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CFP12ULT-POD 978-1-4673-4561-3

2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium

Dresden, Germany 7 - 10 October 2012

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

AN AUTOMATED BREAST ULTRASOUND SYSTEM FOR ELASTOGRAPHY ...................................................... 1R. Azar, C. Leung, T. Chen, K. Dickie

3D SHEAR WAVE IMAGING OF ANISOTROPIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MUSCLE USING A 2D MATRIX ARRAY TRANSDUCER.............................................................................................................. 5

M. Wang, B. Byram, M. Palmeri, N. Rouze, K. Nightingale

DETECTION OF THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF CORNEA TISSUE BY HIGH RESOLUTION ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMAGING.................................................................................................................. 9

C. Shih, C. Huang

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE INDUCED RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY (ARFIRE): A NEW METHOD TO CHARACTERIZE BLOOD CLOT VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES ...................................... 13

E. Montagnon, J. Tripette, E. Mfoumou, G. Cloutier

SHOULD THE MECHANICAL INDEX BE REVISED FOR ARFI IMAGING? ........................................................ 17C. Church, C. Labuda, K. Nightingale

ULTRASONIC STIMULATION OF SINGLE BOVINE AORTIC ENDOTHELIAL CELLS AT 1GHZ .................................................................................................................................................................................... 21

C. Lee, T. Kim, J. Lee, J. Hwang, A. Jakob, R. Lemor, Y. Wang, K. Shung

PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING USING A 9F MICROLINEAR CMUT ICE CATHETER ....................................... 24A. Nikoozadeh, J. Choe, S. Kothapalli, A. Moini, S. Sanjani, A. Kamaya, O. Oralkan, S. Gambhir, P. Khuri-Yakub

PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING OF BREAST MICROCALCIFICATIONS: A VALIDATION STUDY WITH 3-DIMENSIONAL EX VIVO DATA ...................................................................................................... 28

J. Kang, E. Kim, T. Song, J. Chang

AUTOMATIC LIPID DETECTION IN HUMAN CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS USING SPECTROSCOPIC INTRAVASCULAR PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING .................................................................. 32

K. Jansen, A. Steen, H. Beusekom, G. Springeling, M. Wu, F. Mastik, G. Soest

2D TRANSMISSION IMAGING WITH A CROSSED-ARRAY CONFIGURATION FOR DEFECT DETECTION ....................................................................................................................................................................... 36

A. Koch, S. Gruber, T. Scharrer, K. Fendt, R. Lerch, H. Ermert

AUTOMATED ULTRASONIC SCANNING SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SAFT IMAGING OF CONCRETE ELEMENTS USING AN ELECTRONICALLY SWITCHED TRANSDUCER ARRAY .................................................................................................................................................... 40

M. Schickert

IMPROVEMENT OF THE RESOLUTION LIMIT CAUSED BY THE WIDTH OF THE SOUND BEAM ................................................................................................................................................................................... 44

S. Kummirtz, M. Wolf, E. Kuhnicke

VISUALIZATION OF NONLINEAR SAW DISPLACEMENTS IN RESONATORS INDUCED BY NONLINEAR ELASTICITY ............................................................................................................................................. 48

S. Inoue, S. Matsuda, J. Tsutsumi, M. Ueda, Y. Satoh, S. Mitobe

LASER PROBING OF NONLINEARITIES IN MEMS RESONATORS ..................................................................... 52L. Lipiainen, A. Jaakkola, K. Kokkonen, M. Kaivola

A NONLINEAR MASON MODEL FOR 3RD ORDER HARMONIC AND INTERMODULATION SIMULATIONS OF SAW DUPLEXERS ......................................................................................................................... 56

L. Chen, M. Solal, J. Briot, S. Hester, D. Malocha, P. Wahid

A NONLINEAR P MATRIX MODEL TO SIMULATE INTERMODULATION PRODUCTS IN SAW DEVICES ................................................................................................................................................................... 61

M. Solal, L. Chen, J. Gratier, S. Hester

UNBALANCED DEVICE COMPRISED OF FBAR RESONATORS ........................................................................... 71D. Feld, S. Fouladi, P. Bradley, J. Larson, R. Ruby

DESIGN AND TEST OF A FULLY CONTROLLABLE 64X128 2-D CMUT ARRAY INTEGRATED WITH RECONFIGURABLE FRONT-END ASICS FOR VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND IMAGING ............................................................................................................................................................................ 77

B. Kim, Y. Kim, S. Lee, K. Cho, J. Song

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF CMUTS IN DUAL MODALITY IMAGING/HIFU APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................................................. 81

C. Meynier, Y. Yanamer, M. Canney, A. Nguyen-Dinh, A. Carpentier, J. Chapelon

TRANSMIT OPTIMIZATION OF CMUTS IN NON-COLLAPSE MODE USING A TRANSIENT ARRAY MODEL................................................................................................................................................................. 85

S. Satir, J. Zahorian, F. Degertekin

LONG-TERM MEASUREMENT RESULTS OF PRE-CHARGED CMUTS WITH ZERO EXTERNAL BIAS OPERATION ...................................................................................................................................... 89

M. Ho, M. Kupnik, K. Park, B. Khuri-Yakub

WIDE PRESSURE RANGE OPERATION OF AIR-COUPLED CMUTS.................................................................... 93M. Ho, M. Kupnik, K. Park, K. Eckhoff, B. Khuri-Yakub

COMPARISON OF CONCURRENTLY ACQUIRED IN VIVO 3D ARFI AND SWEI IMAGES OF THE PROSTATE ................................................................................................................................................................ 97

S. Rosenzweig, M. Palmeri, N. Rouze, S. Lipman, E. Kullbacki, J. Madden, T. Polascik, K. Nightingale

CHARACTERIZING EXPANSION AND STIFFENING OF THE CANINE LIVER WITH INCREASING HEPATIC PRESSURE ........................................................................................................................... 101

V. Rotemberg, B. Byram, M. Wang, M. Palmeri, K. Nightingale

MEASURING BLADDER ELASTICITY USING ULTRASOUND............................................................................. 105I. Nenadic, B. Qiang, M. Urban, A. Nabavizadeh, J. Greenleaf, M. Fatemi

MULTIPLE ISOPLANATIC PATCH PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTION IN REAL-TIME 3D TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND ................................................................................................................................ 109

B. Lindsey, S. Smith

COMPARISON OF 3D SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING AND EXPLOSOSCAN USING PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS ..................................................................................................................................... 113

M. Rasmussen, G. Ferin, R. Dufait, J. Jensen

EFFICIENT STRATEGIES FOR ESTIMATING SPATIAL COHERENCE ON MATRIX PROBES ................... 117D. Hyun, G. Trahey, J. Dahl

IMPLEMENTATION OF TISSUE HARMONIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING ON A COMMERCIAL ULTRASOUND SYSTEM .................................................................................................................. 121

J. Rasmussen, M. Hemmsen, S. Madsen, P. Hansen, M. Nielsen, J. Jensen

FUSION OF 3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC AND CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE VOLUMES ......................................................................................................................................................................... 126

G. Kiss, A. Thorstensen, B. Amundsen, P. Claus, J. D'hooge, H. Torp

IN-VIVO RESULTS FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS DIAGNOSIS WITH A 360° PULSE-ECHO IMAGING SYSTEM ......................................................................................................................................................... 134

A. Koch, S. Finzel, A. Kobler, G. Schett, R. Lerch, H. Ermert

3D RECONSTRUCTION AND IMAGE FUSION USING TRANSURETHAL ULTRASOUND ............................. 138S. Natarajan, M. Culjat, R. Singh, D. Ennis, L. Marks, W. Grundfest

THREE DIMENSIONAL FULL-WAVE NONLINEAR ACOUSTIC SIMULATIONS OF ULTRASOUND IMAGING AND THERAPY IN THE ENTIRE HUMAN BODY .................................................... 142

G. Pinton

TOUCHLESS 3D GESTURAL INTERFACE USING CODED ULTRASOUNDS .................................................... 146R. Carotenuto, P. Tripodi

HIGH-RESOLUTION ULTRASONIC GESTURE TRACKING SYSTEMS FOR FUTURE PORTABLE DEVICES..................................................................................................................................................... 150

T. Dahl, J. Ealo, J. Pazos-Ospina, C. Syversrud, T. Kavli, H. Bang

COMPRESSIVE SENSING WITH WARPED FREQUENCY MODELS IN LAMB WAVES DAMAGE DETECTION PROCEDURES ...................................................................................................................... 154

A. Perelli, T. Ianni, L. Marchi, N. Testoni, N. Speciale

ACCURATE SPARSE RECOVERY OF GUIDED WAVE CHARACTERISTICS FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING.................................................................................................................... 158

J. Harley, A. Schmidt, J. Moura

A NOVEL ALGORITHM FOR DOPPLER IMAGING BASED ON WAVELET ANALYSIS................................. 162Y. Maeda, M. Sugimoto, H. Hashizume

A NEW NONLINEAR COUPLING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL AND ITS HARMONIC OVERTONE THICKNESS SHEAR MODES FOR IMPROVEMENT OF RESONATOR Q .................................. 170

Y. Yong

HYDRAULIC FRACTURE INDUCED CHANGES IN BOREHOLE MODAL DISPERSIONS ............................. 174T. Lei, B. Sinha

NONINVASIVE, LOCALLY RESOLVED TEMPERATURE MONITORING VIA SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF SOUND VELOCITY AND DISTANCE .................................................. 178

M. Wolf, E. Kuhnicke, M. Lenz, M. Bock

POLYCRYSTALLINE PZT FILM ON POROUS TI SUBSTRATE SYNTHESIZED BY ULTRASONIC ASSISTED HYDROTHERMAL METHOD ....................................................................................... 186

K. Ohta, G. Isobe, P. Bornmann, T. Hemsel, T. Morita

PIEZOELECTRIC APPLICATIONS OF HYDROTHERMAL LEAD-FREE (K0.48 NA0.52)NBO3 CERAMICS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 194

T. Maeda, P. Bornmann, T. Hemsel, T. Morita

REAL-TIME ELASTOGRAPHY-BASED MONITORING OF HISTOTRIPSY TISSUE FRACTIONATION USING COLOR DOPPLER .......................................................................................................... 196

R. Miller, A. Maxwell, T. Wang, J. Fowlkes, C. Cain, Z. Xu

MULTI-BAND CONFIDENCE PROCESSING FOR TWO-PASS SPECKLE TRACKING.................................... 200E. Wong, M. O'Donnell, C. Compas, B. Lin, A. Sinusas, J. Duncan

ADAPTIVE ULTRASONIC DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION FOR ELASTIC SHOCK WAVES IN SOFT SOLIDS ................................................................................................................................................................... 204

G. Pinton, J. Gennisson, M. Tanter, F. Coulouvrat

A HARMONIC TRACKING METHOD FOR ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE (ARFI) IMAGING .......................................................................................................................................................................... 208

J. Doherty, J. Dahl, G. Trahey

MEASURING ELASTICITY AND VISCOSITY USING THE OUT-OF-PLANE SHEAR WAVE ......................... 212H. Zhao, B. Qiang, C. Amador, P. Song, M. Urban, R. Kinnick, J. Greenleaf, S. Chen

IN UTERO, HIGH-FRAME-RATE MOUSE EMBRYO CARDIOVASCULAR RETROSPECTIVE IMAGING USING 40 MHZ ANNULAR ARRAY AND DOPPLER-DERIVED SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS ................................................................................................................................... 216

E. Filoux, O. Aristizabal, D. Turnbull

FULLY AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF THE OPEN MITRAL VALVE IN 3D TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES USING MULTI-ATLAS LABEL FUSION AND DEFORMABLE MEDIAL MODELING............................................................................................... 220

A. Pouch, H. Wang, P. Yushkevich, M. Takabe, B. Jackson, J. Gorman, R. Gorman, C. Sehgal

B-SPLINE EXPLICIT ACTIVE TRACKING OF SURFACES (BEATS): APPLICATION TO REAL-TIME 3D SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING OF THE LEFT VENTRICLE IN 3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................................................ 224

D. Barbosa, O. Bernard, B. Heyde, T. Dietenbeck, H. Houle, D. Friboulet, J. D'hooge

PLANE WAVE IMAGING FOR CARDIAC MOTION ESTIMATION AT HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION: A FEASIBILITY STUDY IN-VIVO................................................................................................... 228

L. Tong, J. Hamilton, R. Jasaityte, M. Cikes, G. Sutherland, J. D'hooge

QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES AND IMPROVEMENTS TO DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASONIC IMAGING ............................................................................................................................................... 232

M. Oelze

QUANTIFICATION OF STABLE CAVITATION DOSE DURING FUS-INDUCED BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER OPENING IN MICE AND IN NON-HUMAN PRIMATES ....................................................................... 244

Y. Tung, S. Wu, F. Marquet, E. Konofagou

ULTRASONIC SCATTERING FROM COMPLEX CRACK MORPHOLOGY FEATURES ................................. 248J. Blackshire

STUDY ON NON CONTACT ACOUSTIC IMAGING METHOD FOR CONCRETE DEFECT DETECTION: STUDY OF THE DEFECT DETECTION USING THE REALISTIC CRACK MODEL AND THE ANGLE DEPENDENCE ................................................................................................................ 252

R. Akamatsu, T. Sugimoto, N. Utagawa, K. Katakura

A FULL-FIELD MECHANICAL PROPERTY MAPPING RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM WITH QUANTITATIVE LASER ULTRASOUND VISUALIZATION SYSTEM..................................................... 257

C. Wu, S. Tseng, C. Yang

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ULTRASONIC WAVE PROPAGATION FOR AUSTENITIC AND DISSIMILAR WELDS...................................................................................................................................................... 261

B. Kohler, M. Barth, F. Schubert

MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION FOR ZIRCALOY CLADDINGS IN ELEVATED TEMPERATURES USING A LASER ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUE....................................................................... 265

C. Yeh, C. Yang

USING LASER INDUCED SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES TO CHARACTERIZE THIN FILMS AND MATERIAL SURFACES........................................................................................................................................ 269

D. Schneider

MICRO THERMAL ACTUATOR AIDED MICRO ULTRASONIC MOTOR ACTUATION ................................ 273S. Piratla, A. Lal

AN EFFICIENT SIMULATION TECHNIQUE FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY PIEZOELECTRIC INERTIA MOTORS ......................................................................................................................................................... 277

M. Hunstig, T. Hemsel, W. Sextro

DROPLETS GENERATION IN THE FLOWING AMBIENT LIQUID BY USING AN ULTRASONIC TORSIONAL TRANSDUCER ............................................................................................................. 281

T. Murakami, Y. Tominaga, T. Kanda, K. Suzumori

DETERMINATION OF THE ACOUSTIC NONLINEARITY PARAMETER IN LIQUID WATER UP TO 250o C AND 14 MPA............................................................................................................................................. 285

B. Sturtevant, C. Pantea, D. Sinha

RESONANT BODY TRANSISTORS IN STANDARD CMOS TECHNOLOGY ....................................................... 289R. Marathe, W. Wang, Z. Mahmood, L. Daniel, D. Weinstein

LITHIUM NIOBATE SAW DEVICE HETERO-TRANSFERRED ONTO SILICON INTEGRATED CIRCUIT USING ELASTIC AND STICKY BUMPS ................................................................................................... 295

S. Tanaka, M. Yoshida, H. Hirano, M. Esashi

IMPACT OF METAL ELECTRODES ON THE FIGURE OF MERIT (Kt2-Q) AND SPURIOUS

MODES OF CONTOUR MODE ALN RESONATORS ................................................................................................ 299J. Segovia-Fernandez, N. Kuo, G. Piazza

THIN-FILM LITHIUM NIOBATE CONTOUR-MODE RESONATORS .................................................................. 303R. Wang, S. Bhave, K. Bhattacharjee

PARAMETRIC STUDY OF THIN-FILM ZERO-GROUP VELOCITY RESONATORS (ZGVR) ......................... 307V. Yantchev, L. Arapan, I. Ivanov, I. Uzunov, I. Katardjiev, V. Plessky

IMPROVED 3-D RECONSTRUCTION OF VASCULAR FLOW BASED ON PLANE WAVE IMAGING .......................................................................................................................................................................... 311

D. Iversen, F. Lindseth, H. Torp, L. Lovstakken

METHOD FOR ESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY IN INDIVIDUAL VECTOR-FLOW-MAPPING MEASUREMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................... 315

T. Tanaka, R. Asami, K. Kawabata, K. Hashiba, T. Okada

TWO-DIMENSIONAL BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING APPARENT SPECKLE PATTERN ANGLE DEPENDENCE ON SCAN VELOCITY................................................................... 319

T. Xu, G. Bashford

HIGH FRAMERATE VECTOR VELOCITY BLOOD FLOW IMAGING USING A SINGLE PLANEWAVE TRANSMISSION ANGLE..................................................................................................................... 323

J. Flynn, R. Daigle, L. Pflugrath, P. Kaczkowski

EVALUATION OF CROSS-BEAM VECTOR DOPPLER ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS FOR ACCURATE 3-D VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS....................................................................................................... 326

B. Hussain, E. Wong, B. Yiu, A. Yu, T. Poepping

VECTOR FLOW MAPPING USING PLANE WAVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING.................................................. 330S. Dort, S. Muth, A. Swillens, P. Segers, G. Cloutier, D. Garcia

2D TRACKING DOPPLER: A NEW METHOD TO LIMIT SPECTRAL BROADENING IN PULSED WAVE DOPPLER ............................................................................................................................................ 334

T. Fredriksen, I. Ekroll, L. Lovstakken, H. Torp

REAL-TIME VECTOR VELOCITY PROFILE MEASUREMENT BASED ON PLANE WAVE TRANSMISSION .............................................................................................................................................................. 338

L. Bassi, S. Ricci, P. Tortoli

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF BLOOD VELOCITY VECTOR ESTIMATION USING THREE TYPES OF TRANSDUCER ........................................................................................................................................................... 346

H. Lim, H. Shim, Y. Kim, B. Cheon

ULTRASONICALLY ENABLED NEURAL PROBES WITH CO-LOCATED ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL TRANSDUCTION ................................................................................................................................ 350

P. Chen, C. Clark, C. Schaffer, R. Gilmour, A. Lal

AUTOMATED 2D ULTRASOUND FUSION IMAGING OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS.................. 354R. Lopata, S. Meesters, V. Nguyen, G. Schurink, F. Vosse

TRANSMISSION OF 100-MHZ-RANGE ULTRASOUND THROUGH A FUSED QUARTZ FIBER.................... 358T. Irie, T. Hasegawa, M. Sato, N. Tagawa, M. Tanabe, M. Yoshizawa, T. Iijima, T. Moriya, K. Itoh

FEATURING TECHNIQUE OF PARTICULAR PROTEINS FOR BRAIN TISSUE USING ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MICROSCOPE .................................................................................................................. 362

S. Yoshida, Y. Shioki, R. Minowa, N. Hozumi, K. Kobayashi, N. Hozumi

SPECULAR SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION FROM MULTI-ANGLE INTERROGATION (SRMI) USING A PISTON-ARRAY-BASED TRANSDUCER FOR ENHANCED BONE DELINEATION ........................ 366

F. Mauldin, K. Owen, J. Hossack

TISSUE HARMONIC COMPOUNDED IMAGING WITH DUAL-FREQUENCY CHIRP EXCITATION ................................................................................................................................................................... 370

C. Lin, C. Shen

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION OF MEMBRANE HYDROPHONES UP TO 40 MHZ IN ULTRASONIC FAR-FIELD ............................................................................................................................................ 374

Y. Matsuda, M. Yoshioka, T. Uchida, T. Kikuchi

TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING BASED ON AMPLITUDE MODULATION BY CONTROLLING NUMBER OF DRIVING ELEMENTS ........................................................................................................................... 378

C. Ishihara, H. Tanaka, K. Hashiba

OPTIMIZING SYNTHETIC APERTURE COMPOUND IMAGING......................................................................... 382J. Hansen, J. Jensen

NONLINEAR RECONSTRUCTION OF DENSITY AND COMPRESSIBILITY VARIATIONS USING THE KAZMARCZ METHOD............................................................................................................................ 386

L. Salehi, G. Schmitz

THE EFFECT OF RESONANCE ON TRANSIENT MICROBUBBLE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL OBSERVATIONS. ................................................................................... 390

D. Thomas, M. Butler, P. Looney, N. Pelekasis, V. Sboros

NONLINEAR RESONANCE BEHAVIOUR AND SHELL PROPERTY ESTIMATES FROM INDIVIDUAL MICROBUBBLES IN THE 4-13 MHZ RANGE ASSESSED WITH LOW AMPLITUDE ACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY .............................................................................................................. 394

B. Helfield, D. Goertz

INFLUENCE OF SHELL-THICKNESS-TO-RADIUS-RATIO ON BUCKLING AND RUPTURE OF POLYMER-SHELLED ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS ................................................................................ 398

S. Koppolu, P. Chitnis, J. Allen

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE OSCILLATIONS OF SINGLE ISOLATED MICROBUBBLES: OCCURRENCE OF HIGHER ORDER SUBHARMONICS ................................ 402

A. Sojahrood, R. Karshafian, M. Kolios

COMPARISON OF MICROBUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OBTAINED BY PULSE ACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY AND DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING ...................................................................................... 406

O. Zozulya, G. Maximov, I. Pelivanov

NAKAGAMI MODEL OF SCATTERING IN ULTRASOUND CONTRAST MEDIA ............................................. 410R. Kolar, R. Jirik, V. Harabis

THE ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES COMPARISON OF LIPID MICROBUBBLES AT HIGH ULTRASOUND FREQUENCIES.................................................................................................................................... 413

C. Sun, V. Sboros, M. Butler, C. Moran

INFLUENCE OF MICROBUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION ON POSTEXCITATION THRESHOLDS FOR SINGLE ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT USING DOUBLE PASSIVE CAVITATION DETECTION .......................................................................................................................................... 417

M. Gauthier, D. King, W. O'Brien

MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOPARTICLES FOR DRUG DELIVERY AND IMAGING: EFFECT OF ULTRASOUND ON CELLULAR UPTAKE AND TUMOR TISSUE DISTRIBUTION..................................... 421

M. Afadzi, S. Eggen, Y. Morch, P. Stenstad, R. Hansen, B. Angelsen, C. Davies

ULTRASONIC DRUG RELEASE: IMPACT ON LIPOSOMAL DOXORUBICIN IN COLLAGEN GELS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 425

Y. Hansen, C. Davies, M. Afadzi, B. Angelsen, T. Johansen, E. Nilssen

TARGETED MOLECULAR ULTRASOUND THERAPY IMPROVES CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC DRUG DELIVERY IN CANCER CELLS ...................................................................................................................... 429

A. Sorace, R. Saini, M. Mahoney, K. Hoyt

ULTRASOUND THERAPY AMPLIFIES CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC EFFECTIVENESS IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER ...................................................................................................................................................... 433

A. Sorace, J. Knowles, C. Heath, E. Rosenthal, K. Hoyt

ULTRASOUND MEDIATED DELIVERY OF LIPOSOMAL DOXORUBICIN IN TUMOR TISSUE................... 436S. Eggen, M. Afadzi, E. Nilssen, S. Haugstad, B. Angelsen, C. Davies

THE APPLICATION OF ULTRASOUND ENHANCED LOCAL DRUG DELIVERY WITH ALBUMIN MICROBUBBLES IN THE INNER EAR SYSTEM.................................................................................. 440

A. Liao, Z. Shi, Y. Shih, H. Chuang, C. Wang

COMBINED USE OF FOCUSED ULTRASOUND AND TARGETING MICROBUBBLES TO ENHANCED THERAPEUTIC EGFR ANTIBODY DELIVERY: OBSERVATIONS FROM SMALL-ANIMAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING ............................................................................................................................ 444

H. Chou, Y. Hsiao, H. Su, C. Chien, Y. Hsieh, A. Liao, H. Liu

ACOUSTIC DROPLET VAPORIZATION-INDUCED CELLULAR SONOPORATION........................................ 448M. Adan, M. Fabiilli, C. Wilson, O. Kripfgans

WAVELET DENOISING OF ULTRASONIC A-SCANS BY RANDOM PARTIAL CYCLE SPINNING.......................................................................................................................................................................... 455

J. Emeterio, M. Rodriguez-Hernandez

PRE-DISTORTED AMPLITUDE MODULATED (PDAM) CHIRPS FOR TRANSDUCER COMPENSATION IN HARMONIC IMAGING ........................................................................................................... 459

P. Smith, S. Harput, D. Cowell, J. Mclaughlan, S. Freear

RECONFIGURABLE ULTRASONIC SYSTEM-ON-CHIP HARDWARE (RUSH) PLATFORM FOR REAL-TIME ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................... 463

P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie

ROBUST DEFECT DETECTION IN ULTRASONIC NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (NDE) OF DIFFICULT MATERIALS........................................................................................................................................ 467

R. Gongzhang, M. Li, T. Lardner, A. Gachagan

FROM CHIRPS TO RANDOM-FM EXCITATIONS IN PULSE COMPRESSION ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 471

S. Callegari, M. Ricci, S. Caporale, M. Monticelli, M. Eroli, L. Senni, R. Rovatti, G. Setti, P. Burrascano

ADAPTIVE COMPENSATION OF NON-IDEAL TRANSMITTER RADIATION PATTERN FOR SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE 3D ACOUSTIC IMAGING ......................................................................... 475

N. Lakulrat, Y. Maeda, M. Sugimoto, H. Hashizume

ROBUST CHANGE DETECTION IN HIGHLY DYNAMIC GUIDED WAVE SIGNALS WITH SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION...................................................................................................................... 483

C. Liu, J. Harley, N. O'Donoughue, Y. Ying, M. Altschul, M. Berges, J. Garrett, D. Greve, J. Moura, I. Oppenheim, L. Soibelman

IMAGING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES VIA ACOUSTIC EXCITATION....................................... 487N. Ohno, H. Yamada, K. Ikushima, N. Niimi, Y. Kojima

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF BAW PROPAGATION IN LITHIUM TANTALATE OXIDE SINGLE CRYSTALS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF UNIAXIAL PRESSURE ........................................ 491

A. Telichko, B. Sorokin, G. Kvashnin

VIBRATION MODE IDENTIFICATION AND COUPLING ASSESSMENT WITH THE MINDLIN PLATE EQUATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS IN A QUARTZ CRYSTAL PLATE.............................................. 499

Q. Pan, J. Wang, S. Pao, M. Chao, J. Shen

CORRECTION FACTORS OF THE MINDLIN PLATE EQUATIONS FOR VIBRATIONS OF SC-CUT QUARTZ CRYSTAL PLATES .............................................................................................................................. 503

J. Wang, W. Wang, G. Chen, J. Du, T. Ma, Y. Hu

APPLICATION OF THE BLEUSTEIN-GULYAEV WAVE METHOD FOR INVESTIGATION OF HIGH-PRESSURE PHASE TRANSITIONS IN DIACYLGLYCEROL OIL ............................................................. 511

P. Kielczynski, M. Szalewski, A. Balcerzak, A. Malanowski, A. Rostocki

NONLINEAR ACOUSTIC PULSE EVOLUTION AT SOLID WEDGES .................................................................. 515E. Sokolova, P. Pupyrev, A. Lomonosov, A. Mayer, P. Hess, A. Kovalev

MODELING THREE-DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR ACOUSTIC WAVE FIELDS IN MEDIA WITH SPATIALLY VARYING COEFFICIENT OF NONLINEARITY, ATTENUATION AND SPEED OF SOUND ........................................................................................................................................................... 519

L. Demi, M. Verweij, K. Dongen

MODELLING NONLINEAR ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION IN ABSORBING MEDIA USING THE K-WAVE TOOLBOX: EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION................................................................................. 523

K. Wang, E. Teoh, J. Jaros, B. Treeby

EVALUATION OF THE THIRD ORDER NONLINEAR PARAMETER C/A FOR GLYCEROL FROM MEASUREMENTS OF ULTRASONIC VELOCITY VERSUS TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE ........................................................................................................................................................................ 527

H. Khelladi, F. Plantier, J. Daridon

DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH-ORDER LAMB WAVE MODES IN AN ALN/3C-SIC LAYERED PLATE .................................................................................................................................................... 531

C. Lin, Y. Chen, V. Felmetsger, D. Senesky, A. Pisano

HIGH-ORDER RESONANCES OF AIN-FILM RADIAL EXTENSIONAL MODE RESONATOR....................... 539A. Isobe, K. Asai

FABRICATION OF A SINGLE-CRYSTAL BRAGG MIRROR FOR SOLIDLY-MOUNTED RESONATORS AND TRANSDUCERS ......................................................................................................................... 543

T. Baron, E. Lebrasseur, S. Alzuaga, H. Wang, F. Bassignot, J. Boy, S. Ballandras, L. Couteleau

A CONSISTENT METHODOLOGY TO CHARACTERIZE BAW RESONATORS ............................................... 547E. Rocas, C. Collado, R. Aigner, J. Mateu, A. Hueltes, J. Booth

ANALYSIS ON ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING COEFFICIENTS IN ALN-BASED BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS BASED ON FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION ..................................... 551

T. Yokoyama, Y. Iwazaki, T. Nishihara, M. Ueda

WIDE BAND RESONATORS USING SH MODE OF PLATE WAVE ON LINBO3................................................. 563M. Kadota, T. Ogami, T. Kimura

SOUND FIELD SIMULATION TOOL FOR ARBITRARY RECTANGULAR TRANSDUCER ARRAY MATRICES ........................................................................................................................................................ 568

B. Kohout, L. Palacios, R. Dapp, M. Zapf, N. Ruiter

NONDESTRUCTIVE METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF PIEZOELECTRIC AND DIELECTRIC CONSTANT,, ELASTIC MODULUS AND SPECIFIC DENSITY OF THIN FILM PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVERS .............................................................................................................................. 572

J. Smits

NEW MODIFIED BUTTERWORTH VAN-DYKE MODEL FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASONIC IMAGING ............................................................................................................................................... 576

H. Choi, H. Jung, H. Yang, F. Zheng, K. Shung

AN ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SENSITIVITY OF CIRCULAR PIEZOELECTRIC MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS TO RESIDUAL STRESS................................................... 580

F. Sammoura, K. Smyth, S. Bathurst, S. Kim

ANALYTICAL-FINITE ELEMENT HYBRID MODEL FOR CMUT ARRAYS WITH ARBITRARY MEMBRANE GEOMETRY ............................................................................................................................................ 584

J. Zahorian, S. Satir, F. Degertekin

MODELLING OF CMUTS WITH ANISOTROPIC PLATES..................................................................................... 588M. Cour, T. Christiansen, J. Jensen, E. Thomsen

HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND MICROBEAM INDUCED CALCIUM ELEVATIONS IN CANCER CELLS: DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN INVASIVE AND NON-INVASIVE BREAST CANCER CELLS .............................................................................................................................................................. 596

J. Hwang, N. Lee, C. Lee, K. Lam, H. Kim, Q. Zhou, R. Chow, K. Shung

EFFECT OF LOW-INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND ON THE NANO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CHOLESTEROL-MANIPULATED CELLS................................................................................. 600

W. Lai, J. Liao, S. Wang

ENHANCEMENT OF GENE DELIVERY BY ULTRASOUND SONICATION ON PLASMID DNA PRIOR TO TRANSFECTION ......................................................................................................................................... 604

D. Park, B. Jung, J. Jang, C. Kim, J. Seo

THE INHIBITION EFFECT OF LOW-INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND ON OSTEOCLASTS PROGENITOR CELLS .................................................................................................................................................... 607

S. Chen, C. Wu, S. Wang, W. Li

SYSTEM ENERGY MODEL FOR A DIGITAL ULTRASOUND BEAMFORMER WITH IMAGE QUALITY CONTROL ..................................................................................................................................................... 615

K. Chen, B. Lam, C. Sodini, A. Chandrakasan

AN EFFECTIVE BEAMFORMING ALGORITHM FOR A GPU-BASED ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM ......................................................................................................................................................... 619

J. Kwon, J. Song, S. Bae, T. Song, Y. Yoo

NEW MOSFET-BASED EXPANDER FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS ............................. 623H. Choi, M. Kim, K. Shung

AN ULTRASOUND SYSTEM SIMULATION TOOL FOR ADVANCED FRONT-END ELECTRONICS DESIGN ................................................................................................................................................ 627

G. Matrone, M. Terenzi, A. Savoia, G. Caliano, G. Magenes, D. Ronchi, F. Quaglia

CMUT PROBE COOLING DESIGN BY THERMAL NETWORK ............................................................................ 631K. Cho, B. Kim, Y. Kim, S. Lee, J. Song

DESIGN OF A 128-CHANNEL FPGA-BASED ULTRASOUND IMAGING BEAMFORMER FOR RESEARCH ACTIVITIES............................................................................................................................................... 635

A. Assef, J. Maia, F. Schneider, E. Costa, V. Button

A POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCY ULTRASOUND: PROTOTYPE SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION ...................................................................................................................................... 647

C. Yoon, J. Kang, G. Kim, J. Chang, Y. Yoo, T. Song

ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF WHOLE TUMOR RESPONSE TO DRUG THERAPY ......................................... 651K. Hoyt, A. Sorace, R. Saini

ON THE UTILITY OF SUBHARMONIC MICROBUBBLE SIGNALS TO DETECT PORTAL HYPERTENSION ............................................................................................................................................................. 655

J. Dave, V. Halldorsdottir, J. Eisenbrey, D. Merton, J. Liu, J. Zhou, H. Wang, S. Park, S. Dianis, C. Chalek, F. Lin, K. Thomenius, D. Brown, F. Forsberg

MULTIPLE-FREQUENCY TISSUE HARMONIC BACKGROUND SUPPRESSION USING PHASE-CODED PULSE SEQUENCE............................................................................................................................ 659

H. Wang, C. Shen

AMBIENT PRESSURE DEPENDENCE OF THE SUBHARMONIC SIGNAL FROM ULTRASOUND CONTRAST MICROBUBBLES ......................................................................................................... 663

F. Li, T. Ling, C. Liu, Q. Jin, F. Cai, H. Zheng, D. Li

MODELING MICROBUBBLE PRODUCTION RATES FROM EXPANDING NOZZLE FLOW-FOCUSING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES...................................................................................................................... 667

S. Wang, A. Dhanaliwala, J. Hossack

INFLUENCES OF BUBBLE MOTION TO SECOND HARMONIC INVERSION IMAGING ............................... 675F. Lin, C. Cachard, R. Mori, J. Viti, F. Varray, F. Guidi, O. Basset

IMPLEMENTATION OF ARBITRARY CONTRAST IMAGING STRATEGIES ON AN US OPEN PLATFORM ...................................................................................................................................................................... 683

F. Guidi, R. Mori, J. Viti, N. Jong, P. Tortoli

REALTIME FLASH-DIFFERENCE ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF PHASE-CHANGE PERFLUOROCARBON NANODROPLET ACTIVATION......................................................................................... 687

A. Forbrich, T. Harrison, R. Paproski, R. Zemp

COMPUTERIZED ANALYSIS OF ULTRASOUND IMAGES: POTENTIAL ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN TEXTURE AND MOTION PROPERTIES OF THE DISEASED ARTERIAL WALL........................ 691

A. Gastounioti, S. Golemati, K. Nikita

DETECTION OF KINETIC TRAJECTORY IN THE WRIST DURING FINGERS MOTIONS USING HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND.............................................................................................................. 695

Y. Lin, M. Hsieh, J. Wu, C. Ho, S. Wang

MULTISCALE SYNTHETIC FILTERING METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT ............................................................................................................................................................. 699

H. Yoon, H. Lee, Y. Lee, H. Jung

OPTIMAL KERNEL SIZES FOR 4D IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION USING NORMALIZED CONVOLUTION FROM SPARSE FAST-ROTATING TRANSESOPHAGEAL 2D ULTRASOUND IMAGES ............................................................................................................................................................................. 703

A. Haak, S. Klein, G. Burken, N. Jong, A. Steen, J. Bosch, M. Stralen, J. Pluim

SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF SPEED OF SOUND AND SAMPLE THICKNESS UTILIZING CODED EXCITATION .............................................................................................................................. 711

S. Rupitsch, D. Glaser, R. Lerch

RELATION OF RESONANT FREQUENCY AND APPROPRIATE LINEAR PREDICTIVE ORDER FOR EVALUATING CONCRETE STRENGTH BY QUALITY FACTOR................................................ 715

R. Toh, Y. Mori, S. Motooka

SENSITIVITY STUDY OF SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR AN INVERSE WAVEGUIDE BASED APPROACH OF MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION................................................................................ 719

F. Bause, J. Rautenberg, B. Henning

BASIC STUDY OF WATER DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT IN SOIL USING SLDV: REAL TIME IMAGING OF THE VERTICAL WATER DISTRIBUTION ........................................................................... 723

Y. Nakagawa, T. Sugimoto

SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF ELASTIC MODULI, ATTENUATION, DENSITY, AND THICKNESS OF A LAYER BY ULTRASONIC SPECTROSCOPY USING POINT-FOCUS TRANSDUCER ................................................................................................................................................................. 727

X. Bai, J. Chen, B. Ju, K. Yang

LEAKAGE AND SCATTERING OF A LEAKY LAMB WAVE BY A STRUCTURAL DISCONTINUITY: ACOUSTO-OPTICS AND FEM ................................................................................................... 735

M. Kersemans, W. Paepegem, K. Abeele, J. Degrieck

LOW-LOSS GAS SENSOR FOR SENSOR NETWORK CONSISTING OF SAW RESONATORS WITH LARGE SPACES BETWEEN IDTS AND REFLECTORS .............................................................................. 739

M. Hikita, J. Hosaka

METHANOL SENSOR USING SHEAR HORIZONTAL SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES FOR DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELL .................................................................................................................... 743

J. Kondoh, S. Endo, T. Nozawa

RESEARCH ON APM DEVICE FOR LIQUID DIELECTRIC CONSTANT SENSING.......................................... 747Y. Min, C. Zhijun, Z. Min, M. Wang

INFLUENCE OF SHAPE DEMAGNETIZATION ON MAGNETOELECTRIC RESPONSE IN MAGNETOSTRICTIVE/PIEZOELECTRIC LAMINATE TRANSDUCER ............................................................. 751

Z. Wu, Y. Wen, P. Li

ACOUSTO-MICROFLUIDICS: TRAPPING AND TRANSPORTING MICROBUBBLES USING SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES ..................................................................................................................................... 755

R. O'Rorke, C. Wood, C. Walti, S. Evans, A. Davies, J. Cunningham

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE STEERING CHARACTERISTICS OF AIRBORNE ACOUSTIC VORTICES .................................................................................................................................................. 759

J. Ealo, J. Pazos-Ospina, D. Collazos-Burbano, F. Quiceno, J. Camacho

INFLUENCE OF THE TEMPERATURE AND UNIAXIAL PRESSURE ON THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF SYNTHETIC DIAMOND SINGLE CRYSTAL ............................................................................ 763

B. Sorokin, G. Kvashnin, M. Kuznetsov, S. Burkov

SOUND PRESSURE THRESHOLD OF NON-SPHERICAL OSCILLATION OF AN ATTACHED BUBBLE EVALUATED BY A LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER .......................................................................... 767

S. Morioka, M. Ueda, K. Yoshida, D. Koyama, K. Nakamura, Y. Watanabe

FLUID STRUCTURE COUPLING IN GUIDED MODES OF THIN PIPES.............................................................. 771M. Predoi, C. Petre, J. Izbicky

ULTRASONIC ASSISTED SIMULTANEOUS COMPOSITE CASTING - A FEASIBILITY STUDY .................. 775K. Saalbach, P. Freytag, K. Kerber, J. Twiefel

REACTIVE SPUTTERING OF HIGHLY C-AXIS TEXTURED TI-DOPED ALN THIN FILMS .......................... 782V. Felmetsger, M. Mikhov

STUDY ON CAVITATION SENSOR WITH HYDROTHERMALLY DEPOSITED LEAD ZIRCONATE TTITANATE FILM: EFFECT OF INTEGRATION RANGE OF BIV ON THE MEASURED RESULTS ................................................................................................................................................... 786

M. Shiiba, Y. Uemura, T. Uchida, T. Kikuchi, M. Kurosawa, S. Takeuchi

SINGLE CRYSTAL PZT THIN FILM MEMBRANE WITH HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES .................................................................................................................................................................. 792

S. Yin, J. Abergel, A. Bontempi, T. Ricart, G. Rhun, E. Defay, G. Niu, B. Vilquin, B. Gautier, Y. Robach

SUPPRESSION TECHNIQUE OF FAST-SHEAR-WAVE SPURIOUS RESPONSES IN SAW RESONATORS ON SIO2/AL/LINBO3 STRUCTURE................................................................................................... 799

J. Fujiwara, R. Goto, H. Nakamura, T. Tsurunari, H. Nakanishi, Y. Hamaoka

CUBIC FREQUENCY TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE IN PERIODIC STRUCTURES OF RECESSED ELECTRODES ON QUARTZ ................................................................................................................... 803

V. Grigorievskii, V. Plessky

COM PARAMETERS FOR THICK METAL AND PARTIALLY BURIED ELECTRODES EXTRACTED FROM A MIXED FEM/BEM NUMERICAL MODEL ....................................................................... 807

P. Dufilie, P. Ventura, F. Hecht

FEM SIMULATION OF BAW/SAW AND SAW/BAW CONVERSIONS IN GRATINGS ON THE SURFACE OF HALF-INFINITE SUBSTRATES.......................................................................................................... 811

A. Darinskii, M. Weihnacht, H. Schmidt

FAST FEM/BEM SIMULATION OF NON-PERIODIC SAW STRUCTURES ......................................................... 815K. Yabing, L. Honglang, H. Shitang

VALIDATION OF ANALYTICALLY MODELED LEAKY LAMB RADIATION USING SCHLIEREN PHOTOGRAPHY ..................................................................................................................................... 819

J. Rautenberg, S. Olfert, F. Bause, B. Henning

DERIVATION OF ACCURATE TENSOR DATA OF MATERIALS IN SAW DEVICES BY SOLVING A PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM..................................................................................... 827

G. Grunauer, M. Mayer, G. Javid, T. Ebner, K. Wagner, H. Pesch

CODED EXCITATION TECHNIQUE FOR REAL-TIME SIMULTANEOUS HIFU THERAPY AND IMAGING................................................................................................................................................................. 831

J. Jeong, J. Chang, K. Shung

DUAL-FREQUENCY ACOUSTIC CAVITATION FOR NONINVASIVELY BREAKING DOWN A CATARACTOUS LENS ................................................................................................................................................... 835

J. Jeong, R. Chen, Q. Zhou, A. Kashani, M. Humayun, K. Shung

AN OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND: FROM DESIGN OF DEVICE TO ULTRASOUND THERAPY .................................................................................. 839

M. Shim, M. Kim, H. Lee, J. Park, M. Ahn, W. Bang, S. Kim

ULTRASONIC CUTTING WITH RESONANCE TRACKING AND VIBRATION STABILIZATION ............................................................................................................................................................. 843

Y. Kuang, M. Sadiq, S. Cochran, Z. Huang

EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT WITH TEMPERATURE PARAMETERS FOR PIEZOELECTRIC SENSOR UNDER SPACE ENVIRONMENT................................................................................................................. 847

S. Lee, J. Kim, M. Kim, S. Yoo

ULTRASONIC CAVITATIONS RESEARCH IN THIN FLOWING LIQUID LAYER............................................ 855P. Vasiljev, A. Struckas, S. Borodinas, A. Rotmanas

MAPPING THE ECG IN THE LIVE RABBIT HEART USING ULTRASOUND CURRENT SOURCE DENSITY IMAGING WITH CODED EXCITATION ................................................................................ 910

Y. Qin, Q. Li, P. Ingram, R. Witte

ANALYSIS OF TUMOR MORPHOLOGY AND VASCULATURE IN AN ANIMAL MODEL OF COLORECTAL CANCER USING CONTRAST-ENHANCED ENDOLUMINAL ULTRASOUND BIOMICROSCOPY .......................................................................................................................................................... 914

R. Soletti, M. Britto, H. Borges, J. Machado

ANALYSIS OF NEOVASCULARIZATION OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC CAROTID PLAQUES IN CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND................................................................................................................... 918

Z. Akkus, A. Hoogi, J. Bosch, G. Renaud, S. Oord, G. Kate, A. Schinkel, D. Adam, N. Jong, A. Steen

ARTERIAL DIAMETER CHANGE MEASUREMENTS IN PREMATURE RABBIT PUPS USING B-MODE IMAGES............................................................................................................................................................ 922

S. Segstedt, T. Nilsson, P. Milton, S. Sveinsdottir, T. Jansson, H. Persson, D. Ley, M. Cinthio

TWO LARGE FOCAL ZONES CAN BE CREATED USING A TOROIDAL TRANSDUCER FOR INCREASING THE COAGULATED VOLUME .......................................................................................................... 929

J. Vincenot, D. Melodelima, A. Vignot, A. Kocot, F. Chavrier, J. Chapelon

NONINVASIVE ULTRASOUND TEMPERATURE IMAGING WITH FUSION ALGORITHM .......................... 933K. Choi, D. Kong, J. Park, J. Cho, H. Lee

FLEXIBLE INTEGRATION OF BOTH HIGH IMAGING RESOLUTION AND HIGH POWER ARRAYS FOR TSI............................................................................................................................................................ 941

D. Stephens, A. Mahmoud, D. Dutta, S. Lucero, K. Kim

CORRELATION BETWEEN LEUKO-ARAIOSIS AND NATURAL BRAIN TISSUE VELOCITY: A PILOT STUDY USING ULTRASOUND AND MRI.................................................................................................. 945

R. Ternifi, X. Cazals, A. Desmidt, V. Camus, J. Cottier, F. Patat, J. Remenieras

REGISTRATION OF MULTIPHOTON OPTICAL IMAGES OF CERVICAL TISSUE TO QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND DATA ..................................................................................................................... 949

L. Reusch, L. Carlson, K. Eliceiri, H. Feltovich, T. Hall

NANOCELLULOSE PRODUCTION BY ULTRASOUND-ASSISTED TEMPO OXIDATION OF KRAFT PULP ON LABORATORY AND PILOT SCALES ........................................................................................ 953

E. Loranger, K. Jradi, C. Daneault

LEAK DETECTION AND LOCATION FOR GAS PIPELINES USING ACOUSTIC EMISSION SENSORS ........................................................................................................................................................................... 957

S. Li, Y. Wen, P. Li, J. Yang, L. Yang

CHEAP OPTICAL TRANSDUCERS (CHOTS) FOR GENERATION AND DETECTION OF LONGITUDINAL WAVES .............................................................................................................................................. 961

T. Stratoudaki, M. Clark, M. Somekh, A. Arca

METALLIC NANOFILM AS RESONANCE-FREE AIRBORNE ULTRASOUND EMITTER .............................. 965M. Daschewski, A. Harrer, J. Prager, M. Kreutzbruck, U. Beck, T. Lange, M. Weise

15 GHZ SAW NANO-TRANSDUCERS USING ULTRANANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND/ALN THIN FILMS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 968

A. Dow, A. Ahmed, A. Bittner, C. Popov, U. Schmid, N. Kherani

OPTIMIZED GRADIENT-FREE PZT THIN FILMS FOR MICRO-ACTUATORS ................................................ 972J. Abergel, M. Allain, H. Michaud, M. Cueff, T. Ricart, C. Dieppedale, G. Rhun, D. Faralli, S. Fanget, E. Defay

DESIGNING CIRCULAR CMUT CELLS USING CMUT BIASING CHART.......................................................... 975H. Koymen, H. Oguz

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF CMUTS WITH PRESSURIZED CAVITIES ................................................... 979N. Apte, K. Park, B. Khuri-Yakub

ANALYSIS OF MUTUAL ACOUSTIC COUPLING IN CMUT ARRAYS USING AN ACCURATE LUMPED ELEMENT NONLINEAR EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL ................................................................ 983

H. Oguz, A. Atalar, H. Koymen

NONLINEAR EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL FOR CIRCULAR CMUTS IN UNCOLLAPSED AND COLLAPSED MODE .............................................................................................................................................. 987

E. Aydogdu, A. Ozgurluk, H. Oguz, A. Atalar, C. Kocabas, H. Koymen

ELECTRICALLY UNBIASED DRIVEN AIRBORNE CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER DESIGN ...................................................................................................................... 991

A. Unlugedik, A. Atalar, C. Kocabas, H. Oguz, H. Koymen

NON-INVASIVE CAVITATION NUCLEI TRAP FOR HISTOTRIPSY ................................................................... 995B. Raiton, J. McLaughlan, P. Smith, D. Cowell, S. Freear

IMAGE-GUIDED NON-INVASIVE ULTRASOUND LIVER ABLATION USING HISTOTRIPSY: FEASIBILITY STUDY IN AN IN VIVO PORCINE MODEL ..................................................................................... 999

E. Vlaisavljevich, Y. Kim, S. Allen, G. Owens, S. Pelletier, K. Ives, Z. Xu

TISSUE ATOMIZATION BY HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ..................................................... 1003J. Simon, O. Sapozhnikov, V. Khokhlova, Y. Wang, L. Crum, M. Bailey

A NONINVASIVE APPROACH FOR METASTATIC LYMPH NODE ABLATION USING HISTOTRIPSY TISSUE FRACTIONATION .............................................................................................................. 1007

K. Lin, T. Wang, T. Hall, C. Cain, D. Merton, F. Forsberg, B. Goldberg, J. Fowlkes

BOILING EFFECTS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF HARMONIC MOTION IMAGING FOR FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ........................................................................................................................................... 1011

F. Marquet, S. Wang, G. Hou, E. Konofagou

SINGLE MODE ANALYSIS APPEARS TO OVERESTIMATE THE ATTENUATION OF HUMAN CALCANEAL BONE BASED ON BAYESIAN-DERIVED FAST AND SLOW WAVE MODE ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1015

A. Nelson, J. Hoffman, M. Holland, J. Miller

SEPARATION OF MULTIPATH TRANSMISSION SIGNALS FOR QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENT AT BONE - A COMPARISON STUDY ........................................................... 1019

S. Dencks, G. Schmitz

DISPERSION CURVE MEASUREMENTS OF A FLUID-FILLED FEMORAL NECK-MIMICKING PHANTOM ............................................................................................................................................. 1023

P. Nauleau, Q. Grimal, J. Minonzio, C. Prada, P. Laugier

REALISATION OF ULTRASONIC DOPPLER VIBROMETER ARRAY FOR LANDMINE DETECTION ................................................................................................................................................................... 1027

K. Rajesh, R. Murali, R. Mohanachandran

ULTRASOUND NDE IMAGING THROUGH REVERBERANT LAYERS VIA SUBSPACE ANALYSIS AND PROJECTION .................................................................................................................................. 1031

R. Demirli, M. Amin, Y. Zhang

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DIRECTIVITY PATTERN FOR FAST CALCULATION OF THE SOUND FIELD OF A PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCER ........................................................................................................ 1035

U. Voelz

ULTRASONIC DEFECT DETECTION IN MULTI-MATERIAL DEVICES WITH CIRCULAR CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY USING AN IMPROVED SYNTHETIC-APERTURE-FOCUSING-TECHNIQUE (SAFT) ..................................................................................................................................................... 1039

T. Scharrer, A. Koch, K. Fendt, S. Rupitsch, A. Sutor, H. Ermert, R. Lerch

ON THE OPTIMIZATION OF PIEZOELECTRICALLY ACTUATED MEMS RESONATORS ........................ 1043A. Frangi, M. Cremonesi, A. Jaakkola, T. Pensala

MONOLITHIC FABRICATION OF FILM BULK ACOUSTIC RESONATORS ABOVE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT BY ADHESIVE-BONDING-BASED FILM TRANSFER .............................................. 1047

A. Kochhar, T. Matsumura, G. Zhang, R. Pokharel, K. Hashimoto, M. Esashi, S. Tanaka

LATERALLY VIBRATING LITHIUM NIOBATE MEMS RESONATORS WITH HIGH ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING AND QUALITY FACTOR ....................................................................... 1051

S. Gong, G. Piazza

A 586 MHZ MICROCONTROLLER COMPENSATED MEMS OSCILLATOR BASED ON OVENIZED ALUMINUM NITRIDE CONTOUR-MODE RESONATORS ............................................................. 1055

A. Tazzoli, N. Kuo, M. Rinaldi, H. Pak, D. Fry, D. Bail, D. Stevens, G. Piazza

FACE-SHEAR MODE ULTRASONIC TACTILE SENSOR ARRAY ...................................................................... 1059K. Kim, S. Zhang, J. Tian, P. Han, X. Jiang

HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING WITH A POLYIMIDE-ETALON ALL-OPTICAL ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER................................................................................................................................... 1063

C. Sheaff, S. Ashkenazi

NOVEL THIN-FILM PIEZOELECTRIC ALUMINUM NITRIDE RATE GYROSCOPE .................................... 1067F. Goericke, G. Vigevani, I. Izyumin, B. Boser, A. Pisano

MODEL BASED DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMERCIAL, ACOUSTIC FINGERPRINT SENSOR.................. 1075R. Schmitt, J. Zeichman, A. Casanova, D. Delong

THREE-DIMENSIONAL MYOCARDIAL STRAIN ESTIMATION FROM VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND DATA USING A NOVEL TRANSFORMATION MODEL ADAPTED TO THE HEART............................................................................................................................................................................. 1086

B. Heyde, D. Barbosa, R. Jasaityte, S. Bouchez, P. Wouters, F. Maes, P. Claus, J. D'hooge

MONOGENIC PHASE BASED MYOCARDIAL MOTION ANALYSIS FROM CARDIAC ULTRASOUND WITH TRANSVERSE OSCILLATIONS ........................................................................................ 1098

M. Alessandrini, H. Liebgott, D. Friboulet, O. Bernard

PERFUSION ESTIMATION USING 3D SUBHARMONIC IMAGING: AN IN VIVO STUDY ............................ 1102A. Sridharan, J. Eisenbrey, P. Machado, J. Liu, S. Park, S. Dianis, K. Wallace, K. Thomenius, F. Forsberg

4D SUBHARMONIC IMAGING IN VIVO .................................................................................................................. 1106J. Eisenbrey, A. Sridharan, P. Machado, D. Merton, J. Liu, K. Wallace, S. Park, S. Dianis, C. Chalek, K. Thomenius, F. Forsberg

OPTIMIZED HIGH FREQUENCY NONLINEAR CONTRAST IMAGING USING SELF-DEMODULATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 1110

V. Daeichin, A. Needles, I. Skachkov, K. Kooiman, J. Bosch, A. Steen, N. Jong

NONINVASIVE RIGHT VENTRICULAR PRESSURE ESTIMATION IN VIVO USING THE SUBHARMONIC EMISSIONS FROM ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS.................................................... 1114

J. Dave, V. Halldorsdottir, J. Eisenbrey, J. Raichlen, J. Liu, M. McDonald, K. Dickie, S. Wang, C. Leung, F. Forsberg

EFFECTS OF PHASE CANCELLATION ON BROADBAND ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION FOR IN VITRO HUMAN TRABECULAR BONE USING A 2-D SYNTHETIC ARRAY ...................................... 1118

J. Cheng, F. Serra-Hsu, L. Lin, W. Lin, Y. Qin

PHONONIC CRYSTAL SENSORS - INSIDES BEHIND THE SCENE ................................................................... 1126R. Lucklum

ACOUSTIC ENERGY DRIVEN FOCUS-TUNABLE LIQUID MICROLENS ARRAY FOR SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSOR APPLICATION........................................................................................... 1129

G. Feng, J. Liu

MONITORING OF HIGHLY CONCENTRATED SUSPENSIONS BY ULTRASONIC SCATTERING................................................................................................................................................................. 1133

S. Wockel, R. Weser, U. Hempel, B. Wessely, J. Auge

MEASUREMENT AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF ULTRASOUND PARAMETERS FOR QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF LIQUIDS ........................................................................................ 1137

M. Vogt, S. Langener, J. Kunze, T. Musch, H. Ermert

NON - PERTURBING CAVITATION DETECTION / MONITORING IN SONOCHEMICAL REACTORS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1141

P. Bornmann, T. Hemsel, W. Sextro, T. Maeda, T. Morita

X-SHAPED PHONONIC CYRSTALS FOR SIDE LOBE REDUCTION IN ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY SLANTED FINGER INTER-DIGITATED ALUMINUM NITRIDE LAMB WAVE TRANSDUCERS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1145

N. Kuo, G. Piazza

AN AXIAL ARRAY FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND................................. 1153E. Alles, G. Dijk, A. Steen, A. Gisolf, K. Dongen

DEVELOPMENT OF A STENT-PLACED INTRAVASCULAR DOPPLER FLOWSENSOR.............................. 1157D. Vilkomerson, T. Chilipka, J. Bogan

DESIGN OF A SPARSE SUB-ARRAY FOR FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY OF LARGE TUMORS.......................................................................................................................................................................... 1165

H. Lee, M. Shim, M. Ahn, W. Bang, S. Lee

SILICON MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS WITH IMPROVED POWER TRANSFER FOR CUTTING APPLICATIONS .......................................................................................................... 1169

F. Friedrich, R. Lockhart, D. Briand, D. Isarakorn, P. Margairaz, J. Sandoz, J. Brossard, H. Keppner, W. Olson, T. Dietz, N. Rooij, J. Burger

HIGH FRAME RATE ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF HUMAN CAROTID ARTERY DYNAMICS.................. 1177P. Kruizinga, F. Mastik, N. Jong, A. Steen, G. Soest

REAL TIME US-TAGGING COMBINED WITH PHASE-BASED OPTICAL FLOW APPLIED TO 2D MOTION ESTIMATION OF THE CAROTID ARTERY WALL ....................................................................... 1185

S. Salles, G. Zahnd, H. Liebgott, A. Serusclat, D. Vray

A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR EFFECTIVE THERMAL STRAIN IMAGING IN ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES BY REDUCING LARGE CARDIAC MOTION INDUCED ARTIFACTS .................................................................................................................................................................... 1189

D. Dutta, A. Mahmoud, K. Kim

DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGHER ORDER NONLINEARITIES IN THE OSCILLATIONS OF DEFINITY UNDERGOING BUCKLING AT HIGHER FREQUENCIES AND VERY LOW ACOUSTIC PRESSURES ....................................................................................................................... 1193

A. Sojahrood, R. Karshafian, M. Kolios

REPEATABLE VAPORIZATION OF OPTICALLY VAPORIZABLE PERFLUOROCARBON DROPLETS FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC CONTRAST ENHANCED IMAGING ...................................................... 1200

R. Asami, K. Kawabata

BROADBAND THERMOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY OF SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES .................................................................................................................................................................. 1204

D. Bauer, X. Wang, J. Vollin, H. Xin, R. Witte

PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY WITH A TUNABLE SOURCE BASED ON CASCADED STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING IN A LARGE MODE-AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER............................................................................................................................................................................... 1208

A. Loya, J. Dumas, T. Buma

CELL LYSIS USING SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES FOR SENSOR APPLICATIONS .................... 1216T. Lyford, P. Millard, M. Cunha

AN INSTRUMENTED INTRAMEDULLARY IMPLANT TO MONITOR STRAIN IN FRACTURE HEALING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1220

D. Greve, I. Oppenheim, A. Chen

LANGASITE SAW PRESSURE SENSOR FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENT ........................................................... 1224S. Moulzolf, R. Behanan, R. Lad, M. Cunha

NEW WIDE-RANGE THERMAL ULTRASOUND INTENSITY SENSOR CONCEPT USING A HALF-BRIDGE-CIRCUIT FOR TEMPERATURE SENSORING ........................................................................... 1228

B. Schutz, S. Sonntag, K. Jenderka, G. Dietrich

EXTENDED MODEL FOR PRESSURE WAVE FLUID CHARACTERIZATION SETUP INCLUDING DIFFRACTION EFFECTS .................................................................................................................... 1232

H. Antlinger, S. Clara, R. Beigellbeck, S. Cerimovic, F. Keplinger, B. Jakoby

ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY RESONANT CAVITIES IN ALUMINUM NITRIDE PHONONIC CRYSTALS...................................................................................................................................................................... 1236

N. Kuo, G. Piazza

YITTRIUM IRON GARNET BASED PHONONIC-MAGNONIC CRYSTAL ........................................................ 1240S. Nikitov, Y. Filimonov, S. Vysotsky, Y. Khivintsev, E. Pavlov

RELATIVE FILM THICKNESS AND FREQUENCY DEPENDENCY OF MECHANICAL STRESS IN ELECTRODES OF SAW FILTERS ........................................................................................................................ 1244

T. Jewula, H. Zidek, G. Kovacs, I. Bleyl, K. Wagner

REDUCTION OF TRANSVERSE LEAKAGE FOR SAW RESONATORS ON LITAO3 SUBSTRATE ................................................................................................................................................................... 1248

H. Nakamura, T. Komatsu, H. Nakanishi, T. Tsurunari, J. Fujiwara

LITAO3 SINGLE CRYSTALS TREATED BY VAPOUR TRANSPORT EQUILIBRATION FOR TEMPERATURE-COMPENSATED SAW DEVICES................................................................................................ 1252

O. Elmazria, A. Bartasyte, E. Blampain, M. Gonzalez, L. Bouvot

CORRELATION BETWEEN FLUORINE-DOPED SIO2 FILM PROPERTIES AND THE PROPAGATION LOSS FOR TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED SAW DEVICES ............................................. 1256

S. Matsuda, M. Miura, T. Matsuda, M. Ueda, Y. Satoh, K. Hashimoto

A STUDY OF OPTIMIZING MATERIAL FOR SAW BONDED WAFER.............................................................. 1260O. Kawachi, N. Taniguchi, M. Tajima, T. Nishizawa

BAND3 DUPLEXER USING ZERO TCF LOVE WAVE DEVICE........................................................................... 1264M. Miura, T. Nishizawa, T. Takahashi, O. Kawachi, S. Matsuda, T. Matsuda, M. Ueda, Y. Satoh

SIDELOBE REDUCTION IN HIGH FRAME RATE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ................................................... 1267H. Hasegawa, H. Kanai

MULTI-TRANSMIT BEAM FORMING FOR FAST CARDIAC IMAGING: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CROSSTALK BETWEEN MLT BEAMS................................................................................ 1271

L. Tong, H. Gao, J. D'hooge

FLEXIBLE MINIMUM VARIANCE WEIGHT ESTIMATION USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1275

K. Kim, S. Park, Y. Kim, J. Kang, J. Kim, M. Bae

MINIMUM VARIANCE BEAMFORMING WITH FINE PITCH ARRAY PROBE FOR LIMITED APERTURE SIZE ........................................................................................................................................................... 1279

M. Bae, S. Park, Y. Kim, D. Kim, S. Kwon

EVALUATION OF A SYNTHETIC APERTURE TECHNIQUE FOR MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING: PHANTOM AND IN VIVO BREAST STUDY ........................................................................................ 1287

C. Kim, C. Yoon, W. Kim, J. Chang, T. Song, Y. Yoo

A NOVEL METHOD TO GENERATE SYNTHETIC ULTRASOUND DATA OF THE CAROTID ARTERY BASED ON IN VIVO OBSERVATION AS A TOOL TO VALIDATE ALGORITHM ACCURACY .................................................................................................................................................................... 1291

G. Zahnd, M. Larsson, H. Gao, A. Serusclat, D. Vray, J. D'hooge

COMPARISON OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR UNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGING APPROACHES IN ULTRASOUND BREAST IMAGING ..................................................................................................................... 1295

M. Hesse, G. Schmitz

ULTRASOUND IMAGING USING VECTOR QUANTIZATION OF RF CHANNEL DATA .............................. 1303P. Huang, P. Li

DOUBLE PULSE INVERSION IMAGING FOR ULTRASOUND CONTRAST IMAGING ................................. 1307F. Lin, C. Cachard, A. Bernard, A. Guibal, F. Varray, O. Basset

EVALUATION OF ADAPTIVE PERFUSION MODELS IN DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND (DCE-US). ............................................................................................................................................ 1311

J. Fromageau, N. Tunariu, J. Bamber

ULTRAFAST DOPPLER IMAGING OF MICROBUBBLES.................................................................................... 1315C. Tremblay-Darveau, R. Williams, L. Milot, M. Bruce, P. Burns

INFLUENCE OF INJECTION SPEED OF CONTRAST AGENT ON PERFUSION ANALYSIS USING FAST BOLUS METHOD .................................................................................................................................. 1319

V. Harabis, R. Kolar, M. Mezl

PARAMETRIC ULTRASOUND PERFUSION ANALYSIS COMBINING BOLUS TRACKING AND REPLENISHMENT............................................................................................................................................... 1323

R. Jirik, K. Nylund, T. Taxt, M. Mezl, T. Hausken, V. Harabis, R. Kolar, M. Standara, O. Gilja

EFFECTS OF ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS ON ACOUSTICALLY-VAPORIZED DROPLETS UNDER DYNAMIC FLOW CONDITIONS ................................................................................................................. 1327

Y. Huang, S. Kang, C. Yeh

SPATIOTEMPORAL METHODS FOR PROSTATE CANCER DETECTION BY CONTRAST-ULTRASOUND DISPERSION IMAGING .................................................................................................................. 1331

M. Kuenen, T. Saidov, M. Mischi, H. Wijkstra

COMPARISON OF ECHO-POWER ESTIMATION USING LINEARIZED VIDEO DATA AND RAW DATA FOR DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND (DCE-US) ......................................... 1335

T. Payen, A. Coron, M. Lamuraglia, O. Lucidarme, D. Guillou-Buffello, S. Bridal

SEGMENTED HIGH SPEED IMAGING OF VIBRATING MICROBUBBLES DURING LONG ULTRASOUND PULSES ............................................................................................................................................... 1343

T. Kokhuis, Y. Luan, F. Mastik, R. Beurskens, M. Versluis, N. Jong

NONDESTRUCTIVE MECHANICAL TESTING OF HUMAN KNEE MENISCUS ALLOGRAFTS USING MSSER ULTRASOUND: A FEASIBILITY STUDY ..................................................................................... 1347

T. Czernuszewicz, A. Charoenpanich, E. Loboa, C. Gallippi

USING VIBRO-ULTRASOUND METHOD TO ASSESS THE VASTUS INTERMEDIUS STIFFNESS OVER THE ENTIRE RANGE OF STEP ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION OF KNEE EXTENSORS ................................................................................................................................................................... 1351

C. Wang, Y. Zheng, Y. Xiao, W. Qiu, H. Zheng

VISCOELASTIC STRAIN RESPONSE (VISR) ULTRASOUND ASSESSMENT OF VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES IN HUMAN DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, IN VIVO .................. 1355

M. Scola, M. Caughey, D. Meyer, R. Emmett, J. Howard, M. Chopra, C. Gallippi

INVESTIGATION ON ANISOTROPY OF ELASTIC PROPERTIES IN TENDON USING SHEAR WAVE ELASTICITY IMAGING.................................................................................................................................. 1359

C. Yeh, Y. Sheu, P. Kuo, P. Li

IN VIVO TIME HARMONIC MULTIPLE FREQUENCY ELASTOGRAPHY OF HUMAN LIVER ................. 1363H. Tzschatzsch, J. Braun, T. Fischer, R. Klaua, M. Schultz, I. Sack

LONGITUDINAL MOTION OF THE CAROTID ARTERY WALL AND SPECKLE DECORRELATION ISSUE: ACCURATE ESTIMATION USING A KALMAN-BASED SPECKLE TRACKING METHOD .................................................................................................................................................. 1366

G. Zahnd, M. Orkisz, A. Serusclat, D. Vray

VIBRATION MEASUREMENT OF TENDON USING ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE ................................. 1370M. Tabaru, R. Asami, H. Yoshikawa, K. Hashiba, T. Azuma

ELASTICITY OF ARTIFICIAL SKIN BY MEASURING DISPLACEMENT INDUCED BY ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE ............................................................................................................................... 1378

R. Nagaoka, T. Izumi, K. Kubo, K. Kobayashi, Y. Saijo

HIGH RESOLUTION ELASTOGRAPHY FOR DETERMINING LOCAL AIRWAY WALL DEFORMATION DURING BRONCHOCONSTRICTION ....................................................................................... 1382

B. Harvey, O. Babaniyi, P. Barbone, T. Szabo, H. Parameswaran, K. Lutchen

COMPOUND STRAIN IMAGING FOR ELASTIC MODULUS RECONSTRUCTION OF TRANSVERSE VESSEL CROSS-SECTIONS............................................................................................................. 1386

H. Hansen, M. Richards, M. Doyley, C. Korte

MONITORING CRYOABLATION LESIONS WITH QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY: A FEASIBILITY STUDY............................................................................................................ 1390

D. Alba, C. Schneider, C. Nguan, A. Baghani, R. Rohling, S. Salcudean

CAROTID STRAIN ESTIMATION USING AN ULTRASOUND-BASED SPECKLE TRACKING ALGORITHM: A COMPARISON OF STANDARD CLINICAL ULTRASOUND AND HIGH-RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND IN TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOMS............................................................... 1394

M. Larsson, F. Kremer, B. Heyde, E. Widman, L. Brodin, J. D'hooge

SIMULTANEOUS PHOTOACOUSTIC DETECTION OF RED BLOOD CELL AGGREGATION AND OXYGENATION ................................................................................................................................................... 1398

E. Hysi, R. Saha, M. Kolios

SIMULTANEOUS MULTISPECTRAL CODED EXCITATION FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1402

H. Zhang, K. Kondo, T. Shiina, M. Yamakawa

PHOTOACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS OF SINGLE RED BLOOD CELLS ........................................................ 1406E. Strohm, E. Hysi, M. Kolios

ALL-OPTICAL TRANSDUCER FOR ULTRASOUND AND PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING BY DICHROIC FILTERING ............................................................................................................................................... 1410

B. Hsieh, S. Chen, T. Ling, L. Guo, P. Li

PLANE WAVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING WITH A BROADBAND PHOTOACOUSTIC SOURCE ................ 1414P. Kruizinga, B. Cox, N. Jong, P. Beard, A. Steen, G. Soest

PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING OF RAT KNEE JOINT ........................................................................................... 1417T. Izumi, M. Sato, Y. Hagiwara, Y. Saijo

SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION OF MULTIPLE CONTRAST AGENTS WITH PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY....................................................................................................................... 1421

D. Bauer, L. Montilla, M. Salek, N. Allen, K. Rege, R. Witte

VISUALIZATION OF LAMB WAVE PROPAGATION IN UNCURED CFRP AND CURVED SURFACES USING AIR-COUPLED ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................... 1429

M. Farinas, H. Calas, T. Alvarez-Arenas

REAL TIME RECONSTRUCTION OF THE VORTEX WIND FIELD BASED ON THE SOUND WAVE TRAVEL TIME DATA USING SMALL NUMBER OF FACING ARRAY ELEMENTS ......................... 1433

H. Li, T. Hirasawa, A. Yamada

NON-COLLINEAR WAVE MIXING FOR BULK WAVE PHASE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT IN ISOTROPIC SOLID .................................................................................................................................................. 1437

A. Demcenko

TECHNIQUE TO COMBINE IMAGES PRODUCED BY DIFFERENT PROPAGATION MODES OF GUIDED WAVES FOR DAMAGE DETECTION AND CONTRAST IMPROVEMENT IN PLATE-LIKE STRUCTURES ....................................................................................................................................... 1441

V. Prado, R. Higuti, C. Kitano, O. Martinez-Graullera, J. Adamowski

EFFECTS OF INCLINED INCIDENCE ON ULTRASONIC TESTING OF A CLOSED CRACK....................... 1445T. Okamoto, K. Kurihara, T. Sugiura

PASSIVE CONTROL OF TUBES BY CROSS CORRELATION OF AMBIENT NOISE FIELDS....................... 1457S. Djili, E. Moulin, J. Assaad, F. Boubenider, F. Benmeddour

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SPEED MEASUREMENT USING SENSITIVITY COMPENSATED SIGNAL AND LINEAR PREDICTION PROCESSING ............................................................. 1461

R. Toh, D. Chimura, S. Motooka

EFFICIENT ALGORITHM AND HARDWARE/SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN FOR CHIRP ECHO ESTIMATION IN ULTRASONIC NDE APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................ 1465

A. Kasaeifard, J. Saniie

AUTOMATIC DYNAMIC FOCUSING THROUGH INTERFACES ....................................................................... 1469J. Cruza, J. Camacho, J. Moreno, C. Fritsch

SPLIT SPECTRUM PROCESSING APPLICATION FOR NEW COMPOSITE MATERIALS IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1473

A. Rodriguez, A. Salazar, L. Vergara, F. Gimeno-Blanes, L. Svilainis, V. Dumbrava, S. Kitov, A. Chaziachmetovas

ULTRASOUND BACKSCATTER FROM FREE-SWIMMING FISH AT 1 MHZ FOR FISH IDENTIFICATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 1477

A. Pham, B. Lundgren, B. Stage, J. Jensen

THE DESIGN OF A HIGH SPEED RECEIVER SYSTEM FOR ULTRASOUND ARRAY RESEARCH PLATFORM ............................................................................................................................................. 1481

C. Winckler, P. Smith, D. Cowell, O. Olagunju, S. Freear

A COMPACT, PARAMETERIZED, REAL-TIME BEAMFORMER, BENCHMARKED FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING............................................................................................................................................ 1485

S. Qureshi, K. Rajpoot, P. Smith, D. Cowell, S. Freear

EXPLOITING NON-LINEAR CHIRP AND SPARSE DECONVOLUTION TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF PULSE-COMPRESSION ULTRASONIC NDT .................................................................... 1489

M. Ricci, S. Callegari, S. Caporale, M. Monticelli, L. Battaglini, M. Eroli, L. Senni, R. Rovatti, G. Setti, P. Burrascano

ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTICS OF HOLE STATES IN QUANTUM-WELL LASER HETEROSTRUCTURES ............................................................................................................................................... 1497

L. Kulakova, N. Averkiev, A. Darinskii

INVERSE PROBLEM OF THE LOVE WAVE PROPAGATION IN ELASTIC WAVEGUIDES LOADED WITH A VISCOUS LIQUID ........................................................................................................................ 1501

P. Kielczynski, M. Szalewski, A. Balcerzak

ULTRASONIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN COCOA BUTTER DURING CRYSTALLIZATION...................... 1505J. Descheemaeker, A. Rigolle, I. Foubert, K. Abeele

ACOUSTIC WAVES IN TWO PIEZOELECTRIC PLATES SEPARATED BY A VACUUM GAP..................... 1509I. Borodina, B. Zaitsev, I. Kuznetsova, A. Teplykh

SHEAR WAVES IN PLANT LEAVES AT ULTRASONIC FREQUENCIES: SHEAR PROPERTIES OF VEGETAL TISSUES ................................................................................................................................................ 1513

M. Farinas, T. Alvarez-Arenas, D. Sancho-Knapik, J. Peguero-Pina, E. Gil-Pelegrin

OPEN SOURCE ACOUSTIC WAVE SOLVER OF ELASTODYNAMIC EQUATIONS FOR HETEROGENEOUS ISOTROPIC MEDIA ................................................................................................................. 1521

C. Villagomez, L. Medina, W. Pereira

OPTIMIZATION OF WAFER ORIENTATION AND ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR LGS HIGH-TEMPERATURE SAW SENSORS ................................................................................................................... 1525

S. Sakharov, A. Zabelin, S. Kondratiev, D. Richter, H. Fritze, D. Roshchupkin, A. Shvetsov, S. Zhgoon

A FULLY INTEGRATED UHF SAW-BASED RFID.................................................................................................. 1529D. Liu, X. Zhu, T. Han

EFFECT OF BUFFER LAYERS IN ZNO/ LANGASITE AND SNO2/ LANGASITE SAW GAS SENSORS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1533

T. Chin, D. Greve, P. Ohodnicki, J. Baltrus, I. Oppenheim

ODORANT DETECTION VIA SOLIDLY MOUNTED RESONATOR BIOSENSOR ........................................... 1537D. Cannata, M. Benetti, E. Verona, A. Varriale, M. Staiano, S. Auria, F. Pietrantonio

A MINIATURIZED SAW-PIRANI SENSOR .............................................................................................................. 1541P. Nicolay, O. Elmazria, X. Perois

EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF FBARS AND SMRS RESPONSITIVITIES TO MASS LOADINGS...................................................................................................................................................................... 1545

L. Garcia-Gancedo, J. Pedros, E. Iborra, M. Clement, J. Olivares, J. Capilla, J. Luo, W. Milne, A. Flewitt

LANGASITE: HIGH TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES AND SAW SIMULATIONS ............................................ 1549M. Weihnacht, A. Sotnikov, H. Schmidt, B. Wall, R. Grunwald

VARIABLY POLARIZED CERAMIC FOR PASSIVE APERTURE APODIZATION .......................................... 1557A. Joyce, G. Lockwood

LOW CROSS-TALK KERFLESS ANNULAR ARRAY ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS USING 1-3 PIEZOCOMPOSITES WITH PSEUDO-RANDOM PILLARS .............................................................................. 1560

H. Yang, C. Chiu, H. Choi, F. Zheng, C. Liu, W. Qiu, H. Kim, K. Shung

INTEGRATED IVUS-OCT CATHETER FOR IN VIVO INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING.................................... 1564X. Li, J. Li, J. Jing, T. Ma, D. Mohar, A. Raney, S. Mahon, M. Brenner, P. Patel, K. Shung, Z. Chen, Q. Zhou

ULTRASONIC 2D MATRIX ARRAY TRANSDUCER FOR VOLUMETRIC IMAGING IN REAL TIME ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1568

J. Woo, Y. Roh

INVESTIGATION OF DUAL MODE SIDE AND FORWARD LOOKING IVUS USING A DUAL RING CMUT-ON-CMOS ARRAY ................................................................................................................................ 1572

C. Tekes, T. Xu, F. Degertekin

THE EFFECT OF OBLIQUE SUB-DICING ON ACOUSTIC PERFOMANCE ..................................................... 1576M. Frijlink, L. Spicci

ULTRAFAST PLANE WAVE IMAGING: DOPPLER FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION ...................................... 1580B. Osmanski, G. Montaldo, J. Bercoff, T. Loupas, M. Fink, M. Tanter

VOLUME FLOW ASSESSMENT THROUGH SIMULTANEOUS B-MODE AND MULTIGATE DOPPLER ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1588

S. Ricci, M. Cinthio, M. Lenge, R. Matera, J. Albinsson, P. Tortoli

IN-VIVO CFM USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE DUAL STAGE BEAMFORMING.......................................... 1592Y. Li, P. Hansen, M. Hemmsen, M. Nielsen, J. Jensen

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS USING IN VIVO ULTRASOUND BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................... 1596

M. Enevoldsen, M. Pedersen, M. Hemmsen, M. Nielsen, J. Jensen

DUAL GATE PULSED WAVE DOPPLER IMAGING FOR INVESTIGATING CARDIOVASCULAR DYSFUNCTIONS..................................................................................................................... 1600

B. Kang, J. Park, H. Kim, J. Yen, K. Shung

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL FLOW INDEX IMAGING USING PLANE WAVE EXCITATION: PHANTOM STUDY ........................................................................................................................................................ 1603

S. Yeo, C. Yoon, T. Song, Y. Yoo

INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF GEOMETRICAL FEATURES OF CAROTID ARTERY PLAQUE ON TURBULENCE INTENSITY USING DOPPLER ULTRASOUND AND PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY.............................................................................................................................................. 1607

S. Kefayati, J. Powell, E. Wong, T. Poepping

OVERCOMING THE NYQUIST LIMIT IN BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY ESTIMATION................................... 1615E. Gudmundson, A. Jakobsson, F. Gran

OPTIMIZATION OF PHASE TO DRIVE ARRAY SHIFT OF THE TTRANSDUCER FOR HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (HIFU) ....................................................................................................... 1625

M. Yamamoto, S. Yoshizawa, S. Umemura

HAND-HELD HIGH-THROUGHPUT ULTRASONIC MONODISPERSE AEROSOL INHALERS FOR DETOXIFICATION OF MASSIVE CYANIDE POISONING.......................................................................... 1632

C. Tsai, R. Mao, Y. Zhu, E. Chien, J. Maduzia, M. Brenner, S. Mahon, D. Mukai, J. Lee, D. Yoon, T. Berney

EROSION OF TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM BY ACOUSTIC DROPLET VAPORIZATION .................... 1635Y. Lin, S. Kang, C. Yeh

IMPROVED SECTOR-SCAN MOTION TRACKING USING JOINT AZIMUTHAL-ELEVATIONAL ESTIMATION ................................................................................................................................... 1639

K. Owen, F. Mauldin, S. Nguyen, M. Tiouririne, J. Hossack

HUYGENS ON SPEED: INTERACTIVE SIMULATION OF ULTRASOUND PRESSURE FIELDS.................. 1643J. Asen, S. Holm

CORRECTING FOR BOUNDED BANDWIDTH WHEN ESTIMATING TISSUE ATTENUATION FROM MEAN FREQUENCY DOWNSHIFT .............................................................................................................. 1647

Z. Klimonda, J. Litniewski, A. Nowicki

REAL-TIME REALIZATION OF ADAPTIVE DYNAMIC QUADRATURE DEMODULATION ON A GPU-BASED ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM............................................................................................... 1651

S. Bae, J. Kang, J. Yoo, Y. Yoo, J. Chang, T. Song

OPTIMAL LOCATION OF PULSE COMPRESSION IN CODED EXCITATION FOR MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING............................................................................................................................................ 1655

H. Kim, C. Yoon, W. Lee, Y. Yoo

WIDE BAND PULSE COMPRESSION IMAGING WITH TRANSMISSION COMPENSATION FOR FREQUENCY DEPENDENT ATTENUATION ................................................................................................. 1658

K. Koumoto, K. Nii, N. Tagawa, K. Okubo, I. Akiyama

MICROCALCIFICATION ENHANCEMENT IN ULTRASOUND IMAGES FROM A CONCAVE AUTOMATIC BREAST ULTRASOUND SCANNER ................................................................................................ 1662

B. Zhuang, T. Chen, C. Leung, K. Chan, J. Dixon, K. Dickie, L. Pelissier

ROBUST REAL-TIME RESPIRATORY MOTION TRACKING USING ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEQUENCES ................................................................................................................................................................... 1666

Y. Hwang, J. Kim, W. Bang, J. Kim, C. Kim, H. Lee

NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF TEMPERATURE VARIATION IN EX-VIVO RENAL TISSUE BY TRACKING AVERAGE GREY-LEVEL FROM B-MODE IMAGES................................................. 1670

A. Alvarenga, C. Teixeira, M. Kruger, W. Pereira

A NOVEL METHOD TO GENERATE SYNTHETIC ULTRASOUND DATA OF THE CAROTID ARTERY BASED ON IN VIVO OBSERVATION AS A TOOL TO VALIDATE ALGORITHM ACCURACY .................................................................................................................................................................... 1674

G. Zahnd, M. Larsson, H. Gao, A. Serusclat, D. Vray, J. D'hooge

A ROBUST AND FAST METHOD FOR ARTERIAL LUMEN DIAMETER AND INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS ................................................................................................................................. 1678

T. Nilsson, S. Segstedt, A. Ahlgren, S. Ricci, G. Ostling, P. Tortoli, J. Nilsson, T. Jansson, H. Persson, M. Cinthio

FAST AND ACCURATE NONLINEAR PRESSURE FIELD SIMULATION: A FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME INTO THE FOURIER DOMAIN...................................................................................... 1682

F. Varray, M. Toulemonde, O. Basset, C. Cachard

COMBINED NAIVE BAYES AND LOGISTIC REGRESSION FOR QUANTITATIVE BREAST SONOGRAPHY............................................................................................................................................................... 1686

C. Sehgal, T. Cary, A. Cwanger, B. Levenback, S. Venkatesh

AUTOMATIC DYNAMIC RANGE ADJUSTMENT USING LOG AVERAGE FOR MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING............................................................................................................................................ 1690

Y. Lee, C. Kim, Y. Yoo

A COMPARISON OF ULTRASOUND IMAGE SIMULATIONS WITH FOCUS AND FIELD II ....................... 1694Y. Zhu, T. Szabo, R. McGough

A SUBSAMPLE ESTIMATOR BASED ON ZERO PHASE CROSSING IN ULTRASOUND............................... 1698F. Zheng, E. Ebbini

MICROFLUIDIC HEATER ASSISTED BY RAYLEIGH SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE ON ALN/128oY-X LINBO3 MULTILAYER STRUCTURE............................................................................................... 1706

T. Roux-Marchand, D. Beyssen, F. Sarry, S. Grandemange, O. Elmazria

PARTICLE TRAPPING IN A CAPILLARY TUBE ................................................................................................... 1710I. Gralinski, S. Raymond, T. Alan, A. Neild

ULTRASONIC SEPARATION MONITORING BY NEAR-INFRARED LIGHT SCATTERING........................ 1714A. Silva, M. Andrade, J. Adamowski

A PLATE WAVEGUIDE DESIGN FOR ULTRASONIC FLOW MEASUREMENT IN HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 1718

M. Laws, S. Ramadas, S. Dixon

HIGH FREQUENCY SAW-IDT MEMS SENSORS FOR ULTRASONIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN FILMS DEPOSITED ON SUBSTRATES ................................................................................................... 1722

M. Duquennoy, M. Ouaftouh, J. Deboucq, F. Jenot, M. Ourak, J. Carlier, E. Moulin

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION OF DEFECTS 100 MM DEEP WITHIN SN SAMPLE USING INVERSE PROBLEM SOLVING ................................................................................................................................. 1726

Y. Nishimura, T. Suzuki, K. Fukuda, M. Ishii, N. Saito

MODEL FOR THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS OF STEEL PLATES USING HALF-WAVE RESONANCES ................................................................................................................................................................ 1730

G. Waag, L. Hoff, P. Norli

CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN LAYERS USING A FREQUENCY DOMAIN LASER-ULTRASONIC SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................................... 1734

C. Grunsteidl, J. Roither, I. Veres, B. Reitinger, T. Berer, H. Grun, P. Burgholzer, H. Kostenbauer, J. Winkler, H. Traxler

THE APPLICATION OF THE VARIATION METHOD FOR THE ESTIMATION OF THE VISCOSITY OF SOLID ................................................................................................................................................. 1738

B. Zaitsev, G. Feuillard, O. Diallo

QUANTITATIVE NDE OF NANO-SCALED THIN FILM SYSTEMS USING SAM ............................................. 1742I. Park, T. Park, C. Miyasaka

FREQUENCY GAPS AND WAVEGUIDING IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHONONIC PLATES WITH PERIODIC STEPPED RESONATORS ............................................................................................................ 1750

J. Hsu, H. Hsu, T. Wu

INVESTIGATION OF PHONONIC CRYSTAL REFLECTIVE GRATINGS FOR SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES....................................................................................................................................................... 1758

J. Sun, T. Wu

COMPLETE BANDGAPS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL HOLEY PHONONIC CRYSTALS WITH HELMHOLTZ RESONATORS..................................................................................................................................... 1766

Y. Wang, L. Wang

NOISE-LIKE TRANSDUCERS FOR ULTRA WIDE BAND SAW CORRELATORS ........................................... 1774D. Gallagher, D. Malocha

DUAL-T SAW TUNABLE BAND ELIMINATION FILTER AND ITS APPLICATION TO WIDEBAND UHF VCSO ............................................................................................................................................... 1778

T. Omori, N. Matsuoka, C. Ahn, M. Yamaguchi, K. Hashimoto

WIDE-BAND BALANCED LOW-LOSS SAW RING FILTERS WITH IMPEDANCE CONVERSION ................................................................................................................................................................ 1782

S. Doberstein

NON-REFLECTIVE ELECTRODE CELL FOR SAW WITH QUARTER-WAVELENGTH ELECTRODES ................................................................................................................................................................ 1786

S. Biryukov, G. Martin, H. Schmidt, M. Weihnacht

NATURAL SPUDT BEHAVIOR OF YZ LINBO3 FOR REFLECTIVE DELAY LINES ....................................... 1790G. Martin, H. Schmidt, A. Darinski, B. Wall

SAW WAVEGUIDING IN HIGH ASPECT RATIO INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCERS ...................................... 1794L. Socie, S. Benchabane, L. Robert, V. Laude

A SELF-ALIGNED MASK-FREE FABRICATION PROCESS FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY ZNO ARRAY TRANSDUCER ................................................................................................................................................ 1806

J. Zhang, W. Xu, J. Carlier, E. Moulin, D. Remiens, X. Ji, Y. Huang, S. Chen

STUDY OF THE CMUT OPERATION IN MICROFLUIDIC APPLICATION ...................................................... 1814G. Vanagas, D. Barauskas, D. Virzonis

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION USING ASYMMETRIC MODE COMPONENTS OF CMUTS............................................................................................................................................................................. 1818

W. You, E. Cretu, R. Rohling

A CASTING-BASED FABRICATION PROCESS FOR A HIGH-FREQUENCY PIEZO-ELECTRIC LINEAR ARRAY....................................................................................................................................... 1822

G. Dijk, E. Alles, K. Dongen

CONTROL AND MONITORING OF DYNAMIC COLLAPSE EVENT IN CMUTS ARRAYS FOR THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................... 1830

D. Gross, A. Boulme, M. Perroteau, D. Certon, N. Senegond

FABRICATION OF ARBITRARY CURVATURE FOCUSED PZT THIN FILM ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER WITH TUNABLE ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE BASED ON MICROPATTERNED FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE .............................................................................................................................................. 1834

G. Feng, W. Liu

CMUT FRONT-END CIRCUITS DESIGNED IN A HIGH-VOLTAGE CMOS PROCESS AND THE PHASE MEASUREMENT RECEIVER CIRCUIT ..................................................................................................... 1838

L. Wong, A. Chen, J. Yeow

COMB-PUSH ULTRASOUND SHEAR ELASTOGRAPHY (CUSE): A NOVEL AND FAST TECHNIQUE FOR SHEAR ELASTICITY IMAGING .............................................................................................. 1842

P. Song, M. Urban, A. Manduca, H. Zhao, J. Greenleaf, S. Chen

ULTRASOUND-BASED TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY USING A MAGNETIC EXCITATION.................... 1846T. Pavan, D. Sampaio, A. Carneiro, D. Covas

COMPLEX SHEAR MODULUS QUANTIFICATION FROM ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE CREEP-RECOVERY AND SHEAR WAVE PROPAGATION.................................................................................. 1850

C. Amador, M. Urban, S. Chen, J. Greenleaf

SHEAR WAVE SPEED MEASUREMENT USING REPEATED SHORT PUSH PULSES.................................... 1854H. Zhao, C. Amador, M. Urban, P. Song, J. Greenleaf, S. Chen

A PHANTOM STUDY TO CROSS-VALIDATE MULTIMODALITY SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES .............................................................................................................................. 1858

H. Xie, V. Shamdasani, H. Zhao, P. Song, S. Zhou, J. Robert, J. Greenleaf, S. Chen

TARGETED DRUG-LOADING MICROBUBBLES WITH FOCUSED ULTRASOUND INDUCED BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION FOR GLIOMA TREATMENT ............................................................ 1862

C. Ting, C. Fan, H. Liu, T. Yen, K. Wei, C. Yeh

DNA-CONJUGATED GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR ULTRASOUND TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1866

S. Kang, Y. Luo, Y. Huang, C. Yeh

ULTRASONIC TRANSPORT OF PARTICLES INTO ARTICULAR CARTILAGE AND SUBCHONDRAL BONE ................................................................................................................................................ 1869

H. Nieminen, T. Herranen, V. Kananen, S. Hacking, A. Salmi, P. Karppinen, E. Haeggstrom

ROLE OF THERMAL AND MECHANICAL EFFECTS ON DRUG RELEASE FROM THERMOSENSITIVE NANOCARRIERS................................................................................................................... 1873

A. Novell, J. Escoffre, C. Al-Sabbagh, C. Mannaris, E. Fattal, N. Tsapis, M. Averkiou, A. Bouakaz

SHUNT QUANTIFICATION IN CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE BASED ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING .................................................................................................................... 1877

S. Fadnes, S. Nyrnes, A. Swillens, H. Torp, L. Lovstakken

MEASURING 3D VELOCITY VECTORS USING THE TRANSVERSE OSCILLATION METHOD ................ 1881M. Pihl, J. Jensen

IN VIVO VECTOR FLOW IMAGING WITH RETROSPECTIVE PW DOPPLER .............................................. 1886I. Ekroll, T. Dahl, H. Torp, L. Lovstakken

TRANSVERSE OSCILLATION VECTOR VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING A PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCER ............................................................................................................................................................... 1890

J. Marcher, M. Pihl, G. Seerup, P. Haugaard, S. Nikolov, J. Jensen

GRADIENT POLAR SCAN TECHNIQUE FOR MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION ...................................... 1898M. Kersemans, W. Paepegem, N. Lammens, K. Abeele, F. Zastavnik, J. Gu, H. Sol, J. Degrieck

MICRO DEFECT DETECTION ON SILICON CARBIDE MIRROR WITH HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND ARRAY SCANNING .......................................................................................................................... 1902

F. Zheng, C. Chiu, C. Hu, H. Choi, Y. Li, K. Snook, Y. Liang, W. Hackenberger, R. Liu, X. Geng, X. Jiang, K. Shung

SYNTHETIC APERTURE GUIDED WAVE IMAGING USING A MOBILE SENSOR PLATFORM ................ 1905G. Dobie, W. Galbraith, C. MacLeod, R. Summan, G. Pierce

INVESTIGATION OF PVC PHYSICAL AGEING IN FIELD TEST SPECIMENS USING ULTRASONIC AND DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS .......................................................................................... 1909

A. Demcenko, M. Ravanan, H. Visser, R. Loendersloot, R. Akkerman

MINING MILL CONDITION MONITORING USING WATER JET ULTRASONICS ........................................ 1913C. Stenstrom, J. Carlson, J. Lundberg

SEPARATING THE SECOND HARMONIC RESPONSE OF TISSUE AND MICROBUBBLES USING BISPECTRAL ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................................... 1930

S. Harput, J. McLaughlan, P. Smith, D. Cowell, S. Evans, S. Freear

RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT IN THOMSON'S MULTITAPER APPROACH USING THE PULSE INVERSION TECHNIQUE.............................................................................................................................. 1934

M. Toulemonde, O. Basset, F. Varray, P. Tortoli, C. Cachard

FAST IMAGE ACQUISITION IN PULSE-ECHO ULTRASOUND IMAGING USING COMPRESSED SENSING ............................................................................................................................................. 1944

M. Schiffner, G. Schmitz

DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPERATOR INDEPENDENT ULTRASOUND THERAPEUTIC DEVICE FOR STROKE TREATMENT ...................................................................................................................... 1948

M. Schafer, J. Alleman, A. Alexandrov, K. Barlinn

NANO-DROPLET-SEEDED SONODYNAMIC TUMOR TREATMENT WITH DYE SENSITIZER ................. 1952K. Kawabata, T. Maruoka, R. Asami, A. Wada, Y. Muragaki, S. Umemura

THE ACCURACY OF VOLUME FLOW MEASUREMENTS DERIVED FROM PULSED WAVE DOPPLER: A STUDY IN THE COMPLEX FLOW SETTING OF FOREARM VASCULAR ACCESS FOR HEMODIALYSIS .................................................................................................................................. 1960

A. Swillens, K. Canneyt, P. Segers, L. Lovstakken

ULTRASONIC BEAM TRANSMISSION THROUGH A WATER-IMMERSED PLATE AT OBLIQUE INCIDENCE USING A PIEZOELECTRIC SOURCE TRANSDUCER. FINITE ELEMENT - ANGULAR SPECTRUM MODELING AND MEASUREMENTS ..................................................... 1972

M. Aanes, K. Lohne, P. Lunde, M. Vestrheim

WAVE PROPAGATION SIMULATION IN COARSE GRAIN (ATTENUATIVE) MATERIALS....................... 1978Y. Udagawa, G. Reim, T. Mihara

THE EFFECTS OF ULTRASONICS IN FRAGMENTATION OF SATURATED POROUS ROCK SAMPLES ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1982

E. Neeson, M. Lucas

ULTRASONIC CONTINUOUS PLASTIC WELDING SYSTEM FOR WIDE PLASTIC NETS AND SHEETS USING TWO 20 KHZ LONG LONGITUDINAL VIBRATION CYLINDERS........................................ 1986

J. Tsujino, E. Sugimoto

NONCONTACT ULTRASONIC TRANSPORTATION OF DROPLET USING AN ACOUSTIC WAVEGUIDE.................................................................................................................................................................. 1990

M. Ding, D. Koyama, K. Nakamura

ULTRAHIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND MICROBEAM FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1994

K. Lam, Y. Li, C. Lee, Q. Zhou, K. Shung

INVESTIGATING THE MOTILITY OF DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM USING HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND AS A METHOD OF MANIPULATION ................................................................. 2002

D. Hughes, C. Weijer, Y. Qiu, C. Demore, S. Cochran

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE PARTICLE OSCILLATIONS IN ACOUSTIC LEVITATION.................................................................................................................................................................. 2006

M. Andrade, F. Buiochi, S. Baer, C. Esen, A. Ostendorf, J. Adamowski

MICROMETER-SIZED DROPLET EJECTION FROM A MILLIMETER-SIZED SPHERICAL WATER DROP USING A MEGAHERTZ MULTIPLE-FOURIER HORN ULTRASONIC NOZZLE ................ 2019

C. Tsai, S. Lin, R. Mao

SHEAR WAVE IMAGING OF THE HEART USING A CARDIAC PHASED ARRAY WITH COHERENT SPATIAL COMPOUND ......................................................................................................................... 2023

C. Papadacci, M. Pernot, M. Couade, M. Fink, M. Tanter

FEASIBILITY AND SAFETY OF TRANSTHORACIC CARDIAC ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING METHODS ................................................................................................................. 2027

D. Bradway, P. Hollender, R. Goswami, P. Wolf, G. Trahey

INTRACARDIAC ARF-DRIVEN SHEAR WAVE VELOCIMETRY TO ESTIMATE REGIONAL MYOCARDIAL STIFFNESS AND CONTRACTILITY IN PIGS WITH FOCAL INFARCTIONS ..................... 2031

P. Hollender, D. Bradway, P. Wolf, R. Goswami, G. Trahey

CONFIRMATION OF CARDIAC RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION TREATMENT USING INTRA-PROCEDURE ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING................................................. 2037

S. Eyerly, T. Bahnson, J. Koontz, D. Bradway, D. Dumont, G. Trahey, P. Wolf

ULTRASTRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS OF CELL MEMBRANES AND ORGANELLES INDUCED BY SONOPORATION................................................................................................................................. 2045

A. Zeghimi, R. Uzbekov, B. Arbeille, J. Escoffre, A. Bouakaz

MOLECULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING USING A NOVEL TUMOR-BEARING ANIMAL MODEL WITH VARIABLE TARGET RECEPTOR EXPRESSION ....................................................................... 2049

A. Sorace, R. Saini, M. Mahoney, J. Warram, K. Zinn, K. Hoyt

ULTRASOUND-INDUCED SONOPORATION WITH THE AID OF MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES......................................................................................................................................................... 2052

P. Anastasiadis, J. Allen, T. Matsunaga, J. Bertram, P. Weber, S. Moisyadi

COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE FOR THE PORTABLE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM............................................................................................................................. 2059

Y. Shen, A. Freibert, S. Stergiopoulos, K. Plataniotis

A 9-CHANNEL LOW-POWER RECEIVER ASIC FOR 3D TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY .............................................................................................................................................. 2063

Z. Yu, S. Blaak, C. Prins, Z. Chang, C. Lancee, J. Bosch, N. Jong, G. Meijer, M. Pertijs

A HIGH PERFORMANCE BOARD FOR ACQUISITION OF 64-CHANNEL ULTRASOUND RF DATA................................................................................................................................................................................ 2067

E. Boni, A. Cellai, A. Ramalli, P. Tortoli

HIGHLY SCALABLE AND FLEXIBLE FPGA BASED PLATFORM FOR ADVANCED ULTRASOUND RESEARCH ........................................................................................................................................ 2075

H. Hewener, H. Welsch, H. Fonfara, F. Motzki, S. Tretbar

PARTICLE CONCENTRATION BY ACOUSTIC STANDING WAVES ................................................................ 2081D. Greve, W. Wu, I. Oppenheim, K. Gregory

FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF FREE SURFACE PARTICLE CLUSTERING ........................................ 2085A. Neild, I. Gralinski, C. Galtry, P. Rogers

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS WITH ULTRA-WIDEBAND SAW SENSORS .......................................... 2089M. Lamothe, V. Plessky

A NOVEL SAW STRAIN SENSOR WITH IN-BUILT TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT ............................... 2094A. Fischerauer, G. Fischerauer

STABILITY OF LANGASITE REGARDING SAW APPLICATIONS ABOVE 800o C IN AIR ATMOSPHERE............................................................................................................................................................... 2098

T. Aubert, O. Elmazria

ALN/IDT/ALN/SAPPHIRE AS PACKAGELESS STRUCTURE FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS SAW APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................................... 2102

O. Legrani, O. Elmazria, A. Bartasyte, T. Aubert, A. Talbi

SAW MULTI-SENSOR SYSTEM WITH TEMPERATURE AND RANGE............................................................. 2106M. Gallagher, D. Malocha

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF LIQUID-PHASE SH-SAW BIOSENSOR ON QUARTZ ....................................... 2110M. Goto, H. Yatsuda, J. Kondoh

FABRICATION OF A MINIATURIZED 64 ELEMENT HIGH FREQUENCY PHASED ARRAY ..................... 2114A. Bezanson, P. Garland, R. Adamson, J. Brown

SHEARWAVE GENERATION OF 8.5 MHZ/256CH LINEAR ARRAY USING HIGH Qm SINGLE CRYSTAL FOR ELASTOGRAPHY IMAGING ......................................................................................................... 2118

S. Rhim, D. Kim, H. Jung, J. Kim

PIEZOELECTRIC MULTI-MATERIAL-SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES – DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES..................................................................................................... 2122

A. Schonecker

IMPROVED VISUALIZATION OF ENDOCARDIAL BORDERS WITH SHORT-LAG SPATIAL COHERENCE IMAGING OF FUNDAMENTAL AND HARMONIC ULTRASOUND DATA ............................. 2129

M. Bell, R. Goswami, J. Dahl, G. Trahey

IMPLEMENTING CAPON BEAMFORMING ON THE GPU FOR REAL TIME CARDIAC ULTRASOUND IMAGING............................................................................................................................................ 2133

J. Asen, J. Buskenes, C. Nilsen, A. Austeng, S. Holm

EFFECTS OF MASKS ON RECONSTRUCTION OF HIGH-FRAME-RATE IMAGES....................................... 2137J. Lu

FOURIER F-K MIGRATION FOR PLANE WAVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ............................................................................................................................................................... 2141

L. Tarnec, S. Muth, E. Montagnon

BINARY APODIZATION SCHEMES FOR PLANE WAVE TRANSMITS ............................................................ 2145P. Sheeran, T. Czernuszewicz, K. Martin, B. Byram

CONTRAST ULTRASOUND DISPERSION IMAGING OF DIFFERENT TUMOR TYPES ............................... 2149T. Saidov, C. Heneweer, M. Kuenen, T. Liesbach, H. Wijkstra, M. Mischi

THE PHYSICAL SOURCE OF ADHERENT MICROBUBBLE SIGNAL SEPARATION IN SINGULAR SPECTRUM-BASED TARGETED MOLECULAR IMAGING (SISTM) OF LARGE VESSELS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2153

S. Wang, F. Mauldin, J. Hossack

REAL-TIME VOLUMETRIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND AND MICROBUBBLE DESTRUCTION-REPLENISHMENT IMAGING: PRELIMINARY IN-VITRO AND IN-VIVO RESULTS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2157

M. Mahoney, A. Sorace, B. Harbin, K. Hoyt

SURFACE CONTACT OF BOUND TARGETED MICROBUBBLES ..................................................................... 2161K. Kooiman, T. Kokhuis, I. Skachkov, J. Bosch, A. Steen, W. Cappellen, N. Jong

REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF A DUAL-MODE ULTRASOUND ARRAY SYSTEM: IN VIVO RESULTS.............................................................................................................................................................. 2164

A. Casper, A. Haritonova, D. Liu, J. Ballard, E. Ebbini

MULTIFUNCTION INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND FOR MICROBUBBLE BASED DRUG DELIVERY ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2168

J. Kilroy, J. Hossack, A. Klibanov, B. Wamhoff

A FLEXIBLE ANNULAR ARRAY IMAGING PLATFORM FOR MICRO-ULTRASOUND............................... 2172W. Qiu, Y. Yu, H. Chabok, C. Liu, Q. Zhou, K. Shung, H. Zheng, L. Sun

NONINVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF TIME-DEPENDENT ULTRASOUND FIELDS IN DIFFERENT MATERIALS ........................................................................................................................................... 2176

L. Chen, S. Rupitsch, R. Lerch

YOUNG MODULUS AND POISSON RATIO OF PZT THIN FILM BY PICOSECOND ULTRASONICS .............................................................................................................................................................. 2180

F. Casset, A. Devos, S. Sadtler, A. Louarn, P. Emery, G. Rhun, P. Ancey, S. Fanget, E. Defay

ULTRASONIC WAVE FIELD DETERMINATION OF LASERACOUSTIC SOURCES WITH ARBITRARY SHAPES................................................................................................................................................... 2184

T. Windisch, F. Schubert

PIEZOELECTRIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF CRYSTALS IN PROCESS OF LASER FREQUENCY CONVERSION ...................................................................................................................................... 2191

O. Ryabushkin, A. Konyashkin, D. Myasnikov, V. Tyrtyshnyy

LOCK-IN DRIVEN QUALITY FACTOR ENHANCEMENT WITH PARASITIC EFFECT COMPENSATION OF A SELF-ACTUATED PIEZOELECTRIC MEMS CANTILEVER ................................... 2195

M. Kucera, T. Manzaneque, J. Sanchez-Rojas, A. Bittner, U. Schmid

A LOW NOISE 1.5 GHZ VCO WITH 3.75% TUNING RANGE USING COUPLED FBARS ............................... 2202M. Nagaraju, K. Sankaragomathi, S. Gilbert, B. Otis, R. Ruby

A NOVEL GAN-BASED MONOLITHIC SAW/HEMT OSCILLATOR ON SILICON.......................................... 2206X. Lu, J. Ma, X. Zhu, C. Lee, C. Yue, K. Lau

DOUBLE-PORT ALN/SAPPHIRE HIGH OVERTONE BULK ACOUSTIC RESONATORS FOR THE STABILIZATION OF RADIO-FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS ..................................................................... 2210

N. Chretien, G. Martin, E. Lebrasseur, H. Wang, T. Baron, S. Ballandras, E. Henaff, F. Tomaso, M. Delaye, P. Lassagne, A. Lefevre, A. Reinhardt, L. Chommeloux

POROUS SILICON AS AN ACOUSTIC MATERIAL FOR BAW............................................................................ 2214G. Aliev, B. Goller, P. Snow, H. Heinrich, B. Yuan, O. Menendez, R. Aigner

PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS BASED ON LEAD-FREE CERAMICS.............................................................................................................................................. 2218

T. Rodig, A. Schonecker

AIR-COUPLED TRANSDUCERS BASED ON 1-3 CONNECTIVITY SINGLE CRYSTAL PIEZOCOMPOSITES .................................................................................................................................................... 2230

T. Alvarez-Arenas, T. Shrout, S. Zhang, H. Lee

MODELING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A SILICON-EPOXY 2-2 COMPOSITE MATERIAL ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2234

T. Manh, G. Jensen, T. Johansen, L. Hoff

APPLICATION OF EIGEN-SPACED BEAMFORMERS FOR IMAGING LAMINA OF VERTEBRAL ARCH...................................................................................................................................................... 2238

S. Mehdizadeh, S. Muller, T. Johansen, S. Holm

A NOVEL APPROACH FOR REDUCING MULTI LINE TRANSMISSION CROSS TALKS USING 2D TRANSDUCER ARRAYS ........................................................................................................................................ 2242

B. Denarie, H. Torp, T. Bjastad

HYBRID VOLUME BEAMFORMING FOR 3-D ULTRASOUND IMAGING USING 2-D CMUT ARRAYS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 2246

B. Kim, T. Song, Y. Yoo, J. Chang, S. Lee, Y. Kim, K. Cho, J. Song

EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF A REAL-TIME DYNAMIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE BEAMFORMER ............................................................................................................................................................. 2250

J. Park, J. Lee, D. Kim, M. Kim, J. Chang, T. Song, Y. Yoo

EFFICIENT AND STABLE BEAMFORMING ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................ 2254

H. Cho, J. Kang, J. Lee, J. Choi, T. Song, J. Chang

APPLICATION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING TO SHORT-LAG SPATIAL COHERENCE ................................................................................................................................................................. 2262

N. Bottenus, D. Hyun, J. Dahl, G. Trahey, B. Byram

CLINICAL REALIZATION OF SHORT-LAG SPATIAL COHERENCE IMAGING ON 2D ARRAYS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 2266

M. Jakovljevic, D. Hyun, B. Byram, G. Trahey, J. Dahl

ABERRATION CORRECTION USING BROAD TRANSMIT BEAMS .................................................................. 2270D. Liu, K. Ustuner

SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON-OXIDE DRUG-LOADING MICROBUBBLES FOR CONCURRENT MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING MONITORING AND FOCUSED-ULTRASOUND ENHANCED BRAIN-TUMOR DRUG DELIVERY ....................................................................... 2274

C. Fan, H. Lin, C. Ting, H. Liu, T. Yen, C. Yeh

ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS MEDIATED CELL LABELING FOR MRI TRACKING...................... 2278I. Skachkov, Y. Luan, S. Tiel, T. Steen, K. Kooiman, M. Bernsen, N. Jong

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY ON STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE SURFACE MEMBRANE OF AN INSONIFIED COATED MICROBUBBLE ............................................................................ 2282

F. Ueki, S. Ito, K. Takahashi, K. Yasuoka, T. Sugiura

COMSOL MODELLING OF NON-SPHERICAL MICROBUBBLE DYNAMICS NEAR A SOFT MEMBRANE ................................................................................................................................................................... 2286

G. Leaute, J. McLaughlan, S. Harput, D. Cowell, S. Freear

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE APPARENT STIFFNESS OF SIZE-ISOLATED MICROBUBBLES USED FOR BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER OPENING APPLICATIONS ................................... 2290

C. Chen, S. Wu, J. Finan, B. Morrison, E. Konofagou

THE EFFECT OF GLUCOSAMINE ON THE ACOUSTIC AND BINDING PROPERTIES OF ALBUMIN-BASED MICROBUBBLES (WORK IN PROGRESS) ............................................................................ 2294

R. Browning, M. Tang, R. Eckersley

CHIRP EXCITATION OF POLYDISPERSE MICROBUBBLE POPULATIONS FOR INCREASING SONOPORATION EFFICIENCY....................................................................................................... 2298

J. McLaughlan, P. Smith, N. Ingram, L. Coletta, S. Evans, S. Freear

MOLECULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF TUMOR RESPONSE TO BEVACIZUMAB USING A BREAST CANCER ANIMAL MODEL .................................................................................................................... 2306

A. Sorace, R. Saini, M. Mahoney, H. Umphrey, K. Hoyt

ULTRASOUND MOLECULAR IMAGING WITH CUSTOMIZABLE NANOSCALE PHASE-CHANGE CONTRAST AGENTS: AN IN-VITRO FEASIBILITY STUDY ............................................................. 2309

P. Sheeran, J. Streeter, L. Mullin, T. Matsunaga, P. Dayton

SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE/DRUG COMPLEX-EMBEDDED DROPLETS FOR BI-MODEL IMAGING AND ENHANCED TARGETED THERAPY............................................................................ 2313

C. Wang, C. Yeh

GOLD NANOROD COATING INFLUENCE ON EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY IN PHOTOACOUSTIC APPLICATIONS ......................................................................................................................... 2321

F. Conversano, G. Soloperto, E. Casciaro, A. Greco, S. Casciaro, A. Ragusa

DEEP PHOTOACOUSTIC CALCIFICATION IMAGING: FEASIBILITY STUDY ............................................. 2325Y. Cheng, T. Hsiao, W. Tien, S. Luo, D. Chiou, M. Li

A MONTE CARLO STUDY ON INTRAERYTHROCYTIC STAGING OF MALARIA PARASITE USING PHOTOACOUSTICS ........................................................................................................................................ 2328

R. Saha, S. Karmakar, M. Roy

ARRAY-BASED PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM FOR VISUALIZATION OF MICROCALCIFICATIONS ON EARLY BREAST CANCER DETECTION ......................................................... 2332

T. Chiu, S. Luo, W. Tien, M. Li, Y. Cheng, T. Hsiao

SIZE DEPENDENT PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNAL RESPONSE OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES USING A MULTISPECTRAL LASER DIODE SYSTEM.......................................................................................... 2336

M. Beckmann, B. Gutrath, A. Buchkremer, T. Eckert, J. Timper, A. Leifert, W. Richtering, U. Simon, G. Schmitz

LYMPH EXPLORER: A NEW GUI USING 3D HIGH-FREQUENCY QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND METHODS TO GUIDE PATHOLOGISTS TOWARDS METASTATIC REGIONS IN HUMAN LYMPH NODES ........................................................................................................................................ 2340

J. Mamou, E. Saegusa-Beecroft, A. Coron, M. Oelze, T. Yamaguchi, M. Hata, J. Machi, E. Yanagihara, P. Laugier, E. Feleppa

ACCURACY OF BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENT ESTIMATION USING HIGHLY FOCUSED TRANSDUCERS ............................................................................................................................................................. 2344

D. Panizo, R. Lavarello, G. Ghoshal, M. Oelze

SHEAR WAVE PROPAGATION MODULATES QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND K-DISTRIBUTION ECHO ENVELOPE MODEL STATISTICS IN HOMOGENEOUS VISCOELASTIC PHANTOMS ..................................................................................................................................... 2348

M. Alavi, F. Destrempes, C. Schmitt, E. Montagnon, G. Cloutier

TISSUE ATTENUATION IMAGING - SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING VERSUS SPATIAL COMPOUNDING............................................................................................................................................................ 2360

Z. Klimonda, J. Litniewski, P. Karwat, W. Secomski, A. Nowicki

A PILOT STUDY OF BLOOD ECHOGENICITY FROM THE RADIAL ARTERY AND THE CAROTID ARTERY OF STROKE PATIENTS .......................................................................................................... 2364

T. Bok, Q. Kong, K. Nam, Y. Oh, J. Kim, J. Lee, J. Choi, D. Paeng

NOVEL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VISCOELASTIC TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION OF EDEMA ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2368

G. Kruger, R. Dodde, L. Koziol, W. Weitzel

OBSERVATION OF RAT BRAIN TUMOR MODEL AND ITS QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS BY ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MICROSCOPY ................................................................................................................ 2372

N. Hozumi, S. Yoshida, Y. Saijo, K. Kobayashi, K. Miura, S. Yamamoto

ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES FOR LENS HARDNESS CHARACTERIZATION: A COMPARISON STUDY ................................................................................................................................................. 2376

D. Jesus, M. Caixinha, M. Santos, J. Santos

A CONSTRAINED-AVERAGE STRATEGY FOR REDUCTION OF ARTIFACTS FROM SCATTERING INHOMOGENEITIES IN PARAMETRIC IMAGES OF THE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT ............................................................................................................................................................... 2380

I. Rosado-Mendez, K. Nam, T. Hall, J. Zagzebski

STUDIES OF AIR-COUPLED CAPACITIVE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS WITH TIO2 HIGH-K DIELECTRIC BACKPLATE ELECTRODE COATINGS .................................................................................... 2388

W. Wright, S. McSweeney

M-SCAN CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGING OF RESISTANCE SPOT WELDS DURING WELDING ................ 2392A. Lui, A. Karloff, R. Maev

DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A FLEXIBLE RIBBON-TYPE AIR-BORNE ELECTRET ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER WITH AN ANISOTROPIC BEAM PATTERN ............................ 2396

C. Sun, W. Ko, C. Chen, K. Chen, K. Tseng, C. Liou, J. Hsu

ENHANCING 2D PHASED ARRAY SENSITIVITY AND BANDWIDTH USING IN-PROBE ELECTRONICS .............................................................................................................................................................. 2400

J. Dziewierz, A. Gachagan

A BI-AXIAL AND WIDEBAND VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTER USING MAGNETOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER ..................................................................................................................... 2404

J. Yang, Y. Wen, P. Li, X. Yue, X. Bai

THEORETICAL ANALYSIS ON SAW GYROSCOPIC EFFECT COMBINING WITH METALLIC DOT ARRAY ................................................................................................................................................................... 2412

W. Wang, X. Shao, J. Liu, S. He

SMALL AOTF USING EDGE REFLECTION AND ITS APPLICATION TO STRAIN SENSING SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................... 2416

M. Kadota, H. Kobayashi, K. Yamada

AN AIR-COUPLED ULTRASONIC SENSOR APPLYING A BIMORPH STRUCTURE ..................................... 2420K. Ibata, T. Kimura, H. Miyashita, Y. Konishi, S. Inoue

RESONANT PHOTOACOUSTIC DETECTION AND IMAGING WITH A SPHEROIDAL ACOUSTIC RESONATOR ............................................................................................................................................ 2424

J. Hoshimiya, Y. Hayasaka, T. Hoshimiya

COMPARISON OF IMPLEMENTATIONS OF DRIVING ELECTRONICS FOR ULTRASONIC OSCILLATING SENSORS ............................................................................................................................................ 2427

P. Popejoy, S. Alzebda, A. Hashmi, M. Harriott, O. Sonbul, A. Kalashnikov, B. Hayes-Gill

MICROSCOPE ELECTRONICS SYSTEM................................................................................................................. 2431R. Petherick, M. Leonard-Taylor, D. Greager, P. Harris

MODEL FOR THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS OF STEEL PLATES USING HALF-WAVE RESONACES................................................................................................................................................................... 2438

G. Waag, L. Hoff, P. Norli

ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM BASED ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY OF ULTRA-WAVELENGTH TRANSDUCERS ............................................................................................................................... 2446

S. Titov, R. Maev, A. Bogachenkov

A FRACTIONAL HARMONIC EXCITATION (FHE) METHOD FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ARRAY IMAGING ......................................................................................................................................................... 2450

P. Smith, D. Cowell, S. Freear

RANDOMIZED EXCITATION: A NOVEL ULTRASOUND ARRAY EXCITATION SCHEME ........................ 2458O. Olagunju, P. Smith, D. Cowell, S. Freear

ACOUSTIC BEAMS STRUCTURE IN CRYSTALS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON ACOUSTO-OPTIC INTERACTION CHARACTERISTICS ....................................................................................................................... 2462

V. Balakshy, S. Mantsevich

AOUSTIC MODULATION OF TM AND TE WAVES IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL SILICON PHOXONIC CAVITIY ................................................................................................................................................... 2466

M. Oudich, S. El-Jallal, Y. Pennec, G. Leveque, B. Djafari-Rouhani, Q. Rolland, S. Dupont, J. Gazalet, J. Kastelik

ROUTING CHARACTERISTICS OF 40-100GBPS PULSE TRAINS BY WEIGHTED COLLINEAR ACOUSTOOPTIC DEVICES ........................................................................................................................................ 2470

N. Goto, Y. Miyazaki

TUNABLE HBAR BASED ON MAGNETOELECTRIC YIG/ZNO STRUCTURE ................................................ 2481S. Alekseev, N. Polzikova, I. Kotelyanskii, Y. Fetisov

ON THE SPECTRA OF BAW RESONATOR WITH FERROMAGNETIC-FERROELECTRIC LAYERED STRUCTURE AT MAGNETOACOUSTIC RESONANCE ................................................................... 2485

N. Polzikova, A. Raevskiy, S. Alekseev

ELASTIC CONSTANTS OF YCA4O(BO3)3 AND NDCA4O(BO3)3 SINGLE CRYSTALS BY THE PULSE-ECHO ULTRASONIC METHOD ................................................................................................................... 2489

A. Sotnikov, H. Schmidt, M. Weihnacht, S. Zhang, T. Shrout, F. Yu

LIQUID CRYSTAL THERMOGRAPHY ON COATED SAW DEVICES ............................................................... 2493C. Huck, H. Zidek, T. Ebner, K. Wagner, A. Wixforth

HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ARRAY TRANSDUCERS USING A 2-2 STACKED PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITE APPROPRIATE FOR SONOCHEMISTRY APPLICATIONS....................... 2497

C. Wang, A. Gachagan, R. O'Leary, J. Mackersie

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF TEMPERATURE & PRESSURE EFFECTS ON HIGH POROSITY PZT MATERIALS .......................................................................................................................................................... 2506

T. Bove, K. Liang, W. Wolny

EFFECT OF ADJUSTABLE BIAS VOLTAGE ON MAGNETOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF PIEZOELECTRIC / MAGNETOSTRICTIVE LAMINATE TRANSDUCER ......................................................... 2510

P. Li, Y. Wen, H. Xian, J. Yang, J. Wen, J. Qiu, Y. Zhu, M. Yu

TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY CHARACTERIZATION OF AIR-COUPLED PIEZOCOMPOSITE TRANSDUCERS ........................................................................................................................ 2518

D. Costa, V. Tayra, L. Segura, F. Freijo, F. Buiochi

DISCOVERY OF MICROSCOPIC TETRAGONAL CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF <001> ORIENTED PMN-PT AFTER QUENCHING FROM A POLED STATE ............................................................... 2521

P. Garland, R. Adamson, J. Brown

HIGH FREQUENCY RHEOLOGY OF HYBRID HYDROGELS USING ULTRASOUND TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY.................................................................................................................................. 2525

J. Gennisson, A. Marcelan, A. Dizeux, M. Tanter

RELIABLE ESTIMATION OF PERMEABILITY FROM THE 4D STRAIN DISTRIBUTION IN POROELASTIC TISSUES ............................................................................................................................................. 2529

J. Fromageau, N. Bush, J. Bamber

MODEL FREE COMPRESSION CREEP METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATION OF LESION FROM BACKGROUND TISSUE .................................................................................................................................. 2533

A. Nabavizadehrafsanjani, C. Amador, M. Urban, A. Alizad, O. Agrawal, J. Greenleaf, M. Insana, M. Fatemi

IT IS POSSIBLE TO RESOLVE MICROMETER MOVEMENTS IN B-MODE IMAGES................................... 2536M. Cinthio, A. Gerrebo, M. Bengtsson, L. Wallman, T. Jansson, H. Persson

2D AND 3D BAYESIAN DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION ...................................................................................... 2540B. Byram, V. Rotemberg, G. Trahey

MEASUREMENTS OF REGIONAL PROPAGATION VELOCITIES OF FORWARD AND REFLECTED PULSE WAVES BY HIGH FRAME RATE ULTRASONIC IMAGING ......................................... 2544

H. Hasegawa, K. Hongo, H. Kanai

OPTICAL VALIDATION OF ACOUSTIC DISPLACEMENT UNDERESTIMATION IN ARFI ULTRASOUND USING A CLINICAL IMAGING SYSTEM .................................................................................... 2548

T. Czernuszewicz, J. Streeter, P. Dayton, C. Gallippi

SHEAR WAVE IMAGING AT HIGH FREQUENCY: A FEASIBILITY STUDY IN TISSUE MIMICKING GELATIN PHANTOMS ........................................................................................................................ 2552

A. Maeva, M. Lee, S. Foster

TISSUE SHEAR VISCOSITY MEASUREMENTS USING A SPECTRAL RATIO METHOD ............................ 2555C. Yeh, Y. Sheu, P. Kuo, P. Li

BAND-PASS FILTERING FOR OPTIMAL DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF GRATING LOBES AT LARGE BEAM STEERING ANGLES .......................................................................... 2559

H. Hansen, T. Idzenga, C. Korte

ULTRASOUND TISSUE MOTION ASSESSMENT USING FULL CORRELATION ANALYSIS ...................... 2563H. Taki, T. Sakamoto, M. Yamakawa, T. Shiina, T. Sato

POTENTIAL FOR QUANTITATIVE MICRO-ELASTOGRAPHY USING A MULTI-CHANNEL OPTICAL COHERENCE METHOD ........................................................................................................................... 2567

E. Elyas, J. Erler, S. Robinson, T. Cox, D. Woods, P. Clowes, J. Bamber

IN VIVO ASSESSMENT OF MUSCLE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES USING A LOW-COST SURFACE WAVE METHOD ........................................................................................................................................ 2571

N. Benech, S. Aguiar, G. Grinspan, J. Brum, C. Negreira

PARALLELIZING STRAIN ESTIMATION ............................................................................................................... 2575T. Idzenga, W. Vermin, E. Gaburov, J. Menssen, C. Korte

A FAST METHOD FOR SPECKLE TRACKING....................................................................................................... 2579H. Chen, J. Lu

ON THE USE OF DUAL ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCES TO INDUCE SHEAR WAVE PROPAGATION AND INTERFERENCE PATTERN FORMATION...................................................................... 2583

K. Hoyt, Z. Hah, C. Hazard, K. Parker

OPTIMAL DESIGN OF DAMPER LAYER FOR STATIC ELASTOGRAPHY ..................................................... 2587T. Sato, Y. Watanabe

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF REFLECTIONS OF FAST AND SLOW LONGITUDINAL WAVES AT A BOUNDARY BETWEEN CANCELLOUS BONE AND CORTICAL BONE................................. 2591

A. Hosokawa

TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS OF WAVE PROPAGATION IN HEALING LONG BONES BASED ON SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY IMAGES ............................................................................. 2599

V. Potsika, V. Protopappas, M. Vavva, K. Raum, D. Rohrbach, D. Polyzos, D. Fotiadis

CONTROLLED CAVITATION TO AUGMENT SWL STONE SUBDIVISION: MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS IN-VITRO .................................................................................................................................................... 2603

A. Duryea, W. Roberts, C. Cain, T. Hall

EFFICIENT GENERATION OF CAVITATION CLOUD BY DUAL-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND EXPOSURE IN THE OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT GEL ...................................................................................... 2607

J. Yasuda, A. Asai, S. Yoshizawa, S. Umemura

DETECTION OF HIFU-INDUCED COAGULATION BY MOTION-COMPENSATED DECORRELATION OF RF ECHO SIGNALS ............................................................................................................ 2611

S. Umemura, R. Matsuzawa, T. Shishitani, S. Yoshizawa

ROBUST DETECTION AND CONTROL OF BUBBLE ACTIVITY DURING HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION ..................................................................................................................... 2615

A. Casper, A. Haritonova, E. Wilken-Resman, E. Ebbini

PRODUCTION AND ACTIVE CONTROL OF MICROBUBBLES AGGREGATIONS IN ARTIFICIAL CAPILLARY WITH MULTIPLE SOUND SOURCES ...................................................................... 2619

K. Masuda, N. Shigehara, R. Koda, N. Watarai, S. Ikeda, F. Arai, Y. Miyamoto, T. Chiba

IMPORTANCE OF TRANSDUCER POSITION TRACKING FOR AUTOMATED BREAST ULTRASOUND: INITIAL ASSESSMENTS ................................................................................................................ 2623

T. Chen, C. Leung, R. Azar, K. Chan, B. Zhuang, K. Dickie, J. Dixon, L. Pendziwol, L. Pelissier

CORRELATION-BASED DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN MYOCARDIAL TISSUE AND BLOOD IN 3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES ................................................................................................................ 2627

A. Saris, M. Nillesen, R. Lopata, F. Vosse, C. Korte

IN VIVO ANALYSIS OF ADULT ZEBRAFISH CARDIAC FUNCTIONS BY DOPPLER-GATED ULTRA-HIGH FRAME RATE 80 MHZ HIGH FREQUENCY RETROSPECTIVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2631

T. Liu, P. Lee, C. Huang

A GPU LEVEL-SET SEGMENTATION FRAMEWORK FOR 3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY............................. 2639F. Galluzzo, D. Barbosa, H. Houle, N. Speciale, D. Friboulet, J. D'hooge, O. Bernard

AN INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND DATA BASED ON B-SPLINE EXPLICIT ACTIVE SURFACES................................................. 2643

D. Bibicu, D. Barbosa, B. Heyde, O. Bernard, L. Moraru, D. Friboulet, P. Claus, J. D'hooge

VISIBILITY DRIVEN VISUALIZATION OF 3D CARDIAC ULTRASOUND DATA ON THE GPU ................. 2651E. Bronstad, J. Asen, H. Torp, G. Kiss

SPECKLE REDUCTION USING SIMILAR BLOCK IMAGES BETWEEN ADJACENT SLICES FOR 3D ULTRASOUND IMAGES ............................................................................................................................... 2655

Y. Kim, S. Park, K. Kim, J. Kim

REAL-TIME MOVING ORGAN TRACKING IN ULTRASOUND VIDEO BASED ON A 3D ORGAN MODEL ............................................................................................................................................................ 2659

J. Kim, Y. Hwang, W. Bang, J. Kim, C. Kim

FRICTION EFFECTS BETWEEN ULTRASONIC CUTTING BLADE AND SHEET STACK............................ 2663K. Deibel, K. Wegener, J. Boos

STUDY OF HOLE MACHINING OF BRITTLE MATERIAL BY ULTRASONIC COMPLEX VIBRATION – COMPARISON OF MACHINING TIME BY LONGITUDINAL OR COMPLEX VIBRATION .................................................................................................................................................................... 2667

T. Asami, H. Miura

IN LINE ULTRASONIC MONITORING OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION ........................................................... 2671M. Figueiredo, C. Silva, A. Alvarenga, R. Costa-Felix

ULTRASONIC VELOCITY ANISOTROPY TECHNIQUE TO ENHANCE SEISMIC SURVEYS AND ORE PROSPECTING ........................................................................................................................................... 2674

R. Karlqvist, I. Lassila, E. Haeggstrom, L. Pesonen

PREDICTION OF AVERAGE PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS IN POLYGONAL REVERBERANT PLATES FOR EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE EXTRACTION .................................................. 2678

H. Achdjian, E. Moulin, F. Benmeddour, J. Assaad, J. Cuenca

COUPLING BETWEEN FLEXURAL AND STONELEY MODES IN CYLINDRICAL THREE-LAYERED MEDIA ......................................................................................................................................................... 2682

H. Cui, B. Zhang, J. Trevelyan, S. Johnstone, S. Millman

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES USING THE SCALED BOUNDARY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD.............................................................................................................. 2686

H. Gravenkamp, C. Song, J. Prager

REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION OF FUNDAMENTAL LAMB WAVE MODES OBLIQUELY INCIDENT ON A CRACK IN A PLATE............................................................................................. 2690

S. Santhanam, R. Demirli

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF DIRECTIONAL GW GENERATION THROUGH WAVENUMBER-SPIRAL FREQUENCY STEERABLE ACOUSTIC ACTUATORS ........................................... 2694

M. Senesi, E. Baravelli, L. Marchi, M. Ruzzene

GUIDED WAVES IN A HELICAL PERIPHERAL STRAND OF A WIREROPE BY ELECTROMAGNETIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS ............................................................................................. 2698

K. Okazaki, I. Oguma, T. Sugiura

STUDY OF MICRO-CRACKS IN CEMENT-BASED MATERIALS WITH NMR RELAXOMETRY AND ULTRASOUND...................................................................................................................................................... 2702

S. Hernandez, A. Villareal, S. Solis-Najera, O. Marrufo, A. Rodriguez, F. Castellanos-Leon, P. Cano-Barrita, L. Medina

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION AND MODELING OF HIGH-EFFICIENCY OPERATION IN LUBRICATED ULTRASONIC MOTORS................................................................................................................... 2706

W. Qiu, Y. Mizuno, K. Nakamura

ELECTRODE DESIGN METHOD FOR OPTIMAL EFFICIENCY OF LONGITUDINAL-BENDING ACTUATORS............................................................................................................................................... 2710

E. Leroy, J. Lozada, M. Hafez

MINIMIZING HEAT GENERATION IN A PIEZOELECTRIC LANGEVIN TRANSDUCER ............................ 2714P. Vasiljev, D. Mazeika, S. Borodinas

DEVELOPMENT OF A MINIATURE PIEZOELECTRIC MIXER......................................................................... 2718T. Mashimo, R. Shibuya, K. Terashima

MODELLING OF NON-CONTACT ULTRASONIC MOTOR BY MEANS OF BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD .................................................................................................................................................... 2722

D. Stepanenko, V. Minchenya, K. Zimmermann, R. Asimov, V. Minchenya

WAFER BONDING OF POLYCRYSTALLINE SPINEL WITH LINBO3/LITAO3 FOR TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION OF RF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES..................................... 2726

K. Geshi, K. Teraoka, S. Kinoshita, M. Nakayama, Y. Imagawa, S. Nakayama, K. Hashimoto, S. Tanaka, K. Totsu, H. Takagi

ADVANCED PIEZOELECTRIC CRYSTAL CA3TAGA3SI2O14: GROWTH,CRYSTAL STRUCTURE PERFECTION, PIEZOELECTRIC AND ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES ........................................... 2730

D. Roshchupkin, D. Irzhak, E. Emelin, R. Fahrtdinov, O. Plotitsyna, S. Sakharov, O. Buzanov, A. Zabelin

PIEZOELECTRIC AND ELECTROACOUSTIC PROPERTIES OF TI-DOPED ALN THIN FILMS AS A FUNCTION OF TI CONTENT ............................................................................................................................ 2734

E. Iborra, J. Capilla, J. Olivares, M. Clement, V. Felmetsger

DETERMINATION METHOD OF ACOUSTICAL PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AND THEIR TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS OF LA3TA0.5GA5.3AL0.2O14 SINGLE CRYSTAL ........................................... 2738

Y. Ohashi, H. Yoshida, M. Arakawa, J. Kushibiki, T. Karakai, T. Lv, M. Adachi

FABRICATION AND MODELING OF BISMUTH, TITANATE-PZT CERAMIC TRANSDUCERS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................ 2742

B. Reinhardt, R. Cypher, K. Sinding, B. Tittmann

HIGH Q SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS IN 2-3 GHZ RANGE USING SCALN/SINGLE CRYSTALLINE DIAMOND STRUCTURE .................................................................................. 2746

K. Hashimoto, T. Fujii, S. Sato, T. Omori, C. Ahn, A. Teshigahara, K. Kano, H. Umezawa, S. Shikata

A SUPPRESSION METHOD OF SECOND ORDER MODE SPURIOUS RESPONSES FOR BOUNDARY ACOUSTIC WAVE FILTERS ............................................................................................................... 2750

M. Mimura, T. Yamane, D. Tamazaki

AN OPEN SYSTEM FOR INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING........................................................... 2754W. Qiu, Y. Yu, Y. Chen, X. Li, C. Liu, W. Cheng, Q. Zhou, K. Shung, J. Dai, H. Zheng, L. Sun

TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED ALN/SIO2 STRUCTURES FOR LAMB WAVE RESONATORS................................................................................................................................................................ 2758

N. Naumenko

NON-GRID BASED ELEMENTS POSITIONING FOR OPTIMAL 2D ARRAY BEAMS .................................... 2762B. Diarra, H. Liebgott, C. Cachard, P. Tortoli

SONAR LOCALIZATION USING RECEIVER BEAM PROFILE FEATURES .................................................... 2766F. Guarato, J. Windmill, A. Gachagan

THE INFLUENCE OF OIL DENSITY AND VISCOSITY ON THE BEHAVIOR OF A LITHIUM NIOBATE TUNING FORK CANTILEVER ................................................................................................................ 2770

M. Toda, M. Thompson, A. Sirven, C. Nordin

SCANDIUM ALUMINUM NITRIDE: HIGHLY PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILM FOR RF SAW DEVICES IN MULTI GHZ RANGE............................................................................................................................. 2774

A. Teshigahara, K. Hashimoto, M. Akiyama

CONTRIBUTION OF MULTIPLE SCATTERING TO THE TRABECULAR BONE BACKSCATTER - DEPENDENCE ON POROSITY AND FREQUENCY .............................................................. 2779

J. Litniewski, J. Wojcik, A. Nowicki

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA LESIONS CHARACTERIZATION WITH ULTRASOUND ................................. 2783H. Piotrzkowska, J. Litniewski, A. Nowicki, E. Szymanska

LOSS REDUCTION OF LONGITUDINAL-TYPE LEAKY SAW BY REVERSE PROTON EXCHANGE .................................................................................................................................................................... 2787

S. Kakio, M. Abe

BREAST TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION BY SOUND SPEED: CORRELATION WITH MAMMOGRAMS USING A 2D/3D IMAGE REGISTRATION ............................................................................... 2791

T. Hopp, N. Ruiter, N. Duric

A DUAL-BAND RESONATOR IN BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE TECHNOLOGY ................................................... 2795M. Jimenez, E. Corrales, P. Paco, O. Menendez

A TRIPLE-BEAT-FREE PCS SAW DUPLEXER ....................................................................................................... 2799S. Inoue, M. Iwaki, J. Tsutsumi, H. Nakamura, M. Ueda, Y. Satoh, S. Mitobe

BLOOD-MIMICKING FLUID FOR THE DOPPLER TEST OBJECTS OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENTS ................................................................................................................................... 2803

T. Yoshida, K. Tanaka, K. Sato, T. Kondo

INVESTIGATION OF KERFLESS ULTRASOUND ARRAYS USING INVERSE SYSTEMS ............................. 2807D. Ackermann, G. Schmitz

HIGH FREQUENCY 16 CHANNEL ULTRASONIC MICROSCOPE FOR ANNULAR ARRAYS...................... 2811N. Gust, F. Schellhorn

MAGNETIC TRAPPING AND PHOTOACOUSTIC DETECTION OF RARE CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS.............................................................................................................................................................. 2814

C. Wei, J. Xia, I. Pelivanov, X. Hu, X. Gao, M. O'Donnell

IMPROVEMENT OF MINIATURIZED RESONANT TYPE SIDM ACTUATOR................................................ 2818T. Yokose, H. Hosaka, T. Morita

CLINICAL RESULTS OF THE CELLWAVE STUDY USING NOVEL EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCKWAVE APPLICATION FOR ENHANCING THE EFFICACY OF CELL THERAPY............................ 2822

W. Khaled, B. Assmus, A. Lutz, D. Walter, D. Leistner, S. Dimmeler, A. Zeiher

A NOVEL EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK WAVE SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING MICROCIRCULATION AND ANGIOGENESIS AFTER FULL THICKNESS BURN IN AN ANIMAL STUDY ............................................................................................................................................................ 2826

W. Khaled, O. Goertz, H. Lauer, M. Lehnhardt, J. Hauser

RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS FOR REMOTE PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING ..................................... 2830T. Berer, A. Hochreiner, H. Roitner, P. Burgholzer

DUAL MODE PHOTOACOUSTIC/ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY WITH OPTICAL GENERATION AND DETECTION.......................................................................................................................................................... 2834

T. Berer, H. Grun, J. Bauer-Marschallinger, P. Burgholzer, K. Passler, R. Nuster, G. Paltauf

A LOW-COST 32-CHANNEL MODULE WITH HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL INTERFACES FOR PORTABLE ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................................... 2838

M. Lewandowski, K. Sielewicz, M. Walczak

CHARACTERIZING ULTRASOUND-CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE BY HIGH-SPEED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING....................................................................................................................................... 2842

Y. Luan, E. Gelderblom, G. Lajoinie, I. Skachkov, H. Dewitte, B. Geers, I. Lentacker, T. Steen, M. Versluis, N. Jong

WAVE FOCUSING IN PHONONIC THIN PLATES ................................................................................................. 2846T. Wu, C. Chen

SECONDARY BJERKNES FORCES DEFORM TARGETED MICROBUBBLES ................................................ 2850T. Kokhuis, B. Naaijkens, L. Juffermans, O. Kamp, M. Versluis, N. Jong

PZT THICK FILMS OBTAINED BY ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITION (EPD) PROCESS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY FOCUSED TRANSDUCERS.................................................................................................... 2854

A. Abellard, F. Levassort, J. Gregoire, M. Lethiecq, D. Kuscer, J. Holc, M. Kosec

POLARIZATION INVERTED (0001) / (000-1) SCALN FILM RESONATORS OPERATING IN SECOND OVERTONE MODE...................................................................................................................................... 2858

M. Suzuki, T. Yanagitani, H. Odagawa

TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE ON GUIDED WAVES IN A LIQUID-FILLED PIPE .......................................... 2862H. Cui, B. Zhang, J. Shen, J. Trevelyan

ULTRA-WIDEBAND SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS USING PB(MN1/3NB2/3)O3-PBTIO3 SINGLE CRYSTALS ....................................................................................................................................... 2866

J. Chen, J. Liu, K. Hashimoto, T. Omori, C. Ahn

COUNTER-PROPAGATION INTERACTION FOR CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2870

G. Renaud, J. Bosch, N. Jong, A. Steen, V. Shamdasani, R. Entrekin

MODULAR & SCALABLE ULTRASOUND PLATFORM WITH GPU PROCESSING ....................................... 2874M. Lewandowski, M. Walczak, B. Witek, P. Kulesza, K. Sielewicz

COMPRESSIVE SENSING IN MEDICAL ULTRASOUND...................................................................................... 2878H. Liebgott, A. Basarab, D. Kouame, O. Bernard, D. Friboulet

MICROMACHINED DIAPHRAGM TRANSDUCERS FOR MINIATURISED AND INTEGRATED ULTRASOUND ARRAYS.............................................................................................................................................. 2884

F. Griggio, C. Demore, H. Kim, J. Gigliotti, Y. Qiu, T. Jackson, K. Choi, R. Tutwiler, S. Cochran, S. Trolier-McKinstry

ANALYSIS OF MOTIONAL CAPACITANCE OF QUARTZ-CRYSTAL TUNING-FORK TACTILE SENSOR USING BOTH L-SHAPED BAR MODEL AND ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING COEFFICIENT ......................................................................................................................................... 2888

T. Ishikawa, H. Itoh

STUDY ON SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACOUSTIC CAVITATION GENERATION USING HIGH RESOLUTION CAVITATION SENSOR ......................................................................................................... 2892

T. Uchida, S. Takeuchi, T. Kikuchi

TWO DIMENSIONAL PERIODIC ARRAY OF REFLECTION CENTERS ON ELECTRODES IN SAW RESONATORS...................................................................................................................................................... 2896

J. Yoon, M. Mayer, T. Ebner, K. Wagner, A. Wixforth

INFLUENCE OF 1-3 PIEZOCOMPOSITE FABRICATIONS ON LATERAL MODES ........................................ 2900R. Rouffaud, A. Hladky-Hennion, M. Pham-Thi, C. Bantignies, F. Levassort

MR-ULTRASOUND IMAGING REGISTRATION USING 2D SPATIAL PHASE IMAGES ............................... 2904A. Basarab, R. Abbal, M. Ureche, D. Kouame

DYNAMICS OF A CONTRAST MICROBUBBLE BETWEEN TWO ELASTIC WALLS.................................... 2908A. Doinikov, A. Novell, A. Bouakaz

ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF RELAXORS WITH MAGNETIC ORDERING ........................................................ 2912E. Smirnova, A. Sotnikov, S. Ktitorov, N. Zaitseva, H. Schmidt, M. Weihnacht

MONOGENIC ORIENTATION-BASED BLOOD FLOW ESTIMATION IN HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING............................................................................................................................................ 2916

A. Basarab, D. Vray, D. Kouame

PMUT FOR HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ................................................................................... 2920A. Nguyen-Dinh, D. Wang, C. Meynier, F. Tyholdt, A. Vogl, H. Tofteberg, N. Ostbo, E. Flesch

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF PIEZOELECTRIC PLASMA DISCHARGE GENERATOR ........................ 2925T. Martin, F. Pigache, C. Nadal, T. Callegari

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF NONLINEAR ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIUM UNDER VARIOUS EXTERNAL INFLUENCES ...................................................................................... 2930

A. Korobov, N. Shirgina, A. Kokshaiski

REAL-TIME, TRANSCRANIAL MONITORING OF SAFE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER OPENING IN NON-HUMAN PRIMATES ...................................................................................................................................... 2934

F. Marquet, S. Wu, Y. Tung, T. Teichert, M. Downs, S. Wang, V. Ferrera, E. Konofagou

SPECTRAL HOLE BURNING IN PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATORS .................................................................. 2938F. Tsuruoka

THREE DIMENSION HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FOR DETECTING THE TESTICULAR TUMOR IN VITRO............................................................................................ 2942

W. Chen, C. Shih, C. Huang

PROPAGATION OF ACOUSTIC WAVES IN STRONGLY ANISOTROPIC CRYSTALS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT .................................................................................................................................... 2946

N. Polikarpova, E. Djakonov, V. Voloshinov

MEASURING VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF CORTICAL BONE WITH RESONANT ULTRASOUND SPECTROSCOPY .............................................................................................................................. 2949

S. Bernard, Q. Grimal, P. Laugier

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING BASED ON THE VIRTUAL SOURCE POINT FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING ............................................................. 2953

F. Pekam, T. Vollborn, J. Tinschert, S. Wolfart, K. Radermacher, S. Heger

PARTICLE MANIPULATION IN A MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL WITH AN ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED LINEAR PIEZOELECTRIC ARRAY ....................................................... 2957

H. Wang, Y. Qiu, C. Demore, S. Cochran

OPTIMIZATION OF HIFU TREATMENT ON THE BASIS OF TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTIONS MEASURED BY A THIN-FILM THERMOCOUPLE ARRAY ................................................ 2961

K. Matsuki, R. Narumi, T. Azuma, K. Yoshinaka, A. Sasaki, K. Okita, S. Takagi, Y. Matsumoto

PULSER FOR ARBITRARY WIDTH AND POSITION SQUARE PULSE TRAINS GENERATION ................. 2964L. Svilainis, V. Dumbrava, A. Chaziachmetovas, A. Aleksandrovas

FIRST IN VIVO RESULTS WITH 3D ULTRASOUND COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY ...................................... 2968N. Ruiter, M. Zapf, R. Dapp, T. Hopp, H. Gemmeke

QUANTITATIVE AND AUTOMATIC ECHOGRAPHIC MONITORING OF LABOR PROGRESSION .............................................................................................................................................................. 2972

S. Casciaro, F. Conversano, E. Casciaro, G. Soloperto, M. Stark, A. Perrone

STUDY OF AN ULTRASONIC BONE CUTTING BLADE FOR ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY .......................... 2976Z. Pan, M. Lucas, O. Ganilova

DESIGN, CHARACTERIZATION AND TEST OF A MULTI-TRANSMITTERS, MULTI-RECEIVERS PROBE BASED ON CMUTS FOR CORTICAL BONE EVALUATION ......................................... 2980

A. Boulme, J. Minonzio, S. Ngo, M. Legros, N. Senegond, M. Perroteau, G. Ferin, M. Talmant, P. Laugier, D. Alquier, F. Teston, D. Certon

3D ULTRASOUND PALM VEIN PATTERN FOR BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION .............................................. 2984A. Iula, A. Savoia, G. Caliano

STRAIN MONITORING IN METALLIC PLATES USING THE TIME REVERSAL FOCUSING TECHNIQUE................................................................................................................................................................... 2988

A. Kubrusly, N. Perez, J. Adamowski, J. Weid

PULSATILE CHANGES OF BLOOD ECHOGENICITY IN RAT ARTERIES USING A HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND SYSTEM .................................................................................................................... 2992

K. Nam, T. Bok, Q. Kong, D. Paeng

TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION FOR HIFU THERAPY USING BIOHEAT TRANSFER EQUATION ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2996

J. Park, K. Choi, D. Kong, H. Lee

MULTI-RESONANT VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTER USING A SPIRAL CANTILEVER BEAM ............................................................................................................................................................................... 2999

X. Bai, Y. Wen, P. Li, J. Yang

MULTIPLE FOCUS BEAMFORMING OF PHASED ARRAY TO SUPPRESS GRATING LOBES FOR HIFU........................................................................................................................................................................ 3003

H. Lee, J. Park, K. Choi, D. Kong, J. Won

FAST HYPERSONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT BY BRILLOUIN SCATTERING FROM INDUCED PHONONS .................................................................................................................................................... 3006

T. Sugimoto, T. Yanagitani, S. Takayanagi, M. Matsukawa

REALIZATION OF ULTRA-HIGH QUALITY FACTOR OF DUAL-T QUARTZ CRYSTAL RESONATOR CIRCUIT................................................................................................................................................ 3010

S. Senanayaka, T. Haba, S. Yamamoto, S. Izumiya, T. Adachi

TWO CONTRAST DETECTION SEQUENCES FOR BANDWIDTH-LIMITED INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS ............................................................................................. 3013

D. Maresca, G. Renaud, G. Soest, X. Li, Q. Zhou, K. Shung, N. Jong, A. Steen

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS OF A PROTOTYPE PLANATE ACOUSTIC LENS CONSTRUCTED BY PHONONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURES ........................... 3016

T. Tsuchiya, T. Anada, N. Endoh, S. Matsumoto, K. Mori

DEVELOPMENT OF FLOW CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM USING ULTRASONIC METHODS....................................................................................................................................................................... 3020

H. Schwartz, J. Pineau, G. Feuillard, C. Prax, J. Valiere

TRANSCUTANEOUS VERSUS INTRAOPERATIVE QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND FOR STAGING BOVINE HEPATIC STEATOSIS .............................................................................................................. 3024

G. Weijers, J. Thijssen, C. Korte

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE PULSE WAVE PROPAGATION IN VISCOELASTIC VESSEL TUBES. -EFFECTS OF BLOOD VISCOSITY AND TUBE STIFFNESS-................................................ 3028

Y. Ikenaga, S. Nishi, Y. Komagata, M. Saito, T. Asada, M. Matsukawa

SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF CAROTID ARTERY PLAQUES A FEASIBILITY STUDY IN AN EXPERIMENTAL SETUP................................................................ 3032

E. Widman, E. Maksuti, M. Larsson, A. Bjallmark, K. Caidahl, J. D'hooge

IMPLEMENTATION OF A CONTROLLED INJECTION SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASONOGRAPHY ......................................................................................................................... 3036

A. Dizeux, T. Payen, G. Lechuga, S. Bridal

AN ANALYTICAL MODEL TO DESCRIBE NONLINEAR VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS MEASURED BY DYNAMIC ACOUSTOELASTIC TESTING ................................................................. 3040

C. Trarieux, S. Calle, H. Moreschi, A. Poulin, J. Tranchant, M. Defontaine

HIGH FREQUENCY BROADBAND ARBITRARY CODED EXCITATION IN ULTRASOUND MICROSCOPY ............................................................................................................................................................... 3044

A. Merilainen, T. Fabritius, J. Eskelinen, E. Haeggstrom

OPTIMIZATION OF THE STRAIN TENSOR ESTIMATION FOR CROSS SECTIONAL NON-INVASIVE ELASTOGRAPHY OF THE CAROTID USING ULTRAFAST PLANE WAVE IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3048

J. Poree, D. Garcia, J. Ohayon, G. Cloutier

MODIFIED LEAD-FREE PIEZOELECTRIC POTASSIUM SODIUM NIOBATE CERAMICS AND THEIR PROPERTIES .................................................................................................................................................... 3052

E. Alkoy, A. Yavuz, S. Alkoy

ON THE LATERAL EXCITATION OF SHEAR MODES IN ALN LAYERED RESONATORS ......................... 3056M. Clement, E. Iborra, J. Olivares, M. Miguel-Ramos, J. Capilla, J. Sangrador

ELECTRIC PHASE DELAYS IN TUNABLE ACOUSTO-OPTIC FILTERS APPLYING EXTENDED TRANSDUCERS ...................................................................................................................................... 3060

V. Voloshinov, A. Muromets, A. Trushin

OPTIMIZATION OF OPERATING FREQUENCY OF ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS FOR OBTAINING MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE IN HIFU BASED THERAPEUTIC ABLATION ........................... 3064

A. Bozkurt, R. Roy, S. Ergun

PROPAGATION OF LAMB WAVES ON AN IMMERSED PLATE CONTAINING A PERIODIC GRATING: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ....................................................................................................................... 3068

N. Harhad, M. El-Kettani, H. Djelouah, J. Izbicki, M. Predoi

VECTOR DOPPLER IMAGING AND SECONDARY FLOW PATTERNS IN VASCULAR PROSTHESES ................................................................................................................................................................. 3072

E. Kokkalis, P. Hoskins, G. Corner, P. Stonebridge, A. Doull, A. Melzer, G. Houston

NON-CONTACT QUANTIFICATION OF ADHESION BETWEEN A SPHERICAL SHELL AND A POLYMER BY GUIDED ACOUSTIC WAVES .......................................................................................................... 3076

A. Salmi, P. Karppinen, E. Haeggstrom, S. Hacking

3-D REAL-TIME VOLUMETRIC IMAGING USING 20 MHZ 1.5-MM DIAMETER SINGLE-CHIP CMUT-ON-CMOS ARRAY ........................................................................................................................................... 3080

C. Tekes, G. Gurun, M. Rashid, J. Zahorian, T. Xu, J. Hasler, F. Degertekin

IMAGING QUALITY OF THE CLASSICAL BEAMFORMING, SAFT, AND PLANE WAVE IMAGING - EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS.................................................................................................................. 3084

P. Karwat, Z. Klimonda, M. Lewandowski, A. Nowicki

ACOUSTIC INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION OF QCM SENSOR ARRAYS UTILIZING PHONONIC CRYSTALS ............................................................................................................................................... 3088

Y. Chen, L. Huang, Y. Lin, T. Wu, J. Sun, W. Wang, M. Esashi

MULTI-LAYER PIEZOELECTRET HYDROPHONE FOR ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS .......................... 3092L. Medeiros, H. Basso, R. Altafim, H. Kamimura, A. Cameiro, R. Altafim

SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES IN LIQUID HELIUM FOR ENHANCED SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS.................................................................................................................................... 3096

J. Pedros, L. Garcia-Gancedo, C. Ford, M. Benesh, J. Griffiths, G. Jones, A. Flewitt

GPU IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STA ALGORITHM ON I/Q DATA ............................................................... 3100M. Lewandowski, P. Karwat, J. Kudelka, T. Kleczek

TRANSMURAL STRAIN DISTRIBUTION ACROSS THE CADIAC WALL AND ITS DEPENDENCY ON THE MEASUREMENT SITE..................................................................................................... 3104

T. Nguyen, A. Espinoza, S. Hyler, E. Remme, J. D'hooge, L. Hoff

MODELING HUMAN ARTERIAL WALL MOTION WITH IN VIVO VALIDATION USING HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND ......................................................................................................................... 3108

D. Lin, B. French, J. Hossack

CHARACTERIZATION OF NONLINEAR ULTRASOUND FIELDS OF 2D THERAPEUTIC ARRAYS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3112

P. Yuldashev, W. Kreider, O. Sapozhnikov, N. Farr, A. Partanen, M. Bailey, V. Khokhlova

EFFECT OF MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION ON END-SYSTOLIC RADIAL STRAIN AT THE APEX ................................................................................................................................................................................ 3116

T. Nguyen, A. Espinoza, S. Hyler, E. Remme, J. D'hooge, L. Hoff

MICRO-MOULDED RANDOMISED PIEZOCOMPOSITES FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING............................................................................................................................................ 3120

Y. Jiang, C. Demore, C. Meggs, C. Dunare, T. Stevenson, J. Bamber, S. Cochran, T. Button

ASSESSING THE VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF THROMBUS USING SHEAR WAVE DISPERSION ULTRASOUND VIBROMETRY ......................................................................................................... 3124

P. Chen, C. Shih, C. Huang

DUAL FREQUENCY TRANSDUCER FOR NONLINEAR CONTRAST AGENT IMAGING ............................. 3128A. Guiroy, A. Abellard, F. Levassort, E. Ringgaard, R. Lou-Moeller, T. Zawada, A. Novell, J. Gregoire, A. Bouakaz

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