Name

Viren Amin

Contact Information

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
283 Applied Sciences Complex II
1915 Scholl Road
Ames, IA  50011-3042
515-294-9736
515-294-7771 FAX
vamin@cnde.iastate.edu

CNDE Responsibilities

Viren Amin is an Associate Scientist with appointments in the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University.  He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering, with a minor in Electrical Engineering, from Iowa State University in 1989 and 1992, respectively.  Prior to that he received a M.B.B.S. degree (M.D. equivalent for general practice) from Gujarat University, India, in 1987.  His research interests are in medical imaging, non-invasive and non-destructive evaluation techniques, signal and image processing, and pattern recognition.  He has co-authored 15 research reports in the area of ultrasound imaging of tissues.  His current research projects include development and transfer of ultrasonic tissue characterization techniques for beef quality grading and ultrasonic evaluation of early tendon injury and healing.  He has been actively involved in developing new projects for biomedical application of nondestructive evaluation technology.