Dr. Tyler S. Ralston
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Tyler Ralston, Ph.D. is an engineering entrepreneur who has founded a number of companies and dedicated his career to finding solutions for patient care and early detection of disease. Leveraging his deep knowledge in imaging technologies, Tyler has helped drive the technical developments as CTO at ONI, with super-resolution microscopy; Butterfly Network, with handheld ultrasound-on-chip imaging devices; Hyperfine, with a breakthrough portable MRI machine; as well as Tesseract Health, with portable retinal imaging systems. As an early founder, he has been instrumental in raising more than $500+M in investment from seed through to going public (BFLY/HYPR). These medical innovations garnered prolific awards and recognition, such as the front page of New York Times, Time – Best Inventions, Apple Design, Fast Co., Fortune, RSNA, CES, SxSW, and more. Prior to these accomplishments, he has been at Battelle, developing several R&D 100 award-winning instruments, including an automated microscope to detect cancer cells in pap tests, a gamma-ray detection console for surgical guidance, and an automated white blood cell analysis microscope. Tyler continued his work across multiple modalities at Beckman Institute, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he developed technologies and drove projects in 3D optical coherence tomography, multi-static 3D radar, 3D electro optic, and 3D gamma ray imaging. Tyler is an author and/or co-author of 100+ patents, 50+ papers with 5400+ citations, 3 book contributions with 42 presentations at international conferences, and 20+ invited presentations. Tyler received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he developed Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy (ISAM), real-time phase-stable computational optical coherence tomography systems for cancer tissue surveillance.
Publications (10)

SPIE Journal Paper | 1 July 2008 Open Access
JBO, Vol. 13, Issue 04, 044013, (July 2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.2960018
KEYWORDS: Computer architecture, Optical coherence microscopy, Optical coherence tomography, Image processing, Fourier transforms, Spectroscopy, Confocal microscopy, Biomedical optics, Objectives, Microscopes

Proceedings Article | 22 February 2008 Paper
Proceedings Volume 6864, 686407 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.763390
KEYWORDS: Optical coherence tomography, Tissues, Synthetic aperture radar, Interferometry, Image processing, Signal processing, Synthetic aperture microscopy, Spatial frequencies, Tissue optics, Light scattering

Proceedings Article | 15 February 2007 Paper
Proceedings Volume 6446, 644608 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.699285
KEYWORDS: Optical coherence tomography, Inverse scattering, Fourier transforms, Scattering, Tissues, Real-time computing, Spatial frequencies, Gaussian beams, Quantum efficiency, Convolution

Proceedings Article | 7 February 2007 Paper
Proceedings Volume 6429, 64291X (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.702649
KEYWORDS: Magnetism, Nanoparticles, Optical coherence tomography, Modulation, Tissues, Tissue optics, Phase shift keying, Data acquisition, Cameras, Light scattering

Proceedings Article | 7 February 2007 Paper
Proceedings Volume 6429, 64291R (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.703372
KEYWORDS: Optical coherence tomography, Telescopes, Fourier transforms, Beam splitters, Objectives, Inverse scattering, Signal detection, Diffraction, Image resolution, Data acquisition

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