Carey M. Rappaport

Carey Rappaport received five degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: the SB degree in mathematics, the SB, SM, and EE degrees in electrical engineering in June 1982, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in June 1987. Professor Rappaport joined the faculty at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, in 1987. He has been a Professor of electrical and computer engineering since July 2000. During fall 1995, he was a Visiting Professor of electrical engineering at the Electromagnetics Institute of the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, as part of the Fulbright International Scholar Program. In 2005, he was a Visiting Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organization (CSIRO) in Marsfield, Australia. He has consulted for Geo-Centers, Inc., PPG, Inc., Alion Science and Technology, Inc., and several municipalities on wave propagation and modeling, and microwave heating and safety. He was Principal Investigator of an ARO-sponsored Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative on Humanitarian Demining and Coprincipal Investigator of the NSF-sponsored Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (Gordon-CenSSIS) Engineering Research Center. Professor Rappaport has authored over 270 technical journal and conference papers in the areas of microwave antenna design, electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering computation, and bioelectromagnetics, and has received two reflector antenna patents, two biomedical device patents, and three subsurface sensing device patents. He was awarded the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society's H.A. Wheeler Award for best applications paper, as a student in 1986.

Biography Updated on 30 July 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Determination of Bolus Dielectric Constant for Optimum Coupling of Microwaves through Skin for Breast Cancer Imaging
    International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 2008, Article ID 359582, 5 pages, 2008
  2. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING ANALYSIS OF RADAR SCATTERING BY CLOTHING COVERED ARRAYS OF METALLIC BODY-WORN EXPLOSIVE DEVICES
    Progress In Electromagnetics Research, vol. PIER 76, pp. 285–298, 2007
  3. Model for continuously scanning ultrasound vibrometer sensing displacements of randomly rough vibrating surfaces
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 121, no. 2, p. 863, 2007
  4. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 104–117, 2007
  5. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 2423–2428, 2007
  6. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 2429–2434, 2007
  7. FDTD-Based Time Reversal for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection—Localization in Three Dimensions
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1921–1927, 2006
  8. Short-Pulse Three-Dimensional Scattering From Moderately Rough Surfaces: A Comparison Between Narrow-Waisted Gaussian Beam Algorithms and FDTD
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 157–167, 2006
  9. A Matched-Filter FDTD-Based Time Reversal Approach for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1257–1264, 2006
  10. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 1721–1728, 2005
  11. Time Reversal With the FDTD Method for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 2317–2323, 2005
  12. A Simple Absorbing Boundary Condition for FDTD Modeling of Lossy, Dispersive Media Based on the One-Way Wave Equation
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 2476–2479, 2004
  13. Modeling With the FDTD Method for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1890–1897, 2004
  14. Cardiac tissue ablation with catheter-based microwave heating
    International Journal of Hyperthermia, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 769–780, 2004
  15. Minimum entropy regularization in frequency-wavenumber migration to localize subsurface objects
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 1804–1812, 2003
  16. IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 223–225, 2003
  17. A color map for effective black-and-white rendering of color-scale images
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 94–96, 2002
  18. Statistical method to detect subsurface objects using array ground-penetrating radar data
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 963–976, 2002
  19. Monte Carlo simulations for clutter statistics in minefields: AP-mine-like-target buried near a dielectric object beneath 2-D random rough ground surfaces
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1416–1426, 2002
  20. Treating cardiac disease with catheter-based tissue heating
    IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 57–64, 2002
  21. IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 24–26, 2002
  22. Three-dimensional subsurface analysis of electromagnetic scattering from penetrable/PEC objects buried under rough surfaces: use of the steepest descent fast multipole method
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1174–1182, 2001
  23. Response of realistic soil for GPR applications with 2-D FDTD
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1198–1205, 2001
  24. Scattering from lossy dielectric objects buried beneath randomly rough ground: validating the semi-analytic mode matching algorithm with 2-D FDFD
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 2421–2428, 2001
  25. QMR-Based Projection Techniques for the Solution of Non-Hermitian Systems with Multiple Right-Hand Sides
    SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 761, 2001
  26. A new shape-based method for object localization and characterization from scattered field data
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 1682–1696, 2000
  27. Inverse Problems, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1119–1156, 2000
  28. Accuracy considerations in using the PML ABC with FDFD Helmholtz equation computation
    International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 471–482, 2000
  29. Specifying PML conductivities by considering numerical reflection dependencies
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 1055–1063, 2000
  30. Microwave Ablation Using a Spiral Antenna Design in a Porcine Thigh Muscle Preparation: In Vivo Assessment of Temperature Profile and Lesion Geometry
    Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 193–198, 2000
  31. FDTD wave propagation in dispersive soil using a single pole conductivity model
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 1542–1545, 1999
  32. A 2 1/4-turn spiral antenna for catheter cardiac ablation
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 1480–1482, 1999
  33. A general method for FDTD modeling of wave propagation in arbitrary frequency-dispersive media
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 401–410, 1997
  34. Interpreting and improving the PML absorbing boundary condition using anisotropic lossy mapping of space
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 968–974, 1996
  35. Perfectly matched absorbing boundary conditions based on anisotropic lossy mapping of space
    IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 90–92, 1995
  36. Reducing the computational domain for FDTD scattering simulation using the sawtooth anechoic chamber ABC
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 1546–1549, 1995
  37. A shaped dual-reflector antenna with a tilting flat subreflector for scanning applications
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 1022–1028, 1995
  38. A high aperture efficiency, wide-angle scanning offset reflector antenna
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 1481–1490, 1993
  39. Optimal microwave source distributions for heating off-center tumors in spheres of high water content tissue
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 1979–1982, 1992
  40. Anisotropic FDFD computed on conformal meshes
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 3848–3851, 1991
  41. High aperture efficiency symmetric reflector antennas with up to 60 degrees field of view
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 336–344, 1991
  42. FDFD analysis of electromagnetic scattering in anisotropic media using unconstrained triangular meshes
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 345–349, 1991
  43. An offset bifocal reflector antenna design for wide-angle beam scanning
    IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 32, no. 11, pp. 1196–1204, 1984