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My research at Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute (TBRRI)

I'm particular interested in exploring new ways to use focused ultrasound as an effective tool for the treatment of diseases such as cancer.

My current specific projects includent treatment of abdominal tumours, prostate cancer, HPV-related cervical cancer and others diseases. I work also studying the process of ultrasound transmission through the skull bone and the design of new devices. I have collaboratives projects across the TBRRI (Drs. Curiel, Zehbe, Campbell), Lakehead University (Prof. Christoffersen), Sunnybrook HSC (Dr. Hynynen) and the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (Dr. Chapelon).

My research is centered on the use of numerical tools as an effective first step in the development of new therapeutic applications. The democratization of High Performance Computing allows the development of modeling tools that are fully conformal with anatomy and that take into consideration as much as possible all the heterogenous nature of biological tissue. I'm actively working in new algorithms and implementations that use efficiently modern computing technologies such as Linux cluters (MPI), multi-core technology (OpenMP, pthreads, etc) and General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU, CUDA, OpenCL). I'm constantly using and supervising students working with the the state of the art of these computing tools. I count with a 108-cores Linux cluster fully dedicated for my research. I also am a current user of SHARCNET facilities.