School of Engineering

Jonathan C. Newell
Research Professor
http://www.rpi.edu/~newelj

Department Affiliation:

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Education:

Ph.D., Albany Medical College
Physiology

M.Eng., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Electrical Engineering

B.E., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Electrical Engineering

Background:

Dr. Newell was an investigator for 20 years in the Trauma Research Center at the Albany Medical Center, conducting clinical research into the physiological consequences and complications of injury or trauma. He has investigated basic physiological regulation of the pulmonary circulation and gas exchange. He has been a reviewer of grants for research and training in Biomedical Engineering for the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, and other agencies. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and a reviewer of manuscripts for that and many other journals. Since 1985, he has collaborated with several other faculty in developing Electrical Impedance Imaging systems. The focus of this work recently is its application to breast cancer diagnosis.

Read More: http://www.rpi.edu/~newelj/

Research Interests:

The Electrical Impedance Imaging Project at Rensselaer has developed a series of non-invasive medical imaging devices, Adaptive Current Tomographs (ACT), which create images of a patient based upon the naturally varying conductivity of the body. The ACT instruments use a technique known as impedance imaging. The generated image is a picture of how well electric currents can travel through the subject. Impedance is a technical term describing how easily electric currents are conducted by tissues.