Marie Muller

Associate Professor

Dr. Muller is interested in medical ultrasound and ultrasound propagation in complex media.  Her long-term objective is to advance the state-of-the-art of medical ultrasound and contribute to screening and prevention methods.

Her  research attracts students because of its high societal impact, because it involves both theory and the learning about state-of-the-art numerical and experimental methods, and because it involves teamwork and collaborations with physicians, physicists and engineers. Since her research is multidisciplinary, students in her lab have the opportunity to tailor their graduate experience to their particular interests. Her applications involve developing non-invasive methods to quantitatively characterize the microstructure of complex biological media such as lung and bone. This leads to the development of new technologies for the diagnosis and monitoring of osteoporosis, pulmonary fibrosis, and pulmonary edema.

Outside of work, she enjoys family, friends, music and food.

Publications

Estimation of Thickness and Speed of Sound for Transverse Cortical Bone Imaging Using Phase Aberration Correction Methods: An In Silico and Ex Vivo Validation Study
Minh, H. N., Muller, M., & Raum, K. (2022), APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, 12(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/app12105283
New International Guidelines and Consensus on the Use of Lung Ultrasound
Demi, L., Wolfram, F., Klersy, C., De Silvestri, A., Ferretti, V. V., Muller, M., … Perrone, T. (2022, August 22), JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE. https://doi.org/10.1002/jum.16088
Numerical and experimental evaluation of low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound wave propagation using human skulls for brain neuromodulation
Chen, M., Peng, C., Wu, H., Huang, C.-C., Kim, T., Traylor, Z., … Jiang, X. (2022, November 24), MEDICAL PHYSICS, Vol. 11. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.16090
Using ultrasonic attenuation in cortical bone to infer distributions on pore size
White, R. D., Alexanderian, A., Yousefian, O., Karbalaeisadegh, Y., Bekele-Maxwell, K., Kasali, A., … Muller, M. (2022), APPLIED MATHEMATICAL MODELLING, 109, 819–832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2022.05.024
Biosafety of Low-Intensity Pulsed Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Brain Stimulation - A Human Skull Study
Chen, M., Peng, C., Kim, T., Chhatbar, P. Y., Muller, M., Feng, W., & Jiang, X. (2021), HEALTH MONITORING OF STRUCTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS XV, Vol. 11593. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582487
Detecting pulmonary nodules by using ultrasound multiple scattering
Roshankhah, R., Blackwell, J., Ali, M. H., Masuodi, B., Egan, T., & Muller, M. (2021), JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 150(6), 4095–4102. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006666
In vivo assessment of pulmonary fibrosis and edema in rodents using the backscatter coefficient and envelope statisticsa)
Lye, T. H., Roshankhah, R., Karbalaeisadegh, Y., Montgomery, S. A., Egan, T. M., Muller, M., & Mamou, J. (2021), JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 150(1), 183–192. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005481
Introduction to the special issue on lung ultrasound
Demi, L., & Muller, M. (2021, December), JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Vol. 150, pp. 4151–4154. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0007274
Investigating training-test data splitting strategies for automated segmentation and scoring of COVID-19 lung ultrasound images
Roshankhah, R., Karbalaeisadegh, Y., Greer, H., Mento, F., Soldati, G., Smargiassi, A., … Muller, M. (2021), JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 150(6), 4118–4127. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0007272
Evaluation of Structural Anisotropy in a Porous Titanium Medium Mimicking Trabecular Bone Structure Using Mode-Converted Ultrasonic Scattering
Du, H., Yousefian, O., Horn, T., & Muller, M. (2020), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, 67(5), 1017–1024. https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2963162

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Grants

  • Novel Ultrasonic Methods for the Assessment of Pulmonary Edema
  • Novel Ultrasound Localization of Pulmonary Nodules during Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery to Improve Surgical Resection
  • Innovative ultrasonic methods for the diagnosis and monitoring of pulmonary fibrosis
  • Ultrasound Enhanced Platelet-like Particle Therapy for Accelerated Wound Repair
  • Assessment of Bone Micro-Structure using Ultrasonic Methods
  • Ultrasonic Characterization of Atherosclerotic Plaque using Multiple Scattering
  • Experimental Ultrasonic Characterization of Bone Micro-Architecture
  • Quantitative Characterization of Trabecular Bone Micro-Architecture Using Ultrasound – Applications to the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Spaceflight Osteopenia.
Marie Muller