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Michael S. Richards, Ph.D.

Michael S. Richards, Ph.D.

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Professional Background

Dr. Richards received his Bachelor of Science with in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester followed by a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. His postdoctoral training was completed in the Department of Radiology, Basic Radiological Sciences Division at the Univer...
Dr. Richards received his Bachelor of Science with in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester followed by a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. His postdoctoral training was completed in the Department of Radiology, Basic Radiological Sciences Division at the University of Michigan and at the University of Rochester, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently, he is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery. His research interests focus on the biomechanics of soft tissues and measuring the changes in mechanical properties of diseased tissues using clinical imaging modalities.

Faculty Appointments

Adjunct Assistant Professor - Department of Surgery, Research (SMD)

Credentials

Education

MS | Boston University. Biomedical Engineering. 2007

PhD | Boston University. Biomedical Engineering. 2007

BS | University of Rochester. Biomedical Engineering. 2001

Research

Dr. Richards is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center. His research is focused on the development, validation and implementation of elasticity imaging, or elastography, for diagnosing vascular diseases. Elastography is a t...
Dr. Richards is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center. His research is focused on the development, validation and implementation of elasticity imaging, or elastography, for diagnosing vascular diseases. Elastography is a technique to noninvasively image and measure soft tissue deformations and quantify their mechanical properties in vivo. Unlike other imaging techniques, it offers the capability to provide physicians with entirely new diagnostic information (e.g. tissue stiffness) using established medical imaging techniques. From an academic perspective, elastography brings to the field of biomechanics the investigation of in vivo living organs and tissues under physiologically or medically relevant loading conditions. Within this field, many different techniques have been developed to study a variety of tissue types or pathologies. Most elastographic techniques consist of (1) some mechanical perturbation of tissue, (2) monitoring of the tissue deformation with an imaging system, (3) an image motion estimation technique and (4) inference of the mechanical properties from the measured response. In his experience as a researcher in the field, he has worked on the development or improvement of all these aspects of elastography, however the bulk of his contributions have been in using the equations of motion and mechanical models to characterize the mechanical properties of tissue. His current work focusses the study of arterial mechanics and the risk assessment associate with the abdominal aortic aneurysm disease progression.

Publications

Journal Articles

An Alternative Method to Characterize the Quasi-Static, Nonlinear Material Properties of Murine Articular Cartilage.

Kotelsky A, Woo CW, Delgadillo LF, Richards MS, Buckley MR

Journal of biomechanical engineering.. 2018 January 1140 (1)Epub 1900 01 01.

Detecting Regional Stiffness Changes in Aortic Aneurysmal Geometries Using Pressure-Normalized Strain.

Mix DS, Yang L, Johnson CC, Couper N, Zarras B, Arabadjis I, Trakimas LE, Stoner MC, Day SW, Richards MS

Ultrasound in medicine & biology.. 2017 October 43 (10):2372-2394. Epub 07/17/2017.

Insertional achilles tendinopathy associated with altered transverse compressive and axial tensile strain during ankle dorsiflexion.

Chimenti RL, Bucklin M, Kelly M, Ketz J, Flemister AS, Richards MS, Buckley MR

Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society.. 2017 April 35 (4):910-915. Epub 06/23/2016.

Ultrasound strain mapping of Achilles tendon compressive strain patterns during dorsiflexion.

Chimenti RL, Flemister AS, Ketz J, Bucklin M, Buckley MR, Richards MS

Journal of biomechanics.. 2016 January 449 (1):39-44. Epub 11/30/2015.

Mechanical changes in the Achilles tendon due to insertional Achilles tendinopathy.

Bah I, Kwak ST, Chimenti RL, Richards MS, P Ketz J, Samuel Flemister A, Buckley MR

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials.. 2016 January 53 :320-328. Epub 08/19/2015.

Visualizing the stress distribution within vascular tissues using intravascular ultrasound elastography: a preliminary investigation.

Richards MS, Perucchio R, Doyley MM

Ultrasound in medicine & biology.. 2015 June 41 (6):1616-31. Epub 03/31/2015.

Approaches to accommodate noisy data in the direct solution of inverse problems in incompressible plane-strain elasticity.

Albocher U, Barbone PE, Richards MS, Oberai AA, Harari I

Inverse problems in science and engineering.. 2014 22 (8):1307-1328. Epub 1900 01 01.

Noninvasive vascular displacement estimation for relative elastic modulus reconstruction in transversal imaging planes.

Hansen HH, Richards MS, Doyley MM, de Korte CL

Sensors.. 2013 March 1113 (3):3341-57. Epub 03/11/2013.

Non-rigid image registration based strain estimator for intravascular ultrasound elastography.

Richards MS, Doyley MM

Ultrasound in medicine & biology.. 2013 March 39 (3):515-33. Epub 12/15/2012.

Three-dimensional sonographic measurement of blood volume flow in the umbilical cord.

Pinter SZ, Rubin JM, Kripfgans OD, Treadwell MC, Romero VC, Richards MS, Zhang M, Hall AL, Fowlkes JB

Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.. 2012 December 31 (12):1927-34. Epub 1900 01 01.

Investigating the impact of spatial priors on the performance of model-based IVUS elastography.

Richards MS, Doyley MM

Physics in medicine and biology.. 2011 November 2156 (22):7223-46. Epub 10/28/2011.

Characterization of vascular strain during in-vitro angioplasty with high-resolution ultrasound speckle tracking.

Patel P, Biswas R, Park D, Cichonski TJ, Richards MS, Rubin JM, Phan S, Hamilton J, Weitzel WF

Theoretical biology & medical modelling. 2010 August 207 :36. Epub 08/20/2010.

Arterial elasticity imaging: comparison of finite-element analysis models with high-resolution ultrasound speckle tracking.

Park DW, Richards MS, Rubin JM, Hamilton J, Kruger GH, Weitzel WF

Cardiovascular ultrasound.. 2010 June 188 :22. Epub 06/18/2010.

Volumetric elasticity imaging with a 2-D CMUT array.

Fisher TG, Hall TJ, Panda S, Richards MS, Barbone PE, Jiang J, Resnick J, Barnes S

Ultrasound in medicine & biology.. 2010 June 36 (6):978-90. Epub 1900 01 01.

Venous elastography: validation of a novel high-resolution ultrasound method for measuring vein compliance using finite element analysis.

Biswas R, Patel P, Park DW, Cichonski TJ, Richards MS, Rubin JM, Hamilton J, Weitzel WF

Seminars in dialysis.. 2010 23 (1):105-9. Epub 1900 01 01.

Mean volume flow estimation in pulsatile flow conditions.

Richards MS, Kripfgans OD, Rubin JM, Hall AL, Fowlkes JB

Ultrasound in medicine & biology.. 2009 November 35 (11):1880-91. Epub 10/12/2009.

Two-dimensional strain imaging of controlled rabbit hearts.

Jia C, Olafsson R, Kim K, Kolias TJ, Rubin JM, Weitzel WF, Witte RS, Huang SW, Richards MS, Deng CX, O'Donnell M

Ultrasound in medicine & biology.. 2009 September 35 (9):1488-501. Epub 07/17/2009.

Quantitative three-dimensional elasticity imaging from quasi-static deformation: a phantom study.

Richards MS, Barbone PE, Oberai AA

Physics in medicine and biology.. 2009 February 754 (3):757-79. Epub 01/09/2009.

Diagnosing cysts with correlation coefficient images from 2-dimensional freehand elastography.

Booi RC, Carson PL, O'Donnell M, Richards MS, Rubin JM

Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.. 2007 September 26 (9):1201-7. Epub 1900 01 01.