Gregory D. Lapin, Ph.D., P.E.

 

Email: g.lapin@ieee.org

 

Consultant in Biomedical Engineering

 

bulletRF Bioeffects and Safety
bulletElectromagnetic Compatibility
bulletImage Processing
bulletManufacturing of Medical Instrumentation
bulletSoftware Development
bulletAmateur Radio Communications
bulletBaseball

 

Professional Activities

bulletSenior Member, IEEE
bulletMember, FCC Technological Advisory Council (FCC TAC)
bulletChair, RF Safety Committee, American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
bulletMember, IEEE Committee on Man and Radiation
bulletMember, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
bulletMember, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
bulletTheme Coordinator for EM Effects, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference
bulletTrack Chair for Physiological Imaging, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference
bulletProfessional Engineer, Illinois
bulletFCC General Radio Operator License
bulletChief Examiner, Commercial Radio Services, National Radio Examiners
bulletRecent consultant to the Cellular Telephone Industry Association, Siemens Medical Systems, Motorola Position and Navigation Systems, Rockwell  Firstpoint Contact, Gordon Kapes, Inc., Studio Technologies

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RF Bioeffects and Safety

bulletSpecialize in modeling RF exposure for different EM sources for determination of RF Safety of humans
bulletFDTD and Method of Moments Code for RF modeling
bulletChair, RF Safety Committee, American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
bulletMember, IEEE Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR)
bulletReviewer, IEEE SCC-28 Electromagnetic Exposure Standard C95.1
bulletResearcher, Wireless Technology Research LLC, Cellular Telephone Industry Association (CTIA)
bulletAuthor of N9GL's RF Safety Column on the ARRL Web Page

 

  Read "RF Safety and Amateur Radio"

  Read "My Rude Introduction to Epidemiology"

 

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Electromagnetic Compatibility

bulletDesign and analysis of shielding systems for medical devices
bulletMember, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
bulletTheme Coordinator for EMC of Medical Instrumentation at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference

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Image Processing

 Experimental design and development using:

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X-Ray CT Scanners

bulletMRI Scanners
bulletSPECT Scanners
bulletX-Ray VideoAngiography
bulletUltrasound Imaging Scanners
bulletQuantitative Autoradiography with b and g emitting isotopes
bulletContrast agent kinetics
bulletMultimodality Imaging
bulletTrack chair for Physiological Imaging at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference
bulletCustom image processing programming with Matrox, Imaging Technology, DeAnza, and Comtal hardware.
 

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Manufacturing of Medical Instrumentation

bulletManagement of outsourcing for the cost-effective design and manufacture of medical electronics
bulletDevelopment of manufacturing test systems to insure reliable manufacture
bulletFDA GMP compliance during manufacture

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Software Development

bulletEmbedded software (Intel 8051; Motorola MC68302, MC68332, MC68360, MPC860T)
bulletC/C++ (UNIX C, Visual C++ with MFC and Win32)
bulletMicrochip Embedded Processors
bulletLabview
bulletFortran

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 Amateur Radio Communications

 

bulletAmateur Extra Class License, N9GL
bulletTrustee, North Shore Radio Club, NS9RC
bulletMember and Trustee, Prairie DX Group, N9PD
bulletHF DX Operations (DXCC)
bulletHF QRP Operations
bulletAntenna Design and Analysis
bulletGlobal Positioning System Packetized Communications, APRS
bulletAuthor of "Analog Signal and Components", Chapter 8 in the ARRL Handbook, American Radio Relay League, Newington, CT, 1995-1999
bulletContributor to RF Safety and You, American Radio Relay League, Newington, CT, 1998
bulletAuthor of N9GL's RF Safety Column on the ARRL Web Page

  Read "RF Safety and Amateur Radio"

 

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Baseball

 

 

 A Lifelong Fan - Still Waiting…

bulletPast Commissioner,
Deerfield Youth Baseball and Softball Association

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