University College of Southeast Norway was established 1 January 2016, and has about 16 000 students and about 1500 employees. The university college is temporarily organized in eight faculties, with instruction and R&D activities on eight campuses. The main profile of the university college is to provide socially relevant education, geared towards specific professions, and adapted to the requirements of the workplace, as well as to produce applied research and development.

The Faculty of Technology and Maritime Sciences has a vacancy for a position as Research Fellow in Medical Ultrasound Technology from 01.08.2016 or as soon as possible.

The position is attached to the Department of Micro- and Nanosystem Technology and reports to the Head of Department. The place of employment is Bakkenteigen, Vestfold.

The PhD project is part of the larger research centre CIUS, a Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI) appointed by the Norwegian Research Council where industry, healthcare providers, independent research organizations and academia collaborate to develop next generations' ultrasound solutions. For more information, see the CIUS web page: http://www.ntnu.edu/cius

Qualifications

Applicants to the PhD position must have a Master degree or equivalent higher education qualifications in electronics, computer science, physics, micro- and nanotechnology or a related field.The applicant must have gained the degree within the application deadline.The grades from the master study must be sufficient for acceptance into the doctoral programme at HSN. This requires an average grade B, in addition to grade B at the final master project.

Special requirements for this position are:

• Theoretical background in acoustics is required
• Some experience from laboratory ultrasound measurements is required
• Experience with and insight into medical ultrasound equipment is an advantage
• The transducer lab uses the software tools Matlab and LabVIEW, while programming of the transmit pulses is done in XML and C#. Familiarity with these tools is an advantage.

Applicants are required to provide evidence of good English language skills, written and spoken. Applicants outside the Scandinavian educational system may use the following tests as such documentation: TOEFL, IELTS or Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) or Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE).

In addition to the requirements above, evaluation of the candidates will be based on documented qualifications in the following fields:

• Good analytical and theoretical skills
• Good laboratory skills
• Competence in computer science, signal processing, analog and digital electronics, physics and mathematics

Information about the positionThe central research topic will be to obtain a deep understanding of the electro-acoustic transfer function of medical ultrasound arrays, and how this influences the image quality. The work will be done in the ultrasound transducer laboratory at USN, in collaboration with external industrial partners.

Central topics of the PhD-project will be

• Modelling of ultrasound transducer transmit transfer functions, based on electrical impedance measurements and pulse shape measurements, in various diffraction conditions
• Investigate non-ideal effects in transducers, e.g. nonlinearities, coupling between transducer elements, non-ideal geometries, nonlinear propagation, and heat generation.
• Participate in development, implementation and operation of an automated, computer-controlled hydrophone measurement system for ultrasound pulse shape and beam profile mesurements
• Identify drivers for degraded image quality, and suggest improvements. This could include design, implementation and testing of
  
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  Arbeidsgiver Navn: Høgskolen i Sørøst-Norge
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: Raveien 215 3184 BORRE
  
  Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Vestfold
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
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