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CFP14ULT-POD 978-1-4799-7050-6
2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2014)
Chicago, Illinois, USA 3-6 September 2014
Pages 1-877
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PHASE ROTATION IN CORRELATION COEFFICIENT FILTERING AND MULTI-PASS METHODS FOR 3-D SPECKLE TRACKING IN 4-D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ........................................................ 1
Wong, Emily Y. ; O'Donnell, Matthew ; Compas, Colin B. ; Lin, Ben A. ; Sinusas, Albert J. ; Duncan, James S.
A NEW ULTRASOUND IMAGING INDICATOR FOR VULNERABILITY EVALUATATION OF CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES ................................................................................................................. 5
Huang, Lingyun ; He, Qiong ; Zhao, Xihai ; Huang, Manwei ; Luo, Jianwen
A LONGITUDINAL FEASIBILITY STUDY ON AAA GROWTH VS. ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Vonk, T.M. ; Nguyen, V.L. ; Schurink, G.W.H. ; van de Vosse, F.N. ; Lopata, R.G.P.
NEOINTIMA REDUCTION WITH IVUS AND RAPAMYCIN MICROBUBBLES: IN VIVO SWINE MODEL RESULTS ............................................................................................................................................... 13
Kilroy, Joseph P. ; Dhanaliwala, Ali H. ; Wamhoff, Brian R. ; Klibanov, Alexander L. ; Bowles, Douglas K. ; Hossack, John A.
HIGH-SPEED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING OF ULTRASOUND-TRIGGERED DRUG RELEASE FROM PHASE-CHANGE DROPLETS............................................................................................................................ 17
Chang, Tsung-Lun ; Kang, Shih-Tsung ; Yeh, Chih-Kuang
DUAL THERMAL THERAPEUTIC METHOD FOR SELECTIVE TREATMENT OF DEEP-LYING TISSUE ................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Kim, Haemin ; Chang, Jin Ho
SPECTROSCOPIC PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY IN THE 1064–1300 NM RANGE USING A PULSED MULTI-COLOR SOURCE BASED ON STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING .................................... 25
Wilkinson, Benjamin C. ; Sheehan, Timothy C. ; Buma, Takashi
SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL DETECTION OF RADIATION-INDUCED ACOUSTIC WAVES FROM A RADIOTHERAPY LINEAR ACCELERATOR .............................................................................. 29
Hickling, Susannah ; Leger, Pierre ; El Naqa, Issam
ITERATIVE PHOTOACOUSTIC RECONSTRUCTION IN HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA USING THE KACZMARZ METHOD ........................................................................................................................................... 33
Schwab, Hans-Martin ; Beckmann, Martin F. ; Schmitz, Georg
IMPROVED CONTRAST IN LASER-DIODE-BASED PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGES WITH SHORT-LAG SPATIAL COHERENCE BEAMFORMING .......................................................................................... 37
Bell, Muyinatu A.Lediju ; Xiaoyu Guo ; Kang, Hyun Jae ; Boctor, Emad
PHOTOACOUSTIC CLUTTER REDUCTION USING SHORT-LAG SPATIAL COHERENCE WEIGHTED IMAGING ..................................................................................................................................................... 41
Alles, Erwin J. ; Jaeger, Michael ; Bamber, Jeffrey C.
A RAPID APPROACH TO SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION IN ULTRASONIC NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION USING MATCHED FILTERS.................................................................................. 45
Li, Minghui ; Hayward, Gordon
AIR-BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR TOMOGRAPHY USING COMPRESSIVE SENSING ............................................................................................................................................................................. 49
Jideani, Josiah ; Wilkinson, Andrew
MULTI-LAYER ULTRASONIC IMAGING FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................................................. 53
Moallemi, Nasim ; Shahbazpanahi, Shahram
SIMULATION OF FULL-ANGLE ULTRASOUND PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY WITH TWO-PHASE MEDIA USING A RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUE ........................................................................................... 57
Langener, S. ; Musch, T. ; Ermert, H. ; Vogt, M.
CAVITATION CLOUD TRANSLATION IN FOCUSED ULTRASOUND .................................................................. 61Johnston, Keith ; Prentice, Paul ; Gerold, Bjoern
FABLICATION METHOD OF AN OPTICAL LENS ARRRAY USING ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT AND ULTRASOUND VIBRATION .................................................................................................................................. 65
Taniguchi, Satoki ; Koyama, Daisuke ; Nakamura, Kentaro ; Matsukawa, Mami
STRESS AND TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED ORIENTATIONS FOR THICKNESS-SHEAR LANGASITE RESONATORS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HIGH PRESSURE ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................................................................ 69
Patel, Mihir S ; Sinha, Bikash K.
CO-DESIGN OF SAW DUPLEXER AND LNA IN RF TRANSCEIVER IC FOR REDUCING TOTAL NOISE FIGURE IN RF FRONT-END OF CELLULAR SYSTEMS............................................................... 73
Iwaki, M. ; Tsutsumi, J. ; Ueda, M. ; Satoh, Y.
A FULLY MATCHED LTE-A CARRIER AGGREGATION QUADPLEXER BASED ON BAW AND SAW TECHNOLOGIES ........................................................................................................................................... 77
Li, Mingdong ; El-Hakiki, Mohamed ; Kalim, Danish ; Kim, Tae-young ; Link, Andreas ; Schumann, Bert ; Aigner, Robert
QUALITY FACTOR ENHANCEMENT IN LAMB WAVE RESONATORS UTILIZING BUTTERFLY-SHAPED ALN PLATES............................................................................................................................ 81
Zou, Jie ; Lin, Chih-Ming ; Pisano, Albert P.
LOW JITTER FBAR BASED CHIP SCALE PRECISION OSCILLATOR................................................................. 85Sridaran, Suresh ; Fouquet, Julie ; Parker, Reed ; Small, Martha ; Ortiz, Steve ; Bi, Frank ; Gilbert, Stephen R. ; Callaghan, Lori ; Ruby, Rich
MANUFACTURING AND RELIABILITY OF CHIP-SCALE PACKAGED FBAR OSCILLATORS ..................... 89Gilbert, Stephen R. ; Small, Martha ; Parker, Reed ; Callaghan, Lori ; Ortiz, Steve ; Bi, Frank ; Kekoa, Lexie ; Tan, Jackie ; Alias, Norashaz Bin ; Ong, Gerald ; Chen, Choon Chowe ; Ruby, Rich
EFFECTS OF FBAR RESONATOR DISSIPATED POWER ON DISCRETE OSCILLATOR PHASE NOISE .................................................................................................................................................................... 93
Parker, Reed ; Callaghan, Lori ; Bi, Frank ; Ortiz, Steve ; Ha, Frank ; Kumbhat, Nitesh ; LaTourrette, Jeff ; Unkrich, Mark ; Chen, Choon Chowe ; Ong, Gerald
DEVOLOPMENT OF FOCUSED IVUS TRANSDUCER USING PMN-PT SINGLE CRYSTAL............................. 97Guo, Feifei ; Liu, Cheng ; Yang, Yaoheng ; Sun, Lei ; Guo, Feifei ; Yang, Bin ; Chen, Yan ; Dai, Jiyan
VACUUM DEPOSITION OF MASS-SPRING MATCHING LAYERS FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS................................................................................................................................... 101
Brown, J. ; Sharma, S. ; Leadbetter, J. ; Cochran, S. ; Adamson, R.
IMPROVED ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED MOLECULAR IMAGING OF PREVIOUSLY ISCHEMIC MOUSE MYOCARDIUM USING DUAL-TARGETED MICROBUBBLES AND CONSTANT INFUSION................................................................................................................................................... 105
Dan Lin ; Yikui Tian ; Klibanov, Alexander L. ; French, Brent A. ; Hossack, John A.
IN VIVO TRANSTHORACIC MEASUREMENT OF END-DIASTOLIC LEFT VENTRICULAR STIFFNESS WITH ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY: A PILOT STUDY ................................ 109
Song, Pengfei ; Urban, Matthew W. ; Chen, Shigao ; Manduca, Armando ; Zhao, Heng ; Nenadic, Ivan Z. ; Pislaru, Sorin V. ; Pislaru, Cristina ; Greenleaf, James F.
M-MODE ARFI IMAGING DEMONSTRATES THE EFFECT OF CORONARY PERFUSION ON CARDIAC STIFFNESS .................................................................................................................................................... 113
Vejdani-Jahromi, Maryam ; Yang Jiang ; Trahey, Gregg E. ; Wolf, Patrick D.
CAROTID PLAQUE ASSESSMENT USING NON-INVASIVE SHEAR STRAIN ELASTOGRAPHY ................. 117Heusinkveld, Maarten H.G ; Roy Cardinal, Marie-Helene ; Yang Ju ; Zhao Qin ; Lopata, Richard G.P. ; Soulez, Gilles ; Cloutier, Guy
RECURSIVE FOURIER-BASED HIGH-FRAME RATE IMAGING ......................................................................... 121Lu, Jian-yu
NONLINEAR COMPRESSIBILITY AND MASS DENSITY RECONSTRUCTION UNDER PLANE WAVE EXCITATION USING RAW DATA WITH NOISE ........................................................................................ 125
Hesse, Markus C. ; Schmitz, Georg
ULTRASOUND FOURIER SLICE IMAGING: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR ULTRAFAST IMAGING TECHNIQUE ................................................................................................................................................. 129
Bernard, Olivier ; Zhang, Miaomiao ; Varray, Francois ; Gueth, Pierre ; Thiran, Jean-Philippe ; Liebgott, Herve ; Friboulet, Denis
EFFICIENT MONITORING AND INSPECTION OF PLATE-LIKE STRUCTURES WITH ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES .................................................................................................................................. 133
Michaels, Jennifer E.
PASSIVE FLAW DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION IN THIN PLATE FROM AMBIENT NOISE CROSS-CORRELATION ................................................................................................................................... 138
Chehami, Lynda ; de Rosny, Julien ; Prada, Claire ; Chehami, Lynda ; Moulin, Emmanuel
ESTIMATION OF THE FLEXURAL STIFFNESS OF THIN PLATES USING A SINGLE LOW-COST PASSIVE SENSOR................................................................................................................................................ 142
Svanstrom, Erika ; Tugba Ozge Onur ; Carlson, Johan E.
MODELLING ELASTIC WAVE PROPAGATION USING THE K-WAVE MATLAB TOOLBOX ...................... 146Treeby, Bradley E. ; Jaros, Jiri ; Rohrbach, Daniel ; Cox, B.T.
A WAVE-VECTOR-FREQUENCY-DOMAIN METHOD FOR LINEAR/NONLINEAR WAVE MODELING IN HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA ............................................................................................................. 150
Jing, Yun
HIGHLY TUNABLE FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS USING PIEZOELECTRIC PHONONIC CRYSTALS........................................................................................................................................................................ 154
Dubus, Bertrand ; Ponge, Marie-Fraise ; Hladky, Anne-Christine ; Vasseur, Jerome ; Phamthi, Mai
FULL-FIELD CHARACTERIZATION OF SURFACE VIBRATIONS IN MICROACOUSTIC COMPONENTS BY SUPERCONTINUUM LASER STROBOSCOPIC WHITE-LIGHT INTERFEROMETRY....................................................................................................................................................... 158
Lipiainen, Lauri ; Kokkonen, Kimmo ; Novotny, Steffen ; Shavrin, Igor ; Ludvigsen, Hanne ; Kaivola, Matti
DISTINGUISHING CHEMICALS USING CMUT CHEMICAL SENSOR ARRAY AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS ........................................................................................................................... 162
Stedman, Quintin ; Park, Kwan-Kyu ; Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T.
BANDWIDTH AND SENSITIVITY OPTIMIZATION IN CMUTS FOR AIRBORNE APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 166
Apte, Nikhil ; Park, Kwan Kyu ; Nikoozadeh, Amin ; Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T.
ROTATIONAL CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS......................................... 170Kim, Donghwan ; Kuntzman, Michael L. ; Hall, Neal A.
THE INFLUENCE OF ELIMINATING THE FIXED ELECTRODE FROM AN AIR-COUPLED, DUAL DEFLECTABLE MEMBRANE, CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER ................................................................................................................................................................. 174
Emadi, T.A. ; Buchanan, D.A.
POLYMERIC CAPACITIVE TRANSDUCERS AND ARRAYS FOR GAS COUPLED OPERATION ................. 177L O'Leary, Richard ; Harvey, Gerald
FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF WAFER-BONDED CMUT ARRAYS DEDICATED TO ULTRASOUND-IMAGE-GUIDED FUS ......................................................................................... 181
Gross, Dominique ; Perroteau, Marie ; Certon, Dominique ; Coutier, Caroline ; Legros, Mathieu
A NOVEL METHOD FOR MEASURING DIELECTRIC CHARGING OF CMUT ARRAYS ............................... 185Wong, Lawrence L.P. ; Na, Shuai ; Chen, Albert I.H. ; Yeow, John T.W.
4D HARMONIC AND SUBHARMONIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF BREAST MASSES: UPDATE ON A MULTI-CENTER PROSPECTIVE STUDY .................................................................................................................................................. 189
Eisenbrey, J.R. ; Machado, P. ; Sridharan, A ; Ojeda-Fournier, H. ; Wilkes, A. ; Sevrukov, A. ; Mattrey, R.F. ; Forsberg, F.
CHARACTERIZATION OF RENAL MASSES WITH HARMONIC AND SUBHARMONIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND .................................................................................................................. 193
Eisenbrey, John R. ; Shaw, Colette M. ; Lyshchik, Andrej ; Machado, Priscilla ; Lallas, Costas D. ; Trabulsi, Edouard J. ; Merton, Daniel A. ; Fox, Traci B. ; Ji-Bin Liu ; Brown, Daniel B. ; Forsberg, Flemming
TUMOR PERFUSION AND NEOVASCULAR MORPHOLOGY MEASUREMENTS USING DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING .......................................................................... 197
Hoyt, Kenneth
INTRAOPERATIVE QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF BRAIN TUMOR STIFFNESS AND INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE ASSESSMENT USING ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY............................................................................................................................................................ 201
Imbault, M. ; Demene, C. ; Mossad, M. ; Gennisson, JL. ; Tanter, M. ; Chauvet, D. ; Capelle, L. ; Karachi, C. ; Boch, AL.
COMPARISON OF SHEAR WAVE SPEED ESTIMATES IN EX VIVO NON-PREGNANT VS. IN VIVO PREGNANT CERVIX ........................................................................................................................................... 205
Carlson, Lindsey C. ; Feltovich, Helen ; Palmeri, Mark M. ; Del Rio, Alejandro Munoz ; Romero, Stephanie ; Hall, Timothy J.
3D IN VIVO ARFI IMAGING: PROSTATE CANCER SENSITIVITY ..................................................................... 209Miller, Zachary A. ; Palmeri, Mark L. ; Rosenzweig, Stephen J. ; Glass, Tyler J. ; Nightingale, Kathryn R. ; Polascik, Thomas J. ; Buck, Andrew ; Madden, John
COMB-PUSH ULTRASOUND SHEAR ELASTOGRAPHY OF THYROID: PRELIMINARY IN VIVO HUMAN STUDY .................................................................................................................................................... 213
Mehrmohammadi, Mohammad ; Denis, Max ; Song, Pengfei ; Chen, Shigao ; Fatemi, Mostafa ; Alizad, Azra
SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY OF EX VIVO HUMAN CORNEAS USING PHASE-SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY............................................................................................ 217
Nguyen, Thu-Mai ; Song, Shaozhen ; Shi, Lei ; Wang, Ruikang K. ; O'Donnell, Matthew ; Shen, Tueng T. ; Wang, Ruikang K. ; Song, Shaozhen ; Huang, Zhihong
ACOUSTO-ELECTRICAL SPECKLE PATTERN IN ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................................................................... 221
Grasland-Mongrain, Pol ; Destrempes, Francois ; Mari, Jean-Martial ; Souchon, Remi ; Catheline, Stefan ; Chapelon, Jean-Yves ; Lafon, Cyril ; Cloutier, Guy
QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND BACKSCATTER PARAMETERS IN THE HUMAN CERVIX ...................... 224Guerrero, Quinton W. ; Carlson, Lindsey C. ; Feltovich, Helen ; Hall, Timothy
VISCOELASTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSVERSE ISOTROPIC TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOMS AND MUSCLE........................................................................................................................................... 228
Aristizabal, Sara ; Amador, Carolina ; Bo Qiang ; Nenadic, Ivan Z. ; Greenleaf, James F. ; Urban, Matthew W.
EFFECTS OF GRAPHITE POROSITY AND ANISOTROPY ON MEASUREMENTS OF ELASTIC MODULUS USING LASER ULTRASONICS................................................................................................................ 232
Spicer, James B ; Zeng, Fan W ; Han, Karen ; Olasov, Lauren R ; Gallego, Nidia C ; Contescu, Cristian I
STUDIES ON FREQUENCY SELECTIVE ITERATIVE DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHMS APPLIED TO CONCRETE IMAGING AND CHARACTERIZATION..................................................................... 236
Rodriguez, A. ; Salazar, A. ; Vergara, L. ; Svilainis, L. ; Kybartas, D. ; Liaukonis, D.
NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF POROSITY ON THE FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF GLARE COMPOSITE ...................................................................................... 240
Veres, Istvan A. ; Smith, Robert A. ; Pinfield, Valerie J
NONLINEAR RESONANT ACOUSTIC DETECTION OF CRACKS IN MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITORS................................................................................................................................................................... 244
Johnson, Ward L. ; Kim, Sudook A. ; White, Grady S. ; Herzberger, Jaemi
ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION AND DAMAGE SENSING IN A BONDED PMC/SIC-FOAM ........................... 248Blackshire, James L.
REDUCTION OF FREQUENCY DEVIATIONS IN QUARTZ RESONATORS BY ELECTRIC POTENTIALS OF PLATE ELECTRODES ................................................................................................................... 252
Chen, Jianfeng ; Yong, Yook-Kong ; Kubena, Randall ; Kirby, Deborah ; Chang, David
DYNAMIC NONLINEAR PROBE UTILIZING TRAVELING MULTIWAVE INTERACTION........................... 256Gallot, Thomas ; Malcom, Alison ; Szabo, Thomas L. ; Burns, Dan ; Brown, Stephen ; Fehler, Michael
ESTIMATION OF DEPLETION OR INJECTION INDUCED CHANGES IN RESERVOIR STRESSES USING TIME-LAPSE SONIC DATA......................................................................................................... 260
Sinha, Bikash K. ; Simsek, Ergun
ADVANCES IN NONLINEAR MEASUREMENT & MODELING OF BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS (INVITED) ............................................................................................................................................. 264
Feld, David A. ; Shim, Dong S. ; Fouladi, Siamak ; Bayatpur, Farhad
DETERMINATION OF FULL MATERIAL CONSTANTS OF SCALN THIN FILM FROM BULK AND LEAKY LAMB WAVES IN MEMS-BASED SAMPLES .................................................................................... 273
Konno, Akira ; Kadota, Michio ; Kushibiki, Jun-ichi ; Ohashi, Yuji ; Esashi, Masayoshi ; Yamamoto, Yasuo ; Tanaka, Shuji
A REFINED METHOD TO DETERMINE THE ELASTIC CONSTANTS OF SIO2 THIN FILMS....................... 277Knapp, Matthias ; Jager, Philipp ; Ruile, Werner ; Bleyl, Ingo ; Reindl, Leonhard M.
HIGHLY PIEZOELECTRIC CO-DOPED ALN THIN FILMS FOR WIDEBAND FBAR APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 281
Yokoyama, Tsuyoshi ; Iwazaki, Yoshiki ; Onda, Yousuke ; Sasajima, Yuichi ; Nishihara, Tokihiro ; Ueda, Masanori
A NEW METHOD FOR FAST AND ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF THE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS OF MATERIAL CONSTANTS UP TO 700 C. APPLICATION TO LGS .................................... 289
Nicolay, Pascal ; Bardong, Jochen ; Bruckner, Gudrun
SIMULATION MODEL FOR CMUT WITH RAPID STRUCTURE FLUID INTERACTION IN TIME DOMAIN ................................................................................................................................................................ 293
Klemm, Markus ; Unamuno, Anartz
RESONANCES AND NONUNIFORMITIES IN CMUT ELEMENTS OR ARRAYS ............................................... 297Atalar, Abdullah ; Koymen, Hayrettin
AN EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL FOR CURVED PIEZOELECTRIC MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS WITH SPHERICAL-SHAPE DIAPHRAGMS..................................................... 301
Akhbari, Sina ; Sammoura, Firas ; Liwei Lin
MULTIPLE ELECTRODE PIEZOELECTRIC MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS ............................................................................................................................................................... 305
Sammoura, Firas ; Akhari, Sina ; Aqab, Nawal ; Mahmoud, Maitha ; Lin, Liwei
LUMPED ELEMENT MODELING OF CMUT ARRAYS IN COLLAPSED MODE ............................................... 309Aydogdu, Elif ; Ozgurluk, Alper ; Atalar, Abdullah ; Koymen, Hayrettin
A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT NONLINEAR SYSTEM MODEL FOR CMUT ARRAYS ....................... 313Satir, Sarp ; Degertekin, F.Levent
A COLUMN-ROW-PARALLEL ULTRASOUND IMAGING ARCHITECTURE FOR 3D PLANE-WAVE IMAGING AND TX 2ND-ORDER HARMONIC DISTORTION (HD2) REDUCTION .............................. 317
Chen, Kailiang ; Byung Chul Lee ; Thomenius, Kai ; Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T. ; Lee, Hae-Seung ; Sodini, Charles G.
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT IMPROVEMENTS USING STACKABLE HIGH-CHANNEL-COUNT ULTRASOUND HARDWARE ........................................................................................................................................ 321
Tobias, Richard J. ; Schafer, Mark E.
TRI-MODALITY ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM: DESIGN AND PHANTOM EXPERIMENT RESULTS ............................................................................................................................................... 325
Nguyen, Man M ; Ding, Xuan ; Yu, Jaesok ; Daewoo Park ; Yu, Francois ; Kim, Kang
ULTRASOUND PRE-CLINICAL PLATFORM FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TARGETED THERAPY ...................... 329Certon, D. ; Legros, M. ; Gross, D. ; Vince, Ph. ; Gens, F. ; Gregoire, J.M. ; Coutier, C. ; Novell, A. ; Bouakaz, A.
IN-VIVO CONVEX ARRAY VECTOR FLOW IMAGING ......................................................................................... 333Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ; Andreas Hjelm Brandt ; Nielsen, Michael Bachmann
ROBUST ANGLE-INDEPENDENT BLOOD VELOCITY ESTIMATION BASED ON MULTI-ANGLE SPECKLE TRACKING AND VECTOR DOPPLER ..................................................................................... 337
Fadnes, Solveig ; Ekroll, Ingvild Kinn ; Nyrnes, Siri Ann ; Torp, Hans ; Lovstakken, Lasse
INTRAVENTRICULAR BLOOD FLOW VECTOR AND STREAMLINE IMAGING USING HIGH FRAME RATE CARDIAC ULTRASOUND .................................................................................................................. 341
Takahashi, Hiroki ; Hasegawa, Hideyuki ; Kanai, Hiroshi
BLOOD VELOCITY MEASUREMENT IN HEALTHY AND DISEASED CAROTID ARTERIES BY VECTOR DOPPLER TECHNIQUES ...................................................................................................................... 345
Lenge, Matteo ; Righi, Daniele ; Ricci, Stefano ; Liebgott, Herve ; Tortoli, Piero
ENHANCEMENT OF PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNAL USING A NOVEL LIGHT ILLUMINATION IMPROVEMENT DEVICE: IN VIVO FEASIBILITY ANIMAL STUDY ................................................................. 349
Jaesok Yu ; Youngsoo Jung ; Jeeun Kang ; Lee, Sang Goo ; Jin Ho Chang ; Jung-Kun Lee ; Kim, Kang
AN ADAPTIVE INTERFEROMETRIC SENSOR FOR ALL-OPTICAL PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY ................................................................................................................................................................. 353
Chitnis, Parag V. ; Lloyd, Harriet ; Silverman, Ronald H.
LONGITUDINAL MONITORING OF OXYGEN SATURATION WITH PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING .......................................................................................................................................................................... 357
Hysi, Eno ; May, Jonathan P. ; Wirtzfeld, Lauren A. ; Undzys, Elijus ; Li, Shyh-Dar ; Kolios, Michael C.
ULTRASONIC DETECTION OF THE ALKALI-SILICA REACTION DAMAGE IN CONCRETE..................... 361Gong, Peng ; Patton, Mark E. ; Liu, Chang ; Oppenheim, Irving J. ; Greve, David W. ; Harley, Joel B. ; Junker, Warren R.
ESTIMATION OF CONSOLIDATION PROFILES FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CERAMICS USING ULTRASONIC SIGNATURE............................................................................................................................. 365
Salazar, Addisson ; Safont, Gonzalo ; Rodriguez, Alberto ; Vergara, Luis
ULTRASONIC ASSEMBLY OF SHORT FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES................................................... 369Scholz, Marc-S. ; Drinkwater, Bruce W. ; Trask, Richard S.
NON-LINEAR CAVITATION CLOUD OSCILLATIONS IN HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ................................................................................................................................................................. 373
Johnston, Keith ; Cochran, Sandy ; Prentice, Paul
TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS AND RESONATOR DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF IR/LGS HIGH TEMPERATURE SAW DEVICES.................................................................................................................................. 377
Sakharov, Sergey ; Zabelin, Alexey ; Medvedev, Andrey ; Buzanov, Oleg ; Kondratiev, Serguei ; Roshchupkin, Dmitry ; Shvetsov, Alexander ; Zhgoon, Sergei
WIRELESS HARSH ENVIRONMENT SAW ARRAY SYSTEM FOR POWER PLANT APPLICATION ................................................................................................................................................................. 381
Pereira da Cunha, M. ; Lad, R.J. ; Pollard, T.B. ; McCann, D. ; McCarthy, E. ; Prata, P. ; Kelley, R.
CORRELATION BETWEEN STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF ALN/SAPPHIRE AND PERFORMANCES OF SAW DEVICES IN WIDE TEMPERATURE RANGE ........................................................ 385
Aissa, K.Ait ; Elmazria, O. ; Boulet, P. ; Aubert, T.
LAMB-WAVE RESONATOR FOR MICROPHONE APPLICATION ...................................................................... 388Meltaus, Johanna ; Ylilammi, Markku ; Dekker, James ; Riekkinen, Tommi ; Rantakari, Pekka ; Nurmela, Arto ; Pensala, Tuomas ; Harrington, Brandon P. ; Lautenschlager, Eric
SAW TAGS FOR THE 6 GHZ RANGE AND SAW DEVICES FOR 2–5 GHZ RANGE PRODUCED WITH NANO-IMPRINT-LITHOGRAPHY................................................................................................................... 392
Plessky, Victor P. ; Davis, Zachary J. ; Lamothe, Marc ; Suchkov, Sergey G.
ANALYSIS OF INTER-SENSOR INTERFERENCE FOR WIRELESS SAW SENSORS........................................ 396Humphries, J.R. ; Gallagher, M.W. ; Malocha, D.C.
SINGLE ARCHIMEDEAN SPIRAL CLOSE PACKED PHASED ARRAY HIFU.................................................... 400Morrison, Kyle P. ; Keilman, George W. ; Kaczkowski, Peter J.
DESIGN OF A MINIMALLY INVASIVE LOW-FREQUENCY MICROTRANSDUCER FOR ULTRASONIC NEUROMODULATION ....................................................................................................................... 405
Mulgaonkar, Amit P. ; Singh, Rahul S. ; Saddik, George N. ; Maccabi, Ashkan ; Melega, William P. ; Culjat, Martin O. ; Grundfest, Warren S.
FREQUENCY OPTIMIZATION IN HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ............................................ 409Yetik, Hasan ; Ariyurek, Cemre ; Bozkurt, Ayhan ; Ergun, Arif Sanli
INFLUENCE OF BINDING ON THE VIBRATIONAL RESPONSES OF TARGETED LIPID-COATED MICROBUBBLES........................................................................................................................................... 413
van Rooij, Tom ; van der Steen, Antonius F.W. ; de Jong, Nico ; Kooiman, Klazina
IN VIVO QUANTIFICATION OF IMAGE ENHANCEMENT AND CIRCULATION KINETICS FOR PHASE CHANGE PERFLUOROCARBON AGENTS USING CUSTOM PULSE SEQUENCES.................. 417
Sheeran, Paul S. ; Rojas, Juan D. ; Puett, Connor ; Hjelmquist, Jordan ; Arena, Christopher B. ; Dayton, Paul A.
COMPARISON OF TUMOR MICROVASCULATURE ASSESSMENT VIA ULTRAFAST DOPPLER TOMOGRAPHY AND DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND .................................. 421
Demene, Charlie ; Payen, Thomas ; Dizeux, Alexandre ; Barrois, Guillaume ; Gennisson, Jean Luc ; Bridal, Lori ; Tanter, Mickael
ULTRASOUND MICROANGIOGRAPHY OF THE METACAROPHALANGEAL JOINT USING ULTRAFAST DOPPLER ................................................................................................................................................. 425
Maresca, David ; Tanter, Mickael ; Pernot, Mathieu
FLOW DETECTION BASED ON THE SPATIAL COHERENCE OF BACKSCATTERED ECHOES ............................................................................................................................................................................ 428
You Leo Li ; Dahl, Jeremy J.
IMPROVED WALL SHEAR RATE METHOD FOR ROBUST MEASUREMENTS ............................................... 432Ricci, S. ; Swillens, A. ; Ramalli, A. ; Cinthio, M. ; Segers, P. ; Tortoli, P.
IN VIVO EVALUATION OF AN OBJECTIVE METHOD TO SELECT POWER DOPPLER WALL FILTER CUT-OFF FREQUENCY FOR MICROVASCULAR QUANTIFICATION ............................................... 436
Elfarnawany, Mai ; Lowerison, Matthew R. ; Hague, M.Nicole ; Chambers, Ann F. ; Lacefield, James C.
NEW PERFORMANCE METRICS FOR ULTRASOUND PULSE COMPRESSION SYSTEMS .......................... 440Harput, Sevan ; McLaughlan, James ; Cowell, David M.J. ; Freear, Steven
HIGH-RESOLUTION BLOOD FLOW IMAGING THROUGH THE SKULL ......................................................... 444Baradarani, Aryaz ; Sadler, Jeffrey ; Taylor, Jason R.B. ; Maev, Roman
DYNAMIC ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF CERVICAL SPINE INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS ............................. 448Zheng, Mingxin ; Masoudi, Aidin ; Buckland, Daniel ; Stemper, Brian ; Yoganandan, Narayan ; Szabo, Thomas ; Snyder, Brian
IMPROVED DETECTION OF KIDNEY STONES USING AN OPTIMIZED DOPPLER IMAGING SEQUENCE ....................................................................................................................................................................... 452
Cunitz, Bryan ; Dunmire, Barbrina ; Paun, Marla ; Sapozhnikov, Oleg ; Kucewicz, John ; Hsi, Ryan ; Lee, Franklin ; Sorensen, Matthew ; Harper, Jonathan ; Bailey, Michael
ULTRAFAST PLANE WAVE IMAGING BASED PULSED MAGNETOMOTIVE ULTRASOUND .................... 456Ting, Pei-Hsien ; Kang, Yi-Da ; Chen, San-Yuan ; Li, Meng-Lin
AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT OF BIPARIETAL DIAMETER WITH A PORTABLE ULTRASOUND DEVICE ................................................................................................................................................. 459
Naiad Hossain Khan ; Tegnander, Eva ; Dreier, Johan Morten ; Eik-Nes, Sturla ; Torp, Hans ; Kiss, Gabriel
TWO-DIMENSIONAL NONCONTACT TRANSPORTATION OF SMALL OBJECTS IN AIR USING FLEXURAL VIBRATION OF A PLATE ......................................................................................................... 463
Kashima, Ryota ; Koyama, Daisuke ; Matsukawa, Mami
LEVITATING WATER DROPLETS FORMED BY MIST PARTICLES IN AN ACOUSTIC FIELD ................... 467Suthar, Kamlesh ; Benmore, Chris J. ; Den Hartog, Patric ; Tamalonis, Anthony ; Weber, Richard
PLATE MODES IN LITAO3 FOR APPLICATION IN WIDE BAND RESONATOR FILTERS WITH IMPROVED TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTICS.................................................................................... 471
Naumenko, Natalya F.
COMPLETE BANDGAP SAW PHONONIC RESONANT TOPOLOGIES............................................................... 475Yantchev, Ventsislav
CHIP-SCALE RECONFIGURABLE PHASED-ARRAY SONIC COMMUNICATION .......................................... 479Hoople, Jason ; Kuo, Justin ; Ardanuc, Serhan ; Lal, Amit
TOWARDS ULTRASONIC THROUGH-SILICON VIAS (UTSV) ............................................................................. 483Kuo, Justin ; Hoople, Jason ; Ardanuc, Serhan ; Lal, Amit
DESIGN OF HIGH-Q THIN FILM BULK ACOUSTIC RESONATOR USING DUAL-MODE REFLECTION................................................................................................................................................................... 487
Ngoc Nguyen ; Johannessen, Agne ; Hanke, Ulrik
INTEGRATION OF PZT THIN FILMS ON A MICROFLUIDIC COMPLEX SYSTEM ........................................ 491Cazorla, P.-H. ; Fuchs, O. ; Cochet, M. ; Maubert, S. ; Le Rhun, G. ; Fouillet, Y. ; Defay, E.
NEW APPLICATIONS OF BIOULTRASONICS ......................................................................................................... 495Yamashita, Yohachi ; Sugiura, Hiroki ; Karaki, Tomoaki ; Iwanaga, Motoki ; Zuo-Guang Ye
NUCLEIC ACID EXTRACTION USING A RAPID, CHEMICAL FREE, ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUE FOR POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSTICS .............................................................................................. 501
Branch, Darren W. ; Smith, Gennifer T. ; Vreeland, Erika C. ; Blakemore, Robert ; Alland, David
NUCLEAR RADIATION TOLERANCE OF SINGLE CRYSTAL ALUMINUM NITRIDE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER ...................................................................................................................................... 507
Tittmann, B.R. ; Reinhardt, B. ; Parks, D.
ULTRASONIC PROPULSION OF KIDNEY STONES: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF HUMAN FEASIBILITY STUDY ..................................................................................................................................................... 511
Bailey, Michael ; Cunitz, Bryan ; Dunmire, Barbrina ; Paun, Marla ; Lee, Franklin ; Ross, Susan ; Lingeman, James ; Coburn, Michael ; Wessells, Hunter ; Sorensen, Mathew ; Harper, Jonathan
A SEQUENTIAL BAYESIAN BASED METHOD FOR TRACKING AND STRAIN PALPOGRAPHY ESTIMATION OF ARTERIES IN INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGES ................. 515
Widynski, Nicolas ; Poree, Jonathan ; Roy Cardinal, Marie-Helene ; Ohayon, Jacques ; Cloutier, Guy ; Garcia, Damien
SEMI-3D STRAIN IMAGING OF AN ATHEROSCLEROTIC CAROTID ARTERY BY MULTI-CROSS-SECTIONAL RADIAL STRAIN ESTIMATIONS USING SIMULATED MULTI-ANGLE PLANE WAVE ULTRASOUND...................................................................................................................................... 519
Fekkes, Stein ; Swillens, Abigail E.S. ; Hansen, Hendrik H.G. ; Saris, Anne E.C.M. ; Nillesen, Maartje M. ; Iannaccone, Francesco ; Segers, Patrick ; de Korte, Chris L.
IN VIVO RADIAL AND LONGITUDINAL CAROTID ARTERY PLAQUE STRAIN ESTIMATION VIA ULTRASOUND-BASED SPECKLE TRACKING ................................................................................................ 523
Widman, Erik ; Caidahl, Kenneth ; Larsson, Matilda
AN ADAPTED BEAMFORMING FREE FROM CRYSTALLINE LENS PHASE ABERRATION FOR OCULAR ULTRASONOGRAPHY - IN VITRO AND EX VIVO RESULTS WITH A 20 MHZ LINEAR ARRAY .............................................................................................................................................................. 527
Mateo, Tony ; Mofid, Yassine ; Gregoire, Jean-Marc ; Ossant, Frederic
AN IMPROVED ACOUSTIC CLUTTER MODEL AND DIRECT IN VIVO ASSESSMENT OF OFF-AXIS AND MULTIPATH CLUTTER ENERGY IN THE LIVER ..................................................................... 531
Byram, Brett ; Dei, Kazuyuki ; Dumont, Douglas
SPARSE SAMPLING METHODS FOR EFFICIENT SPATIAL COHERENCE ESTIMATION ........................... 535Dongwoon Hyun ; Trahey, Gregg E. ; Dahl, Jeremy J.
PHASE COHERENCE FACTOR WITH SUB-APERTURE BEAMFORMING ....................................................... 539Hasegawa, Hideyuki ; Kanai, Hiroshi
ROBUST ULTRASONIC REVERBERATION CLUTTER SUPPRESSION USING MULTI-APODIZATION WITH CROSS-CORRELATION ....................................................................................................... 543
Shin, Junseob ; Chen, Yu ; Nguyen, Man ; Yen, Jesse T.
LOW-RATE ULTRASONIC COMMUNICATION AXIALLY ALONG A CYLINDRICAL PIPE ........................ 547Chakraborty, Soumya ; Saulnier, Gary J. ; Wilt, Kyle W. ; Litman, Robert B. ; Scarton, Henry A.
SIGNAL OPTIMIZATION OF PSK MODULATED GOLD-SEQUENCES FOR NARROW BAND TRANSDUCERS ............................................................................................................................................................... 552
Schroder, Andreas ; Henning, Bernd
ECHO IDENTIFICATION BY SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION OF CROSS WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION .................................................................................................................................................. 556
Chi-Hang Kwan ; Sinclair, Anthony N.
ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTER FOR ROBUST TIMING OF ULTRASOUND ECHOES ........................... 560Jia, Yunlu ; Skliar, Mikhail
HARDWARE-SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN OF 3D DATA COMPRESSION FOR REAL-TIME ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................................ 564
Govindan, Pramod ; Saniie, Jafar
OVERMODED SHEAR HORIZONTAL WAVE MEMS RESONATORS USING X-CUT LITHIUM NIOBATE THIN FILM .................................................................................................................................................... 568
Gong, Songbin ; Piazza, Gianluca
SUPPRESSING FINE-FREQUENCY MODES IN ALUMINUM NITRIDE MICRORESONATORS .................... 572Branch, Darren W. ; Olsson, Roy H.
INVESTIGATIONS ON QUALITY FACTOR OF HIGH FREQUENCY LATERALLY VIBRATING LN ON SIO2 MICRORESONATORS..................................................................................................... 578
Shi, Lisha ; Piazza, Gianluca
CMUT-IN-CMOS 2D ARRAYS WITH ADVANCED MULTIPLEXING AND TIME-GAIN CONTROL ......................................................................................................................................................................... 582
Lemmerhirt, David F. ; Borna, Amir ; Alvar, Sushma ; Rich, Collin A. ; Kripfgans, Oliver D.
IMPROVED PERFORMANCE CMUT-ON-CMOS DEVICES USING ALD HAFNIUM OXIDE INSULATION LAYER ..................................................................................................................................................... 587
Xu, Toby ; Tekes, Coskun ; Degertekin, F.Levent
NON- FLEXURAL PARALLEL PISTON MOVEMENT ACROSS CMUT WITH SUBSTRATE-EMBEDDED SPRINGS .................................................................................................................................................... 591
Lee, Byung Chul ; Nikoozadeh, Amin ; Park, Kwan Kyu ; Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T.
MICROFABRICATION OF A CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER (CMUT) WITH AN INTERNALLY SEALED PIVOT.................................................................................................. 595
Kim, Donghwan ; Kuntzman, Michael L. ; Hall, Neal A.
ROW-COLUMN ADDRESSED 2-D CMUT ARRAYS WITH INTEGRATED APODIZATION ............................ 600Christiansen, Thomas Lehrmann ; Rasmussen, Morten Fischer ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ; Thomsen, Erik Vilain
FABRICATION OF ANODICALLY BONDED CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS WITH VACUUM-SEALED CAVITIES ........................................................................................... 604
Yamaner, F.Yalcin ; Xiao Zhang ; Oralkan, Omer
ELASTIC REGISTRATION VS. BLOCK MATCHING FOR QUANTIFICATION OF CARDIAC FUNCTION WITH 3D ULTRASOUND: INITIAL RESULTS OF A DIRECT COMPARISON IN SILICO BASED ON A NEW EVALUATION PIPELINE ............................................................................................ 608
Alessandrini, Martino ; Heyde, Brecht ; Cygan, Szymon ; Sermesant, Maxime ; Delingette, Herve ; Bernard, Olivier ; De Craene, Mathieu ; D'hooge, Jan
SEMI-AUTOMATIC LEFT-ATRIAL SEGMENTATION FROM VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND USING B-SPLINE EXPLICIT ACTIVE SURFACES ................................................................................................... 612
Almeida, Nuno ; Barbosa, Daniel ; Heyde, Brecht ; Mada, Razvan Olimpiu ; Friboulet, Denis ; Bernard, Olivier ; Samset, Eigil ; D'hooge, Jan
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTRAST-ULTRASOUND DISPERSION IMAGING FOR PROSTATE CANCER LOCALIZATION, A FEASIBILITY STUDY ........................................................................ 616
Schalk, Stefan ; Demi, Libertario ; Smeenge, Martijn ; de la Rosette, Jean ; Wijkstra, Hessel ; Mischi, Massimo
QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND ANALYSES OF CELL STARVATION IN HT-29 PELLETS.......................... 620Wirtzfeld, L.A. ; Berndl, E.S.L. ; Czarnota, G.J. ; Kolios, M.C.
FINE-RESOLUTION MAPS OF ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES AT 250 MHZ OF FRESH SAMPLES AND UNSTAINED FIXED 12-µM THIN SECTIONS FROM CANCEROUS HUMAN LYMPH NODES ............................................................................................................................................................................... 624
Rohrbach, Daniel ; Saegusa-Beecroft, Emi ; Yanagihara, Eugene ; Machi, Junji ; Feleppa, Ernest J. ; Mamou, Jonathan
STRUCTURE FACTOR MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING THE ULTRASONIC SCATTERING FROM CONCENTRATED CELL PELLET BIOPHANTOMS ................................................................................... 628
Franceschini, Emilie ; Guillermin, Regine ; Tourniaire, Franck ; Landrier, Jean-Francois
EFFECTIVE SCATTERER SIZE ESTIMATES IN HT-29 SPHEROIDS AT 55 MHZ AND 80 MHZ ................... 632Wirtzfeld, L.A. ; Berndl, E.S.L. ; Czarnota, G.J. ; Kolios, M.C.
IMPACT OF MICROSCALE PROPERTIES MEASURED BY 50-MHZ ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY ON MESOSCALE ELASTIC AND ULTIMATE MECHANICAL CORTICAL BONE PROPERTIES ....................................................................................................................................................... 636
Bourgnon, Adeline ; Sitzer, Annette ; Chabraborty, Aritra ; Rohde, Kerstin ; Varga, Peter ; Wendlandt, Robert ; Raum, Kay
INDUCED TISSUE DISPLACEMENT IN MAGNETOMOTIVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING - SIMULATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ......................................................................................................................... 639
Jansson, Tomas ; Evertsson, Maria ; Atile, Esayas ; Andersson, Roger ; Fredriksson, Sarah ; Persson, Hans W ; Svensson, Ingrid ; Cinthio, Magnus
SHEAR WAVE ARRIVAL TIME ESTIMATES CORRELATE WITH LOCAL SPECKLE PATTERN .......................................................................................................................................................................... 643
McAleavey, Stephen ; Langdon, Jonathan ; Osapoetra, Laurentius
SHEAR WAVE GENERATION WITH STEERED ULTRASOUND PUSH BEAMS ............................................... 647Nabavizadeh, Alireza ; Song, Pengfei ; Chen, Shigao ; Greenleaf, James F. ; Urban, Matthew W.
SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY METHOD COMBINING PHASE-SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AND CODED ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE ............................................... 651
Nguyen, Thu-Mai ; Song, Shaozhen ; Arnal, Bastien ; Wong, Emily Y ; Wang, Ruikang K. ; O'Donnell, Matthew ; Wang, Ruikang K.
A NOVEL MEMS GAS SENSOR BASED ON ULTRASONIC RESONANCE CAVITY ......................................... 655Koppinen, P.J. ; Sillanpaa, T. ; Karkkainen, A. ; Saarilahti, J. ; Seppa, H.
MICROACOUSTIC IN-LIQUID SENSORS BASED ON THIN ALN FILMS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ............................................................................................................................................................................... 659
Mirea, Teona ; Iborra, Enrique ; Yantchev, Ventsislav
SELF-SENSING ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER FOR CAVITATION DETECTION........................................... 663Bornmann, Peter ; Hemsel, Tobias ; Sextro, Walter ; Memoli, Gianluca ; Hodnett, Mark ; Zeqiri, Bajram
DEVELOPMENT OF DUAL-LAYER MICROMACHINED COMPOSITE TRANSDUCERS FOR BROADBAND ULTRASOUND IMAGING ................................................................................................................... 667
Li, Sibo ; Jiang, Xiaoning ; Tian, Jian ; Han, Pengdi
FABRICATION OF A HIGH-FREQUENCY PHASED ARRAY WITH SPARSE VERNIER ARRAY ELEMENT SPACING FOR GRATING LOBE SUPPRESSION ................................................................................. 671
Bezanson, A. ; Leadbetter, J. ; Brown, J.A.
DUAL FREQUENCY TRANSDUCERS FOR INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND SUPER-HARMONIC IMAGING AND ACOUSTIC ANGIOGRAPHY.................................................................................... 675
Ma, Jianguo ; Jiang, Xiaoning ; Martin, Karl H. ; Dayton, Paul A. ; Li, Yang ; Zhou, Qifa
DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSMITTERS IN DUAL-FREQUENCY TRANSDUCERS FOR INTERVENTIONAL CONTRAST ENHANCED IMAGING AND ACOUSTIC ANGIOGRAPHY ....................... 679
Kim, Jinwook ; Li, Sibo ; Jiang, Xiaoning ; Kasoji, Sandeep ; Dayton, Paul A.
DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF A HIGH-FREQUENCY RING-SHAPED LINEAR ARRAY FOR CAPSULE ULTRASOUND ENDOSCOPY .................................................................................................................... 683
Lay, Holly S. ; Seetohul, Vipin ; Cox, Ben ; Demore, Christine E.M. ; Cochran, Sandy
15 MHZ SINGLE ELEMENT ULTRASOUND NEEDLE TRANSDUCERS FOR NEUROSURGICAL APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................................... 687
Yun Jiang ; Meggs, Carl ; Button, Tim ; Schiavone, Giuseppe ; Desmulliez, Marc P.Y. ; Zhen Qiu ; Mahboob, Syed ; McPhillips, Rachael ; Demore, Christine E.M ; Casey, Graeme ; Eljamel, Sam ; Cochran, Sandy ; Sanmartin, Daniel Rodriguez
SEGMENTATION OF MULTIPLE HEART CAVITIES IN WIDE-VIEW FUSED 3D TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAMS......................................................................................................... 691
Haak, Alexander ; Mulder, Harriet W. ; Ren, Ben ; Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero, Gonzalo ; van Burken, Gerard ; van der Steen, Antonius F.W. ; van Stralen, Marijn ; Pluim, Josien P.W. ; van Walsum, Theo ; Bosch, Johannes G.
AUGMENTED REALITY BASED TOOLS FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC ACQUISITIONS ............................ 695Kiss, Gabriel ; Storve, Sigurd ; Haugen, Bjorn Olav ; Torp, Hans
CARDIAC ACTIVATION MAPPING WITH ULTRASOUND CURRENT SOURCE DENSITY IMAGING .......................................................................................................................................................................... 699
Qin, Yexian ; Li, Qian ; Ingram, Pier ; Barber, Christy ; Zhonglin Liu ; Witte, Russell S.
MICRO-ELASTICITY (µ-E): CNR AND RESOLUTION OF ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING AND SINGLE- AND MULTIPLE TRACK LOCATION SHEAR WAVE ELASTICITY IMAGING FOR VISUALIZING SMALL TARGETS ......................................................................... 703
Hollender, Peter ; Rosenzweig, Stephen ; Nightingale, Kathryn ; Trahey, Gregg
HIGH FRAME RATE ULTRASOUND DISPLACEMENT VECTOR IMAGING.................................................... 707Kruizinga, Pieter ; Mastik, Frits ; Bosch, Johannes G ; de Jong, Nico ; van Soest, Gijs ; van der Steen, Antonius F.W.
TWO FREQUENCIES PUSH-PULL DIFFERENTIAL IMAGING ............................................................................ 710Nowicki, Andrzej ; Byra, Michal ; Litniewski, Jerzy ; Wojcik, Janusz
STRAIN ESTIMATOR BASED ON ANALYTICAL PHASE TRACKING ............................................................... 714Yuan, Lili ; Pedersen, Peder C.
ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF INCREASING MECHANICAL INDEX (MI) AND ENERGY DEPOSITION ON SHEAR WAVE SPEED (SWS) RECONSTRUCTION IN HUMAN LIVER.............................. 719
Yufeng Deng ; Palmeri, Mark L. ; Rouze, Ned C. ; Rosenzweig, Stephen J. ; Abdelmalek, Manal F. ; Nightingale, Kathryn R.
SHEAR WAVES GENERATED WITH MAGNETOMOTIVE FORCE ON AN EMBEDDED SPHERE ............................................................................................................................................................................. 723
Urban, Matthew W. ; Kinnick, Randall R. ; Mehrmohammadi, Mohammad ; Greenleaf, James F.
MULTIPARAMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF A SINGLE CELL BY AN ULTRASOUND AND OPTICAL COMBINED MICROSCOPE .............................................................................................................. 727
Saijo, Yoshifumi ; Shikama, Joe ; Yoshida, Koki ; Nagaoka, Ryo ; Arakawa, Mototaka ; Kobayashi, Kazuto
A CONFIGURABLE DUAL-FREQUENCY TRANSMIT/RECEIVE SYSTEM FOR ACOUSTIC ANGIOGRAPHY IMAGING........................................................................................................................................... 731
Li, Yang ; Ma, Jianguo ; Martin, K.Heath ; Choi, Hojong ; Dayton, Paul A. ; Jiang, Xiaoning ; Shung, K.Kirk ; Zhou, Qifa
TOWARDS WIRELESS CAPSULE ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND (WCEU)........................................................ 734Lee, John H. ; Traverso, Giovanni ; Schoellhammer, Carl M. ; Blankschtein, Daniel ; Langer, Robert ; Thomenius, Kai E. ; Boning, Duane S. ; Anthony, Brian W.
HEAD MOTION TRACKING FOR FUNCTIONAL MRI USING AN AIR ULTRASOUND ARRAY................... 738Qi Wang ; Howell, Mark ; James, Sheronica ; Clement, Gregory T.
MEMS-BASED SILICON ULTRASONIC TWIN-NOZZLE NEBULIZER FOR INHALATION DRUG DELIVERY ........................................................................................................................................................... 742
Mao, R.W. ; Lin, S.K. ; Tsai, S.C. ; Brenner, M. ; Mahon, S. ; Boss, G. ; Smaldone, G. ; Tsai, C.S.
AN ULTRASONIC MICRO-SCANNER FOR THICKNESS ASSESSMENT OF THE VESTIBULAR JAWBONE: IN-VITRO ACCURACY EVALUATION ................................................................................................ 745
Habor, Daniel ; Vollborn, Thorsten ; Chuembou, Fabrice ; Radermacher, Klaus ; Degen, Katharina ; Marotti, Juliana ; Wolfart, Stefan ; Heger, Stefan
OPTICAL VISUALIZATION OF ULTRASONIC PULSES IN THE TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION ULTRASONIC SENSOR....................................................................................................................... 749
Yurchenko, Alexander ; Polishko, Oleksandr ; Pilgun, Yuriy ; Smirnov, Eugene
NUMERICAL MODELING OF ULTRASONIC TOUCHSCREEN ........................................................................... 753Firouzi, Kamyar ; Nikoozadeh, Amin ; Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T.
VISUALIZATION OF TIME EVOLVING WAVEFRONT ADVANCE IN POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 757
Blackshire, James L.
MODELING GUIDED WAVES PROPAGATING IN BONES WITH A MULTILAYERED MODEL .................. 761Lee, Ming-Yan ; Yang, Che-Hua ; Yang, Kelvin
MULTIPLE SHEAR WAVE ROUNDTRIPS LIQUID SENSOR BY C-AXIS PARALLEL ORIENTED ZNO FILM/SILICA GLASS PIPE STRUCTURE ................................................................................... 765
Hiyama, Shoko ; Yanagitani, Takahiko ; Takayanagi, Shinji ; Kato, Yoshiya ; Matsukawa, Mami
EFFECT OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON STRUCTURE AND PIEZOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF ALN AND ALXSC1-XN FILMS DEPOSITED BY PULSED MAGNETRON SPUTTERING........................... 769
Barth, Stephan ; Bartzsch, Hagen ; Gloss, Daniel ; Frach, Peter ; Zywitzki, Olaf ; Herzog, Thomas ; Walter, Susan ; Heuer, Henning
ACOUSTIC FILTERS BASED ON THIN SINGLE CRYSTAL LINBO3 FILMS: STATUS AND PROSPECTS...................................................................................................................................................................... 773
Reinhardt, Alexandre ; Benaissa, Lamine ; David, Jean-Baptiste ; Lamard, Nathalie ; Kovacova, Veronika ; Boudou, Nicolas ; Defay, Emmanuel
EFFECTIVE SUPPRESSION METHOD FOR 2ND NONLINEAR SIGNALS OF SAW DEVICES....................... 782Nakagawa, Ryo ; Kyoya, Haruki ; Shimizu, Hiroshi ; Kihara, Takashi
APPLICATION OF A RIGOROUS NONLINEAR P-MATRIX METHOD TO THE SIMULATION OF THIRD ORDER INTERMODULATION IN TEST DEVICES AND DUPLEXERS ........................................... 787
Mayer, Markus ; Ruile, Werner ; Johnson, John ; Kiwitt, Jurgen ; Romeo San Jose ; Schmidhammer, Edgar ; Bleyl, Ingo ; Wagner, Karl ; Mayer, Andreas ; Mayer, Elena
GENERATION MECHANISMS OF SECOND-ORDER NON-LINEARITY IN SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES ........................................................................................................................................ 791
Hashimoto, Ken-ya ; Kodaira, Ryosuke ; Omori, Tatsuya
BANDWIDTH-TUNABLE FILTER CONSISTING OF SAW RESONATORS AND BASRTIO3 VARACTORS DIRECTLY FABRICATED ON A LITAO3 WAFER ......................................................................... 795
Kimura, Tetsuya ; Kobayashi, Hideaki ; Kishimoto, Yutaka ; Kato, Hideyuki ; Inaba, Masahiro ; Hashimoto, Ken-ya ; Matsumura, Takeshi ; Hirano, Hideki ; Kadota, Michio ; Esashi, Masayoshi ; Tanaka, Shuji
RECONFIGURABLE MODE OF VIBRATION IN ALN MEMS RESONATORS USING PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS................................................................................................................................................... 799
Hummel, Gwendolyn ; Hui, Yu ; Rinaldi, Matteo
BANDWIDTH-TUNABLE SAW FILTER BASED ON WAFER-LEVEL TRANSFER-INTEGRATION OF BASRTIO3 FILM FOR WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM USING TV WHITE SPACE ................................................................................................................................................................................ 803
Hirano, Hideki ; Samoto, Tetsuo ; Kimura, Tetsuya ; Inaba, Masahiro ; Hashimoto, Ken-ya ; Matsumura, Takeshi ; Hikichi, Kousuke ; Kadota, Michio ; Esashi, Masayoshi ; Tanaka, Shuji
NON-LINEAR HARMONIC REDUCTION PULSE WIDTH MODULATION (HRPWM) FOR THE ARBITRARY CONTROL OF TRANSDUCER-INTEGRATED SWITCHED EXCITATION ELECTRONICS ................................................................................................................................................................ 807
Cowell, David ; Smith, Peter ; Harput, Sevan ; McLaughlan, James ; Freear, Steven
CUSTOMIZED MODULAR MULTICHANNEL ELECTRONICS FOR ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY WITH A GEODESIC PIEZOCRYSTAL PHASED ARRAY............................................................................................................................................................................... 811
Qiu, Zhen ; Habeshaw, Roderick ; Cochran, Sandy ; Lines, Dave
AUTOMATIC FREQUENCY TRACKING SYSTEM FOR NEEDLE ACTUATING DEVICE .............................. 815Lin Gui ; Rui Xiao ; Xiaochun Liao ; Kuang, Yang ; Sadiq, Muhammad ; Chunnian Zeng ; Cochran, Sandy ; Huang, Zhihong
CHARACTERIZATION OF A LANGEVIN TRANSDUCER INCORPORATING MN-DOPED PIEZOCRYSTAL MATERIAL ....................................................................................................................................... 819
Mathieson, Andrew ; Sadiq, Muhammad ; Cochran, Sandy ; Lucas, Margaret
PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF ULTRASONIC NEEDLE ACTUATING DEVICE FOR INSERTION OPERATION INTO TISSUE MIMICS ................................................................................................... 823
Xiaochun Liao ; Sadiq, Muhammad ; Yang Kuang ; Corner, George ; Cochran, Sandy ; Zhihong Huang
ENHANCED US-GUIDED NEEDLE INTERVENTION THROUGH ULTRASOUND ACTUATION OF A STANDARD NEEDLE ........................................................................................................................................... 827
Sadiq, Muhammad R. ; Cochran, Sandy ; Xiaochun Liao ; Huang, Zhihong
ULTRASOUND QUANTIFICATION OF MOLECULAR MARKER CONCENTRATION IN LARGE BLOOD VESSELS ............................................................................................................................................. 831
Wang, Shiying ; Mauldin, F.William ; Unnikrishnan, Sunil ; Klibanov, Alexander L. ; Hossack, John A.
IN VIVO ACOUSTIC CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT VIA SIMULTANEOUS PRODUCTION AND INJECTION OF MICROFLUIDIC-PRODUCED MICROBUBBLES ........................................................................ 835
Dixon, Adam J. ; Dhanaliwala, Ali H. ; Dan Lin ; Chen, Johnny L. ; Klibanov, Alexander L. ; Hossack, John A.
CLINICALLY TRANSLATABLE ULTRASOUND/PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING FOR REAL-TIME NEEDLE BIOPSY GUIDANCE ........................................................................................................................... 839
Wei, Chen-wei ; Thu-Mai Nguyen ; Xia, Jinjun ; Arnal, Bastien ; Pelivanov, Ivan ; O'Donnell, Matthew
NON-CONTACT PHOTOACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF RETINAL VASCULATURE FOR BRAIN-INJURY ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................................................... 843
Sampathkumar, Ashwin ; Silverman, Ronald H.
SONOPORATION: FROM THE LAB TO HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS ................................................................ 846Kotopoulis, Spiros ; Dimcevski, Georg ; Gjertsen, Bjorn Tore ; Gilja, Odd Helge ; Mc Cormack, Emmet ; Postema, Michiel
INVOLVEMENT OF CYTOSKELETON IN SONOPORATION AND DRUG DELIVERY ................................... 850Zeghimi, Aya ; Escoffre, Jean-Michel ; Bouakaz, Ayache
PHASED ARRAY INSPECTION AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES ..................................................................... 854Marvasti, Mohammad Hassan ; Sinclair, Anthony N.
A ROBUST AIR-COUPLED ULSTRASONIC PIEZOELECTRIC-CARBON-FIBER-REINFORCED-POLYMER TRANSDUCER FOR MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION............................................ 858
Flores, Sergio ; Vossiek, Martin
EVALUATION OF A NOVEL REFLECTOR IN A SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE MOTOR ............................... 862Deqing Kong ; Kurosawa, Minoru Kuribayashi
PERFORMANCE OF MICRO ULTRASONIC MOTOR USING ONE CUBIC MILLIMETER STATOR............................................................................................................................................................................. 866
Mashimo, Tomoaki
ULTRASONIC MOTOR FOR SAMPLE SPINNING OF SOLID-STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROMETER IN HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD............................................................................. 870
Yamaguchi, Daisuke ; Takeda, Dai ; Kanda, Takefumi ; Suzumori, Koichi
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LAYERED SAW MAGNETIC SENSOR.......................... 874Elhosni, M. ; Elmazria, O. ; Petit-watelot, S. ; Bouvot, L. ; Hehn, M. ; Talbi, A. ; Tiercelin, N. ; Preobrazhensky, V. ; Pernod, P. ; Boumatar, O.
AIR-BACKED OPTOACOUSTIC TRANSMITTER FOR HIGH AMPLITUDE QUASI-MONOPOLAR WAVE ..................................................................................................................................................... 878
Taehwa Lee ; Cheng Zhang ; Qiaochu Li ; Guo, L.Jay ; Baac, Hyoung Won
CTGS MATERIAL PARAMETERS OBTAINED BY VERSATILE SAW MEASUREMENTS.............................. 882Biryukov, S.V. ; Schmidt, H. ; Sotnikov, A. ; Weihnacht, M. ; Sakharov, S. ; Buzanov, O.
IMPACT OF COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF AL ALLOY ELECTRODES TO POWER DURABILITY OF SAW DEVICES................................................................................................................................. 886
Takayama, R. ; Nakanishi, H. ; Hashimoto, K.
CHARACTERIZATION OF ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF SIO2 THIN FILMS BY ULTRASONIC MICROSCOPY ................................................................................................................................................................. 893
Omori, Tatsuya ; Sakamoto, Kensuke ; Suzuki, Satoshi ; Kushibiki, Jun-ichi ; Matsuda, Satoru ; Hashimoto, Ken-ya
PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS IN ULTRASOUND ................................................................................................... 897Stranford, Gerald T. ; Vencill, Thomas ; Williams, David ; Johnson, Bruce ; Gutierrez, Lillian
LEAD-FREE PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS AND COMPOSITES FOR HIGH FREQUENCY MEDICAL ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER APPLICATIONS .................................................................................. 903
Jiang, Y. ; Thongchai, T. ; Bai, Y. ; Meggs, C. ; Button, T.W. ; Matousek, A. ; Tofel, P. ; Hughes, H. ; Button, T.W.
HIGHLY C-AXIS ORIENTED MONOCRYSTALLINE PB(ZR, TI)O3 BASED THIN FILM ON SI WAFER BY SPUTTER DEPOSITION WITH FAST COOLING PROCESS ............................................................ 907
Hanzawa, Hiroaki ; Yoshida, Shinya ; Wasa, Kiyotaka ; Tanaka, Shuji
FULLY AUTOMATED CAROTID PLAQUE SEGMENTATION IN COMBINED B-MODE AND CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND................................................................................................................... 911
Akkus, Zeynettin ; de Jong, Nico ; van der Steen, Antonius F.W. ; Bosch, Johan G. ; van den Oord, Stijn C.H. ; Schinkel, Arend F.L. ; Carvalho, Diego D.B. ; Niessen, Wiro J. ; Klein, Stefan
ESTIMATION OF ARTERIAL WALL MOTION USING ULTRAFAST IMAGING WITH TRANSVERSE OSCILLATIONS: PHANTOM STUDY .............................................................................................. 915
Salles, Sebastien ; Vray, Didier ; Liebgott, Herve ; Lai, Simon ; Yu, Alfred ; Garcia, Damien
LASER-ACTIVATED PLGA THERANOSTIC AGENTS FOR CANCER THERAPY IN VIVO ........................... 919Sun, Yang ; Niu, Chengcheng ; Zheng, Yuanyi ; Ran, Haitao ; Huang, Rongzhong ; Zhou, Di ; Gong, Yuping ; Wang, Zhigang ; Wang, Dong ; Wang, Yanjie ; Strohm, Eric M. ; Kolios, Michael C.
HARMONIC MOTION IMAGING IN ABDOMINAL TUMOR DETECTION AND HIFU ABLATION MONITORING: A FEASIBILITY STUDY IN A TRANSGENIC MOUSE MODEL OF PANCREATIC CANCER................................................................................................................................................. 923
Hong Chen ; Yang Han ; Payen, Thomas ; Palermo, Carmine ; Oliver, Kenneth ; Konofagou, Elisa
TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF FAST AND SLOW WAVES DURING PROPAGATION THROUGH BOVINE CANCELLOUS BONE IN VITRO............................................................................................ 927
Wear, Keith ; Nagatani, Yoshiki ; Mizuno, Katsunori ; Matsukawa, Mami
IN VIVO MEASUREMENTS OF GUIDED WAVES AT THE FOREARM .............................................................. 931Vallet, Quentin ; Minonzio, Jean-Gabriel ; Chappard, Christine ; Talmant, Maryline ; Laugier, Pascal
A DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN APPROACH FOR THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TRANSIT-TIME ULTRASONIC FLOWMETERS ...................................................................................................... 935
Luca, Adrian ; Marchiano, Regis ; Chassaing, Jean-Camille
TOWARDS THE MEASUREMENT OF LOCAL PARTICLE MASS FRACTIONS IN MAGNETITE SUSPENSIONS ........................................................................................................................................ 939
Stener, Jan F. ; Carlson, Johan E. ; Sand, Anders ; Palsson, Bertil I.
INVESTIGATION ON USING TWO TYPES OF SONOREACTORS FOR KRAFT LIGNIN FRACTIONATION ........................................................................................................................................................... 943
Loranger, Eric ; Daneault, Claude ; Milot, Guillaume ; Cherab, Loubna ECH
ULTRASONIC WELDING OF ELECTRONIC PARTS AND DEVICES USING A LONG AND THIN COMPLEX VIBRATION WELDING TIP.......................................................................................................... 947
Tsujino, Jiromaru ; Sugimoto, Eiichi
ACTIVE CONTROL OF A PIEZOELECTRIC PHONONIC CRYSTAL USING ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE .................................................................................................................................................................... 951
Mansoura, S.A. ; Marechal, P. ; Morvan, B. ; Hladky-Hennion, A.C. ; Dubus, B.
MICROSPHERE RESONATOR FOR OPTOACOUSTIC DETECTION OF HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND ................................................................................................................................................................. 955
Hammer, Kristofer J. ; Buma, Takashi
PIEZOELECTRIC MICROMACHINED ULTRASOUND ARRAY TRANSDUCER WITH 31 CHANNELS FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING ...................................................................................................... 959
Hongmin Ahn ; Min Sung ; Kyounghun Been ; Wonkyu Moon
WAVEGUIDE OPTICAL MICROMACHINED ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER (WOMUT) FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND DETECTION................................................................................................... 963
Tadayon, Mohammad Amin ; Ashkenazi, Shai ; Baylor, Matha-Elizabeth
DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH TEMPERATURE TRANSDUCER BACKING ELEMENT WITH POROUS CERAMICS ...................................................................................................................................................... 967
Amini, Mohammad Hossein ; Sinclair, Anthony N. ; Coyle, Thomas W.
DESIGN AND PROTOTYPING OF DUAL LAYER LINEAR ARRAYS................................................................... 971Manh, Tung ; Hoff, Lars ; Johansen, Tonni Franke
SOL-GEL COMPOSITE FILM FABRICATION BY PAINT STENCIL PRINTING ............................................... 975Kaneko, Tsukasa ; Iwata, Kazuki ; Kobayashi, Makiko
LIVER ELASTICITY IMAGING USING EXTERNAL VIBRATION MULTI-DIRECTIONAL ULTRASOUND SHEARWAVE ELASTOGRAPHY (EVMUSE)................................................................................ 979
Zhao, Heng ; Song, Pengfei ; Meixner, Duane D. ; Kinnick, Randall R. ; Callstrom, Matthew R. ; Sanchez, William ; Urban, Matthew W. ; Manduca, Armando ; Greenleaf, James F. ; Chen, Shigao
ESTIMATION OF MODEL PARAMETERS CHARACTERIZING DISPERSION IN ARFI INDUCED SHEAR WAVES IN IN VIVO HUMAN LIVER ........................................................................................ 983
Rouze, Ned C. ; Palmeri, Mark L. ; Nightingale, Kathryn R.
APPLICATION OF ATTENUATION MEASURING ULTRASOUND SHEARWAVE ELASTOGRAPHY IN 8 POST-TRANSPLANT LIVER PATIENTS .......................................................................... 987
Nenadic, Ivan Z. ; Urban, Matthew W. ; Heng Zhao ; Sanchez, William ; Morgan, Paige E. ; Greenleaf, James F ; Chen, Shigao
SINGLE TRACK LOCATION VISCOSITY ESTIMATION BY MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION ................................................................................................................................................................... 991
Langdon, Jonathan H ; McAleavey, Stephen S
192-ELEMENT 1.5D PHASED ARRAY WITH ELLIPTIC FOOTPRINT ................................................................ 997Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ; Hansen, Jens Munk ; Jensen, Henrik ; McHenry, Dean ; Beers, Christopher
A KERFLESS DUAL-LAYER TRANSDUCER COMBINED WITH BEAMFORMING BY SPATIAL MATCHED FILTERING FOR HIGH FRAME RATE ULTRASOUND IMAGING ............................ 1001
Yuling Chen ; Yen, Jesse T.
DELAY-ENCODED TRANSMISSION IN SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE (DE-STA) IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1005
Ping Gong ; Moghimi, Arash ; Kolios, Michael C. ; Yuan Xu
AN IMPROVED 3D ULTRASOUND COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM .................................................... 1009Gemmeke, H. ; Dapp, R. ; Hopp, T. ; Zapf, M. ; Ruiter, N.V.
SHOCKWAVE LITHOTRIPSY WITH RENOPROTECTIVE PAUSE IS ASSOCIATED WITH RENOVASCULAR VASOCONSTRICTION IN HUMANS....................................................................................... 1013
Bailey, Michael ; Lee, Franklin ; Hsi, Ryan ; Paun, Marla ; Dunmire, Barbrina ; Liu, Ziyue ; Sorensen, Mathew ; Harper, Jonathan
APPLICATION OF SEMI-COUPLED ULTRASONIC PULSE VELOCITY TO IMAGE CONCRETE STRUCTURES USING TOMOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS............................................................... 1017
Hajin Choi ; Popovics, John S.
AIR-COUPLED FLEXURAL ELECTRODYNAMIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS ............................................ 1021Eriksson, T.J.R. ; Laws, M. ; Dixon, S.M. ; Ramadas, S.N.
ULTRASONIC WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN AIR USING OFDM-OOK MODULATION ...................... 1025Jiang, Wentao ; Wright, William M.D.
FEASIBILITY OF PULSE-ECHO THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS IN AIR WITH A LATERALLY DISPLACED RECEIVER..................................................................................................................... 1029
Waag, Grunde ; Hoff, Lars ; Norli, Petter
NON-CONTACT THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING BASED ON LASER AND MICROWAVE VIBROMETRY ............................................................................................................................................................... 1033
Yexian Qin ; Ingram, Pier ; Wang, Xiong ; Tao Qin ; Xin, Hao ; Witte, Russell S.
CONTROL OF OPTICALLY GENERATED ULTRASOUND FIELDS USING BINARY AMPLITUDE HOLOGRAMS ....................................................................................................................................... 1037
Brown, Michael D. ; Allen, Thomas J. ; Cox, Ben T. ; Treeby, Bradley E.
MICRO-BUBBLES GENERATED BY A SINGLE FOCUSED OPTOACOUSTIC WAVE ................................... 1041Lee, Taehwa ; Ok, Jong G. ; Youn, Hong Seok ; Guo, L.Jay ; Baac, Hyoung Won
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ULTRASOUND-SENSITIVE ANTIMICROBIAL PLATFORM FOR REDUCING INFECTION AFTER SPINAL STABILIZATION SURGERY ........................................................... 1045
Sevit, A. ; Forsberg, F. ; Eisenbrey, J.R. ; Fitzgerald, K.E. ; Kurtz, S. ; Kepler, C. ; Hickok, N.
ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED GENE DELIVERY BY USING FOLIC ACID-MODIFIED CATIONIC MICROBUBBLES ..................................................................................................................................... 1049
Chang, En-Ling ; Ting, Chien-Yu ; Yeh, Chih-Kuang
ULTRASONIC MONITORING OF SKELETAL MUSCLE RESPONSE TO ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF PERIPHERAL NERVE .............................................................................................................. 1053
Huang, Andy ; Ono, Yuu ; Liu, Kyle
ACTIVE INDUCTION OF MICROBUBBLES IN FLOW AT T-FORM BIFURCATION THROUGH ACOUSTIC FOCAL POINTS WITH PHASE VARIATION ..................................................................................... 1057
Masuda, Kohji ; Hosaka, Naoto ; Koda, Ren ; Miyazawa, Shinya ; Mochizuki, Takashi
MOLECULAR-TARGETED NANORODS FOR THE LOCALISED DESTRUCTION OF CANCER CELLS .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1061
McLaughlan, James ; Harput, Sevan ; Cowell, David ; Freear, Steven
DISPLACEMENT UNDERESTIMATION CORRECTION USING SHEAR WAVES IN VISR ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................... 1065
Selzo, Mallory R. ; Czernuszewicz, Tomasz J. ; Gallippi, Caterina M.
REALTIME AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF HEART FAILURE IN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ....................... 1069Storve, Sigurd ; Grue, Jahn Frederik ; Samstad, Stein ; Dalen, Havard ; Haugen, Bjorn Olav ; Torp, Hans
COMPRESSIVE-SENSING-BASED MULTIDIMENSIONAL DOPPLER SIGNAL ANALYSIS FOR FETAL ACTIVITY MONITORING............................................................................................................................. 1073
Basarab, Adrian ; Quinsac, Celine ; Girault, Jean-Marc ; Kouame, Denis
BEAMFORMING WITH SPARSE PRIOR IN ULTRASOUND MEDICAL IMAGING........................................ 1077Szasz, Teodora ; Basarab, Adrian ; Vaida, Mircea-Florin ; Kouame, Denis
A TWO DIMENSIONAL SUB-SAMPLE ESTIMATOR BASED ON ZERO PHASE CROSSING IN ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................... 1081
Fei Zheng ; Ebbini, Emad
COMPENSATION METHOD OF FRQUENCY DEPENDENT ATTENUATION FOR TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING ................................................................................................................................................ 1085
Hiraoka, Takuya ; Tagawa, Norio ; Okubo, Kan ; Ho, Yihsin ; Akiyama, Iwaki
DESIGN OF HUFFMAN SEQUENCES WITH LIMITED BANDWIDTH .............................................................. 1089Gupta, Shreyank ; Zapf, Michael ; Krauss, Herbert ; Ruiter, Nicole V.
RECOVERING SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY IN BOUNDARY SENSITIVE MEDIA WITH TWO-DIMENSIONAL MOTION TRACKING...................................................................................................................... 1093
Nenadic, Ivan Z. ; Bernal, Miguel ; Brum, Javier ; Gennisson, Jean-Luc ; Pernot, Mathieu ; Greenleaf, James F. ; Tanter, Mickael ; Urban, Matthew W.
SHEAR WAVE VIBRO MAGNETO ACOUSTOGRAPHY FOR MEASURING TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM ELASTICITY AND VISCOSITY.................................................................................... 1097
Almeida, Thiago W.J. ; Sampaio, Diego R.T. ; Pavan, Theo Z. ; Carneiro, Antonio A.O.
SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY ON THE GE LOGIQ E9 WITH COMB-PUSH ULTRASOUND SHEAR ELASTOGRAPHY (CUSE) AND TIME ALIGNED SEQUENTIAL TRACKING (TAST) ..................... 1101
Song, Pengfei ; Macdonald, Michael C. ; Behler, Russell H. ; Lanning, Justin D. ; Wang, Michael H. ; Urban, Matthew W. ; Manduca, Armando ; Zhao, Heng ; Callstrom, Matthew R. ; Alizad, Azra ; Greenleaf, James F. ; Chen, Shigao
DEPENDENCE OF SHEAR WAVE SPECTRAL CONTENT ON ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE EXCITATION DURATION AND SPATIAL BEAMWIDTH .................................................................................... 1105
Palmeri, Mark L. ; Yufeng Deng ; Rouze, Ned C. ; Nightingale, Kathryn R.
DUAL-FREQUENCY SHEAR WAVE MOTION DETECTION ............................................................................... 1109Song, Pengfei ; Zhao, Heng ; Urban, Matthew W. ; Manduca, Armando ; Mellema, Daniel C. ; Greenleaf, James F. ; Chen, Shigao
NEW SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING ARRIVAL TIME DIFFERENCES IN ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS.................................................................................................................................... 1113
Sua Bae ; Tai-Kyong Song ; Jin Ho Chang
DISTINGUISHING VISCOUS FROM ELASTIC PROPERTIES IN VISCOELASTIC RESPONSE (VISR) ULTRASOUND .................................................................................................................................................. 1117
Selzo, Mallory R. ; Gallippi, Caterina M.
SHEAR WAVE ELASTICITY IMAGING USING INVERSE FILTERING AND MULTIPLE-POINT SHEAR WAVE GENERATION....................................................................................................................... 1121
Kitazaki, Tomoaki ; Shiina, Tsuyoshi ; Kondo, Kengo ; Yamakawa, Makoto
ADIPOSCAN™ - A NOVEL TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY BASED TOOL TO ASSESS SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSE TISSUE SHEAR WAVE SPEED IN MORBIDLY OBESE PATIENTS................ 1124
Sasso, Magali ; Abdennour, Meriem ; Yuejun Liu ; Clet, Michel ; Bouillot, Jean-Luc ; Le Naour, Gilles ; Bedossa, Pierre ; Wisnewsky, Judith Aron ; Tordjman, Joan ; Clement, Karine ; Miette, Veronique
MONITORING MICROWAVE ABLATION FOR LIVER TUMORS WITH ELECTRODE DISPLACEMENT STRAIN IMAGING ....................................................................................................................... 1128
Yang, W. ; Alexander, M. ; Rubert, N. ; Ingle, A. ; Lubner, M. ; Ziemlewicz, T. ; Hinshaw, J.L. ; Lee, F.T. ; Zagzebski, J.A. ; Varghese, T.
STIFFNESS DYNAMICS OF RABBIT'S ACHILLES TENDONS EVALUATED BY SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY IN VIVO ......................................................................................................................................... 1132
Yeh, Chia-Lun ; Kuo, Po-Ling ; Li, Pai-Chi
MEASUREMENT OF PROPAGATION WAVE VELOCITY OF THYROID INDUCED BY PULSATION .................................................................................................................................................................... 1136
Nagaoka, Ryo ; Yoshizawa, Shin ; Umemura, Shin-ichiro ; Saijo, Yoshifumi ; Kobayashi, Kazuto
SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY OF A LIVER FIBROSIS MOUSE MODEL USING A HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND SYSTEM WITH MECHANICAL SCANNING ..................................................... 1140
Chia-Lun Yeh ; Bo-Rong Chen ; Ling-Yi Tseng ; Ping Jao ; Tung-Hung Su ; Li, Pai-Chi
COMPLEMENTARITY OF SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY AND DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND TO DISCRIMINATE TUMOR MODIFICATIONS DURING ANTIANGIOGENIC AND CYTOTOXIC THERAPY ............................................................................................... 1144
Dizeux, Alexandre ; Payen, Thomas ; Barrois, Guillaume ; Baldini, Capucine ; Delphine Le Guillou Buffelo ; Comperat, Eva ; Gennisson, Jean-Luc ; Tanter, Mickael ; Bridal, S.Lori
CONTRAST-ULTRASOUND DISPERSION IMAGING OF CANCER NEOVASCULARIZATION BY MUTUAL-INFORMATION ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................... 1148
Mischi, Massimo ; Bouhouch, Nabil ; Demi, Libertario ; Kuenen, Maarten P.J. ; Postema, Arnoud ; de la Rosette, Jean J. ; Tjalkens, Tjalling J. ; Wijkstra, Hessel
THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PARAMETRIC MAPS FOR VISUALIZATION OF BREAST LESION VASCULATURE USING SUBHARMONIC IMAGING ............................................................................ 1152
Sridharan, A. ; Eisenbrey, J.R. ; Machado, P. ; Dulin, K. ; Jaffe, S. ; Merton, D.A. ; Ojeda-Fournier, H. ; Mattrey, R.F. ; Wallace, K. ; Chalek, C.L. ; Thomenius, K.E. ; Forsberg, F.
COMPARING SUBHARMONIC IMAGING AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL MARKERS OF ANGIOGENESIS ............................................................................................................................................................ 1156
Gupta, Aditi ; Forsberg, Mark A. ; Dulin, Kelly ; Jaffe, Samantha ; Dave, Jaydev K. ; Dahibawkar, Manasi ; Halldorsdottir, Valgerdur G. ; Marshall, Andrew ; Forsberg, Anya I. ; Machado, Priscilla ; Fox, Traci B ; Liu, Ji-Bin ; Forsberg, Flemming
FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MOLECULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF TUMOR ANGIOGENESIS IN A PRECLINICAL ANIMAL MODEL OF PROSTATE CANCER ...................................................................... 1160
Hoyt, Kenneth ; Mahoney, Marshall ; Sorace, Anna G.
SIMULATION AND EFFICIENT MEASUREMENTS OF INTENSITIES FOR COMPLEX IMAGING SEQUENCES ............................................................................................................................................... 1164
Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ; Rasmussen, Morten Fischer ; Stuart, Matthias Bo ; Tomov, Borislav G.
THE ALTERATION OF PROTEIN PROFILE OF HEPG2 CELLS DURING THE APOPTOTIC PROCESS INDUCED BY LOW INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND ................................................................ 1168
Feng, Yi ; Zhao, Lu ; Wan, Ming-Xi
SUPPRESSION OF PRESSURE MEASUREMENT ARTIFACTS FROM FIBER OPTIC HYDROPHONES USING COMPLEX DECONVOLUTION OF SENSITIVITY.................................................... 1172
Wear, Keith A. ; Maruvada, Subha ; Liu, Yunbo ; Harris, Gerald R. ; Gammell, Paul
IN VIVO MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE RISE IN LIVING RABBIT'S LIVER EXPOSED TO ULTRASOUND WITH ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE................................................................................ 1175
Nitta, Naotaka ; Ishiguro, Yasunao ; Sasanuma, Hideki ; Taniguchi, Nobuyuki ; Akiyama, Iwaki
SIMULATION OF TEMPERATURE FIELDS IN SOFT TISSUE CAUSED BY NONLINEAR PROPAGATION OF ULTRASOUND PULSES .......................................................................................................... 1179
Doinikov, Alexander A. ; Novell, Anthony ; Bouakaz, Ayache ; Calmon, Pierre
SAFETY OF FAST CARDIAC IMAGING USING MULTIPLE TRANSMIT BEAMS: EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION ............................................................................................................................ 1182
Ramalli, Alessandro ; Tong, Ling ; Jianwen Luo ; D'hooge, Jan ; Tortoli, Piero
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND IN COMBINATION WITH ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS ON CELL STRESS: SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS OF INTRACELLULAR PHOSPHO-SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN BLOOD CANCER CELLS AND NORMAL BLOOD LEUKOCYTES .................................................................................... 1186
Kotopoulis, Spiros ; Haugsez, Ragnhild ; Mujic, Maja ; Sulen, Andre ; Gullaksen, Stein-Erik ; Mc Cormack, Emmet ; Gilja, Odd Helge ; Postema, Michiel ; Gjertsen, Bjorn Tore
SELECTING THE NUMBER AND VALUES OF THE CPWI STEERING ANGLES AND THE EFFECT OF THAT ON IMAGING QUALITY........................................................................................................... 1191
Alomari, Zainab ; Harput, Sevan ; Hyder, Safeer ; Freear, Steven
FAST VOLUMETRIC CARDIAC ULTRASOUND: A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT MULTI-LINE TRANSMIT SETUPS BY COMPUTER SIMULATION.................................................................................. 1195
Ortega, Alejandra ; Tong, Ling ; Santos, Pedro ; Heyde, Brecht ; D'hooge, Jan
SAFETY OF MULTI-LINE TRANSMIT BEAM FORMING FOR FAST CARDIAC IMAGING - A SIMULATION STUDY................................................................................................................................................... 1199
Santos, Pedro ; Tong, Ling ; Ortega, Alejandra ; Lovstakken, Lasse ; Samset, Eigil ; D'hooge, Jan
SPECKLE DECORRELATION OF MOTION IN ULTRASOUND FOURIER IMAGES...................................... 1203Miaomiao Zhang ; Liebgott, Herve ; Varray, Francois ; Friboulet, Denis ; Bernard, Olivier
BLOOD FLOW VISUALIZATION WITH REAL TIME HIGH SPEED ULTRASOUND..................................... 1207Moore, Cooper ; Castellucci, John ; von Ramm, Olaf ; Samad, Zainab ; Kisslo, Joseph
IN-VIVO SYNTHETIC APERTURE AND PLANE WAVE HIGH FRAME RATE CARDIAC IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1209
Stuart, Matthias Bo ; Jensen, Jonas ; Brandt, Andreas Hjelm ; Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ; Nielsen, Michael Bachmann ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGES OBTAINED WITH PARALLEL TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING BY MEANS OF ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING.................................................... 1213
Demi, Libertario ; Viti, Jacopo ; Giannini, Gabriele ; Ramalli, Alessandro ; Tortoli, Piero ; Mischi, Massimo
WIDE-ANGLE TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING AT HIGH FRAME RATE USING MULTI-LINE TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING: AN IN-VIVO PILOT STUDY................................................................................. 1217
Tong, Ling ; Ramalli, Alessandro ; Fradella, Giuseppe ; Chengwu Huang ; Tortoli, Piero ; Luo, Jianwen ; D'hooge, Jan
COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS FOR SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE IMAGING USING SPARSE RECEIVING ARRAY .............................. 1221
Gong, Ping ; Kolios, Michael C. ; Xu, Yuan
A NEW POWERFUL SYSTEM TO TEST ULTRASONOGRAPH QUALITY ....................................................... 1225Dolezal, Ladislav ; Vachutka, Jaromir ; Mazura, Jiri
A REAL-TIME REALIZATION OF AN AUTOMATIC DYNAMIC RANGE ADJUSTMENT METHOD ON A SMART MOBILE DEVICE FOR POINT-OF-CARE ULTRASOUND IMAGING ................... 1229
Kim, Jee Hoo ; Lee, YeonHwa ; Kang, Jinbum ; Yoo, Yangmo
DESIGN OF A MULTIPLE-RAIL HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER SUPPLY FOR ULTRASOUND SCANNERS...................................................................................................................................................................... 1233
Boni, Enrico ; Bassi, Luca ; Scaringella, Monica ; Ramalli, Alessandro ; Tortoli, Piero
A TRANSCRANIAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CEREBELLAR BRAIN MOTION .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1237
James, Sheronica L. ; Howell, Mark ; Wang, Qi ; Clement, Gregory T.
GPU ACCELERATION OF ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING USING SCANNING-MODE ........................................................................................................................................................ 1241
Wang, Congzhi ; Zeng, Bo ; Xiao, Yang ; Qiu, Weibao ; Zheng, Hairong
COMPACT HARDWARE FOR REAL-TIME MULTI-LINE BEAMFORMING................................................... 1245Meacci, V. ; Bassi, L. ; Ricci, S. ; Boni, E. ; Tortoli, P.
DESIGN OF A RECONFIGURABLE PHASE CONTROLLER FOR FOCUSED ULTRASOUND THERAPEUTIC DEVICE.............................................................................................................................................. 1249
Minkyoung Kim ; Hi Yuen Song ; Yanghun Lee ; Minkyou Cho ; Inn-Yeal Oh ; Chul Soon Park
HIGH VOLUME RATE, HIGH RESOLUTION 3D PLANE WAVE IMAGING .................................................... 1253Yang, Ming ; Sampson, Richard ; Wei, Siyuan ; Wenisch, Thomas F. ; Fowlkes, Brian ; Kripfgans, Oliver ; Chakrabarti, Chaitali
A REAL-TIME STREAMING DAQ FOR ULTRASONIX RESEARCH SCANNER ............................................. 1257Walczak, Mateusz ; Lewandowski, Marcin ; Zolek, Norbert
MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING APPLIED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMBEDDED SOFTWARE FOR B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS - A CASE STUDY ...................................... 1261
Onisto, Haroldo Jose ; de Moraes Machado, Tiago ; Fernandes, Ramon Cravo ; de Medeiros, Johannes Dantas ; Tamagno, Iliezer ; Dezotti, Tiago Cesar ; Bertuzzo, Jose Eduardo
IMAGING 3D CELL CULTURE SYSTEMS USING AN OPTICAL RESOLUTION PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPE............................................................................................................................ 1265
Sun, Ming-Jian ; Li, Pai-Chi
ALL-OPTICAL PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING AND DETECTION OF EARLY-STAGE DENTAL CARIES ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1269
Sampathkumar, Ashwin ; Hughes, David A. ; Kirk, Katherine J. ; Otten, Wilfred ; Longbottom, Chris
FOCUSING LIGHT WITHIN SCATTERING MEDIA FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY IN A LIMITED-VIEW-ANGLE TOMOGRAPHY SETTING ................................................................................... 1273
Abe, Hiroshi ; Shiina, Tsuyoshi
COMPRESSIVE-SENSING LIKE GRATING-LOBE SUPPRESSED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC LINEAR ARRAY IMAGING ........................................................................................... 1277
Chiu, Chien-Hao ; Li, Meng-Lin
NOVEL IMAGE OPTIMIZATION ON PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY ..................................................... 1280Wenchao Li ; Lijun Zhang ; Jie Yuan ; Xiaojun Liu ; Guan Xu ; Wang, Xueding ; Carson, Paul L
IN VIVO PHOTOACOUSTIC OXYGEN SATURATION IMAGING WITHOUT THE NEED FOR FLUENCE ESTIMATION ............................................................................................................................................. 1284
Alles, Erwin J. ; Papaevangelou, Efthymia ; Bamber, Jeffrey C.
MULTISPECTRAL PHOTOACOUSTIC CODED EXCITATION WITH LOW PRF HIGH POWER LASER DIODES.............................................................................................................................................................. 1288
Beckmann, Martin F. ; Schmitz, Hans-Martin Schwab Georg
SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGARION AND OXYGEN SATURATION UNDER IN VITRO PULSATILE BLOOD FLOW BY HIGH-FREQUENCY PHOTOACOUSTICS...................................................................................................................................................... 1292
Bok, Tae-Hoon ; Hysi, Eno ; Kolios, Michael C.
ENHANCEMENT OF PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING QUALITY BY USING CMUT TECHNOLOGY: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ............................................................................................................. 1296
Vallet, Maeva ; Varray, Francois ; Kalkhoran, Mohammad Azizian ; Vray, Didier ; Boutet, Jerome
AN INTERLEAVED DATA ACQUISITION TO REDUCE COMMON NOISE IN CORONARY DOPPLER VIBROMETRY ........................................................................................................................................... 1300
Lee, Daehyeon ; Jongin Park ; Jeesu Kim ; Hong-June Park ; Lee, Jin S. ; Sungjoo Yoo ; Jong-Seon Park ; Ung Kim
SMALL CALCIFICATION DEPICTION IN ULTRASONOGRAPHY USING FREQUENCY DOMAIN INTERFEROMETRY................................................................................................................................... 1304
Taki, Hirofumi ; Yamakawa, Makoto ; Shiina, Tsuyoshi ; Sato, Toru ; Haiat, Guillaume
IMPROVED FL-IVUS IMAGING WITH LOW VOLTAGE SINGLE-CHIP CMUT-ON-CMOS ARRAY USING TEMPORALLY CODED EXCITATION ........................................................................................ 1308
Tekes, Coskun ; Xu, Toby ; Degertekin, F.Levent
CLINICAL EVALUATION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE SEQUENTIAL BEAMFORMING AND TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING ................................................................................................................................. 1312
Brandt, Andreas Hjelm ; Hemmsen, Martin Christian ; Hansen, Peter Moller ; Hansen, Kristoffer Lindskov ; Lange, Theis ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ; Nielsen, Michael Bachmann
ON THE FEASIBILITY OF SPECKLE REDUCTION IN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY USING STRAIN COMPOUNDING ............................................................................................................................................ 1316
Yuexin Guo ; Lee, Wei-Ning
A NEW FEATURE-ENHANCED SPECKLE REDUCTION METHOD BASED ON MULTISCALE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS FOR ULTRASOUND B-MODE IMAGING ........................................................... 1320
Jinbum Kang ; Yoo, Yangmo
MULTISCALE NONLOCAL MEANS METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND DESPECKLING................................... 1324Breivik, Lars Hofsoy ; Snare, Sten Roar ; Mirarkolaei, Hani Nozari ; Steen, Erik Normann ; Solberg, Anne H Schistad
FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF ULTRASOUND BACKSCATTERING IN CANCELLOUS BONE ................................................................................................................................................... 1328
Hosokawa, Atsushi
OBSTRUCTING PROPAGATION OF INTERFERING MODES IMPROVES DETECTION OF GUIDED WAVES IN COATED BONE MODELS ...................................................................................................... 1332
Kilappa, Vantte ; Moilanen, Petro ; Timonen, Jussi ; Salmi, Ari ; Haeggstrom, Edward ; Zhao, Zuomin ; Myllyla, Risto
CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASONIC PASSAGE IN THE GÖTTINGEN MINIPIG .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1336
Mulgaonkar, Amit P. ; Babakhanian, Meghedi ; Culjat, Martin O. ; Nowroozi, Bryan N. ; Melega, William P. ; Grundfest, Warren S.
TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION OF PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSFORMER WITH HEAT COUPLE COMPONENT USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD............................................................................ 1340
Shao, Weiwei ; Zhile Han ; Yongjia Xiang ; Peiyang Li ; Yaoyao Cui
THE STUDY OF BROADBAND ACOUSTIC METAMATERIALS IN AIR ........................................................... 1344Laureti, S. ; Davis, L.A.J. ; Ricci, M. ; Hutchins, D.A.
TIME-CAUSAL MATERIAL MODELING IN THE SIMULATION OF GUIDED WAVES IN CIRCULAR VISCOELASTIC WAVEGUIDES .......................................................................................................... 1348
Bause, Fabian ; Schroder, Andreas ; Rautenberg, Jens ; Henning, Bernd ; Gravenkamp, Hauke
ULTRASONIC STRESS MEASUREMENT WITH LFM LCR WAVE: THEORETICAL VERIFICATION AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION ............................................................................................... 1352
Zhang, Han
MODELING ELASTIC WAVES IN HETEROGENEOUS ANISOTROPIC MEDIA USING A K-SPACE METHOD ........................................................................................................................................................... 1356
Firouzi, Kamyar ; Nikoozadeh, Amin ; Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T.
APPLICATION OF SLM GENERATED PATTERNS FOR LASER-ULTRASOUND........................................... 1360Grunsteidl, C.M. ; Veres, I.A. ; Berer, T. ; Burgholzer, P. ; Berer, T. ; Burgholzer, P.
ACCURATE FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF EQUIAXED-GRAIN ENGINEERING MATERIAL FOR ULTRASONIC INSPECTION.............................................................................................................................. 1364
Xiao, Bo ; O'Leary, Richard ; Gachagan, Anthony ; Li, Wenqi ; Burnett, Timothy
PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY ENHANCEMENT BASED ON OPTIMUM FOCUSING BY CALCULATING MEAN ACOUSTIC SOUND-SPEED ............................................ 1368
Bing Cong ; Kondo, Kengo ; Yamakawa, Makoto ; Shiina, Tsuyoshi
3D SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING USING A WATER-JET COUPLED LARGE APERTURE SINGLE TRANSDUCER................................................................................................................................................ 1372
Castano Arranz, Miguel ; Carlson, Johan E. ; Rantatalo, Matti ; Weston, Miles ; Risberg, Robert
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESPONSE OF OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS TO INCIDENT SPHERICAL WAVES ...................................................................................................... 1376
Veres, Istvan A. ; Burgholzer, Peter ; Berer, Thomas ; Rosenthal, Amir ; Wissmeyer, Georg ; Ntziachristos, Vasilis
NON-RECURSIVE SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING FOR MULTILAYERED MEDIA WITH IRREGULAR BOUNDARY ........................................................................................................................................... 1380
Shiwei Wu ; Keji Yang
THREE DIMENSIONAL MAPPING OF AQUATIC PLANTS AT SHALLOW LAKES USING 1.8 MHZ HIGH-RESOLUTION ACOUSTIC IMAGING SONAR AND IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY .............................................................................................................................................................. 1384
Mizuno, Katsunori ; Asada, Akira
WIDE 3D ULTRASOUND PALMPRINT FOR BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION ..................................................... 1388Iula, Antonio ; Emile Hine, Gabriel ; Ramalli, Alessandro ; Guidi, Francesco
A NOVEL METHOD OF EVALUATING SURFACE PROPERTIES OF TEMPERED GLASSES BY THE ULTRASONIC MICROSPECTROSCOPY TECHNOLOGY .................................................................... 1392
Arakawa, Mototaka ; Kushibiki, Jun-ichi ; Kawaguchi, Kuniko ; Takeda, Nobuo ; Ohashi, Yuji
NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENT OF PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS IN HUMAN WRIST USING PASS-THROUGH AIRBORNE ULTRASOUND............................................................................. 1396
Hirata, Shinnosuke ; Terashima, Koichi ; Haritaipan, Lalita ; Hoshiba, Kotaro ; Hachiya, Hiroyuki ; Niimi, Nobuo
CELERITY AND THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS BY ULTRASOUND IN PROTONS EXCHANGE MEMBRANES ......................................................................................................................................... 1400
Fortineau, Julien ; Vander Meulen, Francois ; Blanc, Laurianne ; Fortineau, Jerome ; Feuillard, Guy ; Bigarre, Janick
FUNDAMENTAL STUDY ON GUIDED WAVE TESTING OF CYLINDRICAL BARS EMBEDDED IN SOIL .................................................................................................................................................... 1404
Shoji, Masanari ; Higashi, Yasuhiro
APPLICATION OF ONE-BIT TIME REVERSAL TECHNIQUE TO MECHANICAL STRAIN MONITORING IN PLATES .......................................................................................................................................... 1408
Kubrusly, Alan Conci ; Braga, Arthur M.B. ; von der Weid, Jean Pierre ; Perez, Nicolas ; Adamowski, Julio C. ; Oliveira, Timoteo Francisco de
MODAL ANALYSIS OF LEAKAGE-INDUCED ACOUSTIC VIBRATIONS IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS FOR LEAK DETECTION AND LOCATION IN FLUID-FILLED PIPELINES ........................... 1412
Li, Shuaiyong ; Wen, Yumei ; Li, Ping ; Yang, Jin ; Wen, Jing
WOOD CHARACTERIZATION USING THE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY AND PHASE VELOCITY OF ULTRASONIC SIGNALS.................................................................................................................. 1416
Maia, Ozana Maria de Andrade ; Schneider, Fabio Kurt ; Maia, Joaquim Miguel ; Neves, Larissa Comar ; Penteado, Susete do Rocio Chiarello
METHODOLOGY FOR THE 3-DIMENSIONAL MODEL-ASSISTED EVALUATION OF POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS .......................................................................................................................... 1420
Johnson, Darius ; Blackshire, James L.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION METHOD FOR HIGH-ATTENUATION BILLET: ULTRASONIC COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY USING TIME-OF-FLIGHT ........................................................................................................................................................................... 1424
Norose, Yoko ; Mizutani, Koichi ; Wakatsuki, Naoto ; Ebihara, Tadashi
CHARACTERIZATION OF NATURAL FIBRE-REINFORCED COMPOSITES WITH ADVANCED ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES.............................................................................................................. 1428
Seviaryna, Inna ; Bueno, Heloisa Gomes ; Maeva, Elena ; Tjong, Jimi
INFLUENCE OF NONLINEAR EFFECTS ON THE ACOUSTIC LEVITATION OF SMALL SPHERES ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1432
Ramos, Tiago S. ; Adamowski, Julio C. ; Andrade, Marco A.B.
ACOUSTIC FILTERING OF PARTICLES IN A FLOW REGIME ......................................................................... 1436Johansen, Kristoffer ; Yddal, Torstein ; Kotopoulis, Spiros ; Postema, Michiel
FPGA EMBEDDED SYSTEM FOR ULTRASOUND PARTICLE MANIPULATION WITH SONOTWEEZERS ......................................................................................................................................................... 1440
Wang, Han ; Qiu, Yongqiang ; Demore, Christine ; Cochran, Sandy
EVOLUTION OF NONLINEAR ACOUSTICS DURING CREEP IN WELDED JOINT FOR HIGH CR FERRITIC HEAT RESISTING STEELS .............................................................................................................. 1444
Ohtani, Toshihiro ; Kusagagi, Yuuki ; Ishii, Yutaka ; Tabuchi, Masaaki ; Hongo, Hiromichi ; Hirao, Masahiko
MEASUREMENT OF CONVERGENCE ULTRASOUND IN CONE-LIKE BUBBLE STRUCTURE USING LIGHT DEFLECTION METHOD .................................................................................................................. 1448
Kuroyama, Takanobu ; Mizutani, Koichi ; Wakatsuki, Naoto ; Ohbuchi, Takeshi
SHEAR ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF 1-D MODEL GRANULAR UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIA ...................... 1452Shirgina, Natalia V. ; Korobov, Alexander I.
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF HARMONICS GENERATED BY NONLINEAR ULTRASOUND BEAM PROPAGATION IN WATER: A SIMULATION STUDY ................................................ 1456
Maraghechi, Borna ; Kolios, Michael C. ; Tavakkoli, Jahan ; Hasani, Mojtaba H.
BIFURCATION STRUCTURE OF NONLINEAR MODAL COUPLING IN QUARTZ CRYSTAL RESONATOR EXHIBITING INTERNAL RESONANCE ......................................................................................... 1460
Kirkendall, Christopher R. ; Kwon, Jae W.
COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT FULL-WAVE METHODS FOR THE COMPUTATION OF NONLINEAR ULTRASOUND FIELDS IN INHOMOGENEOUS AND ATTENUATING TISSUE .............................................................................................................................................. 1464
Demi, L. ; Treeby, B.E. ; Verweij, M.D.
NONLINEAR REFLECTION OF ELASTIC WAVES FROM THE BOUNDARY OF SOLIDS ........................... 1468Shirgina, Natalia V. ; Kokshaiski, Alexey I. ; Korobov, Alexander I.
THE INFLUENCE OF ACOUSTIC REFLECTORS ON THE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF FREQUENCY OF SOLIDLY MOUNTED RESONATORS ....................................................................................... 1472
DeMiguel-Ramos, M. ; Olivares, J. ; Mirea, T. ; Clement, M. ; Iborra, E. ; Rughoobur, G. ; Garcia-Gancedo, L. ; Flewitt, A.J. ; Milne, W.I.
CARBON NANOTUBE FORESTS AS TOP ELECTRODES FOR ALN-BASED ELECTROACOUSTIC RESONATORS....................................................................................................................... 1476
Mirea, T. ; Olivares, J. ; DeMiguel-Ramos, M. ; Clement, M. ; Sangrador, J. ; Iborra, E. ; Esconjauregui, S.
LANGATATE AND LANGASITE MICROACOUSTIC GYRO SENSORS ............................................................ 1480Choi, Gobong ; Yong, Yook-Kong
ZNO/ALN STACKED BAW RESONATORS WITH DOUBLE RESONANCE....................................................... 1484DeMiguel-Ramos, M. ; Clement, M. ; Goicuria, J. ; Olivares, J. ; Mirea, T. ; Iborra, E. ; Rughoobur, G. ; Flewitt, A.J. ; Milne, W.I.
A NOVEL AB-INITIO FINITE DIFFERENCE-BASED METHOD FOR CONVENIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MASS-LOADING EFFECT IN MICROACOUSTIC DEVICES ......................... 1488
Ireka, Ikenna E. ; Wakeni, Mebratu F. ; Baghai-Wadji, Alireza
FULL ANALYSIS OF THE MIXED MATRIX PARAMETERS FOR A SAW TRANSDUCER HAVING APERIODIC MULTI ELECTRODE CELLS ............................................................................................. 1492
Ventura, Pascal ; Dufilie, Pierre ; Hecht, Frederic
A LATERAL MODES MODEL FOR BAW RESONATORS..................................................................................... 1497Collado, C. ; Rocas, E. ; Verdu, J. ; Mateu, J. ; Hueltes, A. ; Aigner, R.
FAST FULL-FEM COMPUTATION OF COM PARAMETERS. APPLICATION TO MULTILAYERED SAW STRUCTURES..................................................................................................................... 1501
Shaposhnikov, Kirill ; Kaltenbacher, Manfred ; Nicolay, Pascal
CHOICE OF QUARTZ CUT FOR SENSITIVE WIRELESS SAW TEMPERATURE SENSOR.......................... 1505Shvetsov, Alexander ; Zhgoon, Sergei ; Antsev, Ivan ; Bogoslovsky, Sergei ; Sapozhnikov, Gennadiy ; Trokhimets, Konstantin ; Derkach, Mikhail
ONLINE REAL-TIME MONITORING METHOD OF METHANOL CONCENTRATION FOR DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELL USING SHEAR HORIZONTAL SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE............................................................................................................................................................................... 1509
Kondoh, Jun ; Nozawa, Takuya
DESIGN AND CHARACTERISATION OF A COMBINED PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE, ID SENSOR FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................... 1513
Binder, A. ; Bardong, J. ; Bruckner, G.
DUAL RAYLEIGH AND LOVE SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE STRUCTURES BASED ON ZNO THIN FILM FOR MICROFLUIDIC APPLICATIONS.............................................................................................. 1517
Sarry, F. ; Roux-Marchand, T. ; Beyssen, D. ; Elmazria, O. ; Ait Aissa, K.
A SINGLE-CHIP BIOSENSING PLATFORM INTEGRATING FBAR SENSOR WITH DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE ............................................................................................................................................ 1521
Menglun Zhang ; Weiwei Cui ; Ji Liang ; Daihua Zhang ; Pang, Wei ; Zhang, Hao
ALN SOLIDLY MOUNTED RESONATORS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS .......................... 1524Mirea, T. ; DeMiguel-Ramos, M. ; Clement, M. ; Olivares, J. ; Iborra, E. ; Yantchev, V. ; Katardjiev, I.
LABEL-FREE DETECTION OF PROTEIN RELEASED DURING PLATELET ACTIVATION BY CNT-ENHANCED LOVE MODE SAW SENSORS .................................................................................................... 1528
Wu, Huiyan ; Zu, Hongfei ; Wang, Qing-Ming ; Zhao, Guangyi ; Wang, James H-C
AN INTEGRATED BEAMFORMING DRIVER FOR CMUT BASED ULTRASOUND CATHETER ABLATION SYSTEM..................................................................................................................................................... 1532
Yetik, Hasan ; Ergun, A.Sanli ; Bozkurt, Ayhan
DESIGN OF A DRIVER IC FOR AN ULTRASOUND CATHETER ABLATION SYSTEM ................................ 1536Bozkurt, Ayhan ; Farhanieh, Omid ; Roy, Rupak Bardhan ; Ergun, Arif Sanli
DESIGN OF FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING FRONT-END RECEIVER ELECTRONICS FOR CMUT-ON-CMOS BASED INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ....................... 1540
Rashid, M.Wasequr ; Tekes, Coskun ; Ghovanloo, Maysam ; Degertekin, F.Levent
OPTIMIZED THERMAL DESIGN FOR ASICS-EMBEDDED CLINICAL ULTRASOUND PROBES USING PHASE-CHANGE MATERIALS .................................................................................................... 1544
Motoki, Kazuya ; Watanabe, Toru
ULTRASONIC MICROMOTOR CONTROL USING SELFACTUATED MICRO-STRUCTURES .................... 1547Piratla, Sarvani ; Lal, Amit
DURABILITY TEST AND OBSERVATION ON NON-LINEAR DISTORTION IN OUTPUT WAVEFORM OF ANTI-CAVITATION HYDROPHONE IN HIGH INTENSITY ULTRASOUND .................... 1551
Okada, Nagaya ; Shiiba, Michihisa ; Takeuchi, Shinichi ; Uchida, Takeyoshi ; Yoshioka, Masahiro ; Kurosawa, Minoru K.
DUAL-CONCENTRIC TRANSDUCER WITH PHASE APODIZATION FOR WIDE DEPTH OF FIELD OF HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING .................................................................................. 1555
Jong Seob Jeong ; Sung Min Kim
PULSE PRESSURE SENSOR BASED ON FLEXIBLE PZT THICK-FILM COMPOSITE DEVICE .................. 1559Rongjie Liang ; Qing-Ming Wang
MULTI-MODE LANGEVIN TRANSDUCERS FOR P-SHAPED ULTRASONIC MOTOR WITH MULTI-DEGREE OF FREEDOM................................................................................................................................ 1563
Ishii, Takaaki ; Mochizuki, Seiya ; Shimizu, Tsuyoshi
FABRICATION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF INVERSION LAYER LINBO3 FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS....................................................................................................... 1566
Chen Jin ; Zhitian Zhang ; Chao Zhang ; Shung, K.Kirk ; Zhou, Qifa
A NOVEL WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SCHEME BASED ON ULTRASONIC PHASED ARRAY TRANSDUCER ................................................................................................................................................ 1570
Zhang, J.Y. ; Han, G. ; Ning, X. ; Chen, S.M. ; Yang, J.L. ; Zhang, H.
EFFECT OF PRE-DEPOSITION RF PLASMA ETCHING ON WAFER SURFACE MORPHOLOGY AND CRYSTAL ORIENTATION OF PIEZOELECTRIC ALN THIN FILMS ........................ 1574
Felmetsger, V.V. ; Mikhov, M.K. ; Laptev, P.N.
PREPARATION OF (K, NA)NBO3-CATIO3 FILM BY RF MAGNETRON SPUTTERING ................................ 1578Ikeuchi, Shinsuke ; Yoneda, Toshimaro ; Matsuki, Yoshitaka ; Endo, Naoyuki ; Takeshima, Yutaka ; Horiuchi, Hideya ; Kishimoto, Yutaka ; Yamamoto, Kansho ; Fujimoto, Katsumi
PVDF CYLINDRICAL FILM AIR ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER INFLUENCED BY AXIAL FILM LENGTH............................................................................................................................................................... 1582
Toda, Minoru
PVDF COPOLYMER TRANSDUCERS USED TO EVALUATE MICROPARTICLE SUSPENSIONS ................................................................................................................................................................ 1586
Wagle, Sanat ; Decharat, Adit ; Melandso, Frank ; Wegener, Michael
SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED CATHETER FOR REAL-TIME INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING .............................................................................................. 1591
VanderLaan, Donald ; Karpiouk, Andrei ; Yeager, Doug ; Emelianov, Stanislav
HIGH FREQUENCY GAN-BASED PULSE GENERATOR WITH ACTIVE T/R SWITCH CIRCUIT.......................................................................................................................................................................... 1595
Boni, Enrico ; Bassi, Luca ; Cellai, Andrea
A HANDHELD DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF PULMONARY AND ABDOMINAL PATHOLOGIES BY MULTIFUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ACOUSTIC PERCUSSION SIGNALS ................ 1599
Malyarenko, Eugene ; Pantea, Mircea ; Kamp, Justin ; Seviaryn, Fedar ; Maev, Roman
A CMUT-BASED FINGER-MOUNTED 3D ULTRASOUND PROBE ..................................................................... 1603Chen, Albert I.H ; Wong, Lawrence L.P. ; Yeow, John T.W.
A COMPACT AND RECONFIGURABLE 8-CHANNEL ULTRASOUND EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH .......................................................................................................................... 1607
Assef, Amauri Amorin ; Maia, Joaquim Miguel ; Costa, Eduardo Tavares ; da Silveira, Vera Lucia
A NEW SMART PROBE SYSTEM FOR A TABLET PC-BASED POINT-OF-CARE ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM: FEASIBILITY STUDY ................................................................................ 1611
Lee, Yeongnam ; Kang, Jeeun ; Sunmi Yeo ; Lee, Jaejin ; Kim, Gi-Duck ; Yoo, Yangmo ; Song, Tai-Kyong
A NEW AUTOMATED BREAST ULTRASOUND SYSTEM WITH DUAL WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1615
Jaeyoung Son ; Jongho Park ; Hyunjae Song ; Sunmi Yeo ; Jin Ho Chang ; Tai-Kyong Song ; Yangmo Yoo
A PROGRAMMABLE ULTRASOUND PLATFORM FOR MULTI-GATE DOPPLER MEASUREMENT ........................................................................................................................................................... 1619
Qiu, Weibao ; Zongying Ye ; Liyang Chi ; Peitian Mu ; Guofeng Li ; Congzhi Wang ; Yang Xiao ; Ming Qian ; Sun, Lei ; Zheng, Hairong
MAGNETICALLY-POWERED IMPLANTABLE DOPPLER BLOOD FLOW METER ...................................... 1622Tang, Sai Chun ; Vilkomerson, David ; Chilipka, Tom
DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING OF MOLECULAR-TARGETED NANORODS SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPOSED TO LIGHT AND SOUND ........................................................................................................................... 1626
McLaughlan, James ; Cowell, David ; Harput, Sevan ; Freear, Steven
IN-VITRO STIMULATION OF CELLS OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM WITH FOCUSED LOW-INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND (FLIPUS): ANALYSES OF CELLULAR ACTIVITIES IN RESPONSE TO THE OPTIMIZED ACOUSTIC DOSE ............................................................... 1630
Puts, Regina ; Ambrosi, Thomas ; Kadow-Romacker, Anke ; Raum, Kay ; Ruschke, Karen ; Knaus, Petra
CLOSE-LOOP LESION FORMATION CONTROL USING MULTIPLE-FOCUS DUAL MODE ULTRASOUND ARRAY ................................................................................................................................................ 1634
Liu, Dalong ; Haritonova, Alyona ; Ebbini, Emad
TRANSCRANIAL FOCUSING AND HIFU BEAM LOCALIZATION WITH DUAL-MODE ULTRASOUND ARRAYS.............................................................................................................................................. 1638
Haritonova, Alyona ; Liu, Dalong ; Bayat, Mahdi ; Ebbini, Emad S
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALGORITHM FOR HIFU FOCUS VISUALIZATION ................................................. 1642Kim, Daeseung ; Kim, Myungdeok ; Kang, Kookjin ; Son, Keonho
CHARACTERIZATION OF ACOUSTIC DROPLET VAPORIZATION AND INERTIAL CAVITATION THRESHOLDS IN ACOUSTICALLY-RESPONSIVE TISSUE SCAFFOLDS............................. 1646
Moncion, Alexander ; Kripfgans, Oliver D. ; Carson, Paul L. ; Fowlkes, J.Brian ; Fabiilli, Mario L.
INTEGRATED ULTRASOUND THERMOMETRY AND MULTIPHYSICS MODELING FOR LIVER RF ABLATION MONITORING: EX VIVO STUDIES ................................................................................. 1650
Sethuraman, Shriram ; Anand, Ajay ; Li, JunBo
HEALING TISSUE RESPONSE WITH ITU (INTENSE THERAPY ULTRASOUND) IN MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUE, FEASIBILITY STUDY......................................................................................... 1654
Slayton, Michael H. ; Barton, Jennifer Kehlet
IN VITRO STUDY OF PLGA/PFH PARTICLES LOADED WITH GOLD NANOPARTICLES AS THERANOSTIC AGENTS FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING AND CANCER THERAPY............................ 1658
Wang, Yan J. ; Strohm, Eric M. ; Kolios, Michael C. ; Sun, Yang ; Zheng, Yuanyi ; Wang, Zhigang
ASSESSING STORAGE-INDUCED RED BLOOD CELL LESIONS USING PHOTOACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS OF OXYGEN SATURATION AND THE FREQUENCY CONTENT OF PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS ..................................................................................................................................... 1662
Hysi, Eno ; Strohm, Eric M. ; Berndl, Elizabeth S.L. ; Kolios, Michael C. ; Acker, Jason P.
ENHANCED PHOTOTHERMAL THERAPY USING GOLD NANODROPLETS ................................................ 1666Shu-Wei Liu ; Yu-Ren Liou ; Yu-Hsun Wu ; Ya-Chuen Yang ; Wang, Churng-Ren Chris ; Li, Pai-Chi
THERMOACOUSTIC CONTRAST OF PROSTATE CANCER DUE TO HEATING BY VERY HIGH FREQUENCY IRRADIATION.......................................................................................................................... 1670
Patch, S ; Thomas, M ; Hull, D ; Griep, S ; Jacobsohn, K ; See, W
SUPPRESSION OF ABERRATION IN DEEPER-REGION US IMAGES USING MULTI-LOOK ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING ...................................................................................................................................... 1674
Ikeda, Teiichiro ; Takano, Shinta ; Masuzawa, Hiroshi
PHANTOM AND IN VIVO EVALUATION OF SOUND SPEED ESTIMATION METHODS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS ........................................................................................................................................... 1678
Cho, Sooah ; Kang, Jeeun ; Kang, Jinbum ; Lee, Wooyoul ; Yoo, Yangmo
IMPROVED LATERAL RESOLUTION AND CONTRAST IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING USING A SIDELOBE MASKING TECHNIQUE ..................................................................................................................... 1682
Savoia, Alessandro Stuart ; Caliano, Giosue ; Matrone, Giulia ; Magenes, Giovanni ; Ramalli, Alessandro ; Boni, Enrico ; Tortoli, Piero
ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING FOR THERMAL STRAIN IMAGING USING A SINGLE ULTRASOUND LINEAR ARRAY................................................................................................................................ 1686
Nguyen, Man M ; Ding, Xuan ; Yu, Francois ; Kim, Kang
ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING FOR ARTIFACT SUPPRESSION IN GASTROINTESTINAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY....................................................................................................... 1690
Tracey, Brian ; Penninck, Dominique ; Lemmerhirt, David ; Polak, Joseph
UNDERSTANDING CONTRAST IMPROVEMENTS FROM CAPON BEAMFORMING................................... 1694Rindal, Ole Marius Hoel ; Asen, Jon Petter ; Holm, Sverre ; Austeng, Andreas
TRANSCOSTAL IMAGING WITH LARGE COHERENT APERTURES: EX VIVO STUDIES ......................... 1698Jakovljevic, Marko ; Kumar, Shalki ; Kuo, Lily ; Trahey, Gregg E.
A PHANTOM STUDY ON TEMPORAL AND SUBBAND MINIMUM VARIANCE ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING ........................................................................................................................................................... 1702
Diamantis, Konstantinos ; Voxen, Iben H. ; Greenaway, Alan H. ; Anderson, Tom ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ; Sboros, Vassilis
3-D VELOCITY ESTIMATION FOR TWO PLANES IN VIVO............................................................................... 1706Holbek, Simon ; Pihl, Michael Johannes ; Ewertsen, Caroline ; Nielsen, Michael Bachmann ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
A MULTI-ANGLE PLANE WAVE IMAGING APPROACH FOR HIGH FREQUENCY 2D FLOW VISUALIZATION IN SMALL ANIMALS: SIMULATION STUDY IN THE MURINE ARTERIAL SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................... 1710
Swillens, Abigail ; Shcherbakova, Darya ; Trachet, Bram ; Segers, Patrick ; Ekroll, Ingvild Kinn ; Lovstakken, Lasse
ACCURACY AND SOURCES OF ERROR FOR AN ANGLE INDEPENDENT VOLUME FLOW ESTIMATOR................................................................................................................................................................... 1714
Jensen, Jonas ; Olesen, Jacob Bjerring ; Hansen, Peter Moller ; Nielsen, Michael Bachmann ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
2D TRACKING DOPPLER FOR CARDIAC JET FLOW VELOCITY ESTIMATION......................................... 1718Avdal, Jorgen ; Ekroll, Ingvild K. ; Fadnes, Solveig ; Lovstakken, Lasse ; Torp, Hans
ADAPTIVE MULTI-LAG FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE VECTOR FLOW IMAGING ................................... 1722Villagomez Hoyos, Carlos A. ; Stuart, Matthias Bo ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
DOES LARGE BEAM-STEERED ANGLE VELOCITY COMPOUNDING USING PLANE WAVE TRANSMISSION IMPROVE BLOOD VECTOR VELOCITY ESTIMATION IN A 3D CAROTID ARTERY FLOW FIELD? .............................................................................................................................................. 1726
Saris, Anne E.C.M. ; Hansen, Hendrik H.G. ; Fekkes, Stein ; Nillesen, Maartje M. ; Rutten, Marcel C.M. ; de Korte, Chris L.
ON THE ACCURACY OF COHERENT COMPOUNDING DOPPLER IMAGING .............................................. 1730Ekroll, Ingvild K. ; Voormolen, Marco M. ; Standal, Oyvind K.-V. ; Rau, Jochen M. ; Lovstakken, Lasse
SPECKLE SPOT DETECTION IN ULTRASOUND IMAGES: APPLICATION TO SPECKLE REDUCTION AND SPECKLE TRACKING ............................................................................................................... 1734
Widynski, Nicolas ; Geraud, Thierry ; Garcia, Damien
ANALYSIS OF ANGLE COMPOUNDING ON A FAST COLOR DOPPLER IMAGING: PHANTOM STUDY ........................................................................................................................................................ 1738
Kim, Hyohee ; Yeo, Sunmi ; Yoon, Yeokyeong ; Yoo, Yangmo
ADAPTING AMPLITUDE MODULATION TO PLANE-WAVE NON-LINEAR DOPPLER IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1742
Tremblay-Darveau, Charles ; Williams, Ross ; Zhang, Ze ; Milot, Laurent ; Bruce, Matthew ; Burns, Peter N.
CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING USING ADAPTIVE THIRD-ORDER VOLTERRA FILTER..................................................................................................................................................... 1746
Juan Du ; Dalong Liu ; Ebbini, Emad
CONTRAST DETECTION EFFICACY FOR PLANE VS. FOCUSED WAVE TRANSMISSION........................ 1750Viti, J. ; Vos, H.J. ; de Jong, N. ; Guidi, F. ; Tortoli, P.
DETECTION OF EARLY THERAPEUTIC RESPONSE WITH DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND USING A PERFUSION CLUSTERING ALGORITHM ......................................... 1754
Barrois, Guillaume ; Coron, Alain ; Lori Bridal, S.
NEW REFERENCE-FREE, SIMULTANEOUS MOTION-CORRECTION AND QUANTIFICATION IN DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND .................................................. 1758
Barrois, Guillaume ; Coron, Alain ; Bridal, Lori S.
ULTRASOUND CONTRAST PLANE WAVE IMAGING WITH HIGHER CTR BASED ON PULSE INVERSION BUBBLE WAVELET TRANSFORM .................................................................................................... 1762
Diya Wang ; Xuan Yang ; Jinjin Wan ; Jing, Bowen ; Lei Zhang ; Wan, Mingxi
OPTIMIZATION OF ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND MOLECULAR IMAGING USING SUBHARMONIC OSCILLATION....................................... 1766
Daeichin, V. ; Kooiman, K. ; Skachkov, I. ; Bosch, J.G. ; van der Steen, A.F.W. ; de Jong, N.
HIGH THROUGHPUT PRODUCTION OF UNIFORMLY-SIZED FLUOROCARBON EMULSIONS FOR ULTRASONIC THERAPY USING A SILICON-BASED MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................... 1770
Fabiilli, Mario L. ; Silpe, Justin ; Rush, Collin ; Lemmerhirt, David ; Tang, Edward ; Vasey, Gina ; Kripfgans, Oliver D.
OPTIMIZATION OF CONTRAST-TO-TISSUE RATIO AND ROLE OF BUBBLE DESTRUCTION IN DUAL-FREQUENCY CONTRAST-SPECIFIC “ACOUSTIC ANGIOGRAPHY” IMAGING ........................ 1774
Lindsey, Brooks D. ; Rojas, Juan D. ; Martin, K.Heath ; Shelton, Sarah E. ; Dayton, Paul A.
ULTRASOUND IMAGING FROM VAPORIZATION SIGNALS EMITTED BY PHASE CHANGE CONTRAST AGENTS.................................................................................................................................................... 1778
Arena, cChristopher B. ; Novell, cAnthony ; Sheeran, cPaul S. ; Puett, cConnor ; Phillips, cLinsey C. ; Dayton, cPaul A.
FORMING ACOUSTIC ATTRACTION FORCE TO CONCENTRATE MICROBUBBLES IN FLOW USING A MATRIX ARRAY TRANSDUCER ................................................................................................ 1782
Hosaka, Naoto ; Miyazawa, Shinya ; Sawaguchi, Toi ; Koda, Ren ; Onogi, Shinya ; Mochizuki, Takashi ; Masuda, Kohji
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF SINGLE FREELY-FLOATING MICROBUBBLES UNDER PROLONGED INSONATION ....................................................................................................................................... 1786
Luan, Ying ; Renaud, Guillaume ; Raymond, Jason L. ; Beurskens, Robert ; Mastik, Frits ; Kokhuis, Tom J.A. ; van der Steen, Antonius F.W. ; de Jong, Nico ; Segers, Tim ; Lajoinie, Guillaume P.R. ; Versluis, Michel
EFFECTS OF ULTRASOUND PARAMETERS ON THE ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PHASE-CHANGE DROPLETS..................................................................................................................................... 1790
Kao, Wei-Pu ; Kang, Shih-Tsung ; Yeh, Chih-Kuang
IN VIVO CHARACTERIZATION OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE OF HUMAN CAROTID ARTERIES WITH HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CORRELATION USING ARFI ULTRASOUND......................... 1794
Czernuszewicz, Tomasz J. ; Homeister, Jonathon W. ; Caughey, Melissa C. ; Farber, Mark A. ; Fulton, Joseph J. ; Ford, Peter F. ; Marston, William A. ; Vallabhaneni, Raghuveer ; Nichols, Timothy C. ; Gallippi, Caterina M.
NON-INVASIVE VASCULAR MODULOGRAPHY: AN INVERSE PROBLEM METHOD FOR IMAGING THE LOCAL ELASTICITY OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC CAROTID PLAQUES ............................... 1798
Poree, Jonathan ; Garcia, Damien ; Chayer, Boris ; Soulez, Gilles ; Ohayon, Jacques ; Cloutier, Guy
IN VITRO ELASTOGRAPHY OF PORCINE CAROTID ARTERIES, A VALIDATION STUDY ...................... 1802Boekhoven, R.W. ; Peters, M.F.J. ; Rutten, M.C.M. ; van de Vosse, F.N. ; Lopata, R.G.P.
NON-INVASIVE STRAIN IMAGING IN NORMOTENSIVE AND HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS .................... 1806Boekhoven, R.W. ; Marais, L. ; Rutten, M.C.M. ; vd Vosse, F.N. ; Boutouyrie, P. ; Lopata, R.G.P.
DIRECT ESTIMATION OF CAROTID ARTERY WALL SHEAR STRAIN PARAMETERS USING AUTOCORRELATION OF HIGH FRAME RATE ULTRASOUND IMAGES ...................................................... 1810
Adibi, Yasaman ; Divani, Afshin ; Ebbini, Emad
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMPOUNDING AND DIRECTIONAL BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUES FOR CAROTID STRAIN IMAGING USING PLANE WAVE TRANSMISSIONS ..................... 1814
Hansen, Hendrik H.G. ; Stuart, Matthias B. ; Villagomez Hoyos, Carlos A. ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ; de Korte, Chris L.
FEASIBILITY OF SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY FOR PLAQUE CHARACTERIZATION....................... 1818Widman, Erik ; Maksuti, Elira ; Larsson, David ; Urban, Matthew ; Caidahl, Kenneth ; Bjallmark, Anna ; Larsson, Matilda
EFFECTS OF KEY PARAMETERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF LOCAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT: THERORETIAL ANALYSIS AND IN-VIVO VALIDATION ........................... 1822
Huang, Chengwu ; Qiong He ; Ren, Tianling ; Luo, Jianwen
C-PLANE RECONSTRUCTIONS FROM SHEAF ACQUISITION FOR ULTRASOUND ELECTRODE VIBRATION ELASTOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................ 1826
Ingle, Atul ; Varghese, Tomy
ELASTOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO VISCOELASTIC PHANTOMS USING THREE TECHNIQUES: SHEAR WAVE INDUCED RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY, TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY AND SUPERSONIC SHEAR IMAGING............................................................ 1830
Chartier, Caroline ; Elkateb, Melouka ; Mofid, Yassine ; Henni, Anis Hadj ; Schmitt, Cedric ; Bastard, Cecile ; Miette, Veronique ; Ossant, Frederic
CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY IN COMPRESSED TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOMS ........................................................................................................................................... 1834
Urban, Matthew W. ; Kinnick, Randall R. ; Zhang, Xiaoming ; Greenleaf, James F.
1D HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY: AN OPTIMIZED ELASTOGRAPHIC TOOL FOR A VISCOELASTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES ................ 1838
Mofid, Y. ; Chartier, C. ; Ossant, F. ; Tauvron, V. ; Marouani, A. ; Ossant, F. ; Bastard, C. ; Miette, V.
BUILDING A VIRTUAL BREAST ELASTOGRAPHY PHANTOM LAB USING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE .................................................................................................................................................................... 1841
Wang, Yu ; Helminen, Emily ; Jiang, Jingfeng
FEASIBILITY OF USING A GENERALIZED-GAUSSIAN MARKOV RANDOM FIELD PRIOR FOR BAYESIAN SPECKLE TRACKING OF SMALL DISPLACEMENTS........................................................... 1845
Dumont, Douglas ; Palmeri, Mark ; Eyerly, Stephanie ; Wolf, Patrick ; Byram, Brett
SHEAR MODULUS IMAGING BASED ON FULL-FIELD LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST ANALYSIS FOR IMPROVED SPATIAL RESOLUTION ......................................................................................... 1849
Pei-Yu Chao ; Li, Pai-Chi
TWO-WAY QUALITY ASSESSMENT APPROACH FOR TUMOUR DETECTION USING FREE-HAND STRAIN IMAGING............................................................................................................................................ 1853
Hyder, Safeer ; Harput, Sevan ; Alomari, Zainab ; Freear, Steven
ANISOTROPIC POLYVINYL ALCOHOL HYDROGEL PHANTOM FOR SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY IN FIBROUS BIOLOGICAL SOFT TISSUE............................................................................. 1857
Chatelin, Simon ; Bernal, Miguel ; Papadacci, Clement ; Gennisson, Jean-Luc ; Tanter, Mickael ; Pernot, Mathieu
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF STRAIN-STIFFENING BEHAVIORS OF TENDONS: COMPARED WITH SHEAR WAVE ELASTICITY IMAGING............................................................................... 1861
Chu, Tang-Ting ; Yeh, Chia-Lun ; Li, Pai-Chi ; Kuo, Po-Ling
3D CELL MECHANOBIOLOGY STUDY USING SHEAR WAVE ELASTICITY IMAGING............................. 1865Chun-Ting Li ; Chin-Hsiung Tsai ; Pai-Chi Li ; Po-Ling Kuo
STOMACH EMPTYING EVALUATION BY ULTRASOUND AND SUSCEPTOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS WITH A HYBRID TRANSDUCER ............................................................................................ 1869
Colello Bruno, Alexandre ; Baffa Filho, Oswaldo ; Oliveira Carneiro, Antonio Adilton ; Oliveira, Ricardo Brandt de
DEPENDENCE OF ULTRASOUND DECORRELATION ON URINE SCATTER PARTICLE CONCENTRATION ....................................................................................................................................................... 1873
Arif, Muhammad ; van Mastrigt, Ron ; Idzenga, Tim ; de Korte, Chris L.
ESTIMATION OF NEEDLE TIP LOCATION USING ULTRASOUND IMAGE PROCESSING AND HYPOECHOIC MARKERS................................................................................................................................. 1876
McSweeney, Ian ; Murphy, Brian ; Wright, William M.D.
NEEDLE VISIBILITY FOR DEEP PUNCTURES WITH CURVED ARRAYS ...................................................... 1880Dencks, Stefanie ; Susanti, Hesty ; Schmitz, Georg
ULTRASOUND BASED MUSCLE KINEMATICS MEASUREMENT WITH TRACKLET STITCHING .................................................................................................................................................................... 1884
Otto, Paul ; Sikdar, Siddhartha ; Im, Hyun Soo ; Gavelli, Frances
ULTRASOUND STRAIN RATE IMAGING OF INDIVIDUAL MUSCLE MOTOR UNITS................................. 1888Heger, Max ; Stavdahl, Oyvind ; Torp, Hans
HIGH FREQUENCY DENTAL IMAGING AND IN-VITRO MONITORING OF ACID DENTAL EROSION......................................................................................................................................................................... 1892
Hughes, David A. ; Stewart, Steven ; Hutson, David ; Kirk, Katherine J. ; Longbottom, Christopher
FAST DETECTION OF BREAST POSITION FOR 3D USCT .................................................................................. 1896Bo Qin ; Zapf, Michael ; Kretzek, Ernst ; Xiaochuan Ma ; Ruiter, Nicole V.
THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION OF RAT CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION BY ULTRASOUND IMAGING............................................................................................................................................ 1900
Jin, Chang-zhu ; Nam, Kweon-Ho ; Paeng, Dong-Guk
ALTERATIONS IN ULTRASOUND SCATTERING FOLLOWING THERMAL ABLATION IN EX VIVO BOVINE LIVER .................................................................................................................................................. 1904
Rubert, Nicholas ; Varghese, Tomy
STATISTICS OF ENVELOPE OF ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER FROM BASAL CELL CARCINOMA AND ACTINIC KERATOSIS LESION .............................................................................................. 1908
Litniewski, Jerzy ; Piotrzkowska-Wroblewska, Hanna ; Nowicki, Andrzej ; Szymanska, Elzbieta
ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MAPS OF MCF-7 CELLS .......................................... 1912Fadhel, Muhannad N. ; Berndl, Elizabeth S.L. ; Strohm, Eric M. ; Kolios, Michael C.
EVALUATION OF CLASSIFICATION STRATEGIES USING QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND MARKERS AND A THYROID CANCER RODENT MODEL.................................................................................. 1916
Montero, Maria Luisa ; Zenteno, Omar ; Castaneda, Benjamin ; Oelze, Michael ; Lavarello, Roberto
RESOLUTION LIMIT OF OVERLAPPING ULTRASOUND CHIRPLET ECHOES VIA HYPOTHESIS TESTING............................................................................................................................................... 1920
Demirli, Ramazan ; Saniie, Jafar
DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE ANALOG FRONT-END FOR ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1924
Vasudevan, Vidya ; Govindan, Pramod ; Saniie, Jafar
NDE APPLICATIONS OF COMPRESSED SENSING, SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION AND ECHO ESTIMATION ................................................................................................................................................................. 1928
Lu, Yufeng ; Demirli, Ramazan ; Saniie, Jafar
ADAPTIVE FILTERING AND FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORM FOR ULTRASONIC SIGNAL PROCESSSING AND FLAW DETECTION................................................................................................ 1932
Lu, Yufeng ; Saniie, Jafar
MULTIDIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION OF ULTRASONIC DATA PROCESSED BY RECONFIGURABLE ULTRASONIC SYSTEM-ON-CHIP USING OPENCL HIGH-LEVEL SYNTHESIS..................................................................................................................................................................... 1936
Gilliland, Spenser ; Boulet, Clementine ; Gonnot, Thomas ; Saniie, Jafar
THE USE OF PULSE COMPRESSION AND FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE TO IMPROVE ULTRASONIC NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF HIGHLY-SCATTERING MATERIALS ................................................................................................................................................................... 1940
Battaglini, L. ; Laureti, S. ; Ricci, M. ; Burrascano, P. ; Davis, L.A.J. ; Hutchins, D.A.
AUTO-ADJUSTMENT OF IMAGE PRODUCED BY MULTI-TRANSDUCER ULTRASONIC SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................... 1944
Severin, Fedar ; Baradarani, Aryaz ; Taylor, Jason ; Zhelnakov, Serge ; Maev, Roman
SINGLE NANO PARTICLE COLLECTING BY USING ULTRASONIC HUMIDIFIER ..................................... 1948Jungsoon Kim ; Minkun Bae ; Kanglyeol Ha ; Jihee Jung ; Moojoon Kim ; Mincheol Chu
MICROPARTICLE SEPARATION USING A PMMA CHANNEL AT AN OBLIQUE ANGLE TO A SAW FIELD..................................................................................................................................................................... 1952
Dauson, E.R. ; Oppenheim, I.J. ; Gregory, K.B. ; Greve, D.W.
TEMPERATURE UNIFORMITY OF MICRODROPLET HEATED BY BURIED SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE ........................................................................................................................................ 1956
Roux-Marchand, T. ; Sarry, F. ; Beyssen, D. ; Elmazria, O.
DEVELOPMENT OF A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND PROBE FOR PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATION ...................................................................... 1960
Strohm, Eric M. ; Kolios, Michael C. ; Hwang, Dae Kun ; Moon, Byeong-Ui ; Tsai, Scott S.H.
A RECIPROCITY-BASED METHOD TO DETERMINE HYDROPHONE COMPLEX SENSITIVITY AND TESTED AT FREQUENCIES FROM 1 TO 7 MHZ ............................................................... 1964
de Oliveira, Everande Gobira ; Costa-Felix, Rodrigo P.B. ; Joao Carlos Machado
OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SURFACE-DISPLACEMENT FIELDS OF HIGH-FREQUENCY TRANSDUCERS ................................................................................................................................... 1968
Sampathkumar, Ashwin ; Ketterling, Jeffrey A.
EFFECTS OF VISCOUS LIQUID ON SH WAVE PROPAGATION IN LAYERED VISCOELASTIC/PIEZOELECTRIC STRUCTURE.................................................................................................. 1971
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DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PHASED PARAMETRIC ARRAY FOR THE DETECTION OF GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS AHEAD OF DRILL BIT ........................................................... 1975
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A CALCULATION AND VALIDATION OF ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE OF QUARTZ CRYSTAL RESONATORS WITH STRUCTURAL VISCOSITY............................................................................. 1979
Chen, Hui ; Wang, Ji ; Ma, Tingfeng ; Du, Jianke ; Shen, Julian ; Pao, Shi-Yung ; Chao, Min-Chiang
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL CUTS FOR USE AS HIGH-VOLTAGE ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSORS ................................................................................................................. 1983
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ULTRASONIC STUDIES OF ONION-LIKE CARBONS/POLYDIMETHYSILOXANE COMPOSITES................................................................................................................................................................. 1986
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ACOUSTICS OF A FINITE-APERTURE LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN VORTEX BEAM ........................................ 1988Mitri, Farid G.
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IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF GPU-BASED SOFTWARE BEAMFORMING USING TRANSFORM-BASED CHANNEL DATA COMPRESSION.................................................................................... 2141
Lok, U-Wai ; Li, Pai-Chi
IMAGING THE MICROVASCULAR RESPONSE TO ULTRASOUND-STIMULATED THERAPY IN A PRECLINICAL ANIMAL MODEL OF BREAST CANCER............................................................................ 2145
Sorace, Anna G. ; Hoyt, Kenneth
A MODEL BASED APPROACH TO IN VIVO ULTRASOUND TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION .................... 2149Bayat, Mahdi ; Ballard, John R. ; Haritonova, Alyona ; Wilken-Resman, Elias ; Ebbini, Emad S.
QUANTITATIVE IMAGING OF TEMPERATURE ELEVATIONS IN TISSUES DUE TO THERMAL THERAPIES............................................................................................................................................... 2153
Kemmerer, Jeremy P. ; Ghoshal, Goutam ; Oelze, Michael L. ; Rubert, Nicholas ; Samimi, Kayvan
HIFU BEAM VISUALIZATION USING BEAM PROFILE EXTRACTION FROM TISSUE SPECKLE PATTERN..................................................................................................................................................... 2157
Matsui, K. ; Azuma, T. ; Takeuchi, H. ; Sasaki, A. ; Takagi, S. ; Iwahashi, T. ; Tang, T. ; Sakuma, I. ; Fujiwara, K. ; Itani, K. ; Yoshinaka, K.
MOTION-CORRECTED ECHO DECORRELATION IMAGING OF IN VIVO FOCUSED AND BULK ULTRASOUND ABLATION IN A RABBIT LIVER CANCER MODEL .................................................... 2161
Fosnight, Tyler R. ; Hooi, Fong Ming ; Keil, Ryan D. ; Subramanian, Swetha ; Barthe, Peter G. ; Yang Wang ; Xiaoping Ren ; Ahmad, Syed ; Rao, Marepalli B. ; Mast, T.Douglas
A MECHANISM OF ULTRASOUND BALLOON RUPTURE FOR FETAL SURGERY ...................................... 2165Sato, Tomoo ; Osawa, Shunsuke ; Yamashita, Hiromasa ; Ohtake, Hiroshi ; Yonai, Jun ; Sasaki, Hiroyasu ; Mochizuki, Takashi ; Chiba, Toshio
ENHANCEMENT OF DIRECT BRAIN INFUSION WITH FOCUSED ULTRASOUND AND MICROBUBBLES........................................................................................................................................................... 2169
Wang, Shutao ; Sun, Tao ; Acosta, Camilo ; Karakatsani, Maria Eleni ; Olumolade, Oluyemi ; Samiotaki, Gesthimani ; Konofagou, Elisa
THROMBOLYSIS ENHANCED BY DUAL-FREQUENCY HIGHINTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................... 2173
Guo, Sijia ; Suo, Dingjie ; Jing, Yun ; Jiang, Xiaoning ; Frank, Jonathan ; Lin, Weili
IMPLEMENTATION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING ON A HAND-HELD DEVICE ........................ 2177Hemmsen, Martin Christian ; Kjeldsen, Thomas ; Lassen, Lee ; Kjaer, Carsten ; Tomov, Borislav ; Mosegaard, Jesper ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
SYNTHETIC APERTURE SEQUENTIAL BEAMFORMING IMPLEMENTED ON MULTI-CORE PLATFORMS .................................................................................................................................................................. 2181
Kjeldsen, Thomas ; Lassen, Lee ; Hemmsen, Martin Christian ; Kjaer, Carsten ; Tomov, Borislav G. ; Mosegaard, Jesper ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
A NOVEL BEAMFORMING METHOD FOR WIRELESS ULTRASOUND SMART PROBE ............................ 2185MooHo Bae ; Nam Ouk Kim ; Sung-Bae Park ; Sung-Jae Kwon
OPTIMIZATION OF FREE-MOVING ELEMENTS IN 2D ULTRASOUND SPARSE ARRAYS........................ 2189Diarra, Bakary ; Robini, Marc ; Roux, Emmanuel ; Liebgott, Herve ; Cachard, Christian ; Roux, Emmanuel ; Tortoli, Piero
BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUES FOR ULTRASOUND MICROCALCIFICATION DETECTION .................. 2193Huang, Sheng-Wen ; Robert, Jean-Luc ; Radulescu, Emil ; Vignon, Francois ; Erkamp, Ramon
BROAD-BAND, LARGE DELAY RANGE, HIGH PRECISION, AND VARIABLE ANALOG DELAY LINES FOR A HIGH-FREQUENCY PHASED ARRAY BEAMFORMER .............................................. 2197
Latham, K. ; Arthur, C. ; Brown, J.
INTERPOLATION METHODS FOR ECONOMICAL PULSE-ECHO SIGNAL SYNTHESIS ............................ 2201Nariyoshi, Pedro C. ; McGough, Robert J.
PULSE-ECHO ULTRASOUND IMAGING COMBINING COMPRESSED SENSING AND THE FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD..................................................................................................................................... 2205
Schiffner, Martin F. ; Schmitz, Georg
2D LOCALIZATION OF SPECULAR REFLECTIONS USING ULTRASOUND.................................................. 2209Bandaru, Raja Sekhar ; Sornes, Anders ; D'hooge, Jan ; Samset, Eigil
BISTATIC PASSIVE MAPPING OF THE FIELD DISTRIBUTION OF SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCER IN AGAR PHANTOM ........................................................................................................................ 2213
Nguyen, Trong ; Oelze, Michael ; Do, Minh
FAST SIMULATION OF REALISTIC PSEUDO-ACOUSTIC NONLINEAR RADIO-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGES .............................................................................................................................................. 2217
Varray, Francois ; Liebgott, Herve ; Cachard, Chrisitan ; Vray, Didier
NONLINEAR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SPEED OF SOUND IN SOFT TISSUES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE SIMULATION RESULTS APPLYING KACZMARZ AND CONTRAST SOURCE INVERSION METHODS ....................................................................................................... 2221
Salehi, Leili ; Schmitz, Georg
THE KHOKHLOV - ZABOLOTSKAYA - KUZNETSOV (KZK) EQUATION WITH POWER LAW ATTENUATION ............................................................................................................................................................. 2225
Xiaofeng Zhao ; McGough, Robert J.
A MULTI-THREADED VERSION OF FIELD II ....................................................................................................... 2229Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
BEAMFORMING DESIGNS FOR BREAST SONOGRAPHY.................................................................................. 2233Insana, Michael F. ; Nguyen, Nghia Q. ; Abbey, Craig K.
MICROVASCULAR BLOOD FLOW IN THE THYROID: PRELIMINARY RESULTS WITH A NOVEL IMAGING TECHNIQUE ................................................................................................................................ 2237
Forsberg, Flemming ; Machado, Priscilla ; Segal, Sharon ; Okamura, Yoko ; Guenette, Gilles ; Rapp, Cynthia ; Lyshchik, Andrej
AN ANALYTICAL MODEL OF THE DOPPLER SPECTRUM FOR PEAK BLOOD VELOCITY DETECTION ................................................................................................................................................................... 2241
Ricci, Stefano
AN IMPROVED METHOD OF DETERMINING PEAK BLOOD VELOCITY ..................................................... 2245Ricci, S. ; Vilkomerson, D. ; Matera, R. ; Tortoli, P.
A COMPOUND SPECKLE MODEL FOR VASCULAR COMPLEXITY QUANTIFICATION IN NONLINEAR CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASONOGRAPHY......................................................................... 2249
Lowerison, Matthew R. ; Nicole Hague, M. ; Chambers, Ann F. ; Lacefield, James C.
PERFUSION SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR OPTIMAL DETECTION PERFORMANCE ................................... 2253Abbey, Craig K. ; MinWoo Kim ; Insana, Michael F.
NON-INVASIVE ESTIMATION OF PRESSURE GRADIENTS IN PULSATILE FLOW USING ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................... 2257
Olesen, Jacob Bjerring ; Hoyos, Carlos Armando Villagomez ; Traberg, Marie Sand ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
NYQUIST VELOCITY EXTENSION IN ULTRAFAST COLOR DOPPLER ......................................................... 2261Posada, Daniel ; Chayer, Boris ; Cloutier, Guy ; Garcia, Damien
ULTRASOUND BASED DOSIMETRY FOR RADIOTHERAPY: IN-VITRO PROOF OF PRINCIPLE ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2265
Verboven, Erik ; D'Agostino, Emiliano ; Callens, Maarten ; Pfeiffer, Helge ; Verellen, Dirk ; D'hooge, Jan ; Van Den Abeele, Koen
REGULATING NONLINEAR PROPERTIES OF LIPID-COATED MICROBUBBLES USING POLYMER NETWORK SCAFFOLDS FOR ULTRASOUND DRUG DELIVERY APPLICATIONS ................. 2269
Kang, Shih-Tsung ; Lin, Jian-Liang ; Wang, Chung-Hsin ; Yeh, Chih-Kuang
DYNAMICS OF VOLATILE PHASE-CHANGE CONTRAST AGENTS: THEORETICAL MODEL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS .............................................................................................................. 2273
Doinikov, Alexander A. ; Bouakaz, Ayache ; Sheeran, Paul S. ; Dayton, Paul A.
LATTICE OF NONLINEAR COUPLED OSCILLATORS: AN ACOUSTO-MECHANICAL ANALOGY OF GAS MICROBUBBLE ........................................................................................................................ 2277
Chaline, Jennifer ; Bouakaz, Ayache ; Escoffre, Jean-Michel ; Sanchez-Morcillo, Victor ; Jimenez, Noe ; Dos Santos, Serge
RF-BASED MOTION ESTIMATION USING NON-RIGID IMAGE REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES: IN-SILICO AND IN-VIVO FEASIBILITY...................................................................................... 2280
Heyde, Brecht ; Alessandrini, Martino ; Tong, Ling ; D'hooge, Jan
ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE (ARF) GENERATION WITH A NOVEL DUAL-FREQUENCY INTRAVASCULAR TRANSDUCER ............................................................................................................................ 2284
Czernuszewicz, Tomasz J. ; Gallippi, Caterina M. ; Wang, Zhuochen ; Ma, Jianguo ; Jiang, Xiaoning
A DEDICATED GUIDED-SEARCH DISPLACEMENT ALGORITHM FOR CARDIOVASCULAR STRAIN IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................ 2288
Petterson, N.J. ; van de Vosse, F.N. ; Lopata, R.G.P.
ULTRASOUND EVALUATION OF AN ABDOMINAL AORTIC FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION MODEL............................................................................................................................................... 2292
Traberg, Marie Sand ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
IN VIVO ARFI SURVEILLANCE OF SUBCUTANEOUS HEMORRHAGE (ASSH) FOR MONITORING RCFVIII DOSE RESPONSE IN HEMOPHILIA A DOGS............................................................. 2296
Geist, Rebecca E. ; Gallippi, Caterina M. ; Nichols, Timothy C. ; Merricks, Elizabeth P. ; Caughey, Melissa C.
WALL STRESS ANALYSIS OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS USING 3D ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................... 2300
Kok, A.M. ; Nguyen, V.L. ; Speelman, L. ; Schurink, G.W.H. ; van de Vosse, F.N. ; Lopata, R.G.P.
COMPARISON OF SIMULATION METHODS FOR ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY: FEM VS. GREEN'S FUNCTIONS ............................................................................................. 2304
Zhou, Shiwei ; Huang, Sheng-Wen ; Xie, Hua ; Robert, Jean-Luc ; Shamdasani, Vijay
THE EFFECT OF FREQUENCY ADAPTATION ACCORDING TO THE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT AND FOCUS DEPTH ON RADIATION FORCE AMPLITUDE AND ESTIMATED DISPLACEMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................... 2308
Ouared, Abderrahmane ; Montagnon, Emmanuel ; Cloutier, Guy
IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF SHEAR WAVE SPEED RECONSTRUCTIONS USING 4D DIRECTIONAL FILTERS IN THE PRESENCE OF REFLECTION ARTIFACTS............................................... 2312
Lipman, Samantha L ; Rouze, Ned C ; Palmeri, Mark L ; Nightingale, Kathryn R
EFFECTS OF PHASE ABERRATION ON ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE-BASED SHEAR WAVE GENERATION................................................................................................................................................... 2316
Amador, Carolina ; Aristizabal, Sara ; Greenleaf, James F. ; Urban, Matthew W.
LOADING RAMP EFFECTS IN UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION CREEP DEVICE ................................................. 2320Amador, Carolina ; Nabavizadeh, Alireza ; Kinnick, Randall ; Fatemi, Mostafa
A TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL OF SHEAR WAVE PROPAGATION IN ANISOTROPIC SOFT TISSUE..................................................................................................................................... 2323
Yang, Yiqun ; Urban, Matthew W. ; McGough, Robert J.
SHEAR WAVE SPEED ESTIMATION FROM CRAWLING WAVE SONOELASTOGRAPHY: A COMPARISON BETWEEN AM-FM DOMINANT COMPONENT ANALYSIS AND PHASE DERIVATION METHODS ............................................................................................................................................ 2327
Ormachea, Juvenal ; Rojas, Renan ; Rodriguez, Paul ; Lavarello, Roberto J. ; Parker, Kevin J. ; Castaneda, Benjamin
ASSESSING TISSUE MOTIONS INDUCED BY ORTHOGONAL-FREQUENCY PULSES AND BINARY PULSES USING A LASER VIBROMETER ............................................................................................... 2331
Zheng, Yi ; Lin, Haoming ; Chen, Xin ; Panpag Liu ; Wang, Tianfu ; Chen, Siping
ELASTIC MODULUS CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT IN SHEAR WAVE IMAGING USING MECHANICAL NONLINEARITY: IN VITRO TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM STUDY .............................. 2335
Dae Woo Park ; Kang Kim
ESTIMATION OF RESPIRATORY BREATHING SIGNAL FROM 2D US SEQUENCES AND 4DCT OF THE LIVER ................................................................................................................................................... 2339
Spinczyk, Dominik ; Blanc, Remi ; Rit, Simon ; Sarrut, David ; Melodelima, David
A FULLY AUTOMATED METHOD FOR CAROTID PLAQUES SEGMENTATION IN ULTRASOUND IMAGES BASED ON MOTION ESTIMATION AND LEVEL-SET ............................................ 2343
Galluzzo, Francesca ; De Marchi, Luca ; Testoni, Nicola ; Tabassian, Mahdi ; Speciale, Nicolo ; Masetti, Guido
TPS-RPM BASED SEGMENTATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND SAFT IMAGES FOR CAD/CAM BASED TOOTH DIGITIZATION .......................................... 2347
Chuembou, Fabrice ; Harbor, Daniel ; Radermacher, Klaus ; Heger, Stefan
FIXED POINT MOTION ESTIMATION FOR FRAME RATE UP CONVERSION IN CARDIAC ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................... 2351
Mirarkolaei, Hani Nozari ; Snare, Sten Roar ; Breivik, Lars Hofsoy ; Steen, Erik Normann ; Solberg, Anne H Schistad
A VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR IMPROVED ASSESSMENT AND FOLLOW-UP WITH ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................... 2355
Kiss, Gabriel ; Iversen, Daniel Hoyer ; Standal, Oyvind Krovel-Velle ; Rau, Jochen Matthias ; Torp, Hans ; Lovstakken, Lasse ; Masoy, Svein-Erik
IMPROVED MICROCALCIFICATION DETECTION IN BREAST ULTRASOUND: PHANTOM STUDIES .......................................................................................................................................................................... 2359
Bahramian, Sara ; Insana, Michael F.
EARLY DETECTION OF FATTY LIVER DISEASE IN MICE VIA QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................... 2363
Han, Aiguo ; Erdman, John W. ; Simpson, Douglas G. ; Andre, Michael P. ; O'Brien, William D.
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE HEART MUSCLE ANIOSOTROPY USING ULTRASOUND NAKAGAMI IMAGING ................................................................................................................................................ 2367
Xue Yu ; Lee, Wei-Ning
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE PRESSURE PROPAGATION IN VISCOELASTIC TUBE MIMICKING BLOOD VESSELS ................................................................................................................................. 2371
Nishi, Shohei ; Saito, Masashi ; Asada, Takaaki ; Matsukawa, Mami
ACCURATE DIAGNOSIS OF NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE IN HUMAN PARTICIPANTS VIA QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND ........................................................................................ 2375
Andre, Michael P. ; Han, Aiguo ; Heba, Elhamy ; Hooker, Jonathan ; Loomba, Rohit ; Sirlin, Claude B. ; Erdman, John W. ; O'Brien, William D.
COMPARISON OF ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES IN VARIOUS RAT ORGANS USING HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND ..................................................................................................................................... 2378
Irie, So ; Yoshida, Kenji ; Kobayashi, Kazuto ; Mamou, Jonathan ; Maruyama, Hitoshi ; Yamaguchi, Tadashi
MEASUREMENT OF ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE FOR NORMAL, FIBROSIS AND NASH LIVERS BY USING BIO-ACOUSTIC MICROSROPY ............................................................................................................. 2382
Ito, K. ; Inoue, K. ; Maruyama, H. ; Kobayashi, K. ; Yoshida, K. ; Yamaguchi, T.
CAROTID PLAQUE CHARACTERIZATION WITH HISTOLOGY AND QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................... 2386
Wang, Xiao ; Salamat, M.Shahriar ; Varghese, Tomy ; Dempsey, Robert J.
TOWARD RECOGNIZING THE VULNERABLE ASYMPTOMATIC ATHEROMATOUS PLAQUE FROM B-MODE ULTRASOUND: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE PLAQUE SHOULDER .......................................................................................................................................... 2390
Golemati, S. ; Lehareas, S. ; Tsiaparas, N.N. ; Gastounioti, A. ; Chatziioannou, A. ; Nikita, K.S. ; Perrea, D.N.
QUANTIFICATION OF THE SCATTERER DISTRIBUTIONS FOR LIVER FIBROSIS USING MODIFIED Q-Q PROBABILITY PLOT ..................................................................................................................... 2394
Ito, Mikito ; Yoshida, Kenji ; Hachiya, Hiroyuki ; Mamou, Jonathan ; Yamaguchi, Tadashi
ESTIMATION METHOD USING MODIFIED Q-Q PROBABILITY PLOT IN HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND ..................................................................................................................................... 2398
Tamura, K. ; Mamou, J. ; Yoshida, K. ; Yamaguchi, T.
NEW APPROACH FOR OBJECTIVE CATARACT CLASSIFICATION BASED ON ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES USING MULTICLASS SVM CLASSIFIERS....................................................... 2402
Caixinha, Miguel ; Velte, Elena ; Santos, Mario ; Santos, Jaime B.
ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT FROM THE BACKSCATTERED RADIO-FREQUENCY SIGNAL ........................................................................ 2406
Ilyina, Natalia ; Hermans, Jeroen ; Verboven, Erik ; Van Den Abeele, Koen ; D'Agostino, Emiliano ; D'hooge, Jan
OPTICAL AND ACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF FREEZE-THAWED POLYVINYL ALCOHOL GELS ........................................................................................................................................................... 2410
Arabul, Mustafa Umit ; Rutten, Marcel ; van de Vosse, Frans ; Lopata, Richard
EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF PLANE WAVE IMAGING USING K-SPACE BEAMFORMING FOR SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ISOTROPIC MEDIA .................................... 2414
Garcia-Duitama, Julian ; Aiguo Han ; Chayer, Boris ; Garcia, Damien ; Oelze, Michael L. ; Cloutier, Guy
THE EFFECT OF LOW SCATTERER NUMBER DENSITY ON ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION ESTIMATION ................................................................................................................................................................. 2418
Rubert, Nicholas ; Varghese, Tomy
SIMULATION OF ABSOLUTE BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT IN FIELD II........................................... 2422Shieh, Bernard ; Degertekin, F.Levent ; Sabra, Karim
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF ATTENUATION IMAGING USING FULL ANGULAR SPATIAL COMPOUNDING.......................................................................................................................................... 2426
Zenteno, Omar ; Luchies, Adam ; Oelze, Michael ; Lavarello, Roberto
DEVELOPMENT OF A FPGA-BASED QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING STRESS-STRAIN PROPERTIES OF ACHILLES TENDON ............................................................. 2430
Guan-Chun Chen ; Jian-Xing Wu ; Du, Yi-Chun ; Chia-Hung Lin ; Chen, Pei-Jarn ; Chen, Tainsong
DETECTION OF SUBRESOLUTION SOURCES OF COHERENT SCATTERING FOR PARAMETRIC IMAGE FORMATION ....................................................................................................................... 2434
Rosado-Mendez, Ivan M. ; Hall, Timothy J. ; Zagzebski, James A.
ACCURACY OF BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENT ESTIMATION IN ABERRATING MEDIA USING DIFFERENT PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTION STRATEGIES - A SIMULATION STUDY ............................................................................................................................................................................. 2438
Gonzalez, Eduardo ; Sheth, Niral ; Castaneda, Benjamin ; Dahl, Jeremy ; Lavarello, Roberto
PULSE-ECHO SOUND SPEED ESTIMATION BASED ON A NAKAGAMI MODEL OF THE ECHO AMPLITUDE ...................................................................................................................................................... 2442
Rosado-Mendez, Ivan M. ; Hall, Timothy J. ; Zagzebski, James A.
ULTRASONIC PIEZOELECTRIC TUBE RESONATOR FOR PHYSICAL LIQUID PROPERTY SENSING ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2446
Antlinger, H. ; Clara, S. ; Jakoby, B. ; Beigelbeck, R. ; Voglhuber-Brunnmaier, T. ; Cerimovic, S. ; Keplinger, F.
ENHANCED SENSITIVITY OF A SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE BASED ACCELEROMETER..................... 2450Wang Wen ; Huang Yangqing ; Liu Xinlu ; He Shitang
ULTRASOUND TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY: IN-LINE SIZING OF NANOPARTICLES..................... 2454van Neer, P.L.M.J. ; Volker, A.W.F. ; Pierre, G. ; Bouvet, F. ; Crozat, S.
AN ACTIVE ACOUSTIC BACK COVER BASED ON PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS ..................................... 2458Lamberti, Nicola A. ; Caliano, Giosue ; Savoia, Alessandro Stuart
REMOTE EXCITATION OF A BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSING PLATFORM ........................................... 2462Curtis-Bray, Nicole ; Stennett, Rahim ; Wallace, Sam ; Emanetoglu, Nuri ; Vetelino, John
ULTRASONIC PRECISE DISTANCE MEASUREMENT AND MOVEMENT DETECTION INSTALLED IN SENSOR NETWORK........................................................................................................................ 2466
Sato, T. ; Kaneda, Y. ; Hikita, M.
DIRECTION CONTROL OF A PARAMETRIC SPEAKER ..................................................................................... 2470Akahori, Hajime ; Furuhashi, Hideo ; Shimizu, Masatoshi
NANOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED THERMO-ACOUSTICS IN REFRACTORY METALS UNDERGOING LASER PULSE-INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION: FINITE DIFFERENCE MODELING .................................................................................................................................................................... 2474
Veres, Istvan A. ; Utegulov, Zhandos N. ; Every, Arthur E.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL-POSITIONING MEASUREMENTS BASED ON ECHOLOCATION USING LINEAR-PERIOD-MODULATED ULTRASONIC SIGNAL ...................................................................... 2478
Thong-un, Natee ; Orino, Yuishiro ; Kurosawa, Minoru K. ; Hirata, Shinnosuke
DEVELOPMENT OF A 1 MBPS LOW POWER ACOUSTIC MODEM FOR UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 2482
Martins, M.S. ; Pinto, N. ; Rocha, G. ; Cabral, J. ; Laceros Mendez, S.
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE FREQUENCY TUNING CHARACTERISTICS OF A ROTATING PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTER ...................................... 2486
Gedeon, Dominik ; Rupitsch, Stefan J. ; Lerch, Reinhard
DEVELOPMENT OF ROBOT FINGER USING ULTRASONIC MOTORS DRIVEN BY SUPERIMPOSED SIGNAL INPUT .............................................................................................................................. 2490
Oh, Shosho ; Takemura, Kenjiro
TUNABLE ACOUSTIC ENERGY HARVESTER USING HELMHOLTZ RESONATOR AND DUAL PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVER BEAMS ................................................................................................... 2494
Yang, Aichao ; Li, Ping ; Wen, Yumei ; Lu, Caijiang ; Peng, Xiao ; He, Wei ; Zhang, Jitao ; Wang, Decai ; Yang, Feng
MATCHING LAYERS DESIGN FOR A PLATE WAVEGUIDE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER FOR FLOW MEASUREMENT IN HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS ........................................................................... 2498
Laws, M. ; Dixon, S. ; Ramadas, S.N.
ROTARY MOTION GENERATED BY SYNTHESIZED CIRCULAR / ELLIPTIC DRIVE WITH STRAIGHT-MOVE ULTRASONIC MOTORS........................................................................................................... 2502
Nagira, Y. ; Sakayachi, T. ; Hikita, M.
EVALUATION OF THERMAL STRESS OF TRANSDUCERS FOR CRYOGENIC ULTRASONIC MOTORS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2506
Noguchi, Yuya ; Yamaguchi, Daisuke ; Kanda, Takefumi ; Suzumori, Koichi
ENLARGEMENT OF FLOATOR SIZE IN ULTRASONIC SUSPENSION BY ARRANGING THE SHAPE OF VIBRATING SURFACE............................................................................................................................ 2510
Uchiage, Kota ; Ishino, Yuji ; Takasaki, Masaya ; Mizuno, Takeshi
ULTRASONIC MOTORS WITH POLYMER VIBRATOR ...................................................................................... 2514Wu, Jiang ; Mizuno, Yosuke ; Nakamura, Kentaro ; Kambara, Shigeki ; Okuyama, Naoto ; Shimizu, Kiyoshi
MEASUREMENTS OF SLIDING FRICTION FORCES UNDER ULTRASONIC OSCILLATIONS: OUT-OF-PLANE OSCILLATIONS.............................................................................................................................. 2518
Soohyun Kim ; Youngjae Min ; Kim, Young H.
EFFECT OF SC CONCENTRATION ON SHEAR WAVE VELOCITIES IN SCALN FILMS MEASURED BY MICRO-BRILLOUIN SCATTERING TECHNIQUE................................................................... 2521
Ichihashi, Hayato ; Yanagitani, Takahiko ; Suzuki, Masashi ; Takayanagi, Shinji ; Matsukawa, Mami
EXTRACTIONS OF REFLECTION AND VELOCITY PARAMETERS FOR SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL PIEZOELECTRIC PHONONIC CRYSTALS ............................ 2525
Yahui Tian ; Honglang Li ; Yabing Ke ; Shitang He ; Wei Luo
TIME-DELAY ESTIMATION AND CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF ACOUSTIC SIGNALS IN GRANULAR MEDIA USING WAVELET DECOMPOSITION ............................................................................... 2529
Yang, J. ; Akanji, O. ; Hutchins, D.A. ; Thomas, P.J. ; Davis, L.A.J ; Freear, S. ; Harput, S. ; Saffari, N. ; Gelat, P.
ANALYSIS OF RAYLEIGH SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES PROPAGATION ON PIEZOELECTRIC PHONONIC CRYSTAL WITH 3-D FINITE ELEMENT MODEL ......................................... 2533
Honglang Li ; Yahui Tian ; Yabing Ke ; Shitang He ; Wei Luo
SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES IN FINITE-DEPTH AIR/SILICON PHONONIC CRYSTALS ......................... 2537Sun, Jia-Hong ; Jhou, Jyun-Hua ; Yuan-Hai Yu
APPLICATION OF SAW RFID IN THE INSPECTION MANAGEMENT OF AERODROME LIGHTS............................................................................................................................................................................ 2541
Shi, Ruchuan ; Zhang, Chenrui ; Han, Tao ; Chen, Jing
SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE MASS SENSOR BASED ON 128 YX-CUT LITHIUM NIOBATE FOR THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................. 2544
Hongfei Zu ; Yizhong Wang ; Jiemin Xie ; Huiyan Wu ; Qing-Ming Wang
LOVE MODE SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSORS FOR CELLULAR TOXICITY SENSING ................. 2548Fang Li ; Lifeng Qin ; Huiyan Wu ; Wang, Qing-Ming
SUPPRESSION OF TRANSVERSE-MODE SPURIOUS RESPONSES IN THIN FILM LAMB WAVE RESONATORS BY BANDGAP ENGINEERING .......................................................................................... 2552
Yantchev, Ventsislav ; Mirea, Teona
NOVEL SUBMICRON PROCESS DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR SAW DEVICE FABRICATION ................... 2556Jacobs, Jim ; Dufilie, Pierre
IMPACT OF GAMMA IRRADIATION ON GAN/SAPPHIRE SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS................................................................................................................................................................ 2560
Shankar, Ashwin ; Lin, Chih-Ming ; Angadi, Chetan ; Bhattacharya, Sharmila ; Broad, Nicholas ; Senesky, Debbie G.
DESIGNING EFFICIENT CMUT CELLS FOR AIRBORNE APPLICATIONS .................................................... 2564Unlugedik, Asli ; Sinan Tasdelen, A. ; Atalar, Abdullah ; Koymen, Hayrettin
AN ULTRA-LOW-POWER FULLY INTEGRATED ULTRASOUND IMAGING CMUT TRANSCEIVER FEATURING A HIGH-VOLTAGE UNIPOLAR PULSER AND A LOW-NOISE CHARGE AMPLIFIER .................................................................................................................................................. 2568
Savoia, Alessandro Stuart ; Caliano, Giosue ; Mazzanti, Andrea ; Sautto, Marco ; Leone, Antonio Davide ; Ghisu, Davide Ugo ; Quaglia, Fabio
FIRST MEASUREMENTS ON A NOVEL TYPE OF OPTICAL MICRO-MACHINED ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER (OMUT) ................................................................................................................... 2572
Leinders, S.M. ; van Dongen, K.W.A. ; de Jong, N. ; Verweij, M.D. ; Westerveld, W.J. ; Urbach, H.P. ; van Neer, P.L.M.J. ; Pozo, J.
ULTRASONIC BEAM FORMATION BY PMUTS ARRAY USING EPITAXIAL PZT THIN FILMS ON γ-AL2O3/SI SUBSTRATES..................................................................................................................................... 2576
Akai, Daisuke ; Ishida, Makoto ; Nishimura, Masato ; Okada, Nagaya
SURFACE MICROMACHINED CMUTS FOR LIQUID PHASE SENSING .......................................................... 2580Sapeliauskas, Evaldas ; Barauskas, Dovydas ; Vanagas, Gailius ; Virzonis, Darius
INVESTIGATION OF PDMS AS COATING ON CMUTS FOR IMAGING ........................................................... 2584la Cour, Mette Funding ; Stuart, Matthias Bo ; Laursen, Mads Bjerregaard ; Diederichsen, Soren Elmin ; Thomsen, Erik Vilain ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt
CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS (CMUT) FOR RESONANT GRAVIMETRIC IMMUNOSENSING ......................................................................................................................... 2588
Barauskas, Dovydas ; Vanagas, Gailius ; Virzonis, Darius ; Makaraviciute, Asta ; Ramanaviciene, Almira
A LOW FREQUENCY BROADBAND FLEXURAL MODE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER FOR IMMERSION APPLICATIONS .................................................................................................................................... 2591
Stuart Savoia, Alessandro ; Mauti, Barbara ; Caliano, Giosue ; Lamberti, Nicola
DIMENSIONAL SCALING FOR OPTIMIZED CMUT OPERATIONS.................................................................. 2595Lei, Anders ; Diederichsen, Soren Elmin ; la Cour, Mette Funding ; Stuart, Matthias Bo ; Christiansen, Thomas Lehrmann ; Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ; Thomsen, Erik Vilain
ELECTROACOUSTIC RESPONSE OF CMUT-BASED LINEAR ARRAYS: ROLE OF INACTIVE ELEMENTS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2599
Boulme, Audren ; Gross, Dominique ; Legros, Mathieu ; Certon, Dominique
MODELING OF CMUTS WITH MULTIPLE ANISOTROPIC LAYERS AND RESIDUAL STRESS ................ 2603Engholm, Mathias ; Thomsen, Erik Vilain
THE STUDY OF CHAIN-LIKE MATERIALS FOR USE IN BIOMEDICAL ULTRASOUND ............................ 2607Hutchins, D.A. ; Yang, J. ; Akanji, O. ; Davis, L.A.J ; Thomas, P.J. ; Freear, S. ; Harput, S. ; Saffari, N. ; Gelat, P.
MICROMACHINED SELF-FOCUSING PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER ............................................................................................................................................................... 2611
Jian, Xiaohua ; Zhile Han ; Yongjia Xiang ; Zhangjian Li ; Yaoyao Cui
A SPARSE-ELEMENT PHASED ARRAY SYSTEM BASED ON SEQUENTIALLY MULTIPLE FOCUSING FOR THE TREATMENT OF LARGE TUMORS ................................................................................. 2615
Shim, Mun-Bo ; Sung-Jin Kim
DESIGN OF A FATTY PLAQUE PHANTOM FOR VALIDATION OF STRAIN IMAGING .............................. 2619Boekhoven, R.W. ; Rutten, M.C.M. ; van de Vosse, F.N. ; Lopata, R.G.P.
AN ULTRASOUND-BASED NONINVASIVE NEURAL INTERFACE TO THE RETINA................................... 2623Xun Wu ; Kumar, Mohit ; Oralkan, Omer
INFLUENCE OF DISSIPATED POWER DISTRIBUTION ON BAW RESONATORS' BEHAVIOR ................. 2627Tag, A. ; Weigel, R. ; Hagelauer, A. ; Bader, B. ; Huck, C. ; Pitschi, M. ; Karolewski, D.
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