{"title":"Conference info","authors":"M. Pappalardo","doi":"10.1109/icma.2016.7558986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icma.2016.7558986","url":null,"abstract":"Roma, Italy. Roma did lived up to its reputation of a city of culture and history that spans over 2000 years. Our symposium once again exceeded the expectations of the conference committee. There were 1153 attendees to the technical programs. From a pool of 371 oral and 505 poster presentations, we have published a recorded number of papers this year, 699. This is over 80 percent of the defended papers.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123513358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The growth of osteoblasts stimulated by various time duration of low intensity pulsed ultrasounds","authors":"S. Chen, Chun-Yi Chiu, Shyh-Hau Wang","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441471","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, osteoblasts (OBs) were insonated with low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) of different exposure durations to extensively investigate ultrasound exposure on the growth of cells. OBs were seeded and then were incubated for 24 hours to allow cells to be adhered on the culture plate. Subsequently, LIPUS of a fixed 100 mW/cm2 intensity from a 1 MHz and 20% duty cycle within 1 kHz pulse repetition frequency was arranged to respectively stimulate various groups of passage OBs for 3, 5, 10 and 20 minutes daily. Another experiment was also arranged using the same protocol to insonify groups of differentiation OBs for 14 days. The insonification responses for those OBs were evaluated by cell morphology, viability, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity, Alizarin red-S staining, and mRNA expression by reverse transcriptase ploymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Results showed that the proliferation of those insonified OBs for 10 minutes tended to increase to around 1.07 fold compared to cells of the control group after the fourth day of experiments. Similar tendency for the ALP activity was observed, in which the largest activity and proliferation rate of OBs were measured to be at the sixth day after insonation. The largest mineralization of OBs enhanced by LIPUS insonification also corresponded to cells insonified for 10 minutes daily. Moreover, the RT-PCR analysis revealed that those cells insonified for 10 minutes daily tended to increase 2 fold mRNA levels of osteocalcin than those of control group. This study also demonstrated that both proliferation and activation of ALP synthesis of OBs may be enhanced by LIPUS stimulation and is exposure duration dependence in which sufficient longer insonification duration brings more effective in promoting the OBs growth.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127668730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Haak, Zachary T. Hafez, Janelle J. Anderson, M. Herd, K. Nam, E. Madsen, T. Bigelow, T. Hall, W. O’Brien
{"title":"Algorithm for estimating the attenuation slope from backscattered ultrasonic signals","authors":"A. Haak, Zachary T. Hafez, Janelle J. Anderson, M. Herd, K. Nam, E. Madsen, T. Bigelow, T. Hall, W. O’Brien","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5442006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5442006","url":null,"abstract":"In vivo attenuation slope measurements usually utilize the backscattered signal from pulse/echo ultrasound. In this work the down shift of the center frequency of an emitted ultrasound pulse with penetration depth is utilized to estimate the attenuation slope. A diffraction correction of the focused ultrasound source is performed by measuring the reflection from a planar surface positioned throughout the depth of focus. A focused single element transducer with a measured center frequency of 8.2 MHz and a fractional band width of 72% was used to interrogate four tissue mimicking phantoms. The scatterers in the tissue mimicking phantoms were glass spheres embedded in a gelatin/milk matrix. In one set of the phantoms, the backscattering strength was varied; in the other set of phantoms the attenuation slope was varied. The attenuation slope (ASBS) was estimated using pulse/echo data obtained by scanning the phantoms. The “true” attenuation slope (ASThru) was obtained from two independent insertion loss measurements performed at two different laboratories. The relative error of ASBS was investigated for different regions of interest (ROI) for all phantoms. Three different axial and lateral ROI sizes were tested. It was observed that the average relative error (average over all four phantoms) changed by less than three percent when the lateral size of the ROI was decreased by seventy percent. The axial size of the ROI was changed by thirty percent whereas the average error changed by less then three percent.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130592710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Mallidi, B. Wang, M. Mehrmohammadi, M. Qu, Y.-S. Chen, P. Joshi, S. Kim, K. Homan, A. Karpiouk, R. Smalling, K. Sokolov, S. Emelianov
{"title":"Ultrasound-based imaging of nanoparticles: From molecular and cellular imaging to therapy guidance","authors":"S. Mallidi, B. Wang, M. Mehrmohammadi, M. Qu, Y.-S. Chen, P. Joshi, S. Kim, K. Homan, A. Karpiouk, R. Smalling, K. Sokolov, S. Emelianov","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441484","url":null,"abstract":"The effectiveness of an imaging technique is often based on the ability to image quantitatively both morphological and physiological functions of the tissue. Here we present several ultrasound-based imaging techniques capable of visualizing both structural and functional properties of living tissue. Each imaging system utilizes custom-made, targeted nanoparticles developed to probe specific molecular events. Therefore, images of these nanoparticles display molecular processes in the body. Furthermore, the developed nanoparticle contrast agents can also be used for image-guided molecular therapy. For each imaging system, the basic physics and principles behind each approach are described. Experimental aspects of each imaging system including fabrication of integrated imaging probes and associated imaging hardware, and design of targeted contrast agents are discussed. Finally, biomedical and clinical applications of the developed imaging approaches ranging from microscopic to macroscopic imaging of cardiovascular diseases, cancer detection, diagnosis, therapy and therapy monitoring are demonstrated and discussed.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132955621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Sugiura, K. Kooiman, M. Emmer, H. Vos, A. van Wamel, N. de Jong
{"title":"Evaluation of the binding force between a biotinylated microbubble and a streptavidin-coated surface by ultrasound radiation","authors":"T. Sugiura, K. Kooiman, M. Emmer, H. Vos, A. van Wamel, N. de Jong","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441969","url":null,"abstract":"For molecular imaging using ultrasound, targeted ultrasound contrast agents are used that consist of encapsulated gas microbubbles. For this application, the strength of adhesion between a microbubble and a cell surface is an important factor. This research focuses on the evaluation of the binding force between a streptavidin-coated surface, which mimics a cell surface, and biotinylated lipid coated microbubbles by detaching the microbubbles with ultrasound radiation force. Our results show that ultrasound radiation force can be used to determine the binding force between a targeted microbubble and a surface.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134004290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical quantification of acoustic radiation force impulse-induced dynamics in a translucent phantom","authors":"R. Bouchard, M. Palmeri, J. Streeter, P. Dayton","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441961","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamic response in a translucent tissue-mimicking phantom resulting from an acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) was investigated with optically-based methods. Embedded microspheres (10-µm diameter) were tracked axially and laterally with an optical microscope; 0.5-µm displacement resolution was achieved in both dimensions with frame rates of up to 36 kHz. Tracking was achieved before, during, and after the ARFI excitation at depths of up to 4.8 mm from the phantom's nearest material boundary. Both on- and off-axis (i.e., shear wave) results are presented; these results are then corroborated with matched finite element method (FEM) modeling results. This optically-based tracking method provides high-frame-rate, 2D tracking data, and thus it could prove fruitful in the future investigation of complex ARFI-induced dynamics in experimental settings.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134501479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Romero, Ó. Martínez-Graullera, C. J. Martin, R. Higuti, A. Octavio
{"title":"Using GPUs for beamforming acceleration on SAFT imaging","authors":"D. Romero, Ó. Martínez-Graullera, C. J. Martin, R. Higuti, A. Octavio","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441790","url":null,"abstract":"SAFT techniques are based on the sequential activation, in emission and reception, of the array elements and the post-processing of all the received signals to compose the image. Thus, the image generation can be divided into two stages: (1) the excitation and acquisition stage, where the signals received by each element or group of elements are stored; and (2) the beamforming stage, where the signals are combined together to obtain the image pixels. The use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which are programmable devices with a high level of parallelism, can accelerate the computations of the beamforming process, that usually includes different functions such as dynamic focusing, band-pass filtering, spatial filtering or envelope detection. This work shows that using GPU technology can accelerate, in more than one order of magnitude with respect to CPU implementations, the beamforming and post-processing algorithms in SAFT imaging.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114164603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Behler, M. R. Scola, T. Nichols, M. Caughey, Hongtu Zhu, C. Gallippi
{"title":"In vivo hemostasis detection at human femoral arteriotomy by ARFI ultrasound","authors":"R. Behler, M. R. Scola, T. Nichols, M. Caughey, Hongtu Zhu, C. Gallippi","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441426","url":null,"abstract":"Noninvasively monitoring hemostasis at femoral artery puncture sites (arteriotomies) could reduce complications associated with percutaneous coronary artery catheterization and reduce medical cost, yet no diagnostic imaging method is proven for this application. In a pilot clinical investigation, ARFI imaging was performed at the femoral arteriotomies of 20 patient volunteers randomized to treatment with standard of care manual compression alone or to manual compression augmented by a hemostatic dressing to expedite time to hemostasis onset. Average ARFIderived times to hemostasis in patient volunteers treated with manual compression alone (n=10) and manual compression augmented by hemostatic dressing (n=9) were, respectively, 13.00 ± 1.56 and 9.44 ± 3.09 min (p ≤ 0.0065, Wilcoxon). ARFI-induced displacements were observed to be larger at arteriotomies and in extravasated blood pools. These data suggest that ARFI imaging is capable of noninvasively monitoring hemostasis onset at femoral arteriotomies.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129597514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualization of flexural wave propagation in helical coiled ultrasonic waveguide","authors":"R. Tanaka, M. Tanabe, K. Okubo, N. Tagawa","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441715","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed a traveling-wave-type miniature ultrasonic motor using a helical coiled waveguide as a stator. In this motor, the elliptical motion of the surface particle due to the flexural ultrasonic waves rotates the rotor, which can be placed adjacently inside or outside the stator, via the frictional force. The rotation of the particle was able to be confirmed like this by searching for the direction of the rotation and the rotation phase in detail. In this study, we present a visualization of the helical coiled waveguide in order to investigate the overall behavior of the coil when the ultrasound has been propagated. Moreover, from the results of the overall behavior of the coal, the local behavior could be confirmed.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126852547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Bernassau, T. Button, Kyusun Choi, S. Cochran, C. Démoré, L. Garcia-Gancedo, D. Hutson, T. Jackson, Hyunsoo Kim, Insoo Kim, C. Meggs, S. Trolier-McKinstry, R. Tutwiler
{"title":"Operation of a high frequency piezoelectric ultrasound array with an application specific integrated circuit","authors":"A. Bernassau, T. Button, Kyusun Choi, S. Cochran, C. Démoré, L. Garcia-Gancedo, D. Hutson, T. Jackson, Hyunsoo Kim, Insoo Kim, C. Meggs, S. Trolier-McKinstry, R. Tutwiler","doi":"10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441707","url":null,"abstract":"Integration of a piezoelectric high frequency ultrasound (HFUS) array with a microfabricated application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) performing a range of functions has several advantages for ultrasound imaging. The number of signal cables between the array/electronics and the data acquisition / imaging system can be reduced, cutting costs and increasing functionality. Electrical impedance matching is also simplified and the same approach can reduce overall system dimensions for applications such as endoscopic ultrasound. The work reported in this paper demonstrates early ASIC operation with a piezocomposite HFUS array operating at approximately 30 MHz. The array was tested in three different modes. Clear signals were seen in catch-mode, with an external transducer as a source of ultrasound, and in pitch-mode with the external transducer as a receiver. Pitch-catch mode was also tested successfully, using sequential excitation on three array elements, and viable signals were detected. However, these were relatively small and affected by interference from mixed-signal sources in the ASIC. Nevertheless, the functionality and compatibility of the two main components of an integrated HFUS - ASIC device have been demonstrated and the means of further optimization are evident.","PeriodicalId":368182,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128374465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}