Burns, Peter
Investigators
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Peter N. Burns, Ph.D. [S&W] |
- Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
- Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, cross-appointed to Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto.
- More than 20 years experience in research in medical ultrasound imaging and blood flow measurement.
- Holds 3 patents in diagnostic ultrasound imaging; has published 4 books, more than 70 refereed papers and 25 book chapters.
- Specializes in Doppler techniques for the detection of blood flow. Pioneer in the development of ultrasound contrast agents for the detection of microvascular blood flow; developer of harmonic and pulse inversion imaging. Patent holder of pulse inversion imaging and Doppler, now widely commercialized in diagnostic ultrasound instruments.
- Winner of the Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology prize (for the first reported ultrasonic detection of blood flow in cancer), Roentgen Ray Award (for the best uro-radiology paper in 1992), and the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Pioneer Award.
- Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, serves on the editorial boards of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and the Journal of Vascular Technology, as well as review panels of the MRC, the NIH, and the FDA.