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Opening Remark

 

Session: Superficial Tissue/Vascular I

 

9:30-10:00  Radio frequency signal analysis for tissue characterization of artificial skin

Takahiro Iwamoto1, Yoshifumi Saijo2, Naohiro Hozumi3, Kazuto Kobayashi4,

                Nagaya Okada4, Akira Tanaka5 and Makoto Yoshizawa6

1 Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2 Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

3 Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan

4 Honda Electronics Co., Ltd., Toyohashi, Japan

5 Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan

6 Information Synergy Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

10:00-10:30 New approaches in arterial characterization

-The longitudinal movement and the minute roughness of the arterial wall-

Magnus Cinthio1, Hideyuki Hasegawa2, Åsa R. Ahlgren3, Tomas Jansson1,

Hans W. Persson1, Hiroshi Kanai2 and Kjell Lindström1

                1 Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

                    2 Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

                    3 Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

 

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

 

Session: Vascular II

 

10:45-11:15 Accurate tracking of arterial wall by high-frame rate acquisition of RF echoes

Hideyuki Hasegawa and Hiroshi Kanai

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

11:15-11:45 Flow-mediated change in stress-strain hysteresis of radial arterial wall

noninvasively measured by 22-MHz ultrasound

Kazuki Ikeshita, Hideyuki Hasegawa, and Hiroshi Kanai

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

 

11:45-13:00 Lunch

 

Session: Cardiac I

 

13:00-13:30 Imaging the mechanics and electromechanics in animal and human hearts in vivo

Elisa Konofagou1,2, Jianwen Luo1, Wei-Ning Lee1 and Shougang Wang2

1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, USA

2 Department of Radiology, Columbia University, New York, USA

13:30-14:00 What is new in myocardial strain imaging?

Jan D'hooge

Department of Cadiovascular Diseases, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

 

Session: Cardiac II

 

14:00-14:30 Ultrasonic measurement of two-dimensional displacement of heart motion for

estimation of myocardial regional strain rate

Yasunori Honjo, Hideyuki Hasegawa and Hiroshi Kanai

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

14:30-15:00 Measurement of vibration propagation in the myocardium

Hiroshi Kanai

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

 

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

 

Session: High Frequency Ultrasuond/Acoustic Microscopy

 

15:15-15:45 High frequency ultrasound scattering from mixtures of two different cells lines:

Tissue characterization insights

Michael C. Kolios1,2 and Gregory J. Czarnota3,4

1 Department of Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

2 Department of Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

3 Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

4 Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Canada

15:45-16:15 Biomedical applications of ultrasound microscopy

-C-mode, surface and 3D ultrasound microscopy-

Yoshifumi Saijo1, Kazuto Kobayashi2, Nagaya Okada2, Naohiro Hozumi3,

Akira Tanaka4, Yoshihiro Hagiwara5, Takahiro Iwamoto6 and Motonao Tanaka1

1 Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2 Honda Electronics Co., Ltd., Toyohashi, Japan

3 Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan

4 Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan

5 Tohoku University School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

6 Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

        

 

Session: Therapeutic Ultrasound with Microbubbles

 

16:15-16:45 Evaluation of cisplatin-induced antitumor effect with contrast-enhanced

high-frequency ultrasound

Noriko Tomita1, S. Horie1, Y. Watanabe1, F. Oosawa1, M. Sakuma1, R. Chen2,

K. Ohki2, H. Morikawa2, S. Mori2, M. Ono3 and T. Kodama1

1 Tohoku University Biomedical Engineering Research Organization, Tohoku University,

 Sendai, Japan

2 Tohoku University Hospital, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

3 Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

16:45-17:15 High intensity focused ultrasound therapy with microbubbles

Shin Yoshizawa1, Shin-ichiro Umemura1, and Yoichiro Matsumoto2

1 Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 

 Closing Remark

 

17:30-19:30 Banquette