January 2009: Richard Lopata has won the "Best Oral Presentation Award" at the 2 nd Dutch Conference on Bio-Medical Engineering. During the conference, Richard gave the best presentation in the CardioVascular sessions resulting in a qualification for the final. In the final, he gave the best 2 minutes presentation and won the award and a cheque. Richard is working on 3D cardiac deformation imaging and developed an ultrasound based technique to determine the strain in the cardiac wall in three directions (radial, circumferential and longitudinal).
