Saeedeh Kabiri is a physicist with a strong academic foundation from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran), where she earned both her BSc and MSc degrees in Physics. Her specialization lies in acoustics and ultrasonics, with additional interests in optics, acousto-optics, acoustofluidics, and medical physics.
She has contributed to interdisciplinary research projects including acoustic tweezers, nanoparticle-mediated cancer therapy, ultrasonic spray nozzle design and simulation, and the study of optical effects of focused ultrasound on laser beams. Her work has resulted in multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and collaborations with international research teams.
She is currently with the University of Leeds, UK, focusing on developing novel phononic crystals for improved harmonic imaging in biomedical ultrasounds.
Project objectives
- Design and fabricate new PCs/MMs that can be used to block frequencies over a defined ultrasonic bandwidth in a water environment
- Establish the efficiency of PCs at blocking a fundamental frequency f0 but allow transmission of subharmonics (f0/2), and ultra-harmonics (3f0/2) that would arise from a scattered signal
- Use them in an experimental measurements in a water tank using microbubble contrast agents
- Investigate operation in phantoms for vascular structures containing microbubbles
- Measure imaging resolutions that arise only from the contrast agents and not from surrounding areas using ultrasonic arrays
Supervision and secondments
Hosted at
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Supervisors
Prof. Steven Freear
PhD enrolment
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, PhD in Electrical and Electronical Engineering, Leeds, UK
Secondments
UNICAL, Amazemet