This dissertation presents significant modeling and hardware advancements in three biomedical applications of Electrical and Computer Engineering. It covers the novel design of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) conditional implantable medical devices based on numerical modeling, the development of novel numerical models for assessing radio frequency (RF) induced heating in biological tissues, and the development of novel RF hardware for Microwave Imaging (MI) systems. This dissertation focuses on 9 journal articles in some leading journals in the field and 2 book chapters where I contributed significantly, either as the first or second author. This dissertation is organized into three separate major chapters, each of which contains a summary of the results to be defended and the texts of the original journal publications.

Creator

• Serano, Peter

Contributors

• Makaroff, Sergey N.
• Noetscher, Gregory M.
• Brown, Donald R.
• Ludwig, Reinhold
• Ackerman, Jerome L.
• Horner, Marc

Degree

• PhD

Unit

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• etd-115385

Keyword

• MRI
• Surface Waves
• Finite Element Method
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• FEM
• Microwave Imaging

Advisor

• Makaroff, Sergey N.

Orcid

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6777-6810

Committee

• Brown, Donald R.
• Noetscher, Gregory M.
• Ludwig, Reinhold
• Horner, Marc
• Ackerman, Jerome L.
• Makaroff, Sergey N.

Defense date

• 2023-12-14

Year

• 2023

Date created

• 2023-12-18

Resource type

• Dissertation

Source

• etd-115385

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2024-01-25