I am a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering focussing on ultrasound imaging of muscle tissue.
I am a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Engineering. My research focuses on developing ultrasound-based imaging techniques to improve the visualization of skeletal muscle tissue.
One of our research areas involves using ultrafast ultrasound to develop new methods for imaging the fascia, the connective tissue component of muscle. With this approach, we aim to study how the fascia changes under different conditions, such as age-related alterations and diseases such as sarcopenia.
Another area of our work focuses on studying motor units (MUs), which consist of a motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates. Traditionally, MUs are studied using electromyography (EMG), but we use ultrafast ultrasound to detect individual MUs with higher spatial resolution. For example, one of our projects is a translational study investigating whether MUs that can currently be detected with ultrafast ultrasound can also be identified using a clinical ultrasound scanner.
I have a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, specialized in Medical Image Analysis, from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.