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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. |