Marie Muller
Professor
- Phone: (919) 515-1186
- Email: mmuller2@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building III (EB3) 3166
- Website: https://muller.wordpress.ncsu.edu/
Dr. Muller is interested in medical ultrasound and ultrasound propagation in complex media. Her long-term objective is to advance the state-of-the-art of medical ultrasound and contribute to screening and prevention methods.
Her research attracts students because of its high societal impact, because it involves both theory and the learning about state-of-the-art numerical and experimental methods, and because it involves teamwork and collaborations with physicians, physicists and engineers. Since her research is multidisciplinary, students in her lab have the opportunity to tailor their graduate experience to their particular interests. Her applications involve developing non-invasive methods to quantitatively characterize the microstructure of complex biological media such as lung and bone. This leads to the development of new technologies for the diagnosis and monitoring of osteoporosis, pulmonary fibrosis, and pulmonary edema.
Outside of work, she enjoys family, friends, music and food.
Publications
- Characterizing random complex biological media by quantifying ultrasound multiple scattering
- Yousefian, O., Dashti, A., Geithner, H., Karbalaeisadegh, Y., Yao, S., Blackwell, J., … Muller, M. (2025, April 9), Frontiers in Acoustics, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/facou.2025.1545057
- Comparison of diffusion coefficient measurement through Coherent or Incoherent Backscattering measurement, for the characterization of complex media
- Legrand, F., Norouzzadeh, P., & Muller, M. (2025, April 1), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038153
- Estimating vascular density by using quantitative ultrasound in microbubble enhanced vessel networks
- Norouzzadeh, P., Legrand, F., Cook, J., Dayton, P. A., & Muller, M. (2025, April 1), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038154
- Design Optimization and Tradeoff Analysis of an Actuated Continuum Probe for Pulmonary Nodule Localization and Resection
- McCullough, M. D., Muller, M., Egan, T. M., & Buckner, G. D. (2024, April 24), Bioengineering, Vol. 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11050417
- High-Performance PMN-PT Single-Crystal-Based 1-3 Composite Transducer Integrated with a Biopsy Needle
- Kreager, B. C., Wu, H., Chang, W.-Y., Moon, S., Mitchell, J., Peng, C., … Jiang, X. (2024, January 31), Biosensors, Vol. 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios14020074
- Lung quantitative ultrasound to stage and monitor interstitial lung diseases
- Dashti, A., Roshankhah, R., Lye, T., Blackwell, J., Montgomery, S., Egan, T., … Muller, M. (2024, July 16), Scientific Reports, Vol. 14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66390-6
- The respective and dependent effects of scattering and bone matrix absorption on ultrasound attenuation in cortical bone
- McCandless, B. A., Raum, K., & Muller, M. (2024, April 17), Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 69. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad3fff
- Investigating pulmonary edema in rat lungs using separation of multiple scattering and single scattering contribution
- Roshankhah, R., Blackwell, J., Yuan, H., Egan, T. M., & Muller, M. (2023, March 1), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 153. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0018614
- Lung nodule biopsy guided using a 30 MHz ultrasound transducer: in vitro study
- Kreager, B., Moon, S., Mitchell, J., Wu, H., Peng, C., Muller, M., … Jiang, X. (2023), (P. Fromme & Z. Su, Eds.). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2658585
- Random matrix theory (RMT) to quantify scattering behavior in lung mimicking phantoms
- Dong, Z., Cole, A. D., Onuorah, C. W., Ware, H. O., & Muller, M. (2023, March 1), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 153. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0018611
