Caleb Farny PhD

Lecturer

Ph.D., Boston University

phone: (617) 353-8664
email: farny@bu.edu
office: 110 Cummington Street, ENG 203

Research Interests

Physical acoustics * Medical therapeutic and diagnostic
ultrasound applications * Cavitation detection * Transcranial ultrasound
imaging

Professor Farny’s chief research interests center on physical acoustics, with a focus on medical applications of ultrasound. His past research has examined effects of bubble cavitation on ultrasound-induced heating in
tissue, and diagnostic methods for detecting the presence and location of cavitation during sonication. Most recently he has focused on developing novel methods for imaging brain structure through the skull with
ultrasound.

Selected Publications
Zachary Waters, Benjamin Dzikowicz, R. Glynn Holt, Ronald Roy, “Sensing a buried resonant object by a single-channel time reversal,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 56, no. 7, July 2009.
2. Caleb H. Farny, R. Glynn Holt, and Ronald Roy, “Temporal and spatial detection of HIFU-induced inertial and hot-vapor cavitation with a diagnostic ultrasound system,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 35, Issue 4, Pages 603-615, April 2009.
3. Romona Gerogescu, Damir Khismatullin, R. Glynn Holt, Jean Luc Castagner, Ousama A’amar, Irving J. Bigio, “Design of a system to measure light scattering from individual cells excited by an acoustic wave,” Optics Express, 16 (6), p. 3496, 2008.
4. Charles R. Thomas, Caleb H. Farny, Constantin C. Coussios, Ronald A. Roy and R. Glynn Holt, “Dynamics and control of cavitation during high-intensity focused ultrasound application,” Acoustics Research Letters Online 6 (3), 182-187, 2005.
5. Caleb H. Farny, Tianming Wu, R. Glynn Holt, Todd W. Murray, and Ronald A. Roy, “Nucleating cavitation from laser-illuminated nano-particles,” Acoustics Research Letters Online 6 (3), 138-143, 2005.
6. Xinmai Yang, Ronald A. Roy, and R. Glynn Holt, “Bubble dynamics and size distributions during focused ultrasound insonation,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116 (6), 3423-3431, 2004.
7. Charles R. Thomas, Ronald A. Roy, and R. Glynn Holt, “Bubble dynamics near the onset of single0bubble sonoluminescence,” Phys Rev E, 70, 066301, 2004.
8. Jinlan Huang, R. Glynn Holt, Robin O. Cleveland, and Ronald A. Roy, “Experimental validation of a tractable numerical model for focused ultrasound heating in flow-through tissue phantoms,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116 (4) 2451-2458, 2004.
  • Caleb H. Farny, R. Glynn Holt, and Ronald A. Roy, “The correlation between bubble-enhanced HIFU heating and cavitation power,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 57(1), 175-184, 2010.
  • Caleb H. Farny, R. Glynn Holt, and Ronald Roy, “Temporal and spatial detection of HIFU-induced inertial and hot-vapor cavitation with a diagnostic ultrasound system,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 35, Issue 4, Pages 603-615, April 2009.
  • Charles R. Thomas, Caleb H. Farny, Constantin C. Coussios, Ronald A. Roy and R. Glynn Holt, “Dynamics and control of cavitation during high-intensity focused ultrasound application,” Acoustics Research Letters Online 6 (3), 182-187, 2005.
  • Caleb H. Farny, Tianming Wu, R. Glynn Holt, Todd W. Murray, and Ronald A. Roy, “Nucleating cavitation from laser-illuminated nano-particles,” Acoustics Research Letters Online 6 (3), 138-143, 2005.