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Alessandro Ovidio Paris RAMALLI

Ruolo attuale:: Ricercatore Legge 240/10 a tempo determinato
SSD:: IINF-01/A - Elettronica
Afferenza organizzativa:: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione

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Alessandro Ovidio Paris RAMALLI

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Personal Information
Name and Surname	Alessandro Ovidio Paris RAMALLI
Researcher unique identifiers	ORCID 0000-0003-4358-3739; Researcher ID H-6025-2012; SCOPUS-ID 43461781400
Date and place of birth	21 October 1983, Prato (Italy)
Citizenship	Italian
Current position
03/2022 →	Assistant Professor (RTDB) Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
Previous positions
03/2020 →02/2022	Research Fellow (RTDA) Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
10/2018 →02/2020	Adjunct professor Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
05/2018 →11/2019	Postdoctoral fellow with EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships
10/2017 →04/2018	Postdoctoral fellow
02/2012 → 09/2017	Postdoctoral fellow Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
Academic Qualifications
28/11/2017	Italian Academic Qualification (ASN) for Associate Professor in Electronics (09/E3)
18/11/2020	Italian Academic Qualification (ASN) for Associate Professor in Bioengineering (09/G2)
Education
02/2009 → 04/2012	Philosophiæ Doctor (Ph.D.) in cotutelle and with “Doctor Europæus” certification
07/2009 → 08/2009	Visiting Scholar Institute for Diagnostic Imaging Research at the University of Windsor (Canada) - Supervisor: Prof. Roman Maev
04/2006 → 07/2008	Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
09/2002 → 04/2006	Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
Awards
2012	Best Ph.D. thesis award 2012 – Technological research field Firenze University Press – University of Florence (Italy)
2009	“Renato Mariani 2009” for remarkable study career AEIT – Sezione Toscana e Umbria Nord (Italy)
Supervision, teaching, and examiner activities
05/2023	Lecture series on “Ultrasound medical imaging: an engineer’s perspective” for the Ph.D. Program in Information Engineering, University of Florence (Italy)
03/2023→	Teaching for the yearly course in "Sensors for Biomedical Instrumentation" for the bachelor students in "Biomedical Engineering" of the University of Florence (Italy)
03/2021→09/2021	Mentor for the Professional Networking & Mentorship Program of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
03/2020→06/2022	Teaching for the yearly course in "Electronic bioengineering laboratory" for the bachelor students in "Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering" of the University of Florence (Italy)
22/07/2020→	Lecture on “Standard and advanced modes for biomedical ultrasound imaging” at the “International Summer School on Ultrasonic and Piezoelectric Sensors”, organized by the IEEE Italy Sensors Chapter in Florence (Italy)
10/2018→	Teaching for the yearly course in "Digital processing of biometric signals - Electronics" for the bachelor students in "Neurophysiopathology techniques" of the University of Florence (Italy)
2018→	Jury member, examiner, and thesis reviewer for national and international Ph.D. candidates
2012→	Mentoring and coaching of Ph.D. students, early career academic researchers, and technical staff
2009→	Supervision/co-supervision of bachelor and master students on topics related to ultrasound imaging, signal processing, and electronics
2018→2019	Co-teaching for the yearly course in “Medical imaging and Analysis” by the school of Biomedical Engineering of KU Leuven (Belgium)
02/2017	Lectures on “Basics of Medical Ultrasound Imaging” and “Basics of Ultrasound Doppler Imaging” for the PhD course in “Imaging for Cardiovascular Biomechanics” by the Ph.D. school in Bioengineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy)
2014 →2017	Co-teaching for the yearly course in “Digital Systems Electronics” by the school of Electronics Engineering of the University of Florence (Italy)
Invited seminars, workshops, and talks
05/09/2023	Invited talk on “Design and 3-D medical applications of 2-D ultrasound sparse arrays” at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2023), Montreal (Canada)
25/08/2023	Invited talk on “Design and 3-D medical applications of 2-D ultrasound sparse arrays” at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023), Tokyo (Japan)
30/04/2021	Seminar on “High frame rate imaging towards clinical application” for the CREATIS Laboratory of the University of Lyon (France)
26/04/2021	Seminar on “Advanced 2-D and 3-D ultrasound techniques for biomedical applications” for the master course “Electronic sensors, detectors and devices” of the University of Basilicata (Italy)
27/11/2020	Seminar on “2D ultrasound sparse arrays for 3D cardiovascular imaging” and on “High frame rate cardiovascular imaging towards clinical applications” for the master course “Ultrasound Technologies for Medical Applications” of the University of Trento (Italy)
30/11/2018	Workshop on “The use of an advanced research ultrasound system for high frame rate cardiac imaging” for the Bioengineering laboratory of the University of Pavia (Italy)
21/11/2018	Seminar on “2D ultrasound sparse arrays and real-time high frame rate systems for cardiovascular imaging” for the employees of Esaote S.p.A. (Italy)
16/11/2018	Seminar on “2D ultrasound sparse arrays for 3D cardiovascular imaging” and on “High frame rate cardiovascular imaging towards clinical applications” for the master course “Ultrasound Technologies for Medical Applications” of the University of Trento (Italy)
16/11/2018	Workshop on “The practical use of an advanced research ultrasound system” for the master course “Ultrasound Technologies for Medical Applications” of the University of Trento (Italy)
Conferences organization and steering activities
06/2023	General chair of “The 2023 Artimino Conference on Medical Ultrasound Technology” (Artimino, Italy)
2023 →	Member of the Program Committee for the International Conference on Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society (Applepies)
2022 →	Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (Group 1: Medical Ultrasonics) – Lead of the Systems and Device Design track since 2023
2018 →	Regular service as Session Chair for the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
Institutional activities
2023 →	Institutional coordinator of the international collaboration agreement between the University of Florence and the University of Lyon (France)
2022 →	Faculty board member of the first degree in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florence (Italy)
2021 →	Institutional promoter and coordinator of the international collaboration agreement between the University of Florence and the University of Leuven (Belgium)
2021 →	Faculty board member of the first and second degree in Electronic Engineering, University of Florence (Italy)
2021 →	Member of the Doctoral committee for the Ph.D. Program in Information Engineering, University of Florence (Italy)
Editorial activities
2023 →	Associate editor for “Ultrasonic Imaging” journal, published by "SAGE Publishing"
2022 →	Editorial board member for the section “Acoustics and Vibrations” of the “Applied Sciences” journal, published by "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)"
2022 →	Associate editor for “Medical physics” journal, published by "Wiley"
2022 →	Guest editor for “Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control” journal, published by IEEE. Spotlight Issue on “Array Transducer Design: A Vibrant Research Theme in Medical Ultrasonics”
2019 →	Associate editor for “Applied Sciences” journal, published by "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)"
2019 →2022	Associate editor for the “Journal of Healthcare Engineering”, published by "Hindawi"
2020→2021	Guest editor for “Applied Sciences” journal, published by "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)". Special issue "3D Medical Ultrasound: Imaging and Hardware"
2017→2018	Guest editor for “Applied Sciences” journal, published by "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)". Special issue "Ultrasound B-mode Imaging: Beamforming and Image Formation Techniques"
Peer review activities
	Peer review of grant funding applications for:
2021 →	European Union expert for the evaluation of project proposals
2018 →	Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Netherlands
2018 →	Foundation for Polish Science, Poland
2016 →	National Science Centre, Poland

2012 →	Peer review of articles for: IEEE, Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control; Elsevier, Ultrasonics; Elsevier, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology; IEEE, Transactions on Biomedical Engineering; IEEE, Transactions on Medical Imaging; MDPI, Applied Sciences; MDPI, Sensors; Springer, The Journal of Signal Processing Systems; IEEE, Journal of Oceanic Engineering Society; IEEE, Open Journal of the Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control; IEEE, Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. Metrics overview (Source WebOfScience, accessed on 02/12/2023): Total reviews 148 Last 12 months14
Scientific societies
2020 →	Member of IEEE Sensors Council
2020 →	Member of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control society
2013 →	Member of the Italian Electronics Society (SIE)
2010 →	Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), with Senior Member grade since 2019
Grants and Fellowships
01/2023 →12/2025	Ultra-portable ultrasound: scanner and signal processing algorithms Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU, in the context of The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Investment 1.3 Enlarged Partnership 8, Project AgeIt
12/2022 →11/2025	Innovative ultrasound probe technologies and ultrafast imaging techniques for prevention and early diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU, in the context of The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Investment 1.5 Ecosystems of Innovation, Project Tuscany Health Ecosystem (THE)
09/2022 →08/2025	Development of high-performance ultrasound systems based on advanced processing devices Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, in the context of The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Mission 4 Component 2 - Investment 1.4 - National Center for HPC, Big Data And Quantum Computing
2021 →	External fundings from different national and international companies/institutions for research activities on ultrasound imaging, signal and image processing, beamforming methods, transducers arrays development, and systems design
05/2018 →11/2019	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships EU H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 Proposal: 786027 — Project acronym: ACOUSTIC
11/2012 → 09/2017	Post-doc scholarship POR CRO FSE 2007-2013 – Asse IV – Capitale umano UNIFI FSE 2012 Granted by Regione Toscana and University of Florence (Italy) Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
02/2012 → 11/2012	Post-doc scholarship Department of electronics and telecommunication, University of Florence (Italy)
Major Collaborations
	- P. Tortoli, E. Boni, S. Ricci, Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Florence (Italy) – Development of research system for ultrasound imaging, Development of innovative ultrasound methods, real-time applications. - H. Liebgott, F. Varray, D. Garcia, Centre de Recherche en Imagerie Médicale, Lyon (France) – Design of 2D sparse array layouts, Ultrasound high frame rate vector Doppler. - J. D’hooge, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven (Belgium) – High frame rate echocardiography, Assessment of cardiac fiber orientation. - A. S. Savoia, Department of Engineering, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy) – Development of 2D CMUT ultrasound probes. - A. Shore, K, Aizawa, School of Medicine, University of Exeter (United Kingdom) – Clinical translation of innovative ultrasound methods, flow mediated dilation. - C. Palombo, Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular, and Critical Area Pathology, University of Pisa (Italy) – Clinical translation of innovative ultrasound methods, flow mediated dilation. - G. Matrone, Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy – Innovative ultrasound beamforming methods for image quality enhancement. - L. Demi, Dept of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento (Italy) – Innovative ultrasound beamforming methods for high frame rate, harmonic imaging. - L. Peralta, J. Hajnal, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London (United Kingdom) – Multi-transducer ultrasound imaging.
Publications
	Metrics overview (source Scopus, accessed on 02/12/2023): Documents: 166; Citations: 1806; H-index: 23 The full list of publications can be found at: https://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2018-0-A-2c303c323230-0.html

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Francesco Lagonigro, Alessandra Vignoli, Valentino Meacci, Paolo Verdi, Piero Tortoli, Alessandro Ramalli, Enrico Boni (In corso di stampa). A front-end board for modular ultrasound open scanners. In: LV Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Electronics, Genova, 26-28 Giugno 2024, Springer, pp. 0-0.

Bonciani, Giulio; Guidi, Francesco; Tortoli, Piero; Giangrossi, Claudio; Dallai, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro (2024). A heterogeneous ultrasound open scanner for the real-time implementation of computationally demanding imaging methods. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. PP, pp. 1-8, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI

Pialot, B.; Guidi, F.; Bonciani, G.; Varray, F.; Tortoli, P.; Ramalli, A. (2024). Computationally Efficient SVD Filtering for Ultrasound Flow Imaging and Real-Time Application to Ultrafast Doppler. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, vol. PP, pp. 1-10, ISSN:0018-9294 DOI

Meacci, Valentino; Dallai, Alessandro; Ricci, Stefano; Boni, Enrico; Tortoli, Piero; Ramalli, Alessandro (2024). Hardware description language versus high-level synthesis for the FPGA implementation of ultrasound beamformers: a comparative analysis. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-3. DOI

Meacci, Valentino; Castrignano, Lorenzo; Verdi, Paolo; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Boni, Enrico (2024). A highly integrated ultrasound open platform to develop and test advanced techniques for ultraportable scanners. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Shahbazi, Fatemeh; Ingram, Marcus; Heymans, Sophie V.; Ramalli, Alessandro; D'Hooge, Jan (2024). High-Frame-Rate Tri-Plane Echocardiography using a Dense 512-element Matrix Array. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Castrignano, Lorenzo; Matrone, Giulia; Tortoli, Piero; Ramalli, Alessandro (2024). 3-D Ultrasound Imaging with Microbeamformer-Based FDMAS: a Preliminary Performance Assessment. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Kühnöl, Cornelius; Dorausch, Edgar; Trittler, Tönnis; Kober, Julian; Chaghaneh, Omid; Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Fettweis, Gerhard; Hampe, Jochen; Herzog, Moritz (2024). Comparative Analysis of Mismatched Filtering Techniques: Cyclic vs. Non-Cyclic Approach. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Mazierli, Daniele; Savoia, Alessandro S.; Giangrossi, Claudio; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Khan, Muhammad Usman; La Mura, Monica; Bagolini, Alvise; Tortoli, Piero (2024). Ultrasound system for real-time multi-probe applications with CMUTs. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Savoia, Alessandro S.; La Mura, Monica; Dehghan Pir, Mohammad Mahdi; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Dutta, Rahul; Rao, Vempati Srinivasa; Soon, David Ho; Prelini, Carlo Luigi; Shaw, Mark; Giusti, Domenico (2024). Advanced 3-D Packaging for Integrated 2-D PMUT Arrays and Front-End Circuits. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Gaits, François; Bouyjou, Gauthier; Vidal, Fabien; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Basarab, Adrian; Mellado, Nicolas (2024). A Framework for Real-Time Visualization of Experimental and Simulated Ultrasound Images in Augmented Reality. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Micucci, Monica; Ramalli, Alessandro; Iula, Antonio (2024). Palmprint Extraction from 3D Ultrasound Images Collected Through Compounded Plane Waves. In: 47th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing, TSP 2024, cze, 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 320-323. DOI

Dryburgh, Paul; Mazierli, Daniele; Hajnal, Joseph V; Tortoli, Piero; Ramalli, Alessandro; Peralta, Laura (2024). Delay multiply and sum beamforming in 3D coherent multi-transducer ultrasound for contrast enhancement in the presence of acoustic clutter. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

BONI, Enrico; RAMALLI, Alessandro; SAVOIA, Alessandro Stuart; TORTOLI, Piero (2024). Transducers, Imaging Systems and Image Formation. In: Lori Bridal. Innovative Ultrasound Imaging Techniques: Biomedical Applications, pp. 37-70 Wiley, ISBN:9781789451634. DOI

Bosco, Edoardo; Spairani, Edoardo; Toffali, Eleonora; Meacci, Valentino; Ramalli, Alessandro; Matrone, Giulia (2024). A Deep Learning Approach for Beamforming and Contrast Enhancement of Ultrasound Images in Monostatic Synthetic Aperture Imaging: A Proof-of-Concept. IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, vol. 5, pp. 376-382, ISSN:2644-1276 DOI

Thorn, Clare E.; Gates, Phillip E.; Casanova, Francesco; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Palombo, Carlo; Shore, Angela C.; Aizawa, Kunihiko (2024). Interaction of macro- and microvascular function underlies brachial artery flow-mediated dilation in humans. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY. HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY, vol. 327, pp. 268-274, ISSN:0363-6135 DOI

Monica Micucci, Alessandro Ramalli, Antonio Iula (2024). Fast ultrasound palmprint and palm veins acquisition for biometric recognition. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Bonciani, Giulio; Ramalli, Alessandro; Bernard, Adeline; Guidi, Francesco; Tortoli, Piero; Boni, Enrico; Garcia, Damien; Varray, François (2024). Real-time, high-frame-rate, vector Doppler ultrasound imaging by a hybrid open platform. In: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), IEEE, pp. 1-3. DOI

Peralta, Laura; Mazierli, Daniele; Gomez, Alberto; Hajnal, Joseph V; Tortoli, Piero; Ramalli, Alessandro (2023). 3-D Coherent Multitransducer Ultrasound Imaging With Sparse Spiral Arrays. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 70, pp. 197-206, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Peralta, Laura; Mazierli, Daniele; Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Hajnal, Joseph V. (2023). On the Arrays Distribution, Scan Sequence and Apodization in Coherent Dual-Array Ultrasound Imaging Systems. APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 13, pp. 1-15, ISSN:2076-3417 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Daniele Mazierli, Piero Tortoli, Alessandro Ramalli, Enrico Boni (2023). Design and 3-D applications of a new multi-channel ultrasound research system. (Tutor: Piero Tortoli, Alessandro Ramalli, Enrico Boni)

Demi, Marcello; Soldati, Gino; Ramalli, Alessandro (2023). Lung Ultrasound Artifacts Interpreted as Pathology Footprints. DIAGNOSTICS, vol. 13, pp. 1139-1150, ISSN:2075-4418 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Wei, Luxi; Wahyulaksana, Geraldi; Te Lintel Hekkert, Maaike; Beurskens, Robert; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Noothout, Emile; Duncker, Dirk J; Tortoli, Piero; van der Steen, Antonius F W; de Jong, Nico; Verweij, Martin; Vos, Hendrik J (2023). High-Frame-Rate Volumetric Porcine Renal Vasculature Imaging. ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, vol. 49, pp. 2476-2482, ISSN:0301-5629 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Paolo Mattesini, Marco Travagliati, Claudio Simeone, Leonardo Baldasarre, Stephen Bart, Alessandro Ramalli (2023). A pulse wave velocity estimation method for a wearable monitoring device: feasibility and preliminary experimental results. In: IEEE Sensors 2023, Vienna, 29 Ottobre -1 Novembre, IEEE, pp. 0-0. DOI

Lorenzo Castrignano, Valentino Meacci, Alessandro Dallai, Fulvio Biordi, Marco Crocco, Enrico Boni, Alessandro Ramalli, Piero Tortoli (2023). A research scanner coupled to a 3072-element dense array for advanced 3-D imaging. In: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2023, Montreal, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-3. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Bosco, Edoardo; Stellino, Chiara; Cotogni, Marco; Ramalli, Alessandro; Cusano, Claudio; Matrone, Giulia (2023). Image-to-Image Translation with Deep Neural Networks for the Enhancement of Monostatic Synthetic-Aperture Ultrasound Images. In: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Montreal, IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:979-8-3503-4645-9 DOI

Wei, Luxi; Wahyulaksana, Geraldi; Hekkert, Maaike Te Lintel; Bowen, Daniel; Beurskens, Robert; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Noothout, Emile; Duncker, Dirk J.; Tortoli, Piero; van der Steen, Antonius; de Jong, Nico; Verweij, Martin; Vos, Hendrik J. (2023). High-frame-rate Volumetric Porcine Cardiac Imaging. In: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:979-8-3503-4645-9 DOI

Meacci, Valentino; Bosco, Edoardo; Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Tortoli, Piero; Mazierli, Daniele; Spairani, Edoardo; Matrone, Giulia (2023). Single-channel, ultraportable, real-time imaging system based on deep learning: a proof-of-concept. In: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:979-8-3503-4645-9 DOI

Mazierli, Daniele; Ramalli, Alessandro; Dallai, Alessandro; Skelton, Emily; Hajnal, Joseph V.; Tortoli, Piero; Peralta, Laura (2023). Real-Time 2-D Coherent Multi-Transducer Ultrasound Imaging in Vivo. In: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:979-8-3503-4645-9 DOI

Enrico Boni, Francesco Lagonigro, Valentino Meacci, Stefano Ricci, Alessandro Ramalli, Piero Tortoli (2023). Toward a modular open scanner: design of the front-end unit. In: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2023, Montreal, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-3. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Roux, Emmanuel; Liebgott, Herve; Tortoli, Piero (2022). Design, implementation, and medical applications of 2-D ultrasound sparse arrays. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 69, pp. 2739-2755, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Orlowska, Marta; Bézy, Stéphanie; Ramalli, Alessandro; Voigt, Jens-Uwe; D'hooge, Jan (2022). High-Frame-Rate Speckle Tracking for Echocardiographic Stress Testing. ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, vol. 48, pp. 1644-1651, ISSN:0301-5629 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Maffett, Rebekah; Boni, Enrico; Chee, Adrian J Y; Yiu, Billy Y S; Savoia, Alessandro Stuart; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Yu, Alfred C H (2022). Unfocused Field Analysis of a Density-Tapered Spiral Array for High-Volume-Rate 3-D Ultrasound Imaging. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS, AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 69, pp. 2810-2822, ISSN:1525-8955 DOI

Wei, Luxi; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Fool, Fabian; Noothout, Emile; van der Steen, Antonius F W; Verweij, Martin D; Tortoli, Piero; De Jong, Nico; Vos, Hendrik J (2022). Sparse 2-D PZT-on-PCB Arrays With Density Tapering. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS, AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 69, pp. 2798-2809, ISSN:1525-8955 DOI

Peralta, Laura; Mazierli, Daniele; Gomez, Alberto; Hajnal, Joseph V; Tortoli, Piero; Ramalli, Alessandro (2022). Experimental demonstration of the coherent use of two sparse arrays for 3-D imaging. In: 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-6654-6657-8 DOI

Mazierli, Daniele; Peralta, Laura; Hajnal, Joseph V; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero (2022). Towards multi-probe high frame rate volumetric vector Doppler imaging: a feasibility study. In: 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-6654-6657-8 DOI

Toffali, Eleonora; Spairani, Edoardo; Ramalli, Alessandro; Matrone, Giulia (2022). Improving the Quality of Monostatic Synthetic-Aperture Ultrasound Imaging Through Deep-Learning-Based Beamforming. In: 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-6654-6657-8 DOI

Orlowska, Marta; Dallai, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; D'hooge, Jan; Ramalli, Alessandro (2022). High frame rate speckle tracking algorithm towards a real-time implementation. In: 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-6654-6657-8 DOI

Claudio Giangrossi, Alessandro Ramalli, Melissa De Cianni, Francesco Guidi, Piero Tortoli (2022). Blood-flow volume estimation with bi-plane imaging. In: 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Venezia, IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Giangrossi, C; Ramalli, A; Dallai, A; Mazierli, D; Meacci, V; Boni, E; Tortoli, P (2022). Requirements and Hardware Limitations of High-Frame-Rate 3-D Ultrasound Imaging Systems. APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 12, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2076-3417 DOI

Peralta, Laura; Mazierli, Daniele; Hajnal, Joseph V; Tortoli, Piero; Ramalli, Alessandro (2022). Specific Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming for 2-D and 3-D Coherent Multi-Transducer Ultrasound imaging. In: 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Venezia, IEEE, pp. 1-3, ISBN:978-1-6654-6657-8 DOI

Wei L.; Wahyulaksana G.; Meijlink B.; Ramalli A.; Noothout E.; Verweij M.; Boni E.; Kooiman K.; Van der Steen A.F.; Tortoli P.; De Jong N.; Vos H.J. (2021). High Frame Rate Volumetric Imaging of Microbubbles Using a Sparse Array and Spatial Coherence Beamforming. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 68, pp. 3069-3081, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Rossi S.; Ramalli A.; Tortoli P. (2021). On the depth-dependent accuracy of plane-wave based vector velocity measurements with linear arrays. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 68, pp. 2707-2715-2715, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI

Mazierli, Daniele; Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Guidi, Francesco; Tortoli, Piero (2021). Real-Time Ultrasound Open Platform with an Extendable Number of Channels. In: 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-6654-0355-9 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Papangelopoulou, Konstantina; Orlowska, Marta; Bezy, Stephanie; Petrescu, Aniela; Werner, Annegret; Ramalli, Alessandro; Voigt, Jens-Uwe; D'hooge, Jan (2021). Validation of novel biomarkers to assess cardiac diastolic function extracted using a high frame rate speckle tracking algorithm. In: 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-6654-0355-9 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Peralta, Laura; Ramalli, Alessandro; Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten; Harput, Sevan; Tortoli, Piero; Hajnal, Joseph V (2021). Feasibility of 3-D Coherent Multi-Transducer Ultrasound Imaging with Two Sparse Arrays. In: 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-6654-0355-9 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Francesco Guidi, Claudio Giangrossi, Alessandro Dallai, Alessandro Ramalli, Piero Tortoli (2021). High-frame-rate color flow imaging with enhanced spatial resolution in virtual real-time. In: 2021 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Orlowska, Marta; Ramalli, Alessandro; Bezy, Stephanie; Voigt, Jens-Uwe; D'hooge, Jan (2021). Singular Value Decomposition Filtering for High Frame Rate Speckle Tracking Echocardiography. In: 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-6654-0355-9 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Orlowska M.; Ramalli A.; D'hooge J. (2021). Improved High Frame Rate Speckle Tracking for Echocardiography. In: 11th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2021, 2021, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, vol. 12738, pp. 93-100, ISBN:978-3-030-78709-7 DOI

Claudio Giangrossi, Alessandro Ramalli, Carlo Palombo, Piero Tortoli (2021). Bi-plane imaging for a robust assessment of Flow Mediated Dilation. In: 2021 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Matrone G.; Lediju Bell M.A.; Ramalli A. (2021). Spatial Coherence Beamforming with Multi-Line Transmission to Enhance the Contrast of Coherent Structures in Ultrasound Images Degraded by Acoustic Clutter. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 68, pp. 3570-3582-3582, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI

Orlowska M.; Ramalli A.; Bezy S.; Meacci V.; Voigt J.; D'hooge J. (2021). In-Vivo Comparison of Multiline Transmission and Diverging Wave Imaging for High Frame Rate Speckle Tracking Echocardiography. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 68, pp. 1511-1520-1520, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI

Mazierli D.; Ramalli A.; Boni E.; Guidi F.; Tortoli P. (2021). Architecture for an Ultrasound Advanced Open Platform With an Arbitrary Number of Independent Channels. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, vol. 15, pp. 486-496, ISSN:1932-4545 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Paolo Mattesini, Alessandro Stuart Savoia, Alessandro Ramalli, Fabio Quaglia, Piero Tortoli, Enrico Boni (2021). Comparative Assessment of Plane Wave Imaging with 256-element CMUT and Single Crystal Probes. In: 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Xi'an, China, 12-16 Settembre 2021, IEEE, pp. 1-3, ISBN:978-1-6654-0355-9 DOI

Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Giangrossi, Claudio; Mattesini, Paolo; Dallai, Alessandro; Liebgott, Herve; Tortoli, Piero (2021). Real-time 3-D Spectral Doppler Analysis with a Sparse Spiral Array. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 68, pp. 1742-1751, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Alessandro Ramalli, Alessandro Dallai, Francesco Guidi, Valentino Meacci, Piero Tortoli (2021). Synthetic transmit beams with multi-line and diverging wave transmission for real-time, high frame rate, low-artefact tissue Doppler imaging. In: 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4. DOI

Rossi, Stefano; Tortoli, Piero; Ramalli, Alessandro (2021). Lowering the Computational Load in High Frame Rate 2-D Vector Flow Imaging. In: 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-6654-0355-9 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Paolo Mattesini, Alessandro Ramalli, Lorena Petrusca, Olivier Basset, Hervé Liebgott, Piero Tortoli (2020). Spectral Doppler Measurements with 2-D Sparse Arrays. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS, AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 67, pp. 278-285, ISSN:1525-8955 DOI

Ramalli, Alessandro; Harput, Sevan; Bézy, Stephanie; Boni, Enrico; Eckersley, Robert J; Tortoli, Piero; Drhooge, Jan (2020). High frame rate tri-plane echocardiography with spiral arrays: from simulation to real-time implementation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 67, pp. 57-69, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Peralta, Laura; Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten; Ramalli, Alessandro; Hajnal, Joseph V (2020). Optimization of transducer distribution and transmit sequence in coherent-multi transducer ultrasound (CoMTUS) imaging. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-7281-5448-0 DOI

Matrone, Giulia; Spairani, Edoardo; Matrone, Benedetta; Ramalli, Alessandro (2020). High-Frame-Rate Coherence Imaging of the Heart with Ultrasound Diverging Waves. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-7281-5448-0 DOI

Orlowska, Marta; Ramalli, Alessandro; Bezy, Stephanie; Matrone, Giulia; Voigt, Jens-Uwe; D'hooge, Jan (2020). The Effect of Different Coherence-Based Beamforming Techniques on the Accuracy of High Frame Rate Speckle Tracking Echocardiography. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-7281-5448-0 DOI

Matrone, Giulia; Bell, Muyinatu A. Lediju; Ramalli, Alessandro (2020). Improving the Detectability of Highly Coherent Targets in Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Images with Multi-Line Transmission. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-7281-5448-0 DOI

Harput, Sevan; Toulemonde, Matthieu; Ramalli, Alessandro; Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten; Boni, Enrico; Tortoli, Piero; Dunsby, Chris; Tang, Meng-Xing (2020). Quantitative Microvessel Analysis with 3-D Super-Resolution Ultrasound and Velocity Mapping. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-7281-5448-0 DOI

Nooijens, Sjoerd; Ramalli, Alessandro; Ingram, Marcus; Fournelle, Marc; Bertrand, Alexander; D'hooge, Jan (2020). Design of a sparse ellipsoidal array for volumetric ultrasound imaging of the prostate. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-3, ISBN:978-1-7281-5448-0 DOI

Ramalli, Alessandro; Bezy, Stephanie; Orlowska, Marta; Boni, Enrico; Voigt, Jens-Uwe; D'hooge, Jan (2020). High frame rate color Doppler to measure intraventricular pressure gradients. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-7281-5448-0 DOI

Peralta, Laura; Zimmer, Veronika A; Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten; Ramalli, Alessandro; Skelton, Emily; Matthew, Jacqueline; Simpson, John; V Hajnal, Joseph (2020). Coherent Multi-Transducer Ultrasound Imaging: first in vivo results. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-7281-5448-0 DOI

Peralta, Laura; Ramalli, Alessandro; Reinwald, Michael; Eckersley, Robert J.; Hajnal, Joseph V. (2020). Impact of Aperture, Depth, and Acoustic Clutter on the Performance of Coherent Multi-Transducer Ultrasound Imaging. APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 10, pp. 7655-7674, ISSN:2076-3417 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Stefano Rossi, Fabian Fool, Alessandro Ramalli, Piero Tortoli (2020). Experimental Validation of a New Method for 3-D Vector Flow Imaging in the Frequency Domain. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 6-11, 2020, IEEE, pp. 0-2.

Stefano Rossi, Federico Acerbi, Alessandro Dallai, Francesco Guidi, Valentino Meacci, Alessandro Ramalli, Piero Tortoli (2020). Real-Time System for High Frame Rate Vector Flow Imaging. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 6-11, 2020, IEEE, pp. 0-3.

Stefano Rossi, Alessandro Ramalli, Lorenzo Francalanci, Piero Tortoli (2020). Influence of the Acoustic Lens on Vector Doppler Measurements Based on Plane Wave Transmission: a Simulation Study. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 6-11, 2020, IEEE, pp. 0-2.

Stefano Rossi; Alessandro Ramalli; Fabian Fool; Piero Tortoli (2020). High-Frame-Rate 3-D Vector Flow Imaging in the Frequency Domain. APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 10, pp. 5365-5378, ISSN:2076-3417 DOI

Orlowska, Marta; Ramalli, Alessandro; Petrescu, Aniela; Cvijic, Marta; Bezy, Stephanie; Santos, Pedro; Pedrosa, Joao; Voigt, Jens-Uwe; D'hooge, Jan (2020). A Novel 2-D Speckle Tracking Method for High-Frame-Rate Echocardiography. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 67, pp. 1764-1775-1775, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI

Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro; d'Hooge, Jan; Tortoli, Piero; Magenes, Giovanni (2020). A Comparison of Coherence-Based Beamforming Techniques in High Frame-Rate Ultrasound Imaging with Multi-Line Transmission. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS, AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 67, pp. 329-340, ISSN:1525-8955 DOI

Harput, Sevan; Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten; Ramalli, Alessandro; Brown, Jemma; Zhu, Jiaqi; Zhang, Ge; Leow, Chee Hau; Toulemonde, Matthieu; Boni, Enrico; Tortoli, Piero; Eckersley, Robert J.; Dunsby, Chris; Tang, Meng-Xing (2020). 3-D Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging with a 2-D Sparse Array. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 67, pp. 269-277, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ghigo, Nina; Ramalli, Alessandro; Ricci, Stefano; Tortoli, Piero; Vray, Didier; Liebgott, Herve (2020). Sequence optimization for high frame rate imaging with a convex array. In: 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Las Vegas, United States, 7-11 September 2020, IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-7281-5448-0 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Giulia Matrone; Alessandro Ramalli; Piero Tortoli (2019). Ultrasound B-Mode Imaging: Beamforming and Image Formation Techniques. APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 9, pp. 1-4, ISSN:2076-3417 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Turquin, Emeline; Petrusca, Lorena; Varray, Francois; D'hooge, Jan (2019). Experimental validation of a novel technique for ultrasound imaging of cardiac fiber orientation. In: 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, October 6 - 9, 2019, IEEE, pp. 2045-2048, ISBN:978-1-7281-4596-9 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matrone, Giulia; Lashkevich, Elena; Bertoni, Anita; Ramalli, Alessandro; Savoia, Alessandro S.; Magenes, Giovanni (2019). Effects of Coherence-Based Beamforming on Breast Ultrasound Elastograms. In: 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, October 6 - 9, 2019, IEEE, pp. 312-315, ISBN:978-1-7281-4596-9 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Song, Yue; Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Demi, Libertario (2019). Filter optimization and artifacts estimation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with multi line transmission in ultrasound imaging. In: 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, 2–6 December 2019, Acoustical Society of America, vol. 39, pp. 020002-020008. DOI

Erlov, Tobias; Larsson, Roger; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Ahlgren, Asa Ryden; Cinthio, Magnus (2019). Improved Tracking Performance in High Frame Rate Imaging Using Iterative Phase Tracking. In: 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, October 6 - 9, 2019, IEEE, pp. 2158-2161, ISBN:978-1-7281-4596-9 DOI

Peralta, Laura; Reinwald, Michael; Ramalli, Alessandro; Hajnal, Joseph V; Eckersley, Robert J (2019). Extension of Coherent Multi-Transducer Ultrasound Imaging with Diverging Waves. In: 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 2226-2229, ISBN:978-1-7281-4596-9 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Paolo Mattesini, Alessandro Ramalli, Gianluca Goti, Lorena Petrusca, Olivier Basset, Piero Tortoli, Hervé Liebgott (2019). Spectral Doppler analysis with sparse and full 2-D arrays. In: 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Glasgow, 6-9 Ottobre 2019, IEEE, pp. 1963-1966. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Alessandro Ramalli (2019). High frame rate color Doppler echocardiography: a quantitative comparison of different approaches. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 67, pp. 923-933, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; D'hooge, Jan; Lovstakken, Lasse; Tortoli, Piero (2019). A Direct Measurement of Inter-Element Cross-Talk in Ultrasound Arrays. In: 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, October 6 - 9, 2019, IEEE, pp. 1301-1303, ISBN:978-1-7281-4596-9 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Valentino Meacci, Enrico Boni, Alessandro Dallai, Alessandro Ramalli, Monica Scaringella, Francesco Guidi, Dario Russo, Stefano Ricci (2019). FPGA-Based Multi Cycle Parallel Architecture for Real-Time Processing in Ultrasound Applications. In: Applepies 2018, Pisa, 26-27 settembre 2018, Springer International Publishing, vol. 550, pp. 295-301, ISBN:978-3-030-11972-0 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Aizawa, Kunihiko; Shore, Angela C.; Morizzo, Carmela; Palombo, Carlo; Lenge, Matteo; Tortoli, Piero (2019). Continuous Simultaneous Recording of Brachial Artery Distension and Wall Shear Rate: a New Boost for Flow-Mediated Vasodilation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 66, pp. 463-471, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI

Aizawa, Kunihiko; Ramalli, Alessandro; Sbragi, Sara; Tortoli, Piero; Casanova, Francesco; Morizzo, Carmela; Thorn, Clare E; Shore, Angela C; Gates, Phillip E; Palombo, Carlo (2019). Arterial wall shear rate response to reactive hyperaemia is markedly different between young and older humans. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, vol. 597, pp. 4151-4163, ISSN:0022-3751 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Tong, Ling; He, Qiong; Ortega, Alejandra; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Luo, Jianwen*; D'hooge, Jan (2019). Coded excitation for crosstalk suppression in multi-line transmit beamforming: Simulation study and experimental validation. APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 9, pp. 486-501, ISSN:2076-3417 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Stefano Rossi, Alessandro Ramalli, Stefano Ricci, Riccardo Matera, Francesco Guidi, Enrico Boni, Piero Tortoli (2019). Performance of Ultrasound Vector Velocity Measurement at Great Depths. In: 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, October 6 - 9, 2019, IEEE, pp. 368-371. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Stefano Rossi, Matteo Lenge, Alessandro Dallai, Alessandro Ramalli, Enrico Boni (2019). Toward the Real Time implementation of the 2-D Frequency-Domain Vector Doppler method. In: ApplePies 2018, Pisa, 16-27 Settembre 2018, Springer International Publishing, vol. 573, pp. 129-135, ISBN:978-3-030-11972-0 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Paolo Mattesini, Alessandro Ramalli, Emmanuel Roux, Lorena Petrusca, Hervé Liebgott, Olivier Basset, Piero Tortoli (2018). Spectral Doppler measurements with 2-D sparse arrays. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Kobe, Giappone, Ottobre 2018, IEEE, pp. 0-0. DOI

Harnut, Sevan; Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten; Brown, Jemma; Zhu, Jiaqi; Zhang, Ge; Leow, Chee Hau; Toulemonde, Matthieu; Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, EnriCo; Tortoli, Piero; Eckersley, Robert J.; Dunsby, Chris; Tang, Meng-Xing (2018). 3-D Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging Using a 2-D Sparse Array with High Volumetric Imaging Rate. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-5386-3425-7 DOI

Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro; D'hooge, Jan; Tortoli, Piero; Magenes, Giovanni (2018). Performance of F-DMAS beamforming with adjustable maximum spatial lag in multi-line transmission ultrasound imaging. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-5386-3425-7 DOI

Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Magenes, Giovanni (2018). Experimental Evaluation of Ultrasound Higher-Order Harmonic Imaging with Filtered-Delay Multiply And Sum (F-DMAS) Non-Linear Beamforming. ULTRASONICS, vol. 86, pp. 59-68, ISSN:0041-624X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Aizawa, Kunihiko; Sbragi, Sara; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Casanova, Francesco; Morizzo, Carmela; Thorn, Clare E; Shore, Angela C; Gates, Phillip E; Palombo, Carlo (2018). Brachial artery vasodilatory response and wall shear rate determined by multigate Doppler in a healthy young cohort. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY, vol. 124, pp. 150-159-159, ISSN:8750-7587 DOI

Zurakhov, Grigoriy; Tong, Ling; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Drhooge, Jan; Friedman, Zvi; Adam, Dan (2018). Multi Line Transmit Beamforming Combined With Adaptive Apodization. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, pp. 1-1, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Albinsson, John; Hasegawa, Hideyuki; Takahashi, Hiroki; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Ahlgren, Asa Rydén; Cinthio, Magnus* (2018). Iterative 2D tissue motion tracking in ultrafast ultrasound imaging. APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 8, pp. 1-16, ISSN:2076-3417 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ricci, Stefano; Ramalli, Alessandro; Bassi, Luca; Boni, Enrico; Tortoli, Piero (2018). Real-Time Blood Velocity Vector Measurement over a 2D Region. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 65, pp. 201-209, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Santos, Pedro; Tortoli, Piero; D'hooge, Jan (2018). Tri-Plane Cardiac Imaging Using Multi-Line Transmission on a Spiral Array: A Feasibility Study. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-5386-3425-7 DOI

Ramalli, Alessandro; Santos, Pedro; D'hooge, Jan (2018). Ultrasound Imaging of Cardiac Fiber Orientation: What are We Looking at?. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-6, ISBN:978-1-5386-3425-7 DOI

Boulos P.; Varray F.; Poizat A.; Ramalli A.; Gilles B.; Bera J.-C.; Cachard C. (2018). Weighting the passive acoustic mapping technique with the phase coherence factor for passive ultrasound imaging of ultrasound-induced cavitation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 65, pp. 2301-2310, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI

Aneline Dolet, Alessandro Ramalli, Enrico Boni, Alessandro Dallai, Piero Tortoli, Didier Vray, François Varray (2018). An open real-time photoacoustic imaging scanner. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IEEE, pp. 1-3. DOI

Savoia, Alessandro Stuart; Boni, Enrico; Sautto, Marco; Quaglia, Fabio; Mauti, Barbara; Ramalli, Alessandro; Matrone, Giulia; Caliano, Giosué; Fanm, Luca; Guanziroli, Fedenco; Bardelli, Roberto; Mazzanti, Andrea; Bagolim, Alvise; Passi, Stefano; Bellutti, Pierluigi; Tortoli, Piero (2018). A 256-element spiral CMUT array with integrated analog front end and transmit beamforming circuits. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2018, jpn, 2018, IEEE Computer Society, vol. 2018-, pp. 206-212, ISBN:978-1-5386-3425-7 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro (2018). Spatial coherence of backscattered signals in multi-line transmit ultrasound imaging and its effect on short-lag Filtered-Delay Multiply and Sum beamforming. APPLIED SCIENCES, vol. 8, pp. 1-15, ISSN:2076-3417 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro; D'hooge, Jan; Tortoli, Piero; Magenes, Giovanni (2018). Spatial Coherence Based Beamforming in Multi-Line Transmit Echocardiography. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-5386-3425-7 DOI

Demi, Libertario; Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; D'hooge, Jan (2018). Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Combined with Multi Line Transmission for Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging: Experimental Findings. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-5386-3425-7 DOI

Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Daeichin, Verva; de Jong, Nico; Vos, Hendrik J.; Tortoli, Piero (2018). Prototype 3D Real-Time Imaging System Based on a Sparse PZT Spiral Array. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-5386-3425-7 DOI

Vos, Hendrik J; Boni, Enrico; Ramalli, Alessandro; Piccardi, Filippo; Traversi, Andrea; Galeotti, Davide; Noothout, Emile C; Daeichin, Verva; Verweij, Martin D; Tortoli, Piero; de Jong, Nico (2018). Sparse Volumetric PZT Array with Density Tapering. In: 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-5386-3425-7 DOI

Ramalli, Alessandro; Dallai, Alessandro; Guidi, Francesco; Bassi, Luca; Boni, Enrico; Tong, Ling; Fradella, Giuseppe; Drhooge, Jan; Tortoli, Piero (2018). Real-time high frame rate cardiac B-Mode and tissue Doppler imaging based on multiline transmission and multiline acquisition. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 65, pp. 2030-2041, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro; Savoia, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Magenes, Giovanni (2017). High Frame-Rate, High Resolution Ultrasound Imaging with Multi-Line Transmission and Filtered-Delay Multiply And Sum Beamforming. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, vol. 36, pp. 478-486, ISSN:0278-0062 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Savoia, Alessandro Stuart; Mauti, Barbara; Bardelli, Roberto; Toia, Fabrizio; Matrone, Giulia; Piastra, Marco; Ramalli, Alessandro; Quaglia, Fabio; Caliano, Giosue (2017). A 3D packaging technology for acoustically optimized integration of 2D CMUT arrays and front end circuits. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, usa, 2017, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781538633830 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Roux, Emmanuel; Badescu, Emilia; Petrusca, Lorena; Varray, Francois; Ramalli, Alessandro; Cachard, Christian; Robini, Marc; Liebgott, Herve; Tortoli, Piero (2017). Validation of optimal 2D sparse arrays in focused mode: Phantom experiments. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, usa, 2017, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781538633830 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro; Savoia, Alessandro Stuart; Quaglia, Fabio; Castellazzi, Gloria; Morbini, Patrizia; Piastra, Marco* (2017). An experimental protocol for assessing the performance of new ultrasound probes based on CMUT technology in application to Brain imaging. JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS, vol. 2017, pp. 1-24, ISSN:1940-087X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Evertsson, Maria; Ramalli, Alessandro; Pavan, Theo Z.; Cabrelli, Luciana C.; Andersson, Roger; Cinthio, Magnus; Tortoli, Piero; Jansson, Tomas (2017). Towards real-time magnetomotive ultrasound imaging. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, usa, 2017, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781538633830 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Magenes, Giovanni (2017). Enhanced ultrasound harmonic imaging using the filtered-delay multiply and sum beamformer. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, usa, 2017, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781538633830 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Dallai, Alessandro; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero (2017). High pulse repetition frequency vector Doppler velocity measurements. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, usa, 2017, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781538633830 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Guidi, Francesco; Dallai, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Tong, Ling; D'Hooge, Jan; Tortoli, Piero (2017). High frame rate, wide-angle tissue Doppler imaging in real-time. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, usa, 2017, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781538633830 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Scaringella, Monica; Matrone, Giulia; Dallai, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Savoia, Alessandro Stuart; Bassi, Luca; Hine, Gabriel Emile; Tortoli, Piero (2017). High dynamic range ultrasound imaging with real-time filtered-delay multiply and sum beamforming. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, usa, 2017, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781538633830 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Boni, Enrico; Bassi, Luca; Dallai, Alessandro; Meacci, Valentino; Ramalli, Alessandro; Scaringella, Monica; Guidi, Francesco; Ricci, Stefano; Tortoli, Piero (2017). Architecture of an Ultrasound System for Continuous Real-time High Frame Rate Imaging. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 64, pp. 1276-1284, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ricci, Stefano; Swillens, Abigail; Ramalli, Alessandro; Segers, Patrick; Tortoli, Piero (2017). Wall Shear Rate Measurement: Validation of a New Method through Multi-Physics Simulations. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 64, pp. 66-77, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Roux, Emmanuel; Ramalli, Alessandro; Liebgott, Herve; Cachard, Christian; Robini, Marc; Tortoli, Piero (2017). Wideband 2D array design optimization with fabrication constraints for 3D US imaging. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 64, pp. 108-125, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Ricci, Stefano; Tortoli, Piero (2017). Real-time multi-line vector Doppler system based on layered array beams. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, usa, 2017, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781538633830 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Lenge, Matteo; Ramalli, Alessandro; Ricci, Stefano; Tortoli, Piero (2017). Plane-wave based vector flow imaging: Beamforming and velocity estimation loads in different processing scenarios. In: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017, usa, 2017, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781538633830 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Boni, Enrico; Bassi, Luca; Dallai, Alessandro; Giannini, Gabriele; Guidi, Francesco; Meacci, Valentino; Ramalli, Alessandro; Ricci, Stefano; Tortoli, Piero (2016). Open Platforms for the Advancement of Ultrasound Research. In: Applepies 2014, Roma, Springer International Publishing, vol. 351, pp. 59-64, ISBN:978-3-319-20226-6 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Roux, Emmanuel; Ramalli, Alessandro; Liebgott, H.; Cachard, C.; Robini, M.; Tortoli, Piero (2016). 2D Ultrasound Sparse Arrays Multi-Depth Radiation Optimization Using Simulated Annealing and Spiral-Array Inspired Energy Functions. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 63, pp. 2138-2149, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Tong, Ling; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Fradella, Giuseppe; Caciolli, Sabina; Luo, Jianwen; D'Hooge, Jan (2016). Wide-angle Tissue Doppler Imaging at High Frame Rate Using Multi-line Transmit Beamforming: An Experimental Validation In-Vivo. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, vol. 35, pp. 521-528, ISSN:0278-0062 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Savoia, Alessandro Stuart; Caliano, Giosuè; Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Tortoli, Piero (2016). Nonlinear ultrasound imaging experiments using a CMUT probe. In: 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016, fra, 2016, IEEE Computer Society, vol. 2016-, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781467398978 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Iula, Antonio; Hine, Gabriel; Ramalli, Alessandro; Guidi, Francesco; Boni, Enrico (2016). 2d and 3d palmprint extraction by an automated ultrasound system. In: Conference on Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society, APPLEPIES 2014, ita, 2014, Springer Verlag, vol. 351, pp. 83-89, ISBN:9783319202266 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Boni, E.; Bassi, L.; Dallai, A.; Guidi, F.; Meacci, V.; Ramalli, A.; Ricci, S.; Tortoli, P. (2016). ULA-OP 256: A 256-channel open scanner for development and real-time implementation of new ultrasound methods. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 63, pp. 1488-1495, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matera, R.; Ramalli, A.; Ricci, S. (2016). Validation of a Doppler method for peak blood velocity detection in a CFD-simulated carotid model. In: 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016, Tours, 2016, IEEE Computer Society, vol. 2016-, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781467398978 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Dallai, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Bassi, Luca; Meacci, Valentino; Giovannetti, Matteo; Tong, Ling; D'Hooge, Jan; Tortoli, Piero (2016). Multi transmit beams for fast cardiac imaging towards clinical routine. In: 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016, fra, 2016, IEEE Computer Society, vol. 2016-, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781467398978 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matrone, Giulia; Ramalli, Alessandro; Savoia, Alessandro Stuart; Tortoli, Piero; Magenes, Giovanni (2016). Improved resolution and crosstalk rejection in Multi-Line Transmit ultrasound imaging using Delay Multiply and Sum beamforming. In: 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016, fra, 2016, IEEE Computer Society, vol. 2016-, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781467398978 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Guidi, F.; Dallai, A.; Boni, E.; Ramalli, A.; Tortoli, P. (2016). Implementation of color-flow plane-wave imaging in real-time. In: 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016, fra, 2016, IEEE Computer Society, vol. 2016-, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781467398978 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Boni, Enrico; Bassi, Luca; Dallai, Alessandro; Meacci, Valentino; Ramalli, Alessandro; Scaringella, Monica; Guidi, Francesco; Ricci, Stefano; Tortoli, Piero (2016). A real-time beamformer for high frame rate ultrasound imaging. In: 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016, Tours, 2016, IEEE Computer Society, vol. 2016-, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781467398978 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ricci, S.; Bassi, L.; Meacci, V.; Ramalli, A.; Boni, E.; Tortoli, P. (2016). Multi-line measurements of blood velocity vectors in real-time. In: 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016, Tours, 2016, IEEE Computer Society, vol. 2016-, pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781467398978 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Dallai, Alessandro; Guidi, Francesco; Ricci, Stefano; Tortoli, Piero (2016). Coded Spectral Doppler Imaging: from simulation to real-time processing. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 63, pp. 1815-1824, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Savoia, Alessandro Stuart; Tortoli, Piero (2015). Density-tapered spiral arrays for ultrasound 3-D imaging. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 62, pp. 1580-1588, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Boni, Enrico; Roux, Emmanuel; Savoia, Alessandro.Stuart; Tortoli, Piero (2015). Density-Tapered Sunflower: A Deterministic Sparse Array Solution [Cover]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 62, pp. c1-c2, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, A.; Dallai, A.; Boni, E.; Guidi, F.; Ricci, S.; Tortoli, P. (2015). Real-Time Pulse Compression in Multigate Spectral Doppler Imaging. In: 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Taipei, Taiwan, Ottobre 2015, ieee, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-4799-8182-3 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Boni, E.; Bassi, L.; Dallai, A.; Giannini, G.; Guidi, F.; Meacci, V.; Matera, R.; Ramalli, A.; Ricci, S.; Scaringella, M.; Viti, J.; Tortoli, P. (2015). ULA-OP 256: a portable high-performance research scanner. In: 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Taipei - Taiwan, October 2015, ieee, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-4799-8182-3 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ricci, S.; Swillens, A.; Ramalli, A.; Segers, P.; Tortoli, P. (2015). Wall Shear Rate Method Validation through Multi-physics Simulations. In: 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Taipei, Taiwan, Ottobre 2015, ieee, pp. 1-4. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Demi, Libertario; Ramalli, Alessandro; Giannini, Gabriele; Mischi, Massimo (2015). In Vitro and in Vivo tissue harmonic images obtained with parallel transmit beamforming by means of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing [Correspondence]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 62, pp. 230-235, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI

EMMANUEL ROUX, MARC ROBINI, ALESSANDRO RAMALLI, PIERO TORTOLI, CHRISTIAN CACHARD, HERVE LIEBGOTT (2015). Modélisation et simulation acoustique pour l’optimisation de sondes échographiques 2D par recuit simulé. In: GRETSI, HAL, pp. 1-4.

Ramalli, A; Guidi, F.; Boni, E.; Tortoli, P. (2015). A real-time chirp-coded imaging system with tissue attenuation compensation. ULTRASONICS, vol. 60, pp. 65-75, ISSN:0041-624X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Demi, Libertario; Giannini, Gabriele; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Mischi, Massimo (2015). Multi-Focus Tissue Harmonic Images Obtained with Parallel Transmit Beamforming by means of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing. In: 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Taipei - Taiwan, October 2015, ieee, pp. 1-4. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Lenge, Matteo; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Cachard, Christian; Liebgott, Hervé (2015). Plane-wave transverse oscillation for high-frame-rate 2-D vector flow imaging. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 62, pp. 2126-2137, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Roux, Emmanuel; Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Cachard, Christian; Robini, Marc; Liebgott, Hervé (2015). Speed-up of acoustic simulation techniques for 2D sparse array optimization by simulated annealing. In: 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, 21-24 Ottobre 2015, IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-4799-8182-3 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Roux, Emmanuel; Ramalli, Alessandro; Robini, Marc; Liebgott, Hervé; Cachard, Christian; Tortoli, Piero (2015). Spiral array inspired multi-depth cost function for 2D sparse array optimization. In: 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, 21-24/Ottobre/2015, IEEE, pp. 1-4, ISBN:978-1-4799-8182-3 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ramalli, Alessandro; Byra, Michal; Dallai, Alessandro; Palombo, Carlo; Aizawa, Kunihiko; Sbragi, Sara; Shore, Angela; Tortoli, Piero (2015). A multiparametric approach integrating vessel diameter, wall shear rate and physiologic signals for optimized Flow Mediated Dilation studies. In: IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2015, twn, 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781479981823 DOI

Ramalli, Alessandro; Tortoli, Piero; Savoia, Alessandro Stuart; Caliano, Giosue (2015). Improved array beam steering by compensation of inter-element cross-talk. In: IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2015, twn, 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781479981823 DOI

Iula, Antonio; Nardiello, Donatella; Ramalli, Alessandro; Guidi, Francesco (2015). 3D Ultrasound Palmprint recognition system based on a mechanically tilted linear probe. In: IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2015, twn, 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1-4, ISBN:9781479981823 DOI

Antonio Iula; Gabriel Emile Hine; Alessandro Ramalli; Francesco Guidi (2014). Wide 3D ultrasound palmprint for biometric recognition. In: 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IEEE, pp. 1388-1391, ISBN:9781479970483 DOI

Alessandro Ramalli; Piero Tortoli (2014). 256-element density-tapered spiral matrices for ultrasound phased imaging. In: 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Chicago, September 2014, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 2087-2090, ISBN:9781479970483 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Libertario Demi; Jacopo Viti; Gabriele Giannini; Alessandro Ramalli; Piero Tortoli; Massimo Mischi (2014). Tissue harmonic images obtained with parallel transmit beamforming by means of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. In: 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Chicago, September 2014, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 1213-1216, ISBN:9781479970483 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

M.Lenge; A.Ramalli; E.Boni; H.Liebgott; C. Cachard; P.Tortoli (2014). High-frame-rate 2-D vector blood flow imaging in the frequency domain. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 61, pp. 1504-1514, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Alessandro Ramalli; Ling Tong; Jianwen Luo; Jan D'hooge; Piero Tortoli (2014). Safety of fast cardiac imaging using multiple transmit beams: Experimental verification. In: 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Chicago, September 2014, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 1182-1185, ISBN:9781479970483 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ling Tong; Alessandro Ramalli; Giuseppe Fradella; Chengwu Huang; Piero Tortoli; Jianwen Luo; Jan D'hooge (2014). Wide-angle tissue Doppler imaging at high frame rate using multi-line transmit beamforming: An in-vivo pilot study. In: 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Chicago, September 2014, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 1217-1220, ISBN:9781479970483 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

A. Ramalli; L. Bassi; M. Lenge; C. Palombo; K. Aizawa; P. Tortoli (2014). An integrated system for the evaluation of flow Mediated Dilation. In: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Firenze, May 2014, IEEE, pp. 5145-5148, ISBN:9781479928934 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Enrico Boni; Luca Bassi; Monica Scaringella; Alessandro Ramalli; Piero Tortoli (2014). Design of a multiple-rail high-voltage power supply for ultrasound scanners. In: 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Chicago, September 2014, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 1233-1236, ISBN:9781479970483 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Matteo Lenge; Alessandro Ramalli; Andrea Cellai; Piero Tortoli; Christian Cachard; Herve Liebgott (2014). A new method for 2D-vector blood flow imaging based on unconventional beamforming techniques. In: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Firenze, April 2014, IEEE, pp. 5125-5129, ISBN:9781479928934 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Alessandro Ramalli;Luca Bassi;Enrico Boni;Stefano Ricci;Elisabetta Giannotti;Dalmar Abdulcadir;Jacopo Nori;Piero Tortoli (2014). Real-time implementation of a novel algorithm for ultrasound freehand elastography of breast lesions. In: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Firenze, 4-9 May 2014, IEEE, pp. 5158-5161, ISBN:9781479928934 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

A. Stuart Savoia; G. Caliano; G. Matrone; G. Magenes; A. Ramalli; E. Boni; P. Tortoli (2014). Improved lateral resolution and contrast in ultrasound imaging using a sidelobe masking technique. In: 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Chicago, September 2014, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 1682-1685, ISBN:9781479970483 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Iula, Antonio; Hine, Gabriel; Ramalli, Alessandro; Guidi, Francesco (2014). An improved ultrasound system for biometric recognition based on hand geometry and palmprint. In: 28th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers, EUROSENSORS 2014, ita, 2014, Elsevier Ltd, vol. 87, pp. 1338-1341. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Enrico Boni;Andrea Cellai;Alessandro Ramalli;Matteo Lenge;Stefano Ricci (2014). Multi-channel Raw-Data Acquisition for Ultrasound Research. In: 2014 17th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), Verona, Italy, august 2014, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, pp. 647-650, ISBN:9781479957934 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

P.Tortoli; A.Ramalli; E.Boni (2014). Ultrasound Research Platforms. In: Anders Brahme. Comprehensive Biomedical Physics, pp. 501-517, The Netherlands: Elsevier, ISBN:9780444536334. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

S. Ricci; A. Swillens; A. Ramalli; M.Cinthio; P. Segers; P. Tortoli (2014). Improved Wall Shear Rate Method for Robust Measurements. In: IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2014, Chicago, September 2014, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, pp. 432-435, ISBN:9781479970490 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

M.Lenge; A.Ramalli; E.Boni; H.Liebgott; C. Cachard; P.Tortoli (2014). High Frame Rate Vector Flow Maps With Frequency Domain Displacement Estimation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS, AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, pp. c1-c2, ISSN:1525-8955 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ling Tong*; Alessandro Ramalli; Ruta Jasaityte; Piero Tortoli; Jan D’hooge (2014). Multi-Transmit Beam Forming for Fast Cardiac Imaging—Experimental Validation and In Vivo Application. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, vol. 33, pp. 1205-1219, ISSN:0278-0062 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

M. Lenge; A. Ramalli; E. Boni; A. Cellai; H. Liebgott; C. Cachard; P. Tortoli (2013). Frequency-domain high frame-rate 2D vector flow imaging. In: 2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Praga, July 2013, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 643-646, ISBN:9781467356862 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Antonio Iula; Gabriel Emile Hine; Alessandro Ramalli; Francesco Guidi; Enrico Boni; Savoia Alessandro Stuart; Caliano Gino (2013). An enhanced Ultrasound technique for 3D Palmprint Recognition. In: 2013 IEEE International ultrasonics symposium, Praga, July 2013, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 978-981, ISBN:9781467356862 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Alessandro Ramalli (2013). Development of novel ultrasound techniques for imaging and elastography. From simulation to real-time implementation. (Tutor: Piero Tortoli)

A. Ramalli; F. Guidi; E. Boni; P. Tortoli (2013). Real-time base-band pulse compression imaging. In: 2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Praga, July 2013, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 2002-2005, ISBN:9781467356862 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Alessandro Ramalli; Enrico Boni; Olivier Basset; Christian Cachard;Piero Tortoli (2012). High Frame-Rate Imaging Applied to Quasi-static Elastography. In: 31th International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging, Warsaw, Poland, April 2011, Springer, vol. 31, pp. 11-18, ISBN:9789400726185 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

E. Boni; A. Cellai; A. Ramalli; P. Tortoli (2012). A high performance board for acquisition of 64-channel ultrasound RF data. In: 2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Dresden, 7-10 Oct. 2012, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 2067-2070, ISBN:9781467345613 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

A.Ramalli; O.Basset; C.Cachard; E.Boni; P.Tortoli (2012). Frequency domain-based strain estimation and high frame-rate imaging for quasi-static elastography. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 59, pp. 817-824, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

E. Boni; L. Bassi; A. Dallai; F. Guidi; A. Ramalli; S. Ricci; R. Housden; P. Tortoli (2012). A Reconfigurable and Programmable FPGA based System for non-standard Ultrasound Methods. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 59, pp. 1378-1385, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F.Varray; A.Ramalli; C.Cachard; P.Tortoli; O.Basset (2011). Fundamental and second-harmonic ultrasound field computation of inhomogeneous nonlinear medium with a generalized angular spectrum method. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 58, pp. 1366-1376, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

K. Shapoori; J. Sadler; E. Malyarenko; F. Severin; E. Maeva; E. Boni; A. Ramalli; P. Tortoli; R.G. Maev (2011). Transcranial Detection of Small Foreign Objects Lodged in the Brain using Ultrasonic Phased Arrays with Adaptive Beamforming. In: 13th World Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vienna, Austria, August 26, 2011, Elsevier, vol. 37, pp. S17-S17. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

A. Ramalli; S. Ricci; E. Giannotti; D. Abdulcadir; J. Nori; O. Basset; C. Cachard; R. Tarquini; P. Tortoli (2011). Fourier Domain and High Frame Rate based Elastography for Breast Nodules Investigation. In: 2011 Ultrasonics Symposium, Orlando, 10-2011, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 2241-2244, ISBN:9781457712531 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

F. Varray; C. Cachard; A. Ramalli; P. Tortoli; O. Basset (2011). Simulation of ultrasound nonlinear propagation on GPU using a generalized angular spectrum method. EURASIP JOURNAL ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING, vol. 17, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1687-5176 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

S. Ricci; L. Bassi; A. Cellai; A. Ramalli; F. Guidi; P. Tortoli (2011). ULAOP: A fully open ultrasound imaging/Doppler system. In: International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging, Monterey, California USA, 03/2009, Springer Science + Business Media, vol. 30, pp. 79-85, ISBN:9789048132553 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

E. Boni; L. Bassi; A. Dallai; F. Guidi; A. Ramalli; S. Ricci; P. Tortoli (2011). Implementation of non Standard Methods with the Utrasound Advanced Open Platform (ULA-OP). In: 2011 International Ultrasonics Symposium, Orlando, USA, Ottobre 2011, IEEE, pp. 466-469, ISBN:9781457712531 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

A. Ramalli; O. Basset; C. Cachard; P. Tortoli (2010). Quasi-static elastography based on high frame-rate imaging and frequency domain displacement estimation. In: 2010 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA, 10/2010, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, vol. 1, pp. 9-12, ISBN:9781457703829 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

K.Shapoori; J.Sadler; E.Malyarenko; F.Severin; E.Boni; A. Ramalli; P.Tortoli; R.G.Maev (2010). Adaptive beamforming for ultrasonic phased array focusing through layered structures.. In: 2010 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA, Ottobre 2010, IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017, pp. 1821-1824, ISBN:9781457703829 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

P. Tortoli; A. Cellai; R. Mori; A. Ramalli; S. Ricci (2009). B-MSD Mode for simultaneous detection of dynamic morphologic and hemodynamic information. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, vol. 56, pp. C1-C2, ISSN:0885-3010 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Alessandro Ovidio Paris RAMALLI

Curriculum

Personal Information
Name and Surname	Alessandro Ovidio Paris RAMALLI
Researcher unique identifiers	ORCID 0000-0003-4358-3739; Researcher ID H-6025-2012; SCOPUS-ID 43461781400
Date and place of birth	21 October 1983, Prato (Italy)
Citizenship	Italian
Current position
03/2022 →	Assistant Professor (RTDB) Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
Previous positions
03/2020 →02/2022	Research Fellow (RTDA) Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
10/2018 →02/2020	Adjunct professor Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
05/2018 →11/2019	Postdoctoral fellow with EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships
10/2017 →04/2018	Postdoctoral fellow
02/2012 → 09/2017	Postdoctoral fellow Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
Academic Qualifications
28/11/2017	Italian Academic Qualification (ASN) for Associate Professor in Electronics (09/E3)
18/11/2020	Italian Academic Qualification (ASN) for Associate Professor in Bioengineering (09/G2)
Education
02/2009 → 04/2012	Philosophiæ Doctor (Ph.D.) in cotutelle and with “Doctor Europæus” certification
07/2009 → 08/2009	Visiting Scholar Institute for Diagnostic Imaging Research at the University of Windsor (Canada) - Supervisor: Prof. Roman Maev
04/2006 → 07/2008	Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
09/2002 → 04/2006	Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
Awards
2012	Best Ph.D. thesis award 2012 – Technological research field Firenze University Press – University of Florence (Italy)
2009	“Renato Mariani 2009” for remarkable study career AEIT – Sezione Toscana e Umbria Nord (Italy)
Supervision, teaching, and examiner activities
05/2023	Lecture series on “Ultrasound medical imaging: an engineer’s perspective” for the Ph.D. Program in Information Engineering, University of Florence (Italy)
03/2023→	Teaching for the yearly course in "Sensors for Biomedical Instrumentation" for the bachelor students in "Biomedical Engineering" of the University of Florence (Italy)
03/2021→09/2021	Mentor for the Professional Networking & Mentorship Program of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
03/2020→06/2022	Teaching for the yearly course in "Electronic bioengineering laboratory" for the bachelor students in "Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering" of the University of Florence (Italy)
22/07/2020→	Lecture on “Standard and advanced modes for biomedical ultrasound imaging” at the “International Summer School on Ultrasonic and Piezoelectric Sensors”, organized by the IEEE Italy Sensors Chapter in Florence (Italy)
10/2018→	Teaching for the yearly course in "Digital processing of biometric signals - Electronics" for the bachelor students in "Neurophysiopathology techniques" of the University of Florence (Italy)
2018→	Jury member, examiner, and thesis reviewer for national and international Ph.D. candidates
2012→	Mentoring and coaching of Ph.D. students, early career academic researchers, and technical staff
2009→	Supervision/co-supervision of bachelor and master students on topics related to ultrasound imaging, signal processing, and electronics
2018→2019	Co-teaching for the yearly course in “Medical imaging and Analysis” by the school of Biomedical Engineering of KU Leuven (Belgium)
02/2017	Lectures on “Basics of Medical Ultrasound Imaging” and “Basics of Ultrasound Doppler Imaging” for the PhD course in “Imaging for Cardiovascular Biomechanics” by the Ph.D. school in Bioengineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy)
2014 →2017	Co-teaching for the yearly course in “Digital Systems Electronics” by the school of Electronics Engineering of the University of Florence (Italy)
Invited seminars, workshops, and talks
05/09/2023	Invited talk on “Design and 3-D medical applications of 2-D ultrasound sparse arrays” at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2023), Montreal (Canada)
25/08/2023	Invited talk on “Design and 3-D medical applications of 2-D ultrasound sparse arrays” at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023), Tokyo (Japan)
30/04/2021	Seminar on “High frame rate imaging towards clinical application” for the CREATIS Laboratory of the University of Lyon (France)
26/04/2021	Seminar on “Advanced 2-D and 3-D ultrasound techniques for biomedical applications” for the master course “Electronic sensors, detectors and devices” of the University of Basilicata (Italy)
27/11/2020	Seminar on “2D ultrasound sparse arrays for 3D cardiovascular imaging” and on “High frame rate cardiovascular imaging towards clinical applications” for the master course “Ultrasound Technologies for Medical Applications” of the University of Trento (Italy)
30/11/2018	Workshop on “The use of an advanced research ultrasound system for high frame rate cardiac imaging” for the Bioengineering laboratory of the University of Pavia (Italy)
21/11/2018	Seminar on “2D ultrasound sparse arrays and real-time high frame rate systems for cardiovascular imaging” for the employees of Esaote S.p.A. (Italy)
16/11/2018	Seminar on “2D ultrasound sparse arrays for 3D cardiovascular imaging” and on “High frame rate cardiovascular imaging towards clinical applications” for the master course “Ultrasound Technologies for Medical Applications” of the University of Trento (Italy)
16/11/2018	Workshop on “The practical use of an advanced research ultrasound system” for the master course “Ultrasound Technologies for Medical Applications” of the University of Trento (Italy)
Conferences organization and steering activities
06/2023	General chair of “The 2023 Artimino Conference on Medical Ultrasound Technology” (Artimino, Italy)
2023 →	Member of the Program Committee for the International Conference on Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society (Applepies)
2022 →	Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (Group 1: Medical Ultrasonics) – Lead of the Systems and Device Design track since 2023
2018 →	Regular service as Session Chair for the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
Institutional activities
2023 →	Institutional coordinator of the international collaboration agreement between the University of Florence and the University of Lyon (France)
2022 →	Faculty board member of the first degree in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florence (Italy)
2021 →	Institutional promoter and coordinator of the international collaboration agreement between the University of Florence and the University of Leuven (Belgium)
2021 →	Faculty board member of the first and second degree in Electronic Engineering, University of Florence (Italy)
2021 →	Member of the Doctoral committee for the Ph.D. Program in Information Engineering, University of Florence (Italy)
Editorial activities
2023 →	Associate editor for “Ultrasonic Imaging” journal, published by "SAGE Publishing"
2022 →	Editorial board member for the section “Acoustics and Vibrations” of the “Applied Sciences” journal, published by "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)"
2022 →	Associate editor for “Medical physics” journal, published by "Wiley"
2022 →	Guest editor for “Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control” journal, published by IEEE. Spotlight Issue on “Array Transducer Design: A Vibrant Research Theme in Medical Ultrasonics”
2019 →	Associate editor for “Applied Sciences” journal, published by "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)"
2019 →2022	Associate editor for the “Journal of Healthcare Engineering”, published by "Hindawi"
2020→2021	Guest editor for “Applied Sciences” journal, published by "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)". Special issue "3D Medical Ultrasound: Imaging and Hardware"
2017→2018	Guest editor for “Applied Sciences” journal, published by "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)". Special issue "Ultrasound B-mode Imaging: Beamforming and Image Formation Techniques"
Peer review activities
	Peer review of grant funding applications for:
2021 →	European Union expert for the evaluation of project proposals
2018 →	Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Netherlands
2018 →	Foundation for Polish Science, Poland
2016 →	National Science Centre, Poland

2012 →	Peer review of articles for: IEEE, Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control; Elsevier, Ultrasonics; Elsevier, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology; IEEE, Transactions on Biomedical Engineering; IEEE, Transactions on Medical Imaging; MDPI, Applied Sciences; MDPI, Sensors; Springer, The Journal of Signal Processing Systems; IEEE, Journal of Oceanic Engineering Society; IEEE, Open Journal of the Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control; IEEE, Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. Metrics overview (Source WebOfScience, accessed on 02/12/2023): Total reviews 148 Last 12 months14
Scientific societies
2020 →	Member of IEEE Sensors Council
2020 →	Member of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control society
2013 →	Member of the Italian Electronics Society (SIE)
2010 →	Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), with Senior Member grade since 2019
Grants and Fellowships
01/2023 →12/2025	Ultra-portable ultrasound: scanner and signal processing algorithms Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU, in the context of The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Investment 1.3 Enlarged Partnership 8, Project AgeIt
12/2022 →11/2025	Innovative ultrasound probe technologies and ultrafast imaging techniques for prevention and early diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU, in the context of The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Investment 1.5 Ecosystems of Innovation, Project Tuscany Health Ecosystem (THE)
09/2022 →08/2025	Development of high-performance ultrasound systems based on advanced processing devices Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, in the context of The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Mission 4 Component 2 - Investment 1.4 - National Center for HPC, Big Data And Quantum Computing
2021 →	External fundings from different national and international companies/institutions for research activities on ultrasound imaging, signal and image processing, beamforming methods, transducers arrays development, and systems design
05/2018 →11/2019	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships EU H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 Proposal: 786027 — Project acronym: ACOUSTIC
11/2012 → 09/2017	Post-doc scholarship POR CRO FSE 2007-2013 – Asse IV – Capitale umano UNIFI FSE 2012 Granted by Regione Toscana and University of Florence (Italy) Department of Information Engineering - University of Florence (Italy)
02/2012 → 11/2012	Post-doc scholarship Department of electronics and telecommunication, University of Florence (Italy)
Major Collaborations
	- P. Tortoli, E. Boni, S. Ricci, Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Florence (Italy) – Development of research system for ultrasound imaging, Development of innovative ultrasound methods, real-time applications. - H. Liebgott, F. Varray, D. Garcia, Centre de Recherche en Imagerie Médicale, Lyon (France) – Design of 2D sparse array layouts, Ultrasound high frame rate vector Doppler. - J. D’hooge, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven (Belgium) – High frame rate echocardiography, Assessment of cardiac fiber orientation. - A. S. Savoia, Department of Engineering, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy) – Development of 2D CMUT ultrasound probes. - A. Shore, K, Aizawa, School of Medicine, University of Exeter (United Kingdom) – Clinical translation of innovative ultrasound methods, flow mediated dilation. - C. Palombo, Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular, and Critical Area Pathology, University of Pisa (Italy) – Clinical translation of innovative ultrasound methods, flow mediated dilation. - G. Matrone, Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy – Innovative ultrasound beamforming methods for image quality enhancement. - L. Demi, Dept of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento (Italy) – Innovative ultrasound beamforming methods for high frame rate, harmonic imaging. - L. Peralta, J. Hajnal, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London (United Kingdom) – Multi-transducer ultrasound imaging.
Publications
	Metrics overview (source Scopus, accessed on 02/12/2023): Documents: 166; Citations: 1806; H-index: 23 The full list of publications can be found at: https://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2018-0-A-2c303c323230-0.html