Company Profile

InstaRecon is developing and commercializing a suite of patented and patent-pending algorithms invented at the University of Illinois, which reconstruct images from 2D and 3D tomographic data 20 to 100 times faster than conventional methods for typical image sizes.  Both  software-based and hardware-based implementation are being developed.  Applications for this technology exist in medical imaging (CT, PET, SPECT, MRI), security (CT luggage scanners), and industrial manufacturing (NDE).

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Founders

Yoram Bresler (PhD)

Yoram Bresler received the B.Sc. (cum laude) and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1974 and 1981 respectively, and the Ph.D degree from Stanford University, in 1986, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1974 to 1979 he served as an electronics engineer in the Israeli Defense Force. In 1987 he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a Professor at the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, and Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory.

He has served as a consultant in autonomous TV aircraft guidance to the Flight Control Lab at the Technion, Israel, in sensor array processing to Techno Science Inc., in echo-sonography to Boston Scientific, and in tomography to Bio Imaging Research and Toshiba Corporation. He has published more than 150 journal and conference papers, including 33 papers on tomography, and is inventor on five issued US patents.

Dr. Bresler was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions for Image Processing in 1992-93, and a member of the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee in 1994-1998, and currently is on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Board and on the editorial board of Machine Vision and Applications. In 1988 and 1989 he received the Senior Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing society, and in 2002 a paper he coauthor with his student on fast algorithms for tomography received the Best Young Author Award from the same society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the recipient of a 1991 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Technion (Israel Inst. of Technology) Fellowship in 1995, and the Xerox Senior Award for Faculty Research in 1998. In 1999 he was named a ``University of Illinois Scholar,'' and was an Associate in the Center for Advanced Study in 2001-2002.

David C. Munson, Jr. (PhD)

David Munson received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering (with Distinction) from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, in 1975, and the M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1977, 1977, and 1979, respectively. From 1979 to 2003 he was with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. In 2003 he became Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

His research interests are in the general area of signal and image processing with current work focused on radar imaging, passive millimeter-wave imaging, lidar imaging, tomography, interferometry, and high-precision GPS. He has held summer positions in digital communications and speech processing, and he has served as a consultant in synthetic aperture radar to the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory. He has published more than 150 journal and conference papers, including 16 papers on tomography.

Dr. Munson has held leadership positions in the IEEE Signal Processing Society, where he has served as President and as Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. In addition, he has served as Vice-President, elected member of the Board of Governors, Chairman of the Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee, member of the Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Dr. Munson also has been active in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, where he has served as Executive Vice-President, as elected member of the Board of Governors, and as Chairman of the Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee. He recently finished a term on the IEEE History Committee and is now serving on the Editorial Board of The Proceedings of the IEEE and on the IEEE Kilby Signal Processing Medal Committee.

Dr. Munson is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. In 1990, he received the Outstanding Professor Award from the Alpha Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu. In 1995, he received the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and an Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Delaware College of Engineering. In 1998, he received the Outstanding Teaching Award from his department at the University of Illinois. He served as the Texas Instruments Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rice University in 1999. He was named an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer and he received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. In 2001, he was named the Robert C. MacClinchie Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois.