In 2022, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to speckle tracking and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging in medical ultrasound".
Trahey decided to join von Ramm's lab as a doctoral student at Duke, where he developed techniques to reduce the presence of speckle in ultrasound images.
[3] He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1985, and his thesis was titled Speckle Reduction in Ultrasonic B-mode Images via Spatial Compounding.
[5] Trahey was named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) "for outstanding contributions in developing novel methods of ultrasonic imaging" in 1999.
[6] In 2022, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to speckle tracking and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging in medical ultrasound".