Seminar: Open-Source Human Body Meshes for Electromagnetic Modeling and Related EM Library in MATLAB

Dr. Sergey N. Makarov and Mr. Gregory M. Noetscher

ECE dept., Worcester Polytechnic Institute & NEVA Electromagnetics

Mission Research Corp. Conference Room, ElectroScience Laboratory, 

1330 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212

This talk will introduce a library of organ and surface triangular human body meshes from real subjects suitable for electromagnetic modeling using MoM, FDTD method, and FEM. Individual organ meshes have been created through segmenting optical images generated by the Visible Human Body Project® as conducted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and reconstructing the 3D data into triangular meshes with a resolution up to 1mm. Surface human body meshes were obtained by scanning four male volunteers with a 3D WB4 laser scanner from Cyberware at U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center. Each volunteer was scanned in a number of different positions, producing almost 30 datasets for analysis. This talk will also describe in detail a library of simple computational MATLAB modules intended for solving and visualizing basic to advanced electrostatic and electrodynamic problems with human bodies. Compiled between 2004 and 2012, this library is suitable for a variety of educational, commercial and research endeavors, including visually demonstrating concepts in EM theory, exploring BAN applications, and exploring interactions between RF waves and dielectric media. The following topics will be covered: Electrostatics of conductors, Electrostatics of dielectrics and conductors, Current flow in conducting media, Radiation of electric and magnetic dipoles in biological media.

Dr. Sergey N. Makarov earned his B.S./M.S./Ph.D./Dr. Sci. degrees at the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University, Russian Federation, Faculty of Mathematics. Dr. Makarov joined the Faculty of State St. Petersburg University where he became a full professor in 1996. In 2000 he joined the Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MA where he became a full professor in 2008. His current research interests include applied computational electromagnetics and human body interaction with EM fields. He is a recipient of Samuel Satin Award - WPI 2004, Trustees Best Advisor Award - WPI 2009, Outstanding Professor Award - ECE Dept., WPI 2010, Community Service Award - ECE Dept., WPI 2011, Outstanding Professor Award - ECE Dept., WPI 2011, Trustees Best Teacher Award - WPI 2012. Mr. Gregory M. Noetscher obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees from WPI in 2000 and 2005 in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at WPI, concentrating in applied and computational electromagnetics.