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Tyrone M Porter Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Primary appointment, ME

Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Washington
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Prairie View A&M University

phone: (617) 353-7366
email: tmp@bu.edu
office: ENG 305
office hours: By Appointment

Research Interests

  • Development of targeted ultrasound contrast agents for image enhancement (molecular imaging), perfusion imaging, and image-guided drug delivery
  • Ultrasound-enhanced transport of drugs and genes across cell membranes
  • Ultrasound-enhanced drug activity (i.e. chemotherapy, thrombolytics)
  • Tissue response to acousto-mechanical forces (apoptosis, wound healing, gene expression, etc.)

Ultrasound and polymers:

  • ultrasound-induced release of therapeutics from polymeric biomaterials
  • modification of polymer structure and/or function due to energy deposition from ultrasound

Selected Recent Publications

Porter TM, Smith DAB, Holland CK "Acoustic techniques for assessing the Optison(R) destruction threshold" Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine Accepted: (2006)

Datta S, Coussios CC, McAdory LE, Tan J, Porter TM, De Courten-Myers G, Holland CK "Correlation of cavitation with ultrasound enhancement of thromobolysis" Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Vol. 32, Issue 8: 1257-1267 (2006)

Porter TM, Murthy N, Mourad PD, Stayton PS, Hoffman AS "Control of cavitation-induced hemolysis with a surface-active polymer" Acoustics Research Letters Online Vol. 6, Issue 3: 201-206 (2005)

Porter TM, Crum LA, Black F, Stayton PS, Hoffman AS "The effect of polymer surface activity on cavitation nuclei stability against dissolution" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 116, No. 2: 721-728 (2004)

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