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Sean J Kirkpatrick

E-mail:  skirkpat@bme.ogi.edu
Web Site: http://www.bme.ogi.edu/biomedicaloptics/kirkpatrick/

Current Appointments
Affiliate Associate Professor
Office
Michigan Technological University
Education
BS, Gannon University, 1986
PhD, Univesity of Miami, 1992
Postdoctoral Fellow., The Johns Hopkins University, 1992-1994
Department(s)
Research Interests
My primary research effort focuses on the physics of light scattering in biological tissues (and fluids) and how to exploit this scattered light to gain insight into the dynamcis, structure, and mechanics of biological tissues. Primary focus is on the origins and applications of the speckle phenomenon. Research on speckle includes numerical simulations, statistical analysis of speckle, and the use of speckle in optical elastography.

Research Project(s)
Research Group(s)
Selected Publications
Wang, R.K. and Kirkpatrick, S.J., Tissue Doppler Optical Coherence Elastography for Strain Rate and Strain Mapping of Soft Tissue in Real Time, Appl. Physics Lett. 89, 144103, 2006

Kirkpatrick, S.J., Wang, R.K., and Duncan, D.D., Kulesz-Martin, M., and Lee, K., Imaging the mechanics of skin lesions by in vivo acousto-optical elastography, Opt. Express, 14(21) 9771-9779, 2006.

Kirkpatrick, S.J., Wang, R.K., and Duncan, D.D., OCT-based elastography for large and small deformations, Opt. Express 14(24) 11585-11597, 2006.

Wang, R.K., Kirkpatrick, S.J., and Hinds, M.T., Phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography for mapping tissue microstrains in real time, Appl. Physics Lett. 90, 164105, 2007.