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Marta Ferrari

Marta graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2004. She first came to the Structure and Motion Lab for a Research internship in summer 2003. At that time she worked on her final year project about three-dimensional ultrasound of equine tendons supervised by Dr. Renate Weller. She then visited some equine practices around the UK before doing an internship in the Equine Hospital at the Royal Veterinary College. In October 2005 she returned to the Structure and Motion Lab to start her PhD entitled "Dynamic conformation: the influence of conformation on equine locomotion". She was supervised by Dr. Renate Weller and Dr. Alan Wilson and sponsored by the Horserace Betting Levy Board.

Since completing her PhD, Marta has been working as at Equine Vet at the Park Veterinary Centre in Watford http://www.parkveterinary.co.uk/.

Publications

	Pfau T, Ferrari M, Parsons K, Wilson AM. A hidden Markov model based stride segmentation technique applied to equine inertial sensor trunk movement data. J Biomech. In Press.
2008	Parsons KJ, Pfau T, Ferrari M, Wilson AM. High speed gallop locomotion in the Thoroughbred racehorse II: The effect of incline on centre of mass movement and mechanical energy fluctuation. J Exp Biol. 211: 945-956.
2007	Weller R, Pfau T, Ferrari M, Griffith R, Bradford T, Wilson A. The determination of muscle volume with a freehand 3D ultrasonography system. Ultrasound Med Biol. 33: 402-407.
2006	Ferrari M, Weller R, Pfau T, Payne RC, Wilson AM. A comparison of three-dimensional ultrasound, two-dimensional ultrasound and dissections for determination of lesion volume in tendons. Ultrasound Med Biol; 32: 797-804. pdf

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