Engineer Medical

RAHUL PATEL

*****.***@*****.*** / 440-***-****

**** *** ****, *** ***, Willoughby Hills, OH – 44094.

SUMMARY: Medical device engineer with MS in Biomedical Engineering with 5+ years of experience with track record of skilled experience in research, latest technology, current market interest, product definition and evaluation.

Profile: MS in Biomedical Engineer with 5+ years of experience in medical imaging industry.

Research Experience in Signal and Image Processing.

Certified Green Belt with experience in various six sigma tools

Experience with various industry standard like IEC, ACR, FDA requirements etc.

Excellent team player. Work well with management, other peer department/groups like R&D, Technical transfer and clinical manufacturing, etc.

EXPERIENCE:

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

X-Ray Computed Tomography Expert 62B/MT30 2010 to Current

Prepare international standards for safety and performance for all kind of medical equipment (e.g X-ray imaging equipment, computed tomography) as well as quality procedures (e.g. acceptance test and constancy test) to be applied during the lifetime of imaging equipment.

Philips Healthcare – Computer Tomography

Research Scientist IV January, 2007 to Current

Projects supervised and managed

• Worked as a Project Lead and managed various R&D projects from proposal phase to verification phase.

• Consult Program Managers on segment design and development, with an eye on image quality, reliability and cost.

• Lead System level activities, like System Requirements Specifications, integration activities, testing for system performance, verification, validation and regulatory compliance.

• Lead various Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA) projects

Global Physics Install base lead

• Lead a global team of engineers for physics consultation on installed based issues related to dose and image quality.

• Customer site visits with a cross functional team of Clinical Specialist, service engineers and sales for solving different IQ problems.

• Support Q&R for FDA audits and redesign complaint tracking system for IQ complaints.

• Certified Green Belt - Use Six sigma and DOE techniques to improve manufacturing productivity and testing like MTF, DQE, Noise, Linearity.

Technical Projects

• Prototype new/improved algorithms for calibration/reconstruction in Matlab R&D environment.

• Develop polychromatic beam hardening correction and scatter correction for different scanner models.

• Lead an investigation to replace current CTDI measurement technique used by manufacturing, with Air dose measurements. This reduced the measurement time from 6 hrs to 15 minutes.

Philips Medical Systems – Cleveland, OH

Internship January 2006 to August 2006

• Comparison of variation in the Arterial circle of Willis in patients with Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Carotid Occlusion disease

• Collaborate with external researchers to generate scientifically research for key clinical features of current products.

• Provide clinical specifications and validate clinical readiness of key CT scanner products.

The Imaging Center – Stow, OH

Research Assistant August 2005 to December 2005

• Research in field of PET/SPECT Image Reconstruction.

• Use of sieves in ML-EM reconstruction for better spatial and contrast resolution with statistical analysis

• Poisson Noise Removal from Medical images using Wavelets and Cross Validation

• Develop new Interleaved Fast Fourier Transform using C4 and S4 Transform

Biotech - Mumbai, India

Engineer July 2003 to December 2003

• Biosignal Processing and data analysis with DSP Processor TMS320C5510

• Technical and functional up gradation.

• On-site & Off-site Service and Maintenance of EEG, EMG, IFCT and other medical instruments

• Training Medical Professionals including written reports and public speaking presentations.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Master of Science, Bio-Medical Engineering - The University of Akron, OH.

August 2004 to December 2006

Bachelor of Engineering, D.J. Sanghvi CoE, Mumbai University, India

August 2000 to May 2004

AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS:

• Best Poster Presentation (CUGSR) November 2005

Poisson Noise Removal from Medical images using Wavelets and Cross Validation

• Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography 2011

Choosing between multi-cycle and single-cycle reconstructions on a fast wide coverage scanner: Is patient heart-rate the primary consideration

• The American Association of Physicists in Medicine 2011

Cone-Beam Artifact Reduction in Wide Collimation Pediatric Head Imaging

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Matlab, C, C++, SAS, Visual Basic, Mathcad, Simulink, Microcontroller 8051, Microprocessors 8085/86, DSP.

REFERENCES: Available on Request.

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