Foster, Stuart
Investigators
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F. Stuart Foster, Ph.D. [S&W] |
- Senior Scientist with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as well as professor and Associate Chairman of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto.
- Recipient of a Terry Fox Cancer Research Scientist Award from the National Cancer Institute of Canada and has twice won the Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Prize.
- Distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society (1995-6). He is on the editorial boards of Ultrasonic Imaging and Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.
- Awarded the Eadie Medal by the Royal Society of Canada in 1977 for major contributions to applied science in Canada.
- Pioneered the development of the technology and clinical applications of high frequency ultrasound biomicroscopy in the eye. There are now more that 250 commercial systems based on our design around the world. More than 200,000 patients have been scanned with this instrumentation.
- Developed ultrasound biomicroscopy for imaging of the skin leading to a number of clinical papers on its use to visualize melanoma, basal cell carcinoma and psoriasis.
- Performed the first application of high frequency ultrasound to the visualization of the mouse embryo. This work showed the ability of ultrasound biomicroscopy to non-invasively detect and image genetic mutations that affect neural and cardiac mouse development.
- Introduced an innovation that allows diffraction limited imaging performance for sparsely populated linear arrays. This method is the subject of a patent and has particular relevance to the development of 2 dimensional arrays for 3D imaging.
- Introduced the first duplex pulsed and continuous wave Doppler systems for high frequency ultrasound imaging. This technology enables ultrasound to image and measure flow in the microvasculature.
- Reported the first clinical use of high frequency (40 MHz) intravascular ultrasound in human coronary arteries. He was instrumental is establishing the benefits of high frequency intravascular ultrasound and in developing the high frequency transducer technology now used in commercial products.