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ECE faculty member/ student receive second place poster award

Dr. Raffaella Righetti and her student Biren Parmar recently received a second place poster award at the National Meeting for Human Performance, 2009 in Houston.
Participants at the meeting come from many different universities, including Texas A&M, Rice University, The University of Houston and University of Miami, and the top four posters are awarded each year.
Righetti’s team poster was titled “New Ultrasound Imaging Techniques To Visualize Bone Fractures,” by B. Parmar, E. Tasciotti, M. Ferrari and R. Righetti. Their study aims at demonstrating the feasibility of using novel ultrasound techniques as alternative imaging modalities to standard X-Ray imaging methods for bone imaging applications.
Righetti joined the electrical engineering department at Texas A&M in 2007 as an assistant professor. She received her Doctor of Engineering from the Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Houston.
Righetti’s formal training is in ultrasound imaging with special emphasis in cancer imaging applications. She has published articles in leading journals in the area of ultrasound and elasticity imaging and serves as a reviewer of several major journals in the field of biomedical imaging.