Dr Robert J Eckersley

Robert Eckersley became Lecturer in the Imaging Sciences Dept. at Imperial College London in 2007. His background is in physics applied to medical ultrasound imaging and his research is directed along three distinct strands: I) Image and signal analysis of clinical ultrasound data for functional imaging or tissue characterisation. II) Nonlinear imaging for improved detection of microbubble contrast agents. III) Understanding the errors and artefacts in ultrasound contrast imaging. He has been the recipient of a MRC research training fellowship and has specialised in microbubble ultrasound physics. He was previously funded by EPSRC Grant No. GR/S71224/01 for which he was the principle author and a recognised researcher. As part of this research new non-linear imaging approaches using coded pulses were developed. His current research is supported by two grants from the EPSRC (EP/F066740/1 and EP/F030126/1), on these projects he is the principal investigator (PI) and a co-investigator respectively. EP/F066740/1 is concerned with the mechanisms behind the use of microbubbles for enabling gene/drug delivery. EP/F030126/1 deals with the use of microbubbles for targeted imaging including aspects of microbubble design, acoustic characterisation of attached bubbles, and the development of novel imaging techniques for detection of attached bubbles. He is an author on over 35 refereed journal papers, 5 book chapters and over 45 conference proceedings papers.