Young Investigators Award at EUROSON 2008

Richard GP Lopata

This year entries were: Roland Syha from Germany, Fulvia Terracciano from Italy, Dan Ionut Gheonea from Romania, Richard G.P. Lopata from The Netherlands and Andrew Mcqueen from the United Kingdom.

First prize was awarded to Richard G P Lopata for the abstract titled "4D Cardiac Strain Imaging for diagnosis of chronic heart failure".

CV Richard Lopata was born in 1980 in Oosterhout, the Netherlands. He received his M.Sc. degree in BioMedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2004. His graduation project 'Identifiability of Pharmcokinetic Parameters in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging for Measurement of Tumor Perfusion' resulted in two peer-reviewed papers. He started his PhD-project in Nijmegen in November 2004. The project is entitled '3D Ultrasound Imaging Techniques for the Detection of Chronic Heart Failure in Children" and is still in progress. Richard's primary research interests are Strain Imaging, 3D ultrasound, Echocardiography, Signal processing and BioModeling.