Burns, Peter N

Biography

Burns, Peter N, Professor PhD, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Room S660, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5. Research includes Ultrasound imaging is familiar to many for the pictures it produces of the developing fetus in pregnancy; it is also one of the most widely used methods to examine the heart, the organs of the abdomen and pelvis, muscles, tendons and other soft tissue structures. By virtue of the acoustical Doppler effect, it also provides images of human blood flow without the need to inject radioactive compounds, X-ray or other dyes into the circulation. Although in recent years the clinical use of Doppler ultrasound instruments has become widespread, its role has been confined to answering qualitative questions about flow in relatively large vessels. Work in our laboratory seeks to extend this method into a quantitative technique capable of measuring such important haemodynamic variables in the body as the flowrate of blood, its pressure and resistance in large vessels. Laboratory investigations include the analysis of the interaction of ultrasound with moving blood as well as the dynamic characteristics of blood flow and the vessels themselves. Burns, Peter N, Professor PhD, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Room S660, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5. Research includes Ultrasound imaging is familiar to many for the pictures it produces of the developing fetus in pregnancy; it is also one of the most widely used methods to examine the heart, the organs of the abdomen and pelvis, muscles, tendons and other soft tissue structures. By virtue of the acoustical Doppler effect, it also provides images of human blood flow without the need to inject radioactive compounds, X-ray or other dyes into the circulation. Although in recent years the clinical use of Doppler ultrasound instruments has become widespread, its role has been confined to answering qualitative questions about flow in relatively large vessels. Work in our laboratory seeks to extend this method into a quantitative technique capable of measuring such important haemodynamic variables in the body as the flowrate of blood, its pressure and resistance in large vessels. Laboratory investigations include the analysis of the interaction of ultrasound with moving blood as well as the dynamic characteristics of blood flow and the vessels themselves.

Research Interest

Ultrasound imaging is familiar to many for the pictures it produces of the developing fetus in pregnancy; it is also one of the most widely used methods to examine the heart, the organs of the abdomen and pelvis, muscles, tendons and other soft tissue structures. By virtue of the acoustical Doppler effect, it also provides images of human blood flow without the need to inject radioactive compounds, X-ray or other dyes into the circulation. Although in recent years the clinical use of Doppler ultrasound instruments has become widespread, its role has been confined to answering qualitative questions about flow in relatively large vessels. Work in our laboratory seeks to extend this method into a quantitative technique capable of measuring such important haemodynamic variables in the body as the flowrate of blood, its pressure and resistance in large vessels. Laboratory investigations include the analysis of the interaction of ultrasound with moving blood as well as the dynamic characteristics of blood flow and the vessels themselves.