Kai E. Thomenius

Kai E. Thomenius (M’66) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and physiology from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in 1968, 1970, and 1978, respectively. His background includes both academic and industrial activities, including teaching and research at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA; and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. He has worked for the U.S. Army Electronics Command at Ft. Monmouth, NJ, USA, as an RF Engineer. He has held research related positions in medical ultrasound since 1976 for Picker Ultrasound, Northford, CT, USA; Elscint, Inc., Boston, MA, USA; ATL/Interspec, Ambler, PA, USA; and GE Global Research in Niskayuna, NY, USA, where he was a Chief Technologist in the Imaging Technologies Organization. He is currently a Research Scientist with the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, MIT, where he is studying the interactions of ultrasound with different types of pathological tissue with the goal of furthering the diagnostic potential of ultrasound. The focus of the industrial work has centered on ultrasound systems design, especially beam formation, miniaturization of ultrasound scanners, ultrasound bioeffects, and the design for ultraportable imagers. Dr. Thomenius is a member of the editorial board of the Ultrasonic Imaging Journal and serves as a reviewer of grant proposals for the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense, and of articles for several ultrasound journals. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, American Society for Echocardiography, Acoustical Society of America, IE, and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). In addition, he serves on the Technical Program Committees for the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, the annual conference of the AIUM, and the Medical Imaging Conference of the SPIE. He is a recipient of the Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer Award from the AIUM.