Elisa E. Konofagou, Ph.D.

 

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Contact Information
Elisa E. Konofagou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology

351 Engineering Terrace Mail Code: 8904 United States
Tel: +1 212 342 0863
Email: ek2191@columbia.edu

 
Biography                                 Specialty                             Publications
 

Biography
Elisa E. Konofagou, Ph.D., is assistant professor of biomedical engineering and radiology and the Director of the Ultrasound and Elasticity Imaging Laboratory at Columbia University .  In 1999, she received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Houston for her work in elastography at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, Texas , and then pursued her postdoctoral work in elasticity-based monitoring of focused ultrasound therapy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts . She is also a Member of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control and a member of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. Her main interests are in the development of novel elasticity imaging techniques and applications and, more notably, myocardial elastography, harmonic motion imaging, breast elastography, ligament elastography and focused ultrasound therapy and drug delivery with several close clinical collaborations in the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center .

Specialty

Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy

Publications
  1. Lee W.N., Ingrassia C., Fung-kee-Fung, S., Costa K.D. Holmes, J.W. and Konofagou E.E. A Theoretical Framework for Quality Assessment in Myocardial Elastography, IEEE Trans. Ultras. Ferroel. Freq. Control., Vol. 54, No.11, pp.2233-2245, 2007.
  2. Choi J.J., Pernot M., Brown T.R., Small S., and Konofagou E.E., A Spatio-temporal analysis of molecular delivery through the blood-brain barrier using focused ultrasound, Phys. Med. Biol. 52: 5509-5530, 2007.
  3. Luo J., Fujikura K., Homma S. and Konofagou E.E., Myocardial Elastography at both High Temporal and Spatial Resolution for the Detection of Murine Infarcts, Ultras. Med. Biol., Vol. 33, No. 8, pp. 1206–1223, 2007.
  4. Pernot M., Fujikura K., Fung-Kee-Fung S. and Konofagou E.E., ECG-synchronized, ultrafast ultrasound imaging of cardiovascular tissues in intact mice, Ultras. Med. Biol. 33(7):1075-85, 2007.
  5. Maleke, C., Pernot, M. and Konofagou E.E., A Single-Element Focused Transducer Method for Harmonic Motion Imaging,Ultrasonic Imaging 28(3), 144-58, 2006 [Invited].
  6. Konofagou E.E., Quo vadis Elasticity Imaging?, Ultrasonics 42, 331-336, 2004 [Invited].
  7. Konofagou E.E. and Hynynen K., Localized Harmonic Motion Imaging: Theory, Simulations and Experiments, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 29: 1405-13, 2003.
  8. Konofagou E.E., D’hooge J. and Ophir J., Myocardial Elastography – An In Vivo Feasibility Study, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 28(4), 475-482, 2002.
  9. Konofagou E.E., Varghese T. and Ophir J., A Fundamental Limit on the Estimation of Transverse Displacement, Transverse Strain and Poisson’s Ratio in Elastography, Ultrasonic Imaging 22(3), 153-177, 2000.
  10. Konofagou E.E. and Ophir, J., A New Elastographic Method for Estimation and Imaging of Lateral Strains, Corrected Axial Strains and Poison's Ratios in Tissues, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 24(8), 1183-1199, 1998.