Representative Publications

1. S. Sikdar, G. Diao, D. Turo, C. Stanley, A. Sharma, A. Chambliss, L. Laughrey, A. Aralar, D. Damiano, "Quantification of Muscle Tissue Properties by Modeling the Statistics of Ultrasound Image Intensities using a Mixture of Gamma Distributions in Children With and Without Cerebral Palsy." J. Ultrasound Med., 2018
2. S. Guan, J. Vignola, J. Judge, D. Turo, “Airgun inter-pulse noise field during a seismic survey in an Arctic ultra shallow marine environment.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 138, 3447-57, 2015
3. S. Guan, T.-H. Lin, L.-S. Chou, J. Vignola, J. Judge, D. Turo, “Dynamics of soundscape in a shallow water marine environment: A study of the habitat of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 137, 2939-49, 2015
4. D. Turo, P. Otto, M. Hossain, T. Gebreab, K. Armstrong, W. F. Rosenberger, H. Shao, J. P. Shah, L. H. Gerber and S. Sikdar, “Novel use of ultrasound elastography to quantify muscle tissue changes after dry needling of myofascial trigger points in patients with chronic myofascial pain.” J. Ultrasound Med., 34, 2149-61, 2015
5. D. Turo, O. Umnova, “Influence of Forchheimer's Nonlinearity and Transient Effects on Pulse Propagation in Air Saturated Rigid Granular Materials.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2013.
6. L. Gerber, S. Sikdar, K. Armstrong, G. Diao, J. Heimur, J. Kopecky, D. Turo, P. Otto, T. Gebreab, J. Shah, “A Systematic Comparison Between Subjects with No Pain and Pain Associated with Active Myofascial Trigger Points.” PM&R, 2013.
7. D. Turo, P. Otto, J. Shah, J. Hammond, T. Gebreab, M. Zaazhoa, L. Gerber, S. Sikdar, “Ultrasonic Characterization of the Upper Trapezius Muscle in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain.” Ultrasonic Imaging, 2013.
8. J. Ballyns, D. Turo, P. Otto, J. Shah, J. Hammond, T. Gebreab, L. Gerber, Siddhartha Sikdar, “Office-based Elastography Technique for Quantifying Mechanical Properties of Skeletal Muscle.” J. Ultrasound Med., 2012.
9. D. Turo, O. Umnova, “Time Domain Modelling of Sound Propagation in Porous Media and the Role of Shape Factors.” ACTA Acustica united with Acustica, 2010.
10. O. Umnova, D. Turo, “Time domain formulation of the equivalent fluid model for rigid porous media.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2009.