In the Name of God

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

• R.S. Sahebjavaher, A. Baghani, M. Honarvar, R. Sinkus, S.E. Salcudean, “Trans-perineal Prostate MR Elastography: initial in-vivo results,” to appear in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
• A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, M. Honarvar, R.S. Sahebjavaher, R. Rohling, R. Sinkus, “Travelling Wave Expansion: A Model Fitting Approach to the Inverse Problem of Elasticity Reconstruction,” IEEE trans. Med. Imaging, 30(8), Aug. 2011, pp. 1555−1565.
• R. Zahiri Azar, A. Baghani, T. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “Frequency Locked Pulse Sequencer for High Frame Rate Monochromatic Tissue Motion Imaging,” IEEE trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. contr, 58(4), Apr. 2011, pp. 680−684.
• R. Zahiri Azar, A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “2D High Frame Rate Dynamic Elastography Using Delay Compensated and Angularly Compounded Motion Vectors: Preliminary Results,” IEEE trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. contr, 57(11), Nov. 2010, pp. 2421−2436.
• E. Noohi, S. Mahdavi, A. Baghani, M. Nili-Ahmadabadi, “Wheel-Based Climbing Robot: Modeling and Control,” Advanced Robotics, 24(8-9), June 2010, pp. 1313-43.
• A. Baghani, A. Brant, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “A High Frame Rate Ultrasound System for the Study of Tissue Motions,” IEEE trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. contr, 57(7), July 2010, pp. 1535−1547.
• A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “Theoretical limitations of the elastic wave equation inversion for tissue elastography,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 126(3), 2009, pp. 1541−51.(pdf)(BibTeX)
• H. Eskandari, A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “The influence of the boundary conditions on longitudinal wave propagation in a viscoelastic medium,” Phys. Med. Biol., 54(13), 2009, pp. 3997−4017.
• A. Baghani, H. Eskandari, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “Measurement of viscoelastic properties of tissue-mimicking material using longitudinal wave excitation,” IEEE trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. contr., 56(7), 2009, pp.1405−18.(pdf)(BibTeX)

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Selected Conference Articles:

• G. Nir, R.S. Sahebjavaher, A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, et al, “A Combined Region-Edge-Based Approach to Segmentation of the Prostate in Magnetic Resonance Elastography,” in Proc. of 10th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Arlington, Texas, USA, 2011
• R.S. Sahebjavaher, A. Baghani, R. Sinkus, S.E. Salcudean, “Prostate MRE at 3T: Transperineal Wave Propagation,” poster presentation at ISMRM 2011.
• A. Baghani, R.Z. Azar, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging Using the Curl of the Displacement,” in Proc. of 9th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Snowbird, Utah, USA, Oct 2010, p. 127.
• A. Baghani, R.Z. Azar, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “Local Inversion of the Wave Equation for Elasticity Imaging Using FIR Filters,” in Proc. of 9th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Snowbird, Utah, USA, Oct 2010, p. 69.
• R.Z. Azar, A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “High Frame Rate 2D Wave Imaging of Conventional Ultrasound Using Sector Subdivision Delay Compensation, and Angular Compounding,” in Proc. of 9th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Snowbird, Utah, USA, Oct 2010, p. 111.
• J.M. Abeysekera, A. Baghani, H. Eskandari, R. Rohling, “Elasticity Reconstruction With Dual Transducer Motion Tracking,” in Proc. of 9th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Snowbird, Utah, USA, Oct 2010, p. 108.
• S.M. Frew, A. Baghani, H. Eskandari, R.Z. Azar, S.E. Salcudean, “Frequency Domain Exctraction of Viscoelastic Properties Using Acoustic Radiation Force,” in Proc. of 9th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Snowbird, Utah, USA, Oct 2010, p. 109.
• R.Z. Azar, K. Dickie, C. Chung, A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, L. Pelissier, “Elasticity Imaging Using Harmonic Excitation, Ultrafast Imaging and Planar Inversion of the Wave Equation,” in Proc. of 9th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Snowbird, Utah, USA, Oct 2010, p. 50.
• A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “A high frame rate ultrasound system for the study of tissue motions,” in Proc. of 8th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Vlissingen, Netherlands, Sep 2009, p. 76.
• A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “The effects of the boundary conditions and shape of excitation on the phase speed and inverse problems,” in Proc. of 8th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Vlissingen, Netherlands, Sep 2009, p. 63.
• H. Eskandari, A. Baghani, S.E. Salcudean, R. Rohling, “On the feasibility of longitudinal wave viscoelasticity imaging,” in Proc. of 8th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Vlissingen, Netherlands, Sep 2009, p. 97.
• A. Baghani, H. Eskandari, S.E Salcudean, R Rohling, “Measurement of Tissue Elasticity Using Longitudinal Waves,” in Proc. of 7th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Austin, Texas, Oct 2008.
• A. Baghani, R. Rohling, “Elastographic study of injection,” in Proc. of 6th Intl. Conf. Ultras. Meas. Imag. Tis. Elas., Santa Fe, New Mexico, Oct 2007, p. 69. (pdf)(BibTeX)
• A. Baghani, B.N. Araabi, “Improved Laplacian Eigenmaps,” in Proc. of 11th Comp. Soc. of Iran's Comp. Conf. (CSICC'06), Tehran, vol. 2, pp. 25−31, Jan 2006.(pdf)(BibTeX)
• A. Baghani, M. Nili Ahmadabadi, A. Harati, “Kinematics Modeling of a Wheel-Based Pole Climbing Robot (UT-PCR),” in Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom. (ICRA05), Barcelona, April 2005, pp. 2111−16.(pdf)(BibTeX)
• A. Meghdari, F. Amiri, H. Mahboobi, A. Lotfi, A. Baghani, et al., "Design and Development of a Mobile Robot with Special Capabilities for Rescue Operations," In CD-proceedings of the 12th Annual Iranian Conf. of Mech. Eng. (ISME2004), May 2004 (in Farsi).(pdf)(BibTeX)

Theses:

• A. Baghani, "A Wave Equation Approach To Ultrasound Elastography," PhD disseration presented to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Jan 2010.(pdf)(BibTeX)
• A. Baghani, "Application of Manifold Learning Techniques in System Identification," M.Sc. dissertation presented to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, 2006.
• A. Baghani, "Differential Geometric Approaches to the Motion Planning Problem of the 2-link Acrobot," B.Sc. dissertation presented to the Department of Control and Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2002.(pdf)(BibTeX)

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