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Journal Articles

  • SK Patch, D Santiago, B Mustapha, “Thermoacoustic Range Verification in the presence of Acoustic Heterogeneity and Soundspeed Errors – Robustness Relative to Ultrasound Image of Underlying Anatomy,” Medical Physics, 46(1), pp. 318-327, (2019).
  • SK Patch, DEM Hoff, TB Webb, LG Sobotka, T Zhao, “Two-Stage Ionoacoustic Range Verification Leveraging Monte Carlo and Acoustic Simulations to Stably Account for Tissue Inhomogeneity and Accelerator-Specific Time Structure – a simulation study,” Medical Physics, 45(2), pp. 783-793, (2018).
  • SK Patch, M Kireeff-Covo, A Jackson, YM Qadadha, KS Campbell, RA Albright, P Bloemhard, AP Donoghue, CR Siero, TL Gimpel, SM Small, BF Ninemire, MB Johnson, and L Phair, “Thermoacoustic Range Verification using a Clinical Ultrasound Array Provides Perfectly co-Registered Overlay of the Bragg peak onto an Ultrasound Image,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 61, pp. 5621-5638 (2016).
  • SK Patch, D Hull, WA See, GW Hanson, “Toward Quantitative Whole Organ Thermoacoustics With a Clinical Array Plus One Very Low-Frequency Channel Applied to Prostate Cancer Imaging,” IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, 63(2), pp. 245-55 (2016).
  • SK Patch, D Hull, M Thomas, SK Griep, K Jacobsohn, WA See, “Thermoacoustic Contrast of Prostate Cancer due to Heating by Very High Frequency Irradiation,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 60, p. 689-708 (2015).
  • MA Roggenbuck, RD Walker, JW Catenacci, SK Patch, “Thermoacoustic Imaging over Large Fields of View,” Ultrasonic Imaging, 35(1), p. 57-67, (2013).
  • D Li, YS Jung, HK Kim, J Chen, DA Geller, MV Shuba, SA Maksimenko, S Patch, E Forati, and George W. Hanson, “The Effect of Sample Holder Geometry on Electromagnetic Heating of Nanoparticle and NaCl Solutions at 13.56 MHz,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering59(12), pp. 3468-3474, (2012).
  • SK Patch, N Rao, H Kelly, K Jacobsohn, and WA See,  “Specific heat capacity of freshly excised prostate specimens,” Physiological Measurement, 32, N55-64, (2011).
  • A Eckhart, R Balmer, W See, SK Patch, “Ex Vivo Thermoacoustic Imaging over Large Fields of View with 108 MHz Irradiation,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 58(8), pp. 2238 – 2246, (2011).
  • D. Fallon, L. Yan, G.W.Hanson, S.K. Patch, “RF Testbed for Thermoacoustic Tomography,”Review of Scientific Instruments, 80, #064301, (2009).
  • GW Hanson, SK Patch, “Optimum Heating of Nanoparticle Thermal Contrast Agents at RF Frequencies,” Journal of Applied Physics,  106, #054309, (2009).
  • B. Treeby, B. Cox, E.Z. Zhang, S.K. Patch, P.C. Beard, “Measurement of broadband temeprature-dependent ultrasonic attenuation and dispersion using photoacoustics,”  IEEE Trans. Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, & Freq. Control, 58(8), pp. 1666-1676, (2009).
  • S.K. Patch and O. Scherzer, “Photo- and Thermo-Acoustic Imaging,” Inverse Problems, 23 no 6, pp. S01-S10, (2007)
  • S. K. Patch, “Thermaocoustic Tomography – Consistency Conditinos and the Partial Scan Problem,”  Physics in Medicine & Biology, 49 no 11, pp. 2305 – 2315, (2004) *
  • D. Finch, S. K. Patch, Rakesh, “Determining a Function from its Mean Values over Spheres,” SIAM J. Math. Anal., 35 no 5, pp. 1213-1240, (2003).
  • S. K. Patch, “Consistency Conditions upon 3D CT Data and the Wave Equation,”  Physics in Medicine & Biology, 47 no 15, pp. 2637-2650, (2002).*
  • S. K. Patch, “Computation of Unmeasured 3rd Generation VCT Views from Measured Views,”  IEEE-Transactions in Medical Imaging, 21 no 7, (2002).
  • S. K. Patch, “Moment Conditions Indirectly Improve Image Quality,” Contemporary Mathematics, 278, pp. 193-205, (2000).*
  • S. K. Patch, “Diffuse Tomography Modulo Grassmann and Laplace,”  Journal of Mathematical Physics, 37, no. 7, pp. 3283-3305, (1996).
  • S. K. Patch, “Recursive Recovery of a family of Markov Transition Probabilities from Boundary Value Data,”  Journal of Mathematical Physics, 36, no. 7, pp. 3395-3412, (1995).
  • S. K. Patch, “Consistency Conditions in Diffuse Tomography,”  Inverse Problems, 10, no.1, pp. 199-212, (1994).

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