8th Sendai Symposium on

Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization

November 11, 2005

Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Novel Approaches in Intravascular Ultrasound

 

”Parametric Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging”

Yoshifumi Saijo

Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

 

”Automatic Luminal Contour and Calcification Detection in Intravascular Ultrasound Images”

Esmeraldo dos Santos Filho

Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

 

Precise Ultrasonic Measurement of Biological Materials

 

”Elasticity Imaging of Artery Wall for Transcutaneous Tissue Characterization”

Hideyuki Hasegawa

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

 

”Ultrasonic Measurement of Displacement Inside Object Caused by Dual Acoustic Radiation

Force”

Mikito Takahashi

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

 

Elasticity Measurement of Myocardium

 

”Noninvasive Measurement of Myocardial Viscoelasticity

Hiroshi Kanai

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

 

”Measurement of Myocardial Strain Rate at High Temporal Resolution”

Hiroki Yoshiara

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

 

Development of Novel Acoustic Microscopy

 

”Speed-of Sound Microscopy for Biomedical Applications”

Yoshifumi Saijo

Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

 

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

Ayumi Kimura

Toyohashi University of Technology

 

Recent Applications of Acoustic Microscopy in Orthopedic Surgery

 

”Increased Sound Speed of Synovial Membrane after Immobilization Assessed by Scanning Acoustic Microscopy”

Yoshihiro Hagiwara

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Tohoku University

 

”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

 

Invited Lecture

 

”Intravascular Ultrasound for Studying Atherosclerotic Plaque”

A. F. W. van der Steen

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thorax Centre, Erasmus Medical Center