7th Sendai Symposium on

Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization

September 26, 2003

Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

(Chair: Yoshifumi Saijo, Co-Chair: Hiroshi Kanai)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Novel Approaches in Vascular Ultrasound

 

”Fuzzy Clustering for Segmentation of Intravascular Ultrasound Images”

Esmeraldo dos Santos Filho

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

 

”Tissue Motion Analysis of Coronary Arterial Wall by Correlation Analysis of Ultrasonic RF Signal”

Akira Tanaka

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

 

”Cross-Sectional Elasticity Imaging of Carotid Arterial Wall in Short-Axis Plane”

Nozomi Nakagawa

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

 

Biomedical Applications of Ultrasound

 

Applicarion of Low Intensity Ultrasound for Changing Cellular Properties”

Satoshi Konno

Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

 

”Quantitative Estimation of Diffuse Liver Diseases Using the Ultrasonic RF Echo Signal”

Hiroyuki Hachiya

Research Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University

 

Tissue Elasticity Measurement

 

”Two Dimensional Transducer Arrays for 3D Imaging System Using Coded Wavefront

Nagaya Okada

Honda Electronics, Co., Ltd.

 

”Ultrasonic Measurement of Changes in Arterial Wall Thickness due to Remote Actuation at

Multiple Frequencies for Assessment of Viscoelasticity

Hideyuki Hasegawa

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

 

Development of FFT Acoustic Microscopy

 

”Signal Processing for Pulse Driven Ultrasonic Biological Microscope in Time-Frequency Domain”

Naohiro Hozumi

Toyohashi University of Technology

 

”Image Processing for Pulse Driven Biological Microscope Based on Frequency Spectrum”

Cheol Kyou Lee

Toyohashi University of Technology

 

Recent Applications of Acoustic Microscopy in Medicine

 

”Characterization of the Coronary Atherosclerosis Obtained with Directional Coronary

Atherectomy Procedure by Using Acoustic Microscopy”

Hidehiko Sasaki

Miyagi Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease Center

 

”Material Properties of the Rabbit Supraspinatus Tendon and Its Insertion

- A Measurement with the Scanning Acoustic Microscopy -”

Hirotaka Sano

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Tohoku University