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  Leonardo Masotti was born in 1939 in
Faenza (Italy). He received the "Laurea" Degree 1963 in Electronics
Engineering at University of Bologna and "Libera docenza" of "Applied
Electronics" in 1969. He
became Full Professor in Electronics at University of Florence in 1976.
From 1976 to 1979 he has been
Chief of the National Research Council Project of "Ultrasound in
Medicine" and since 1989 he is the
director of the doctorate course in NDT (Non Destructive Testing). He
has been director of the "Electronic
Engineering Institute" of the University of Florence during years
1980-1983 and 1990-1993. From 1981 to
1986 he has been President of the "Italian Society of Biomedical
Ultrasound" and since 1992 he is President
of Research Consortium CEO ("Centro Eccellenza Optronica") of Florence.
He is also a Member of
"Regional High Technology Director Board" (Florence) as well as of the
Editorial Board of Journal
"Fisica Medica". Among the scientific committees he belongs as member
there are: "Cardiovascular
Imaging", "Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica" and "CESVIT". He has been
president of the scientific committee of the 22nd International
Symposium on "Acoustical Imaging" and currently he is president of the
Committee University-National ResearchnCouncil (CNR) of Florence. Up to
now he is inventor of 30 patents and author of 180 scientific and
technical papers.
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 Elena Biagi was born in Florence,
Italy. She received the "Laurea" Degree in
Electronics Engineering from the University
of Florence in 1982. From 1982 to 1991 her research was mainly devoted
to ultrasonic material
characterization and medical imaging. Since 1991 she has been an
Assistant Professor of the "Electronics and
Telecommunications Department" of the University of Florence and became
Associate Professor,
for Optoelectronics, in 2001. Her current interests deal with the
design of dedicated ultrasonic transducers,
signal processing for biological tissue spectral parameters extraction,
design and realization of fast
electronics for radio-frequency real time processing. Since 1996 her
teaching activity concerns optoelectronics
and sensors. She appears as inventor of 15 patents and she is author of
60 scientific and technical papers.
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 Lorenzo
Capineri was
born in Firenze,
Italy,
in 1962. He received hid
degree in Electronic Engineering in 1988, the Doctorate in Non
Destructive
Testing in 1993 and Post-Doctorate in 1994. In
1995 became associate researcher and
in 2004 associate professor of Electronics at the Department of
Electronic
Engineering of the University of Florence, Italy. His current research
activities are in design of ultrasonic guided waves devices and
pyroelectric
sensor array, signal processing for pipes and landmines detection with
ground
penetrating radar. He worked in several research projects in
collaboration with
national industries, the Italian Research Council (CNR), the Italian
Space
Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA), AEA Technology and
UKAEA
(England), ISTC (International Science and Technology Centre) (Moscow,
Russia)
and NATO. He is coauthor of 4 Italian patents and coauthor of 3 book
chapters and about 90 scientific and technical papers. He is senior IEEE
member since 2007.
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 Marco Calzolai was born in Fiesole, Italy in 1956.
He earned the
Diploma in industrial electronics in 1976. He joined the Ultrasound and
Non Destructive Testing Laboratory of the Department of Electronic
Engineering, University of Florence, in 1977. Since 1987 he has
technical coordinator of the Phonometric Laboratory of the same
department. He is coauthor of 9 Italian or international patents and
coauthor of scientific and techinal papers.
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 Andrea Giombetti Piergentili was born in
Florence
(Italy) in 1969. He received the technical qualification in "Broadcast
electronics" in 1987. He is the laboratory technician since '89 at the
"Electronics and Telecommunications Department" of the University of
Florence. He gained a strong experience of Operative Systems and
networking as well as hardware assembling.
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  Simona Granchi was born in Figline
Valdarno (Florence - Italy) in 1968. She received the "Laurea" Degree
in Electronics Engineering and the PhD Degree in 1995 and 1998
respectively. At the moment she is a collaborator of the "Electronics
and
Telecommunications Department" of the University of Florence. Her
interests were devoted to local spectral multi-resolution analysis of
RF ultrasound signals. Currently, her research activities are focused
on tissue and cancer characterization by means of discrete wavelet
transform implemented by digital systems for Real-Time operation mode.
She is also inventor of patents and author of international scientific
papers.
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 Gionatan Torricelli was born in Figline
Valdarno (Florence - Italy) in 1976. He received the "Laurea" Degree in
Electronics Engineering in 2001 and the PhD degree in 2004. At the
moment he is working on research projects of the "Electronics and
Telecommunications Department" of the University of Florence. His main
interests are related to "Ultrasonic Non Destructive Evaluation" and
"Image Processing". In 1999-2000 he attempted four Master Courses at
the "Computer Science Department" of the "Courant Institute" belonging
to the NYU (New York University).
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 Andrea Bulletti was born in Castiglion
Fiorentino (Italy)
in 1976. He received the
Electronic Engineering degree from the University of Florence, Italy,
in 2002.
From June 2003 until today he has been working as contract researcher
at
theDepartment of Electronics and Telecommunications of the University
of Florence.
He worked in research projects in collaboration with the Italian Space
Agency
(ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA). He is co-author of about 10
scientific and technical papers. His research interests concern non
destructive
testing methods for composite materials and characterization of
high-voltage
dielectric materials.
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 Pierluigi Falorni was born in Barberino di
Mugello, Italy,
in 1966, graduated in Informatic Engineering with a Laurea degree at
Università
degli Studi di Firenze (2000) with a thesis on advanced processing
methods for
ground penetrating data (GPR). He earned the doctorate degree in Non
Destructive Testing at the same University, and he is co-author of 17
papers on
image and signal processing or ground penetrating radar.
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 Enrico
Vannacci was born in Pistoia
(Italy) in 1978. He received the "Laurea" Degree in Electronics
Engineering in 2004. His thesis research concerned the "Acoustic
Characterization of Ultrasound Contrast Agents through the use of
Arbitrary Waveforms and Multi-pulse Techniques”. His main
interest regard the study of the non-linear interaction between
ultrasound and contrast-agents microbubbles.
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Ivan Arezzini was born in Geneva (Switzerland) in 1976. He have study
at "G. Marconi" high school, at Prato, with electronic specialisation. He
received University Degree in Electronic and Telecommunications in 1999 year
and then he received the Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering at University of Flornce. He
have work at Italian Research Council (C.N.R.) - IFAC at Florence,
developing
methods, softwares and equipments for measuring aerosol in environment
pollution. He have also work in Remote Sensing for develope methods and
softwares for managing and elaborate data form satellities. He have attained his PhD in "Non Destructive Evaluation System" at D.E.T. (Electronics and Telecomunication Department) of the Univeristy of Florence. His
research activities for PhD concerned biological tissue cheracterization and developeare diagnostics systems for cancer detection by radio-frequency
analisys using neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, ... He
also work in umanitarian demining and artistical heritage in
developement of a robotic system for automatic scanning of big areas
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 Fabio Cioria was born in Florence (Italy) in
1983. He received the "Laurea" Degree in Electronics Engineering in
2010. At the moment he is working on research projects of the
"Electronics and Telecomunications Department" of the University of
Florence with a scholarship. His main interests are related "Ultrasonic
Non Destructive Evaluation", Signal Processing" and "c++ programming".
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 Giulio Pelosi was born in Florence (Italy) in
1981. He received the "Laurea" Degree in Electronics Engineering in
2009. At the moment he is working on research projects of the
"Electronics and Telecomunications Department" of the University of
Florence. His activities on "Ultrasonic Non Destructive Evaluatin" and
Finite Elements analysis and simulations.
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 Sara Lapi
was born in Florence (Italy) in 1985. She obtained the Bachelor degree
in Electronics Engineering by the University of Florence in September
2007, with a thesis on the experimentation ofaccelerometric sensors in
the monitoring of breathing. In April 2010 she graduated in Biomedical
Engineering at the same University, withan experimental thesis on the
development of the system for theevaluation of respiration during sleep
and wake Currently she has a research fellowship by the "Electronics
and Telecomunications Department" of the University of Florence. Her
main interests regard the study ofnon-invasive methods for monitoring
vital signs.
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