 8 June 1983.
  1. “Assessing Ultrasonic Arrays for Imaging Tissue Properties” 9th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 4 June 1984.
  1. “Effect of background velocity variation on the point-spread function of ultrasonic transducer arrays” IEEE 1987 Ultrasonics Symposium, Denver, Colorado, 16 October 1987.
  1. “Construction of Body-Surface Isoharmonic Maps from Frank XYZ Leads” Computers in Cardiology 1990, Chicago, Illinois, 26 September 1990.
  1. “Spectral Analysis of the Cardiac Cycle of Signal-Averaged Frank Leads from Patients with Ventricular Tachycardia” (Invited Paper), 19th Meeting of the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology, Santa Barabara, California, 27 April 1994.
  1. “Representation of Time-of-Flight Surfaces for Synthetic-Focus, Ultrasonic Imaging in Inhomogeneous Media” Twentieth International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, Washington, C., 12 June 1995.
  1. “Determination of Epicardial Potentials Using Aimed Leads” 1st International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism, Tampere, Finland, 10 June 1996.
  1. “The Multipole Equivalent Method for the Inference of Epicardial Potentials” (Invited Paper), Workshop on Computer Modeling of the Electric and Magnetic Fields of the Heart and the Brain, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference 1997, Chicago, Illinois, 29 October 1997.
  1. “Improved Estimation of Pericardial Potentials From Body-Surface Maps Using Individualized Torso Models” International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology, Keystone, Colorado, 2 May 1998.
  1. “Representation of Tissue for Adaptive-focus Ultrasonic Imaging” Donald L. Snyder Workshop, Washington University, Louis, Missouri, 8 January 2000.
  1. “Noninvasive Temperature Estimation Based on the Energy of Backscattered Ultrasound” (Invited Paper), 20th North American Hyperthermia Society Meeting, Reno, Nevada, 20 April, 2002.
  1. “Methods for Using Ultrasound to Generate a Heart Surface for Electrocardiographic Inverse Problems” XXX International Congress on Electrocardiolgy, Helsinki, 14 June 2003.
  1. “Effects of Reducing the Full-Body Surface to a Torso Model in Forward and Inverse Electrocardiography” XXX International Congress on Electrocardiolgy, Helsinki, 14 June 2003.
  1. “Temperature Dependence of Ultrasonic Backscattered Energy in Images Compensated for Tissue Motion”, 2003 International IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium”, Honolulu, 8 October, 2003.
  1. Promising New Investigators Workshop, (Invited), Cancer Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, Bolger Center, Bethesda Maryland, 23-24 October, 2003.
  1. “3D Temperature Dependence of Ultrasonic Backscattered Energy in Images Compensated for Apparent Tissue Motion”, 9th International Congress on Hyperthermic Oncology, Louis, Missouri, 21 April 2004.
  2. “Clinical Impact of Cardiac Potentials Estimated from Body-Surface ECGs”, 25th Annual Scientific Sessions, Heart Rhythm Society, San Francisco, California, 21 May 2004.
  3. “Recent Advances in Non-Invasive Thermometry Using Changes in Backscattered Ultrasound”, European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology 2005, Graz, Austria, 11 June 2005.
  1. “In Vivo Change in Ultrasonic Backscattered Energy with Temperature in Motion-Compensated Images”, 2006 Annual Convention, American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine, Washington DC, 26 March 2006.
  1. “Change in Ultrasonic Backscattered Energy for Temperature Imaging:  Simulation Studies with Multiple Scatterers and Measurements from In Vivo Images”, 31st International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, Washington, C., 24 May 2006.
  1. “Change in Ultrasonic Backscattered Energy for Temperature Imaging: Factors Affecting Temperature Accuracy and Spatial Resolution”, 32nd International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, Washington, C., 16 May 2007.
  1. “A New Method for Estimating Cardiac Transmembrane Potentials from the Body Surface”, 7th NFSI and International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism, Rome, Italy, 29 May 2009.
  1. “Changes in Body-Surface Electrocardiograms from Geometric Remodeling due to Obesity”, 7th NFSI and International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism, Rome, Italy, 29 May 2009.
  1. “Temperature Imaging during Non-uniform Tissue Heating with Ultrasonic Backscatter Energy”, Society for Thermal Medicine 2010 Annual Meeting, Clearwater Beach, FL, 23-26 April, 2010.
  1. “Temperature Imaging during Non-Uniform Tissue Heating with Ultrasonic Backscatter Energy using Self-Calibration “, 35th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, Washington, D.C., 17 May 2010.
  1. “Signal-to-noise improvement in ultrasonic thermometry based on the change in backscattered energy”, with JW Trobaugh, Y Guo, and B Zhao), 38th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, Washington, D.C., 10-12 June 2013.
  1. M. Arthur, C. D. Holmes and Weiyuan Zhao, “Real-Time Ultrasonic Thermometry Based on the Change in Backscattered Energy”, 31st Society for Thermal Medicine Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 6-10 May 2014.
  1. “Comprehensive System for Initial, Real-Time Estimation and Refined 2D Ultrasonic Thermometry based on the Change in Backscattered Energy”, with W Zhao, 40th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, Washington, DC., 22-24 June, 2015.
  1. M. Arthur and S. B. Marrus , “Use of ECHO to Obtain Cardiac Anatomy for Inverse ECG Solutions”, The 10th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism, Tallinn, Estonia, 16-18 June, 2015.
  1. “Comparison of Ultrasonic Thermometry Based on the Change in Backscattered Energy with MR Temperature Images”, with WL Straube, M. Gach, M Altman and H Chen), 12th International Congress of Hyperthermic Oncology, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 Apr 2016.
  1. “Improvement of Spatial Resolution for Temperature Imaging with 1oC Accuracy from 50 to 2mm2 using a Stochastic-Signal Framework on Measured Ultrasonic Images” with JW Trobaugh, 34th Society for Thermal Medicine Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, 2 May, 2017.
  2. “Identification of Acute Coronary Syndrome via Body-Surface Mapping & Inverse Electrocardiography”, ICBEM 2018, Aachen, Germany, 25 June 2018.
  3. “Temperature Imaging in Real Time with 1oC Accuracy and 2×2 mm2 Resolution Using a Conventional Ultrasonic Imaging System”, 43rd Ultrasonics and Tissues Characterization Symposium, Washington, DC, 1 June 2018.