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Robert J. McGough |
Dr.
McGough’s primary research interests span multiple applications of therapeutic
and diagnostic ultrasound. Dr. McGough’s group developed the popular
FOCUS software package for rapidly simulating biomedical ultrasound, which is
based on the fast ultrasound simulation algorithms created by Dr. McGough and
his graduate students. His present
research projects include shear wave elasticity imaging, nonlinear modeling of
shock waves for histotripsy, and fractional calculus modeling of ultrasound
attenuation and dispersion. Dr.
McGough presently has an R01 and an R21 grant funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Dr.
McGough is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
FOCUS is the fastest, most accurate, and most memory-efficient simulation software that is presently available for medical ultrasound research. FOCUS models linear and nonlinear pressure fields generated by single transducers and phased arrays excited with continuous-wave and transient inputs. FOCUS provides a convenient user interface that enables rapid simulations of the pressure fields produced by a wide variety of medical ultrasound transducers. FOCUS is routinely applied to medical ultrasound research in many of the top ultrasound research laboratories in the USA and internationally. At last count, FOCUS is presently used in 120+ different institutions worldwide. FOCUS can be downloaded here: https://www.egr.msu.edu/~fultras-web
J.
F. Kelly, S. Marras, X. Zhao, and R. J. McGough, “Linear and Nonlinear
Ultrasound Simulations using the Discontinuous Galerkin
Method,” Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 2018.
X.
Zhao and R. J. McGough, “Time-domain
analysis of power law attenuation in space-fractional wave equations,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 2018.
B. Qiang, J. C. Brigham, R.
J. McGough, J. F. Greenleaf, and M. W. Urban, “Mapped Chebyshev
pseudo-spectral method for simulating the shear wave propagation in the plane
of symmetry of a transversely isotropic viscoelastic medium,” Medical &
Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 389-401, 2017.
J.
F. Kelly and R. J. McGough,
“Analytical Time-Domain Green's Functions to the Caputo Fractional Wave Equation,”
Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, vol. 140, no. 2, pp.
1039-1047, 2016.
X.
Zhao and R. J. McGough, “Numerical
Analysis of Causal and Noncausal Time-Fractional Wave
Equations,” Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America vol. 139, no. 5,
pp. 3021-3031, 2016.