Andrea Borsic
Assistant Professor of Engineering
andrea.borsic@dartmouth.edu
Education
- B.Sc./M.Sc., Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) 1998
- Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Electronic Engineering, Oxford Brookes University (U.K.) 2002
Research Interests
Medical imaging; discrete inverse problems; electrical impedance tomography; magnetic resonance methods for imaging electrical properties of tissues; scientific computing and visualization; high performance compounding and GPUs; numerical methods for electromagnetism; biomedical instrumentation; embedded systems
Current Research Projects
- Combined ultrasound and electrical impedance tomography (EIT)
- Electrical impedance imaging for breast cancer screening
- Electrical impedance imaging for prostate cancer screening
Selected Publications
- A. Borsic, B.M. Graham, A. Adler, W.R.B. Lionheart: In Vivo Impedance Imaging With Total Variation Regularization, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 29, 1, 44-54, 2010
- A. Borsic, R. Halter, Y. Wan, A. Hartov, K.D. Paulsen: Electrical Impedance Tomography Reconstruction for Three Dimensional Imaging of the Prostate, Physiological Measurement, 31, S1-16, 2010
- W Lionheart, N Polydordes and A Borsic, "The Reconstruction Problem," Electrical Impedance Tomography: Methods, History and Applications. Editor: D.S. Holder, Institute of Physics, p 3-64, 2004, ISBN 0750309520
Awards
- 1999 EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) PhD Studentship Award - UK
- 2001 Mayneord-Phillips Trust grant for Summer School on Brain Modelling - UK
- 2002 Second Prize in the "Galileo Ferraris" Business Plan Competition - Incubator of the Polytechnic of Turin - Italy
Selected Patents
(Pending) WO 2007/099416 A2 "System for exploiting information selected on the basis of the position of a user, in particular a visually impaired user, method and computer program"
Professional Activities
- Member, IEEE
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging; IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Magnetics; Progress in Electromagnetic Research (PIER) - MIT Press; IOP Physiological Measurement; IOP Physics in Medicine and Biology; IOP Measurement Science and Technology; Royal Society; International Journal of Computed Assited Radiology & Surgery (JACRS) - Springer; Insight (British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing); International Journal of Biomedical Imaging (Hindawi); Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (Taylor & Francis)
News
All Together Now
Dartmouth Medicine Magazine
March 20, 2007











