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CFP11ULT-PRT 978-1-4577-1253-1

2011 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2011)

Orlando, Florida, USA 18 – 21 October 2011

Pages 1-804

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ULTRASOUND DRUG TARGETING TO TUMORS WITH THERMOSENSITIVE LIPOSOMES ................................................... 1M. Ernsting, A. Worthington, J. May, T. Tagami, M. Kolios, S. Li

INVESTIGATION OF IMAGE-GUIDED SONOTHROMBOLYSIS IN A PORCINE ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE MODEL ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5

W. Shi, T. Porter, F. Vignon, J. Powers, S. Gao, J. Liu, F. Xie, L. Drvol, J. Lof, E. Everbach

CHEMO-THERMAL APPROACH FOR EFFICIENT ULTRASONIC TUMOR TREATMENT WITH PHASE CHANGE NANO DROPLET ........................................................................................................................................................................... 9

K. Kawabata, R. Asami, S. Umemura

DELIVERY OF STEM CELLS TO THE BRAIN USING MRIGFUS ..................................................................................................... 13A. Burgess, C. Ayala-Grosso, M. Ganguly, J. Jordao, I. Aubert, K. Hynynen

IN VIVO OPEN AND CLOSED CHEST MEASUREMENTS OF MYOCARDIAL VISCOELASTICITY THROUGH A HEART CYCLE USING LAMB WAVE DISPERSION ULTRASOUND VIBROMETRY (LDUV) ......................... 17

I. Nenadic, M. Urban, C. Pislaru, M. Bernal, J. Greenleaf

INTRACARDIAC SHEAR WAVE VELOCIMETRY USING ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE (ARF) EXCITATIONS: IN VIVO RESULTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 21

P. Hollender, P. Wolf, G. Trahey

DIRECT IN VIVO MYOCARDIAL INFARCT VISUALIZATION USING 3D ULTRASOUND AND PASSIVE STRAIN CONTRAST...................................................................................................................................................................................... 25

B. Byram, D. Bradway, M. Jakovlijevic, D. Giannantonio, D. Hyun, D. Dumont, P. Wolf, A. Crowley, L. Assche, M. Parker, R. Kim, R. Judd, G. Trahey

NON-INVASIVE ELECTROMECHANICAL WAVE IMAGING OF ATRIAL, SUPRAVENTRICULAR AND VENTRICULAR CARDIAC CONDUCTION DISORDERS IN CANINES AND HUMANS ............................................................... 29

J. Provost, A. Gambhir, S. Thiebaut, V. Nguyen, J. Vest, H. Garan, E. Konofagou

ULTRASOUND BACKSCATTER SPECTRAL ANALYSIS PROVIDES IMAGE FEEDBACK FOR HISTOTRIPSY TISSUE FRACTIONATION.............................................................................................................................................. 33

K. Lin, T. Wang, R. Kumon, C. Deng, Z. Xu, T. Hall, J. Fowlkes, C. Cain

THREE-DIMENSIONAL QUANTITATIVE HIGH-FREQUENCY CHARACTERIZATION OF FRESHLY-EXCISED HUMAN LYMPH NODES........................................................................................................................................................... 37

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

COMPUTER-AIDED ULTRASOUND (CAUS) TO DETERMINE LIVER FAT CONTENT IN ANIMAL MODEL AND IN PATIENTS......................................................................................................................................................................... 41

G. Weijers, G. Wanten, J. Thijssen, M. Graaf, C. Korte

THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT ESTIMATOR ALGORITHMS WHEN OBTAINING EFFECTIVE DIAMETER ESTIMATES FROM POPULATIONS OF SCATTERERS OF DIFFERENT SIZES ........................................................................... 45

R. Lavarello, M. Oelze

PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS SPECTRAL ESTIMATION METHODS ON ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENT ESTIMATION UNDER DATA SIZE LIMITATIONS .................................................................................................. 49

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

ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION IMAGING USING SPECTRAL CROSS-CORRELATION AND THE REFERENCE PHANTOM METHOD .......................................................................................................................................................... 53

K. Samimi, T. Varghese

INTEGRATED ULTRASOUND SENSOR FOR MICROWAVE HEATING AND RADIOMETRY IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 56

Y. Birkelund, F. Melandso

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF CAUSAL AND NONCAUSAL POWER-LAW GREEN’S FUNCTIONS .......................................... 60C. Johnson, R. McGough

DESIGN OF ACOUSTIC LENSES FOR ULTRASONIC HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION .................................................. 64T. Dahl, J. Ealo, K. Papakonstantinou, J. Pazos

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF LIQUIDS AND EMULSIONS BY MEANS OF HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND (15-35 MHZ) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 68

M. Vogt, H. Ermert

SUPPRESSION OF TRANSVERSE-MODE SPURIOUS RESPONSES FOR ZERO TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF FREQUENCY SAW RESONATOR ON A SIO2/AL/LINBO3 STRUCTURE ...................................................... 72

H. Nakanishi, H. Nakamura, T. Tsurunari, J. Fujiwara, Y. Hamaoka, K. Hashimoto

APPLICATION OF FLUORINE DOPED SIO2 FILMS FOR TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED SAW DEVICES .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 76

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

RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED SAW DEVICES ...................................................................... 79K. Hashimoto, M. Kadota, T. Nakao, M. Ueda, M. Miura, H. Nakamura, H. Nakanishi, K. Suzuki

PERFORMANCES OF MONOLITHIC MICRO-OVEN HEATED SAW AND STW RESONATORS .............................................. 87P. Dufilie, J. Adler, A. Sawyer

DESIGN OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE FILTERS USING LAYER DIAMOND STRUCTURES WITH ZERO TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF DELAY.............................................................................................................................. 92

R. Ro, R. Lee, S. Wu, C. Sung, Y. Liao

INTERDIGITATED ANNULAR CMUT ARRAYS FOR ULTRASOUND ASSISTED DELIVERY OF FLUORESCENT CONTRAST AGENTS ..................................................................................................................................................... 96

P. Cristman, O. Oralkan, M. Mandella, O. Solgaard, C. Contag, B. Khuri-Yakub

A COMPARISON OF CMUTS AND PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS FOR 2D MEDICAL IMAGING BASED ON CONVENTIONAL SIMULATION MODELS .................................................................................................100

I. Wygant

ULTRASONIC SENSING USING THERMAL-MECHANICAL NOISE RECORDED ON MONOLITHIC CMUT-ON-CMOS ARRAYS .......................................................................................................................................................................104

S. Lani, S. Satir, G. Gurun, K. Sabra, F. Degertekin

CMUT ARRAY ELEMENT IN DEEP-COLLAPSE MODE ...................................................................................................................108S. Olcum, F. Yamaner, A. Bozkurt, H. Koymen, A. Atalar

GAP FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION OF CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS FOR HARMONIC IMAGING .....................................................................................................................................................................112

S. Satir, F. Degertekin

CMUTS WITH INTERLACED HIGH- AND LOW-FREQUENCY ELEMENTS ...............................................................................116P. Zhang, W. Zheng, W. Moussa, R. Zemp

HIGH-THROUGHPUT COAGULATION BY HEATING WITH LATERALLY ENLARGED FOCUS, ENHANCED BY MIRCOBUBBLE CLOUDS CREATED BY ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED TRIGGER PULSES ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................120

S. Umemura, Y. Inaba, T. Moriyama, J. Okada, S. Yoshizawa

THERMAL ABLATION BY HIGH-INTENSITY-FOCUSED ULTRASOUND USING A TOROIDAL TRANSDUCER FOR THE TREATMENT OF COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES DURING AN OPEN PROCEDURE. FIRST CLINICAL RESULTS ..........................................................................................................................................124

D. Melodelima, A. Dupre, Y. Chen, J. Chapelon, M. Rivoire

SIMULTANEOUS TEMPERATURE AND CAVITATION ACTIVITY MAPPING...........................................................................128C. Arvanitis, N. McDannold

HIGH FRAME RATE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY USING DIVERGING BEAMS...............................................................................132H. Hasegawa, H. Kanai

MOTION COMPENSATED SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT BEAM TECHNIQUE FOR REAL-TIME ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY.............................................................................................................................................................................136

B. Denarie, H. Torp, G. Haugen, A. Sornes, T. Bjastad

MULTI-TRANSMIT BEAM FORMING FOR FAST CARDIAC IMAGING ......................................................................................140L. Tong, H. Gao, H. Choi, J. D'Hooge

COMPARISON OF PARALLEL BEAM FORMING WITH PLANE WAVE IMAGING FOR CARDIAC APPLICATIONS: A SIMULATION STUDY ............................................................................................................................................144

L. Tong, H. Gao, H. Choi, J. D'Hooge

PARALLEL TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING USING ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING FOR HARMONIC IMAGING ....................................................................................................................................148

L. Demi, M. Verweij, K. Dongen

SPATIOTEMPORAL INTERPOLATION BY NORMALIZED CONVOLUTION FOR 4D TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ..................................................................................................................................152

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

FLOW CYTOMETRY TO CHARACTERIZE MICROBUBBLES .......................................................................................................156T. Matula, J. Swalwell, J. Tu, W. Cui, W. Chen

PARALLEL OUTPUT, LIQUID FLOODED FLOW-FOCUSING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR GENERATING MONODISPERSE MICROBUBBLES WITHIN A CATHETER ..............................................................................160

J. Chen, A. Dhanaliwala, S. Wang, J. Hossack

OPTIMAL MICROBUBBLE PRODUCTION RATE FROM A FLOW-FOCUSING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE AS A FUNCTION OF NOZZLE SIZE, GAS PRESSURE, AND LIQUID FLOW RATE ...................................................................164

S. Wang, A. Dhanaliwala, J. Chen, J. Hossack

INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND CONTRAST IMAGING AT 25 MHZ USING RADIAL MODULATION: A PROMISING APPROACH FOR CORONARY VASA VASORUM IMAGING ..................................................................................168

F. Yu, F. Villanueva, X. Chen

ACTIVE CONTROL OF SUBHARMONIC RESPONSE OF ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT MICROBUBBLES .........................................................................................................................................................................................172

T. Faez, G. Renaud, M. Defontaine, S. Calle, N. Jong

NONINVASIVE ESTIMATION OF DYNAMIC PRESSURES IN VITRO AND IN VIVO USING THE SUBHARMONIC RESPONSE FROM MICROBUBBLES......................................................................................................................176

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

A SONIC SCREWDRIVER: ACOUSTIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSFER FOR ULTRASONIC MANIPULATION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................180

C. Demore, Z. Yang, A. Volovick, H. Wang, S. Cochran, M. Macdonald, G. Spalding

TWO-DIMENSIONAL CELL TRAPPING BY ULTRASOUND MICROBEAM ................................................................................184J. Lee, C. Lee, H. Kim, A. Jakob, R. Lemor, S. Teh, A. Lee, K. Shung

MULTI-WAVELENGTH ULTRASONIC STANDING WAVE DEVICE FOR NON-INVASIVE CELL MANIPULATION AND CHARACTERISATION ....................................................................................................................................188

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

MANIPULATION OF MICROPARTICLES IN TWO DIMENSIONS USING COUNTER-PROPAGATING ULTRASONIC WAVES................................................................................................................................................................................192

C. Courtney, C. Ong, B. Drinkwater, P. Wilcox

PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILM PLATFORM FOR ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER ARRAYS ....................................................196M. Klee, R. Mauczok, C. Heesch, H. Boots, M. Wild, B. Veld, W. Soer, G. Schmitz, M. Mleczko

SENSING ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS USING PIEZOELECTRIC LATERAL-MODE RESONATORS...............................................................................................................................................................................................200

J. Gonzales, M. Shahmohammadi, R. Abdolvand

ACOUSTIC MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR SIZE AND DENSITY-BASED CELL SEPARATION......................................204M. Jo, R. Guldiken

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A BIOMIMETIC ARTIFICIAL BASILAR MEMBRANE FABRICATED USING PIEZOELECTRIC MICROMACHINED BEAMS ...................................................................................................................................208

S. Kim, H. Choi

WIRELESS PHYSICAL SAW SENSORS FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS ...........................................................................212V. Kalinin

80 MHZ INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS) TRANSDUCER................................................................................................222X. Li, W. Wu, Y. Chung, W. Shih, Q. Zhou, K. Shung

40 MHZ PIEZO-COMPOSITE LINEAR ARRAY FOR MEDICAL IMAGING AND INTEGRATION IN A HIGH RESOLUTION SYSTEM ..................................................................................................................................................................226

C. Bantignies, P. Mauchamp, R. Dufait, F. Levassort, T. Mateo, J. Gregoire, F. Ossant

2D RING ARRAY TRANSDUCERS FOR REAL-TIME 3D IMAGING OF ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT REPAIR .....................230E. Light, B. Lindsey, J. Upchurch, S. Smith

ELASTOMERIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS FOR OPTOACOUSTIC DETECTION OF HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND ..............................................................................................................................................................................................234

D. Cruz, A. Khan, T. Buma

THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPINAL BONE IMAGING WITH MEDICAL ULTRASOUND FOR EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA GUIDANCE .........................................................................................................................................................................238

F. Mauldin, K. Owen, J. Hossack

EVALUATION OF 3D POINT SPREAD FUNCTION OF A SEMI-ELLIPSOIDAL ULTRASOUND COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM ..................................................................................................................................................242

N. Ruiter, R. Dapp, M. Zapf, H. Gemmeke

HIGH FREQUENCY DOPPLER FLOW TRIGGERING FOR 75 MHZ ULTRA-HIGH FRAME RATE 3D ULTRASONIC ZEBRAFISH ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................246

T. Liu, P. Lee, C. Shih, C. Huang

4D SIMULATION OF NONLINEAR PRESSURE FIELD PROPAGATION ON GPU WITH THE ANGULAR SPECTRUM METHOD ................................................................................................................................................................................250

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

MULTI-MODAL CARDIAC IMAGE FUSION AND VISUALIZATION ON THE GPU...................................................................254G. Kiss, J. Asen, J. Bogaert, B. Amundsen, P. Claus, J. D'Hooge, H. Torp

REAL-TIME ULTRASOUND SIMULATION USING THE GPU .........................................................................................................258S. Gjerald, R. Brekken, T. Hergum, J. D'Hooge

RECENT ADVANCES IN BLOOD FLOW VECTOR VELOCITY IMAGING...................................................................................262J. Jensen, S. Nikolov, J. Udesen, P. Munk, K. Hansen, M. Pedersen, P. Hansen, M. Nielsen, N. Oddershede, J. Kortbek, M. Pihl, Y. Li

IMAGING BLOOD FLOW DYNAMICS WITHIN FAST MOVING TISSUE: APPLICATION TO THE MYOCARDIUM.............................................................................................................................................................................................272

B. Osmanski, M. Pernot, G. Montaldo, M. Tanter

DETERMINING THE PEAK VELOCITY IN A BLOOD FLOW FROM ITS DOPPLER SPECTRUM .........................................276D. Vilkomerson, P. Tortoli, S. Ricci

DETECTION OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS FROM VESSEL WALL VIBRATIONS USING NON-LINEAR FEATURES .....................................................................................................................................................................................................280

L. Salehi, P. Gifani, G. Schmitz

DETERMINATION OF THE DEPTH DEPENDENT FOURIER SPECTRA OF CATHETER REFLECTIONS FOR AUTOMATIC CATHETER DETECTION ......................................................................................................................................284

A. Poelstra, H. Overhoff

SIMULTANEOUS PHOTOACOUSTIC AND HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF IN VIVO EMBRYONIC-MOUSE VASCULATURE .................................................................................................................................................288

O. Aristizabal, D. Turnbull, A. Sampathkumar, J. Mamou

INTEGRATED 3-D VASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND SPECTROSCOPIC PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING FOR NONINVASIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN ARTERIES...........................................................................................292

J. Graf, S. Litovsky, S. Emelianov

PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY WITH A PULSED MULTI-COLOR SOURCE BASED ON STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING ...............................................................................................................................................................................296

D. Koeplinger, M. Liu, T. Buma

OPTOACOUSTIC SIGNAL AMPLITUDE AND FREQUENCY SPECTRUM ANALYSIS LASER HEATED BOVINE LIVER EX VIVO ..........................................................................................................................................................................300

M. Patterson, C. Riley, M. Kolios, W. Whelan

CLINICAL FEASIBILITY OF DUPLEX PHOTOACOUSTIC AND ULTRASOUND PULSE-ECHO IMAGING USING PHOTOACOUSTIC TRANSMIT PULSES..................................................................................................................................304

M. Jaeger, D. Birtill, A. Gertsch, E. O'Flynn, J. Bamber

MEASUREMENT OF DISPERSION PROPERTIES OF ACTIVE AND SURROUNDING REGIONS IN BAW RESONATOR .................................................................................................................................................................................................308

K. Kokkonen, J. Meltaus, T. Pensala, M. Kaivola

POLARIZATION-INVERTED MULTILAYERED PURE SHEAR MODE ALN FILM RESONATOR .........................................312M. Suzuki, T. Yanagitani

FORCE-FREQUENCY EFFECT ON THE Q-FACTOR OF THICKNESS-SHEAR MODE QUARTZ AND LANGASITE RESONATOR AT HIGH TEMPERATURES...................................................................................................................316

M. Patel, B. Sinha

THE NONLINEAR THICKNESS-SHEAR VIBRATIONS OF QUARTZ CRYSTAL PLATES UNDER A STRONG ELECTRIC FIELD ......................................................................................................................................................................320

J. Wang, R. Wu, J. Du, T. Ma, D. Huang, W. Yan

A METHOD TO REDUCE LOSSES IN BURIED ELECTRODES RF SAW RESONATORS...........................................................324M. Solal, J. Gratier, R. Aigner, K. Gamble, B. Abbott, T. Kook, A. Chen, K. Steiner

EXTENSION OF SCALAR POTENTIAL FORMALISM FOR TRANSVERSE MODE ANALYSIS OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS.......................................................................................................................................333

K. Hashimoto, T. Omori, C. Ahn

TRANSVERSAL MODE ORTHOGONALITY IN SAW WAVEGUIDES WITH TRANSVERSALLY VARYING SLOWNESS ANISOTROPY WITHIN THE SCALAR FIELD APPROXIMATION ..........................................................................337

M. Mayer, U. Rosler, T. Ebner, K. Wagner, K. Hashimoto

MINIATURIZED SAW DESIGNS USING HIGH ASPECT RATIO ELECTRODES.........................................................................341H. Fong, S. Chamaly, A. Kamijima

DESIGN OF LADDER-TYPE SAW/BAW FILTERS WITH CONSTANT GROUP DELAY ............................................................345H. Wang, J. Chen, Y. Shi, T. Omori, C. Ahn, K. Hashimoto

SIMULATING QUARTZ RESONATORS AT HIGH TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE: LIMITATIONS REGARDING LACK OF TEMPERATURE DERIVATIVES OF THIRD-ORDER ELASTIC COEFFICIENTS..........................349

A. Beerwinkle, R. Singh, G. Kirikera

EMPIRICAL MODEL FOR DIELECTRIC CHARGING IN DOUBLE-SOI-WAFER-BONDED CMUTS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT...................................................................................................................................................................353

W. Zheng, D. Barlage, P. Zhang, G. Fitzpatrick, W. Moussa, R. Zemp

ENHANCEMENT OF THE INVERSE METHOD ENABLING THE MATERIAL PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION FOR PIEZOCERAMICS...........................................................................................................................................357

S. Rupitsch, J. Ilg, R. Lerch

RADIATION PATTERN DETERIORATION FOR PHASE STEERED CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER ARRAYS DUE TO CROSS COUPLING ...........................................................................................361

E. Leirset, A. Ronnekleiv, A. Aksnes

EXPERIMENTAL AND FINITE ELEMENT MODEL DIRECTIVITY COMPARISON BETWEEN PZT AND PMN-PT KERFLESS ARRAYS...................................................................................................................................................................365

P. Garland, A. Bezanson, R. Adamson, J. Brown

ITERATIVE INVERSE EXTRAPOLATION FOR TRANSDUCER CHARACTERIZATION .........................................................369E. Alles, M. Verweij, K. Dongen

SYNTHETIC APERTURE BEAMFORMATION USING THE GPU ....................................................................................................373J. Hansen, D. Schaa, J. Jensen

CONJUGATE GRADIENT AND REGULARIZED INVERSE PROBLEM-BASED SOLUTIONS APPLIED TO ULTRASOUND IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION .......................................................................................................................................377

L. Zanin, M. Zibetti, F. Schneider

SCALABLE INTERSAMPLE INTERPOLATION ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGH-CHANNEL-COUNT BEAMFORMERS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................381

B. Tomov, S. Nikolov, J. Jensen

MITIGATION OF OFF-AXIS SPECULAR REFLECTION ARTIFACTS IN DIAGNOSTIC BONE IMAGING WITH MEDICAL ULTRASOUND USING MECHANICALLY SCANNED PISTON TRANSDUCERS ........................................385

F. Mauldin, K. Owen, J. Hossack

A NOVEL IMAGING METHOD OF CODED THI USING MULTI CHIRP SIGNALS.....................................................................389M. Tanabe, T. Yamamura, K. Okubo, N. Tagawa

IMPROVED IMAGE QUALITY USING PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTION AND DUAL APODIZATION WITH CROSSCORRELATION ..................................................................................................................................................................393

J. Shin, J. Yen

A MULTITAPER APPROACH TO SPECKLE REDUCTION FOR MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING ...............................397A. Jensen, C. Nilsen, A. Austeng, S. Nasholm, S. Holm

A NEW EXTENDED RANGE ULTRASONIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING SYSTEM ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................401

M. Bae, S. Park, H. Lee, S. Nam, M. Jeong

EXTRACTION OF AN OVERLAPPED SECOND HARMONIC CHIRP COMPONENT USING THE FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORM.................................................................................................................................................405

M. Arif, S. Harput, P. Smith, D. Cowell, S. Freear

HIGH FRAME RATE VECTOR FLOW IMAGING OF STENOTIC CAROTID BIFURCATION: COMPUTATIONAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS............................................................................................................................... 409

D. Chan, B. Yiu, A. Yu

ESTIMATION AND DISPLAY FOR VECTOR DOPPLER IMAGING USING PLANEWAVE TRANSMISSIONS .........................................................................................................................................................................................413

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

MODEL-BASED CORRECTION OF ANGLE-DEPENDENCIES IN NAVIGATED 3-D FLOW IMAGING DURING NEUROSURGICAL INTERVENTIONS ..................................................................................................................................419

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

CLUTTER SUPPRESSION FOR HARMONIC DOPPLER DETECTION IN SWEPT-SCAN HIGH-FREQUENCY SYSTEM ...............................................................................................................................................................................423

C. Shen, H. Wu, C. Yeh

CLUTTER FILTERING ISSUES IN SPECKLE TRACKING FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL BLOOD VELOCITY ESTIMATION: A POTENTIAL SOLUTION BASED ON COMPOUNDED IMAGING ...................................................................427

S. Alnes, A. Swillens, P. Segers, H. Torp, L. Lovstakken

3D VECTOR VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING A 2D PHASED ARRAY.........................................................................................430M. Pihl, J. Jensen

QUANTIFICATION OF MITRAL REGURGITATION USING PW DOPPLER AND PARALLEL BEAMFORMING ..........................................................................................................................................................................................434

T. Fredriksen, H. Torp, T. Hergum

SIMULTANEOUS QUANTIFICATION OF FLOW AND TISSUE VELOCITIES BASED ON MULTI-ANGLE PLANE WAVE IMAGING WITH AN EXTENDED VELOCITY RANGE ..........................................................................................438

I. Ekroll, H. Torp, L. Lovstakken, A. Swillens, P. Segers

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF RED BLOOD CELL AGGREGATION UNDER PULSATILE FLOW WITH DEPLETION MODEL ..................................................................................................................................................................................442

Y. Li, T. Bok, D. Paeng

EFFECT OF FLOW GRADIENT, ROI SIZE AND RANDOM SCATTERER MOVEMENT DURING SPECKLE SIZE ESTIMATION BASED BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENT .........................................................................................................446

T. Xu, G. Bashford

A DIGITAL-FEEDBACK PRE-DISTORTION TECHNIQUE FOR INTEGRATED HIGH-VOLTAGE ULTRASOUND TRANSMITTING POWER AMPLIFIERS ..................................................................................................................450

Z. Gao, Z. Chen, P. Gui, X. Xu, M. Nielsen, J. Chen

HARMONIC CANCELLATION IN SWITCHED MODE LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED (LFM) EXCITATION OF ULTRASOUND ARRAYS...........................................................................................................................................454

D. Cowell, P. Smith, S. Freear

A LOW-COST HIGH FRAME-RATE PIEZOELECTRIC SCANNING MECHANISM FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS................................................................................................................................................458

A. Bezanson, R. Adamson, J. Brown

A LOW COST RECEIVE BEAMFORMER FOR A HIGH FREQUENCY ANNULAR ARRAY .....................................................462H. Lay, G. Lockwood

IMPLEMENTATION OF NON STANDARD METHODS WITH THE ULTRASOUND ADVANCED OPEN PLATFORM (ULA-OP) ................................................................................................................................................................................466

E. Boni, L. Bassi, A. Dallai, F. Guidi, A. Ramalli, S. Ricci, P. Tortoli

PORTABLE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM ...........................................................470Y. Shen, S. Stergiopoulos

REAL-TIME GPU-BASED ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMER FOR HIGH QUALITY ULTRASOUND IMAGING...........................474J. Chen, B. Yiu, H. So, A. Yu

A 1.5-MM DIAMETER SINGLE-CHIP CMOS FRONT-END SYSTEM WITH TRANSMIT-RECEIVE CAPABILITY FOR CMUT-ON-CMOS FORWARD-LOOKING IVUS ...............................................................................................478

G. Gurun, P. Hasler, F. Degertekin

SYNERGISTIC USE OF ULTRASONOGRAPHY AND NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY FOR CORONARY IMAGING...............................................................................................................................................................................482

Z. He, S. Madden, M. Hendricks, S. Sum, R. Silva, J. Muller, A. Steen

BONE SCANNER FOR EXAMINATION OF DEEPLY LOCATED TRABECULAR BONES .........................................................486J. Litniewski, L. Cieslik, M. Lewandowski, R. Tymkiewicz, B. Zienkiewicz, A. Nowicki

NOVEL LIMITER USING BIPLOAR POWER TRANSISTORS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER APPLICATIONS ...............................................................................................................................................................490

H. Choi, H. Yang, S. Lau, Q. Zhou, K. Shung

A TRANSMIT/RECEIVE 256-CHANNEL ULTRASOUND PHASED ARRAY DRIVING SYSTEM DESIGN AND STRATEGY FOR TRANSRIB THERMAL THERAPY ................................................................................................................494

G. Huang, H. Chung, H. Liu

FEASIBILITY OF TOP-ORTHOGONAL-TO-BOTTOM ELECTRODE (TOBE) 2D CMUT ARRAYS FOR LOW-CHANNEL-COUNT 3D IMAGING .................................................................................................................................................498

R. Zemp, W. Zheng, P. Zhang

SOFTWARE-BASED ULTRASOUND PHASE ROTATION BEAMFORMING ON MULTI-CORE DSP .....................................503J. Ma, K. Karadayi, M. Ali, Y. Kim

WIDEBAND TIME REVERSAL PROCESSING FOR ULTRASOUND NDE IMAGING .................................................................507C. Bernard, R. Demirli, C. Ioana

ANALYSIS OF FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORM FOR ULTRASONIC NDE APPLICATIONS ......................................512Y. Lu, E. Oruklu, J. Saniie

COMPARISON OF CASCADE AND CONCURRENT SIGNAL DENOISING METHODS .............................................................516M. Kubinyi, R. Smid

NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL MODELING OF OPTICAL FIBERS FOR ULTRASOUND DETECTION .........................520I. Veres, G. Flockhart, G. Pierce, B. Culshaw, T. Berer, H. Grun, P. Burgholzer

APPLICATION OF A PROGRAMMABLE MULTI-CHANNEL ULTRASONIC SYSTEM FOR IN-LINE QUALITY MONITORING OF SPOT WELDS .........................................................................................................................................524

A. Lui, A. Karloff, A. Chertov, R. Maev, E. Boni, P. Tortoli

CAVITATION SENSOR WITH HYDROTHERMALLY SYNTHESIZED LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE POLY-CRYSTALLINE FILM DEPOSITED ON TI CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW PIPE ....................................................................527

S. Takeuchi, M. Shiiba, M. Ishikawa, N. Kawashima, T. Uchida, T. Kikuchi, Minoru, K. Kurosawa

THE ACOUSTIC RESONATOR COMBINED WITH ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES .....................................................................531R. Balek

MEASUREMENTS OF THE VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS IN FUNCTION OF PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE USING SH SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES .............................................................................................................................................535

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

COHERENT ACOUSTIC WAVES EXCITATION AND DETECTION ON SUBTERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES........................539N. Polzikova, G. Mansfeld, A. Raevskii

SUPPRESSION MECHANISM OF TRANSVERSE-MODE SPURIOUS RESPONSES IN SAW RESONATORS ON A SIO2/AL/LINBO3 STRUCTURE .......................................................................................................................................................543

H. Nakamura, H. Nakanishi, R. Goto, K. Hashimoto

SPURIOUS MODE SUPPRESSION IN MULTIPLE LAYER HFO2/SIMAX ACOUSTICAL MIRROR STRUCTURE FOR ILAW ON 1501701701° -YX LINBO3 ......................................................................................................................547

S. Zhgoon, A. Shvetsov, K. Bhattacharjee

EFFECT OF ANISOTROPY ON THE REFLECTION OF SAW FROM GROOVES AND STRIPS ...............................................551A. Darinskii, M. Weihnacht, H. Schmidt

LOW PROPAGATION LOSS IN A ONE-PORT RESONATOR FABRICATED ON SINGLE-CRYSTAL DIAMOND ......................................................................................................................................................................................................555

S. Fujii, T. Odawara, T. Omori, K. Hashimoto, H. Torii, H. Umezawa, S. Shikata

BAND PASS TYPE OF TUNABLE FILTERS COMPOSED OF ULTRA WIDE BAND SAW RESONATORS BY ADJUSTING CAPACITORS CONNECTED SAW RESONATORS .....................................................................................................559

M. Kadota, Y. Ida, T. Kimura

OPTIMIZED STW DEVICES WITH BURIED ELECTRODES BASED ON A MIXED FEM/BEM NUMERICAL MODEL ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................563

P. Ventura, P. Dufilie, F. Hecht

SAW RESONATOR-BASED WAFER PROCESSING CONTROL .......................................................................................................568P. Dufilie, M. Yoder, J. Jacobs

FABRICATION OF HIGH FREQUENCY SAW RESONATORS USING ALN/DIAMOND/SI TECHNOLOGY .........................573G. Iriarte, J. Rodriguez, R. Ro, R. Lee, O. Williams, D. Araujo, M. Villar, F. Calle

TEMPERATURE STABILITY OF LOVE WAVE DEVICE WITH MULTI-GUIDE LAYERS OF SIO2/SU-8 ..............................577J. Hou, W. Wang, M. Liu, S. He

IMPLEMENTATION OF ERROR-CORRECTING ENCODED SAW RFID TAGS ..........................................................................581H. Dong, J. He, A. Kang, C. Zhang, T. Han

AN ACCURATE MODEL FOR FLUID LOADING ON CIRCULAR CMUTS....................................................................................584B. Azmy, M. El-Gamal, A. El-Henawy, H. Ragai

IMPROVING CMUT RECEIVING SENSITIVITY USING PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION ....................................................588W. You, E. Cretu, R. Rohling

CMUTS FOR AIR COUPLED ULTRASOUND WITH IMPROVED BANDWIDTH .........................................................................592M. Kupnik, M. Ho, S. Vaithilingam, B. Khuri-Yakub

MODELING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN FILM COATINGS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY CMUT ANNULAR ARRAYS ....................................................................................................................................................................................596

J. Zahorian, F. Degertekin

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF A HIGH FREQUENCY CMUT PROBE FOR MEDICAL IMAGING...........................600A. Savoia, G. Caliano, B. Mauti, M. Pappalardo

DUAL MODE CMUTS FABRICATED WITH LPCVD SACRIFICIAL RELEASE PROCESS .......................................................604D. Certon, N. Senegond, D. Gross, M. Legros, A. Boulme, B. Roman, F. Teston, G. Ferin

DYNAMIC AND ACOUSTIC MODELING OF CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS ............................................................................................................................................................................................608

M. Berthillier, P. Moal, J. Lardies

LARGE AREA 1D CMUT PHASED ARRAYS FOR MULTI-MODALITY ULTRASOUND IMAGING .......................................612N. Apte, S. Vaithilingam, A. Sarioglu, M. Kupnik, B. Khuri-Yakub

DEVELOPING A NEW SONOPORATION TREATMENT MODEL USING PLANTS: CELLULAR MECHANISM ANALYSIS ...........................................................................................................................................................................616

P. Qin, L. Xu, W. Zhong, A. Yu

SUBHARMONIC AIDED PRESSURE ESTIMATION IN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED PORTAL HYPERTENSION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................620

J. Eisenbrey, J. Dave, V. Halldorsdottir, D. Merton, C. Miller, J. Gonzalez, P. Machado, S. Park, S. Dianis, C. Chalek, K. Thomenius, D. Brown, V. Navarro, F. Forsberg

SIMULTANEOUS B-MODE/SUBHARMONIC IMAGING AND 3D SUBHARMONIC IMAGING ON A MODIFIED COMMERCIAL ULTRASOUND SCANNER .....................................................................................................................624

J. Eisenbrey, J. Dave, V. Halldorsdottir, A. Sridharan, S. Park, S. Dianis, D. Merton, P. Machado, J. Liu, J. Gonzalez, C. Miller, K. Thomenius, D. Brown, V. Navarro, F. Forsberg

IN VITRO COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PERFORMANCE OF PULSE SEQUENCES FOR ULTRASOUND CONTRAST IMAGING OF THE CAROTID ARTERY ............................................................................................628

G. Renaud, J. Bosch, N. Jong, A. Steen

CHIRP REVERSAL POWER MODULATION CONTRAST IMAGING .............................................................................................632A. Novell, A. Bouakaz

SUBMICRON DECAFLUOROBUTANE PHASE-CHANGE CONTRAST AGENTS GENERATED BY MICROBUBBLE CONDENSATION..........................................................................................................................................................636

P. Sheeran, S. Luois, T. Matsunaga, P. Dayton

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SUBHARMONIC IMAGING USING MICROBUBBLES IN CONTRAST IMAGING .......................................................................................................................................................................................................640

S. Park, S. Dianis, K. Thomenius, C. Chalek, K. Rigby, L. Mo, F. Lin, L. Pan, A. Hall, F. Forsberg

INFLUENCE OF SHELL PARAMETERS ON RESPONSE OF POLYMER-SHELLED MICROBUBBLES TO HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND .......................................................................................................................................................644

P. Chitnis, J. Mamou, S. Koppolu, J. Ketterling

MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY AND LOCALIZED MODES FOR ULTRASOUND CONTRAST MICROBUBBLES SURFACE OSCILLATIONS......................................................................................................................................648

S. Santos, J. Chaline, A. Bouakaz, V. Sanchez-Morcillo, N. Jimenez

NON-UNIFORM OSCILLATIONS OF DEFLATING BUBBLES - A PILOT STUDY.......................................................................652J. Viti, R. Mori, F. Guidi, N. Jong, P. Tortoli

COMPARISON OF THE ACOUSTIC RESPONSE OF LIQUID-PFOB AND SOLID-CORE NANOPARTICLES BETWEEN 20 AND 40 MHZ .......................................................................................................................................................................656

S. Jafari, O. Diou, N. Tsapis, E. Fattal, J. Mamou, S. Bridal

IN VIVO DETECTION OF HEMORRHAGE RATE IN DOG MODELS OF HEMOPHILIA AND VWD AND AT HUMAN FEMORAL ARTERIOTOMY BY ARFI ULTRASOUND ......................................................................................................660

M. Scola, L. Baggesen, R. Behler, T. Nichols, H. Zhu, M. Caughey, E. Merricks, R. Raymer, P. Margaritis, K. High, C. Gallippi

MULTI-PUSH (MP) ARF ASSESSMENT OF VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES IN A TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM: EFFECT OF TIME SEPARATION .....................................................................................................................................664

M. Scola, C. Gallippi

EVALUATION OF SHEAR PROPERTIES IN MUSCLE TISSUE VIA NOVEL SUPERFICIAL ELASTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE ...............................................................................................................................................................668

J. Ballyns, P. Otto, J. Shah, J. Hammond, J. Heimur, T. Gebreab, L. Gerber, S. Sikdar

VIBRO-ACOUSTOGRAPHY BEAMFORMING AND IMAGING WITH A 1.75D ARRAY TRANSDUCER ...............................672M. Urban, C. Chalek, K. Thomenius, M. Fatemi, A. Alizad

MEASUREMENT OF TENDON VELOCITIES USING VECTOR TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING AND CURVED M-MODE IN PATIENTS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY..........................................................................................................676

A. Eranki, P. Otto, L. Curatalo, L. Prosser, K. Alter, D. Damiano, S. Sikdar

DETECTABILITY INDEX DESCRIBES THE INFORMATION CONVEYED BY SONOGRAPHIC IMAGES ..........................680N. Nguyen, C. Abbey, M. Insana

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SPATIAL COHERENCE FUNCTION FROM BACKSCATTERED ULTRASOUND WITH PHASE ABERRATION AND REVERBERATION CLUTTER....................................................................684

G. Pinton, G. Trahey, J. Dahl

FAST PULSE-ECHO ULTRASOUND IMAGING EMPLOYING COMPRESSIVE SENSING........................................................688M. Schiffner, G. Schmitz

VOLUMETRIC INTRACARDIAC IMAGING USING A FULLY INTEGRATED CMUT RING ARRAY: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS.......................................................................................................................................................................692

A. Moini, A. Nikoozadeh, O. Oralkan, J. Choe, A. Sarioglu, D. Stephens, A. Rama, P. Chen, C. Chalek, A. Dentinger, D. Wildes, L. Smith, K. Thomenius, K. Shivkumar, A. Mahajan, M. O'Donnell, D. Sahn, P. Yakub

TRANSMURAL MYOCARDIAL STRAIN DISTRIBUTION MEASURED AT HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION .......................................................................................................................................................................696

T. Nguyen, A. Espinoza, E. Remme, J. D'Hooge, L. Hoff

GALLBLADDER QUANTIFICATION IN ULTRASOUND USING GVF SNAKES...........................................................................700R. Samala, V. Srikrishnan, N. Subramanian, M. Washburn

ULTRASOUND CURRENT SOURCE DENSITY IMAGING USING A CLINICAL INTRACARDIAC CATHETER....................................................................................................................................................................................................704

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

OPTICAL FLOW-BASED B-MODE ELASTOGRAPHY: APPLICATION IN THE HYPERTENSIVE RAT CAROTID .......................................................................................................................................................................................................708

R. Maurice, Z. Qin, J. Peng, N. Dahdah, J. Tremblay

1D MODEL FOR PROPAGATION OF PULSE WAVE IN AN ARTERIAL NETWORK: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THEORY AND EXPERIMENT .............................................................................................................................................713

M. Saito, Y. Ikenaga, M. Matsukawa, Y. Watanabe, T. Asada, P. Lagree

3D TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING WITH ULTRA HIGH FRAME RATE ..........................................................................................717B. Brekke, H. Torp, T. Bjastad, A. Stoylen, S. Aase

3D ULTRAFAST ELASTOGRAPHY IMAGING OF THE CAROTID ARTERY USING SPARSE ARRAYS...............................721S. Korukonda, M. Doyley

ULTRASOUND-BASED SPECKLE TRACKING FOR 3D STRAIN ESTIMATION OF THE ARTERIAL WALL – AN EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION STUDY IN A TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM .............................................................725

M. Larsson, F. Kremer, B. Heyde, L. Brodin, J. D'Hooge

IN VITRO EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM FOR ULTRASONIC ESTIMATION OF MYOCARDIAL ELASTICITY .....................729T. Tanaka, K. Hashiba

MINIMAL-PATH CONTOURS COMBINED WITH SPECKLE TRACKING TO ESTIMATE 2D DISPLACEMENTS OF THE CAROTID ARTERY WALL IN B-MODE IMAGING .........................................................................732

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

AFFINE PHASE BASED MOTION ESTIMATION APPLIED TO ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ........................................................736F. Douziech, H. Liebgott, O. Bernard, A. Basarab

3D CARDIAC STRAIN IMAGING USING PLANE WAVE EXCITATION AND FEATURE TRACKING...................................740L. Tseng, P. Li

STUDY ON NON CONTACT ACOUSTIC IMAGING METHOD FOR NON DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION USING SLDV AND LRAD............................................................................................................................................................................744

T. Sugimoto, R. Akamatsu, N. Utagawa, S. Tsujino

BASIC STUDY OF WATER DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT IN SOIL USING SLDV...............................................................748Y. Nakagawa, T. Sugimoto

STUDY ON THE BURIED OBJECT DETECTION METHOD USING OPTIMUM FREQUENCY RANGE METHOD IN EXTREMELY SHALLOW UNDERGROUND ................................................................................................................752

T. Sugimoto, T. Abe

3D DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION AND LOCALIZATION USING ULTRASONIC SENSORS IN AN ANECHOIC CHAMBER .......................................................................................................................................................................756

V. Kunin, W. Jia, M. Turqueti, J. Saniie, E. Oruklu

A NOVEL NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SOUND WAVE PROPAGATION USING SUB-GRID CIP-MOC METHOD ........................................................................................................................................................................................................760

Y. Ara, K. Okubo, N. Tagawa, T. Tsuchiya, T. Ishizuka

DETERMINATION OF SIZE AND SHAPE OF SMALL INCLUSIONS FROM SOUND-FIELD INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................................................................................764

N. Gust, E. Kuehnicke, M. Wolf, S. Kummritz

DETECTION OF SECOND HARMONIC COMPONENTS OF LAMB WAVES PASSED THROUGH FATIGUE TESTED MAGNESIUM PLATE .................................................................................................................................................................767

M. Fukuda, K. Imano, H. Yamagishi, K. Sasaki

ULTRASONIC NDE IN A REACTOR CORE...........................................................................................................................................771D. Parks, B. Tittmann

NORMALIZATION OF MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS: TOWARDS QUANTITATIVE MAGNETOMOTIVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING ..........................................................................................................................................................................775

M. Evertsson, M. Cinthio, S. Fredriksson, F. Olsson, H. Persson, T. Jansson

EFFICIENT MULTI-BEAM DENSITY-TAPERED DIFFRACTION OF PULSE LIGHT BY MULTI-FREQUENCY SOUND..................................................................................................................................................................................779

V. Proklov, S. Antonov, A. Vainer

MICROSTRUCTURE-INDUCED PHONON FOCUSING EFFECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVED MATERIAL QUANTIFICATION ...............................................................................................................................................................782

J. Blackshire

THREE-DIMENSIONAL VARIABLE-FOCUS LIQUID LENS USING ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE .................................786D. Koyama, R. Isago, K. Nakamura

MINIATURIZATION OF THE TRAVELING WAVE ULTRASONIC LINEAR MOTOR USING SERIES CONNECTION OF BIMORPH TRANSDUCERS ....................................................................................................................................790

S. Kondo, D. Koyama, K. Nakamura

ACTIVE MIXING IN MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS USING SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES ........................................................794R. Brunig, A. Winkler, G. Guhr, H. Schmidt

LABEL-FREE DETECTION OF PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN WITH FBAR-BASED SENSOR WITH ORIENTED ANTIBODY IMMOBILIZATION ........................................................................................................................................797

A. Lin, Y. Li, L. Wang, S. Chen, M. Gross, E. Kim

SAW MAGNETIC SENSORS COMPOSED OF VARIOUS NI ELECTRODE STRUCTURES ON QUARTZ ..............................805M. Kadota, S. Ito, Y. Ito, T. Hada, K. Okaguchi

C-AXIS PARALLEL ORIENTED ZNO FILM SH-SAW SENSOR FOR ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT IN LIQUID.....................................................................................................................................................................810

Y. Nakahigashi, T. Yanagitani, M. Matsukawa, Y. Watanabe

HIGH STABLE AND SENSITIVE ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY CODED SAW TAGS AND SENSORS USING UNIDIRECTIONAL IDT AND HIGH COUPLING ZERO TCF SUBSTRATES...................................................................814

H. Odagawa, D. Malocha, K. Yamanouchi

SILICON/PERIODICALLY POLED TRANSDUCER/SILICON RESONANT DEVICES FOR THE STABILIZATION OF RF OSCILLATORS ...............................................................................................................................................818

F. Bassignot, E. Lebrasseur, G. Ulliac, G. Martin, E. Courjon, B. Francois, S. Ballandra, J. Lesage

WIRELESS SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (SAW-RFID) SENSOR SYSTEM FOR TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN MEASUREMENTS ..................................................................................................822

F. Li, D. Xiang, S. Chiang, B. Tittmann, C. Searfass

COMPACT ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS LANGASITE SAW SENSORS ........................................................................................826T. Chin, D. Greve, I. Oppenheim

THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON SUPPRESSION MECHANISM OF SPURIOUS TRANSVERSE MODE RESONANCES IN WIDEBAND SAW RESONATORS ON LINBO3.......................................................................................830

T. Omori, T. Suyama, K. Shimada, C. Ahn, M. Yamaguchi, K. Hashimoto

REACTIVE MAGNETRON SPUTTERING OF PIEZOELECTRIC CR-DOPED ALN THIN FILMS ...........................................835V. Felmetsger, M. Mikhov

METAL-POLYMER MULTILAYER ABSORBER FOR ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS.............................................................840M. Toda, M. Thompson

DESIGN OF ANTI CAVITATION HYDROPHONE BY DEPOSITION OF HYDROTHERMALLY SYNTHESIZED LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE POLY-CRYSTALLINE FILM ON REVERSE SURFACE OF TITANIUM FILM FRONT LAYER ...........................................................................................................................................................844

S. Takeuchi, M. Ishikawa, N. Kawashima, T. Uchida, M. Yoshioka, T. Kikuchi, N. Okada, Minoru, K. Kurosawa

HIGH FREQUENCY SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCER BASED ON PAD-PRINTED LEAD-FREE PIEZOELECTRIC THICK FILMS ............................................................................................................................................................848

F. Levassort, J. Gregoire, M. Lethiecq, K. Astafiev, L. Nielsen, R. Lou-Moeller, W. Wolny

ULTRASONIC PROPERTIES OF BIO-COMPATIBLE SILICONE RUBBERS FOR MATCHING TRANSIT-TIME PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS FOR BLOOD FLOW ESTIMATION IN CORONARY VESSELS ...........................852

L. Diez, H. Calas, A. Ramos, T. Alvarez-Arenas

ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE COMPOSITE FILMS USED IN FLEXIBLE HIGH TEMPERATURE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS .............................................................................856

J. Shih, C. Cheung, S. Kruger, C. Jen

AIR-COUPLED PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS WITH ACTIVE MATCHING LAYERS .....................................................860T. Alvarez-Arenas

HFO2 HIGH-K DIELECTRIC LAYERS IN AIR-COUPLED CAPACITIVE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS ...........................864S. McSweeney, W. Wright

MECHANOBIOLOGIC ACOUSTICS ON BONE CELLULAR AND IN VIVO ADAPTATION .....................................................923Y. Qin, S. Zhang, S. Ferreri, J. Cheng

IN VIVO MICROBUBBLE CAVITATION IMAGING ...........................................................................................................................927F. Vignon, W. Shi, J. Liu, F. Xie, S. Gao, L. Drvol, J. Lof, C. Everbach, T. Porter, J. Powers

PERFORMANCE OF ELASTIC IMAGE REGISTRATION AGAINST SPECKLE TRACKING FOR 2D CARDIAC MOTION AND STRAIN ESTIMATION ................................................................................................................................931

B. Heyde, R. Jasaityte, S. Bouchez, M. Vandenheuvel, P. Claus, P. Wouters, J. D'Hooge

REAL-TIME MOTION TRACKING FOR NON-INVASIVE ULTRASOUND CARDIAC THERAPY USING HISTOTRIPSY ...............................................................................................................................................................................................935

R. Miller, Y. Kim, K. Lin, G. Owens, C. Cain, Z. Xu

2D MYOCARDIAL STRAIN IN THE MOUSE THROUGH SPATIAL COMPOUNDING: IN-VIVO FEASIBILITY STUDY..................................................................................................................................................................................939

F. Kremer, T. Dresselaers, B. Heyde, V. Ferferieva, E. Caluwe, H. Choi, W. Oosterlinck, S. Janssens, U. Himmelreich, J. D'Hooge

ARTERIAL ELASTICITY AS A PREDICTOR FOR ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA MATURATION: PRELIMINARY RESULTS..........................................................................................................................................................................943

A. Sorace, M. Robbin, C. Abts, M. Lockhart, M. Allon, K. Hoyt

PROBING MICROBUBBLE ADHESION USING SECONDARY ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE...........................................947T. Kokhuis, V. Garbin, K. Kooiman, B. Naaijkens, L. Juffermans, O. Kamp, M. Versluis, A. Steen, N. Jong

THE INFLUENCE OF ATTACHMENT ON THE NONLINEAR BEHAVIOUR OF LIPID ENCAPSULATED MICROBUBBLES AT HIGH FREQUENCIES.........................................................................................................................................951

B. Helfield, E. Cherin, S. Foster, D. Goertz

REDUCED BLOOD FLOW IN MURINE TUMORS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF BOUND, TARGETED MICROBUBBLES .........................................................................................................................................................................................955

X. Hu, A. Kheirolomoom, L. Mahakian, J. Beegle, E. Ingham, C. Caskey, D. Kruse, K. Ferrara

3D RADIATION FORCE ENHANCED ULTRASONIC MOLECULAR IMAGING WITH A CLINICAL SYSTEM ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................959

J. Streeter, R. Gessner, P. Dayton

A TARGETING THERAPY STRATEGY BY APTAMER-CONJUGATED AND DRUG-LOADED DROPLETS ........................963C. Wang, Y. Lee, S. Kang, C. Yeh

SPECTROGRAM REMAPPING BASED IMAGING FOR SPIRAL SHAPED FREQUENCY STEERABLE ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS......................................................................................................................................................................967

E. Baravelli, L. Marchi, M. Ruzzene, N. Speciale

3D RECONSTRUCTION FROM ADAPTIVE MATRIX MICROPHONE ARRAY SIGNALS USING BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHM .....................................................................................................................................................................971

K. Mizutani, H. Hashizume

SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE 3D IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION USING 2D TRANSMITTER ARRAY .....................975N. Laokulrat, Y. Maeda, M. Sugimoto, H. Hashizume

MEASURING PHASE CHARACTERISTICS OF ULTRASONIC MICROPHONES FOR ACCURATE ULTRASONIC LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS...........................................................................................................................................979

S. Nakamura, M. Sugimoto, H. Hashizume

MICRO AND NANO FABRICATED PHONONIC CRYSTALS: TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS...................................983R. Olsson III, M. Ziaei-Moayyed, B. Kim, C. Reinke, M. Su, P. Hopkins, Y. Soliman, D. Goettler, Z. Leseman, I. El-Kady

VHF PHONONIC BAND GAP BAND PASS FILTERS USING COUPLED RESONATOR ACOUSTIC WAVEGUIDES (CRAW) ..............................................................................................................................................................................989

S. Mohammadi, A. Khelif, A. Adibi

PHONONIC BAND GAP IN HONEYCOMB CRYSTAL: TOWARDS SIMULTANEOUS PHOTONIC AND PHONONIC BAND GAPS ............................................................................................................................................................................992

S. Benchabane, S. Saleh, R. Salut, G. Ulliac, M. Bernal, V. Laude

HIGH EFFICIENCY PHONONIC CRYSTAL REFLECTIVE GRATINGS FOR SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES............................................................................................................................................................................................................996

J. Sun, T. Wu

COMPARISON OF CONVENTIONAL AND COLLAPSE-MODE CMUT IN 1-D ARRAY CONFIGURATION .......................1000K. Park, O. Oralkan, B. Khuri-Yakub

MEASUREMENT OF THE ADDED SPECULAR REFLECTION ATTENUATION BY USING A GROOVED BOTTOM SURFACE IN THE BACKING OF CMUTS.........................................................................................................................1004

K. Chapagain, A. Ronnekleiv

UNDERSTANDING CMUTS WITH SUBSTRATE-EMBEDDED SPRINGS ....................................................................................1008B. Lee, A. Nikoozadeh, K. Park, B. Khuri-Yakub

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS FOR HIGH POWER....................................................................................................................................................................................1012

F. Yamaner, S. Olcum, A. Bozkurt, H. Koymen, A. Atalar

FABRICATION AND MODEL VALIDATION FOR CMUTS OPERATED IN PERMANENT CONTACT MODE ............................................................................................................................................................................................................1016

M. Ho, M. Kupnik, S. Vaithilingam, B. Khuri-Yakub

RADIATION IMPEDANCE OF AN ARRAY OF CIRCULAR CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS IN COLLAPSED STATE.................................................................................................................1020

A. Ozgurluk, A. Atalar, H. Koymen, S. Olcum

NONLINEAR ULTRASOUND MONITORING OF FATIGUE MICRODAMAGE ACCUMULATION IN CORTICAL BONE ......................................................................................................................................................................................1024

S. Haupert, P. Laugier, F. Peyrin, S. Guerard, D. Mitton

PHASE CANCELLATION AND APERTURE SIZE ON BROADBAND ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION FOR TRABECULAR BONE ASSESSMENT USING A 2-D CONFOCAL SYNTHETIC ARRAY ..........................................................1028

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

DETERMINING THE ATTENUATION OF OVERLAPPING FAST AND SLOW WAVES IN CANCELLOUS BONE USING BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES .............................................................................................................................................1032

A. Nelson, J. Hoffman, C. Anderson, Y. Nagatani, K. Mizuno, M. Holland, M. Matsukawa, J. Miller

CIRCUMFERENTIAL GUIDED WAVE MEASUREMENT IN A CORTICAL BONE-MIMICKING CYLINDRICAL PHANTOM .....................................................................................................................................................................1036

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

TWO WAVE PROPAGATION IMAGE FOR INVESTIGATING THE ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE OF CANCELLOUS BONE ................................................................................................................................................................................1040

K. Yamashita, K. Mizuno, M. Matsukawa

AN ARCHITECTURE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REAL-TIME SYNTHETIC APERTURE COMPOUNDING WITH SARUS ..............................................................................................................................................................1044

M. Stuart, J. Jensen

A PROGRAMMABLE AND COMPACT OPEN PLATFORM FOR ULTRASOUND BIO-MICROSCOPE ................................1048W. Qiu, Y. Yu, F. Tsang, L. Sun

ULTRASONIC WIRELESS POWER AND DATA COMMUNICATION FOR NEURAL STIMULATION .................................1052J. Tsai, K. Huang, J. Wang, S. Liu, P. Li

IMPLEMENTATION OF A SMART-PHONE BASED PORTABLE DOPPLER FLOWMETER..................................................1056C. Huang, P. Lee, P. Chen

MINIATURIZED, WEARABLE, ULTRASOUND PROBE FOR ON-DEMAND ULTRASOUND SCREENING ........................1060A. Bhuyan, J. Choe, B. Lee, P. Cristman, O. Oralkan, B. Khuri-Yakub

REAL-TIME VOLUMETRIC IMAGING SYSTEM FOR CMUT ARRAYS .....................................................................................1064J. Choe, O. Oralkan, A. Nikoozadeh, A. Bhuyan, B. Lee, M. Gencel, B. Khuri-Yakub

GUIDED WAVE TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION WITH THE SCALE-INVARIANT CORRELATION COEFFICIENT ............................................................................................................................................................................................1068

J. Harley, J. Moura

ACOUSTIC EMISSION DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION USING WAVELET-BASED POWER-LAW DETECTOR..................................................................................................................................................................................................1072

D. Xiang, J. Deng, Y. Qin

ACOUSTIC INSPECTION OF HIGH-DENSITY-INTERCONNECTS FOR 3D-INTEGRATION ................................................1076S. Brand, M. Petzold, P. Czurratis, J. Reed, M. Lueck, C. Gregory, A. Huffman, J. Lennon, D. Temple

NON LINEAR PARAMETRIC IMAGING USING AN ULTRASONIC FOCUSED TRANSDUCER ............................................1080G. Robin, F. Meulen, J. Fortineau, G. Feuillard

WARPED-WIGNER-HOUGH TRANSFORMATION OF LAMB WAVES FOR AUTOMATIC DEFECT DETECTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................1084

A. Perelli, L. Marchi, E. Baravelli, A. Marzani, N. Speciale

A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR ULTRASONIC SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION AND FLAW DETECTION ...................................................................................................................................................................................1088

A. Kasaeifard, J. Saniie, E. Oruklu

NUMERICAL MODELING OF THERMOELASTIC LASER-GENERATION OF ULTRASONIC WAVES..............................1091I. Veres, T. Berer, B. Reitinger, P. Burgholzer

NON-PERTURBING MEASUREMENT OF SOUND PRESSURE FIELDS BY MEANS OF LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER ............................................................................................................................................................................................1095

L. Chen, S. Rupitsch, R. Lerch

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING FROM INDUCED PHONONS EXCITED BY THE ZNO PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILM WITH A COAXIAL RESONATOR ...............................................................................................................................................1099

T. Sugimoto, H. Sano, T. Yanagitani, S. Takayanagi, M. Matsukawa

EVALUATION OF THIN FILM COATING ADHESION WITH AN OPTO-ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUE ....................................1103P. Flowers, S. Yoshida, K. Gomi, S. Adhikari, K. Dreux, M. Basnet, C. Miyasaka, B. Tittmann, I. Park

INDUCTIVE MAGNETO-ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR VISCOUS FLUIDS MONITORING .................................................1107N. Wilkie-Chancellier, S. Serfaty, P. Griesmar, Y. Diraison, J. Huerou

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF PZT-5H PIEZOCERAMIC FOR ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS.................................1111P. Singh, L. Smith, M. Bezdecny, M. Cheverton, J. Brewer, V. Venkataramani

CELL CHARACTERIZATION USING HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND ...............................................................................1115S. Bakshi, J. Williams, P. Mathieu, E. Loboa, X. Jiang

MEMS-BASED MULTIPLE FOURIER-HORN SILICON ULTRASONIC ATOMIZER FOR INHALATION DRUG DELIVERY ......................................................................................................................................................................................1119

C. Tsai, R. Mao, S. Lin, E. Chien, S. Tsai

MICRO-LOCALIZED CELL LYSIS BY LOW POWER FOCUSED ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER ..............................................1123L. Wang, Y. Li, A. Lin, Y. Choe, M. Gross, E. Kim

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DUAL-RING CMUT ARRAY OPTIMIZATION FOR FORWARD-LOOKING IVUS...............................................................................................................................................................................................................1127

C. Tekes, J. Zahorian, G. Gurun, S. Satir, M. Hochman, T. Xu, M. Rashid, F. Degertekin, M. Karaman

PRELIMINARY IN-VIVO EVALUATION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE SEQUENTIAL BEAMFORMATION USING A MULTIELEMENT CONVEX ARRAY...................................................................................................................................1131

M. Hemmsen, P. Hansen, T. Lange, J. Hansen, S. Nikolov, M. Nielsen, J. Jensen

A SYNTHETIC-FOCUSING STRATEGY FOR REAL-TIME HIGH-FREQUENCY ANNULAR-ARRAY IMAGING .....................................................................................................................................................................................................1135

E. Filoux, J. Ketterling

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF A SPLIT-APERTURE TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE FOR SUPPRESSING GRATING LOBES IN LARGE PITCH PHASED ARRAYS ..........................................................................1139

Z. Torbatian, R. Adamson, M. Bance, J. Brown

RING ARRAY PSF SYNTHESIS BY DELAY DITHERING ................................................................................................................1143R. Hoctor, S. Dianis

PERFORMANCE OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE COMPOUNDING FOR IN-INVO IMAGING ..................................................1148J. Hansen, J. Jensen

GENERALIZED BAYESIAN SPECKLE TRACKING APPLIED TO STRAIN AND ARFI DISPLACEMENTS .......................1152B. Byram, G. Trahey, M. Palmeri

MOTION COMPENSATION METHOD FOR QUANTIFICATION OF NEOVASCULARIZATION IN CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES WITH CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND (CEUS) ...............................1156

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

QUANTITATIVE IMAGING USING TIME REVERSAL ELASTOGRAPHY: A FEASIBILITY STUDY ..................................1160J. Brum, N. Benech, C. Negreira, S. Catheline, T. Gallot

VISCOELEASTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF AN ELLIPTIC STRUCTURE IN DYNAMIC ELASTOGRAPHY IMAGING USING A SEMI-ANALYTICAL SHEAR WAVE SCATTERING MODEL ................................1163

E. Montagnon, A. Hadj-Henni, C. Schmitt, G. Cloutier

MEASUREMENTS OF VISCOELASTICITY USING THE MR ELASTOGRAPHY AND LAMB WAVE DISPERSION ULTRASOUND VIBROMETRY (LDUV) ......................................................................................................................1167

I. Nenadic, S. Aristizabal, K. Glaser, T. Humphrey, S. Mitchell, J. Greenleaf

SHEAR WAVE SPEED MEASUREMENT USING AN UNFOCUSED ULTRASOUND PUSH BEAM.........................................1171S. Chen, H. Zhao, P. Song, M. Urban, J. Greenleaf

ALL-OPTICAL GENERATION AND DETECTION OF ACOUSTIC WAVES FOR INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING .........................................................................................................................1175

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

PHOTOACOUSTIC CODED EXCITATION USING PERIODICALLY PERFECT SEQUENCES ..............................................1179M. Beckmann, M. Mienkina, G. Schmitz, C. Friedrich, N. Gerhardt, M. Hofmann

TRAPPING AND DYNAMIC MANIPULATION OF MAGNETIC CONTRAST AGENT TARGETED CANCER CELLS IN PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING: PHANTOM STUDY ......................................................................................................1183

C. Wei, J. Xia, I. Pelivanov, X. Hu, X. Gao, M. O'Donnell

CHARACTERIZATION OF RED BLOOD CELL AGGREGATION WITH PHOTOACOUSTICS: A THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ................................................................................................................................1187

E. Hysi, R. Saha, M. Kolios

REALTIME PORTABLE IN VIVO OPTICAL-RESOLUTION PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY ........................................1191P. Hajireza, W. Shi, R. Zemp

AN EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL FOR A LIQUID LOADED LATERAL-FIELD EXCITED ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSOR...........................................................................................................................................................................................1194

L. French Jr., M. Fitzgerald, J. Vetelino

LATERAL FIELD EXCITED BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSORS ON LANGASITE WORKING ON DIFFERENT OPERATIONAL MODES ..................................................................................................................................................1200

T. Ma, J. Wang, C. Zhang, J. Chen, Z. Zhang

DEVELOPMENT OF ACOUSTIC-WEDGE-MODE HUMIDITY SENSOR USING A WEDGE WITH HYDROSCOPIC FILM...............................................................................................................................................................................1203

P. Tung, C. Yang

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON HIGH EFFICIENCY ULTRASONIC MOTORS USING LUBRICANT......................................1210W. Qiu, Y. Mizuno, D. Koyama, K. Nakamura

DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF ULTRASONIC MOTOR LOCATED IN CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................................................1214

D. Yamaguchi, T. Kanda, K. Suzumori

ACTUATION FORCE CHARACTERISTICS OF ULTRASONIC SUSPENSION FOR MINUTE OBJECT ...............................1218S. Chino, Y. Kato, Y. Ishino, M. Takasaki, T. Mizuno

A FEEDBACK-LOOP OSCILLATOR STABILIZED USING LATERALLY-COUPLED-MODE NARROW-BAND HBAR FILTERS ..............................................................................................................................................................................1222

E. Lebrasseur, G. Martin, T. Baron, S. Ballandras, A. Reinhardt, P. Lassagne, D. Gachon, L. Chommeloux

A 48 MHZ, HERMETIC, 0.48 MM2 CHIP-SCALE PACKAGED USB3.0 OSCILLATOR INTEGRATING AN FBAR RESONATOR WITH CMOS CIRCUITRY .................................................................................................................................1226

A. Nelson, R. Ruby, M. Small, S. Ortiz, F. Bi, B. Otis

C-AXIS PARALLEL ORIENTED ALN FILM RESONATOR FABRICATED BY ION-BEAM ASSISTED RF MAGNETRON SPUTTERING ..................................................................................................................................................................1230

M. Suzuki, T. Yanagitani

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF DUAL WAVE OPTIMIZED REFLECTOR STACKS IN SOLIDLY MOUNTED RESONATORS ......................................................................................................................................................................1234

S. Jose, R. Hueting

SYNTHESIS OF C-TILTED ALN FILMS WITH A GOOD TILT AND THICKNESS UNIFORMITY.........................................1238M. Moreria, J. Bjurstrom, T. Kubart, B. Kuzavas, I. Katardjiev

ARTERIAL SECONDARY BLOOD FLOW PATTERNS VISUALIZED WITH VECTOR FLOW ULTRASOUND ............................................................................................................................................................................................1242

M. Pedersen, M. Pihl, J. Hansen, P. Hansen, P. Haugaard, M. Nielsen, J. Jensen

ANGLE-INDEPENDENT QUANTIFICATION OF COMPLEX FLOW PATTERNS IN CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1246

L. Lovstakken, S. Nyrnes, B. Haugen, H. Torp

DOPPLER VORTOGRAPHY – DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF THE VORTICES IN THE LEFT VENTRICLE ................................................................................................................................................................................................1250

F. Mehregan, S. Muth, L. Allard, G. Cloutier, D. Garcia

DIRECTIONAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE FLOW IMAGING USING A DUAL STAGE BEAMFORMER APPROACH..................................................................................................................................................................................................1254

Y. Li, J. Jensen

FUNCTIONAL MICRO-ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF RODENT CEREBRAL HEMODYNAMICS ........................................1258M. Raaij, L. Lindvere, A. Dorr, J. He, B. Sahota, B. Stefanovic, F. Foster

IMPROVING SHEAR WAVE SPEED ESTIMATION PRECISION IN HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA BY TRACKING SHEAR WAVE PROPAGATION IN 3D USING A REAL-TIME VOLUMETRIC IMAGING TRANSDUCER ............................................................................................................................................................................................1262

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

SHEAR WAVE CONSTRUCTION WITH LATERALLY MOVING RADIATION FORCE EXCITATIONS .............................1266M. Urban, C. Amador, A. Nabavizadeh, J. Greenleaf, S. Chen

ROBUST SHEAR WAVE SPEED MEASUREMENT USING COMB-PUSH ULTRASOUND RADIATION FORCE ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................1270

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

TRACKING ARFI INDUCED SHEAR WAVE PROPAGATION BY USING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION ..............................................................................................................................................................................................1274

L. Fan, P. Freiburger, B. Luick, D. Duncan, J. O'Bannon, J. Benson

ASSESSMENT OF SHEAR ANISOTROPY USING SUPERSONIC SHEAR IMAGING WITH ROTATING ARRAYS: IN VIVO EVIDENCE OF CORNEA ELASTIC ANISOTROPY .......................................................................................1278

T. Nguyen, J. Aubry, D. Touboul, J. Bercoff, M. Tanter

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF PULSE SEQUENCES FOR FREEHAND ARFI IMAGING ....................................1281J. Doherty, D. Dumont, D. Hyun, J. Dahl, G. Trahey

MICROBUBBLE ULTRASOUND SUPER-LOCALIZATION IMAGING (MUSLI) ........................................................................1285O. Couture, B. Besson, G. Montaldo, M. Fink, M. Tanter

RELAXATION OF MICROVESSELS DEFORMED BY ULTRASOUND-ACTIVATED MICROBUBBLES .............................1288H. Chen, A. Brayman, T. Matula

VOLUMETRIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND FOR CHARACTERIZING TUMOR VASCULARITY: PRELIMINARY STUDIES IN AN ANIMAL MODEL ..........................................................................................1292

K. Hoyt, A. Sorace

ACOUSTIC PARTICLE TRAPPING IN A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE USING FREQUENCY MODULATED SIGNAL .........................................................................................................................................................................................................1296

J. Jeong, J. Lee, C. Lee, S. Teh, A. Lee, K. Shung

FLOW-THROUGH SEPARATION OF MICROPARTICLES OF DIFFERENT SIZES USING ULTRASOUND ......................1300A. Siddique, S. Cho, C. Kim, B. Ahn

PRECISE TRANSPORTATION OF SINGLE CELL BY PHASE-SHIFT STANDING SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE ............................................................................................................................................................................................................1304

L. Meng, F. Cai, Q. Jin, L. Niu, H. Zheng

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY MANIPULATION IN LITHOGRAPHICALLY PATTERNED SINGLE CRYSTAL SILICON PHONONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURES ...........................................................................................................1308

B. Kim, J. Nguyen, C. Reinke, E. Shaner, C. Harris, I. El-Kady, R. Olsson III

VISUALIZATION OF NEGATIVE REFRACTION OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES BY NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ...................................................................................................................................................1312

I. Veres, B. Reitinger, T. Berer, P. Burgholzer, O. Wright, O. Matsuda

RECENT ADVANCES IN THE NEGATIVE REFRACTION OF LONGITUDINAL WAVES IN AN ELASTIC PHONONIC CRYSTAL ..............................................................................................................................................................................1316

A. Hladky-Hennion, C. Croenne, K. Olympio, J. Vasseur, B. Dubus, B. Morvan

ELECTROSTRICTION FOR THIN FILMS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO PIEZOELECTRICITY....................................................1320E. Defay, M. Cueff, C. Arndt, N. Hassine

VERY LARGE BANDWIDTH IF SAW FILTERS USING LEAKY WAVES ON LINBO3 AND LITAO3.....................................1325M. Hakiki, J. Damy, H. Hartmann, J. Brice, X. Perois

LOW LOSS WIDE BAND MICROWAVE FILTERS USING SAW DEVICES COMBINED WITH MICROSTRIP LINES .................................................................................................................................................................................1329

H. Odagawa, T. Taniguchi, Y. Shimoshio, Y. Iyama, I. Oota, K. Yamanouchi

A MODULAR SAW FILTER DESIGN APPROACH FOR MULTIBAND FILTERING .................................................................1333X. Lu, J. Galipeau, K. Mouthaan, E. Briot, B. Abbott

SPUDT CELL WITH ONE-WAVELENGTH PERIOD AND QUARTER-WAVELENGTH ELECTRODES ..............................1337S. Biryukov, G. Martin, H. Schmidt, B. Wall

PROPERTIES OF PVA TISSUE PHANTOMS PRODUCED BY DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION .......................................1341G. Gouws, D. Kivell, B. Ryan, M. Thomson, A. Dawson

CHARACTERIZATION OF TISSUE IN THE PULLYE SYSTEM USING HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASONIC BASCKSCATTER SIGNALS.....................................................................................................................................................................1345

Y. Lin, T. Yang, S. Wang, F. Su

COMPARISON OF ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENTS OF NULLIPAROUS VERSUS MULTIPAROUS CERVICES....................................................................................................................................................................................................1349

L. Reusch, H. Feltovich, L. Carlson, M. Palmeri, J. Dahl, T. Hall

ATTENUATION ESTIMATION USING A SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING TECHNIQUE .............................................1353R. Lavarello, G. Ghoshal, M. Oelze

IMAGING OF VISCERAL FAT IN LIVING RABBIT BY USING DETECTION OF ULTRASONIC VELOCITY CHANGE.......................................................................................................................................................................................................1357

H. Horinaka, T. Matunaka, Y. Ohara, Y. Maeda, Y. Izukawa, K. Mano, T. Matsuyama, K. Wada

HIFU ABLATION: PRELIMINARY IN VITRO RESULTS IN PORCINE LIVER ..........................................................................1361F. Varray, J. Chenot, O. Basset, P. Tortoli, D. Melodelima, C. Cachard

CLASSIFYING ULTRASOUND IMAGE REGIONS BY USING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ARFI INDUCED TISSUE DISPLACEMENT TEMPORAL PROFILE .........................................................................................................1364

L. Fan, P. Freiburger, B. Luick, D. Duncan, J. O'Bannon, J. Benson

SKIN LESIONS ASSESSMENT USING ATTENUATING AND STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE BACKSCATTERED ULTRASOUND.......................................................................................................................................................1368

H. Piotrzkowska, J. Litniewski, E. Szymanska, A. Nowicki

DEVELOPMENT OF AN AGAR PHANTOM ADAPTABLE FOR VISUALIZATION OF THERMAL DISTRIBUTION CAUSED BY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND.................................................................................................................1372

J. Kim, Y. Park, K. Ha, M. Kim

THE ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION OF AN IEC AGAR-BASED TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIAL MEASURED AT 12 - 47 MHZ....................................................................................................................................................................1376

C. Sun, S. Pye, A. Janeczko, B. Ellis, M. Brewin, M. Butler, V. Sboros, A. Thomson, J. Browne, C. Moran

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF BLOOD CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON ULTRASONIC BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENT...........................................................................................................................................................................1379

N. Nitta, H. Masuda, H. Suzuki

QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND ASSESSMENT OF TREATED MAT TUMORS .......................................................................1383J. Kemmerer, G. Ghoshal, M. Oelze

A COMPOSITE STATISTICAL MODEL FOR ULTRASOUND APPLICATIONS .........................................................................1387S. Harput, P. Sofotasios, S. Freear

SEGMENTATION OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE COMPONENTS IN ULTRASONIC B-MODE IMAGES USING A MULTIPHASE BAYESIAN LEVEL-SET.............................................................................................................1391

J. Poree, F. Destrempes, G. Soulez, G. Cloutier

HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOFILMS ...............................................1395K. Vaidya, K. Hatfield, M. Helguera, M. Pichichero

ULTRASOUND MAMMOGRAPH FOR BREAST LOBE INSPECTION ..........................................................................................1399S. Mensah, J. Rouyer, P. Lasaygues, E. Franceschini

GEOMETRY-INDEPENDENT SPEED OF SOUND RECONSTRUCTION FOR 3D USCT USING APRIORI INFORMATION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1403

R. Dapp, M. Zapf, N. Ruiter

A CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF A PROTOTYPE AUTOMATED BREAST ULTRASOUND SYSTEM COMBINING TRANSMISSION AND REFLECTION 3D IMAGING ................................................................................................1407

P. Pellegretti, M. Vicari, M. Zani, M. Weigel, D. Borup, J. Wiskin, U. Saueressig, E. Kotter, M. Langer

SIMULATION OF SHADOWING EFFECTS IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING FROM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES.........................................................................................................................................................................1411

A. Pham, B. Stage, M. Hemmsen, B. Lundgren, M. Pedersen, J. Jensen

HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FOR SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1415

W. Chen, C. Shih, C. Huang

COMPRESSED SENSING OF ULTRASOUND SINGLE-ORTHANT ANALYTICAL SIGNALS.................................................1419C. Quinsac, F. Vielleville, A. Basarab, D. Kouame

ULTRASOUND RF CHANNEL DATA COMPRESSION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A SOFTWARE-BASED ARRAY IMAGING SYSTEM......................................................................................................................................................1423

P. Cheng, C. Shen, P. Li

BLOOD VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING COMPRESSED SENSING ..........................................................................................1427J. Richy, H. Liebgott, R. Prost, D. Friboulet

TRANSDUCER MOTION ESTIMATION USING COMBINED ULTRASOUND SIGNAL DECORRELATION AND OPTICAL SENSOR DATA FOR LOW-COST ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS WITH INCREASED FIELD OF VIEW .............................................................................................................................................................................................................1431

K. Owen, F. Mauldin Jr., J. Hossack

ADAPTIVE FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING FOR SPECKLE REDUCTION.................................................................................1435I. Song, C. Yoon, G. Kim, Y. Yoo, J. Chang

IMPROVED RANGE RESOLUTION AND SIDE LOBE LEVEL OF ULTRASOUND ECHOES USING NONLINEAR FREQUENCY-MODULATED EXCITATION SIGNAL AND MODIFIED COMPRESSING FILTER .........................................................................................................................................................................................................1439

T. Dantas, R. Costa-Felix, J. Machado

DETECTION OF RESTORATION FAULTS UNDER FILLINGS IN HUMAN TOOTH USING ULTRASOUND .....................1443S. Harput, T. Evans, N. Bubb, S. Freear

NOISE REDUCTION OF TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGES USING INFORMATION OF FUNDAMENTAL ECHO.............................................................................................................................................................................................................1447

T. Yamamura, M. Tanabe, K. Okubo, N. Tagawa

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AN AUTOMATIC CONTROLLED SONOPORATION THERAPY DEVICE.........................................................................................................................................................................................................1451

K. Hensel, G. Schmitz

TUMOR TREATMENT WITH MICROBUBBLE ENHANCED LOW-INTENSITY ULTRASOUND AND PACLITAXEL NANOCAPSULES REDUCES DRUG DOSE REQUIRED FOR THERAPEUTIC EFFECT ...............................1455

L. Mullin, P. Ma, K. Johnson, R. Mumpter, P. Dayton

ACOUSTICALLY-TRIGGERED DROPLET VAPORIZATION IN MACROPHAGES FOR HYPOXIC-TUMOR THERAPY.....................................................................................................................................................................................................1459

S. Kang, C. Yeh

DELIVERY OF DRUG-LOADED MICROBUBBLES AND DISRUPTION OF BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER BY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND IN A XENOGRAFT RAT GLIOMA MODEL .......................................................................................1463

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

SONOPORATION OF ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IN VIVO ..................................................................................................................1467I. Skachkov, K. Kooiman, Y. Luan, T. Steen, N. Jong

ESTIMATE THE DELIVERY EFFICIENCY IN CANCER CELLS OF DRUG-LOADED MICROBUBBLES WITH US AND IVIS....................................................................................................................................................................................1470

Y. Li, W. Lee, M. Wu, H. Liu, M. Kuo, C. Wang, A. Liao

3D ULTRASONIC MOLECULAR IMAGING TO ASSESS THE EFFICACY OF AN AURORA KINASE INHIBITOR IN PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA .......................................................................................................................1474

J. Streeter, G. Herrera, J. Cao, J. Yeh, P. Dayton

ULTRASOUND AND MICROBUBBLE PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION FOR MAXIMIZING SONOPORATION .......................................................................................................................................................................................1478

L. Mullin, J. Han, M. Jay, P. Dayton

THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF MICROSTREAMING CREATED BY A SINGLE MICROBUBBLE: APPLICATION TO SONOPORATION ..................................................................................................................1482

A. Novell, J. Collis, A. Doinikov, A. Ooi, R. Manasseh, A. Bouakaz

CHOICE AND NORMALIZATION OF CONTRAST ULTRASOUND PARAMETERS FOR DETECTION OF ANTI-ANGIOGENIC RESPONSE............................................................................................................................................................1486

T. Payen, A. Guibal, M. Lamuraglia, O. Lucidarme, D. Guillou, S. Bridal

THE EFFECT OF HISTOTRIPSY ON TISSUES WITH DIFFERENT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ......................................1490E. Vlaisavljevich, C. Cain, Z. Xu

PERMEABILITY AND REVERSIBILITY TIMELINE STUDY OF THE FOCUSED-ULTRASOUND INDUCED BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER OPENING AT DISTINCT PRESSURES AND MICROBUBBLE SIZES IN VIVO .........................1494

G. Samiotaki, F. Vlachos, Y. Tung, E. Konofagou

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF USING MACROPHAGES AS DRUG DELIVERY CARRIERS FOR DRUG-LOADED PHASE-CHANGE DROPLETS ...............................................................................................................................................1498

Y. Lee, C. Wang, S. Kang, C. Yeh

INTRACELLULAR DELIVERY OF NANOPARTICLES USING ULTRASOUND .........................................................................1502M. Afadzi, S. Masoy, Y. Hansen, R. Hansen, T. Johansen, B. Angelsen, C. Davies

TRAPPING OF SOLID PARTICLES BY CAVITATION-INDUCED ACOUSTIC STREAMING.................................................1506A. Maxwell, S. Park, C. Cain, Z. Xu

TRANSLOCATION OF MICROPARTICLES IN A FLUIDFLOW BY ADJUSTING THE OPERATING FREQUENCY OF ULTRASONIC STANDING WAVE (USW) ...........................................................................................................1510

S. Cho, A. Siddique, C. Kim, B. Ahn

MICRORHEOLOGICAL MONITORING OF LIFE CYCLE OF YEAST CELL SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1514

E. Caplain, J. Ringeard, S. Serfaty, L. Martinez, N. Wilkie-Chancellier, P. Griesmar

FABRICATION OF FREQUENCY SCALING CIRCUIT USING PHASE LOCKED LOOP SYNTHESIZER IC FOR A QUARTZ-CRYSTAL TUNING-FORK TACTILE SENSOR ..................................................................................................1518

S. Itoh, H. Itoh

USE OF INHARMONIC MODES OF TRAPPED-ENERGY RESONATORS FOR LIQUID-LEVEL SENSING ........................1522K. Yamada, S. Seto, S. Horiuchi

FLOW RATE MEASUREMENT USING AN ULTRASONIC BEAM RADIATED PERPENDICULAR TO A PIPE WHEN FLOW PROFILE EXISTS..................................................................................................................................................1525

J. Igarashi, K. Mizutani, N. Wakatsuki

ULTRASONICS IN ENHANCED RECOVERY OF OIL FROM POROUS ROCK ..........................................................................1529E. Neeson, M. Lucas

PARTICLE TRAPPING FOR ACOUSTIC TWEEZERS ......................................................................................................................1533Y. Yu, W. Qiu, L. Sun

ACOUSTIC TWEEZING AT THE NODES OR ANTINODES OF A HEPTAGONAL MULTI PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER CELL ................................................................................................................................................................................1537

A. Bernassau, D. Cumming

PARALLEL FLOW AND MASS TRANSFER IN POLYMERIC ULTRASONIC MICRORRESONATORS...............................1541I. Gonzalez, M. Tijero, J. Berganzo, V. Acosta

ACOUSTIC TRAPPING OF PARTICLE IN THE NEAR FIELD OF A RESONANT PERIODICALLY STRUCTURED STIFF PLATE..................................................................................................................................................................1545

F. Cai, L. Meng, X. Cheng, H. Zheng

REAL TIME ACOUSTIC SENSING OF FLOWING MICRODROPLETS IN A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE .............................1548C. Lee, J. Lee, S. Teh, A. Lee, H. Kim, K. Shung

ANALYSIS OF OSCILLATIONAL INSTABILITIES IN ACOUSTIC LEVITATION USING THE FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHOD ............................................................................................................................................1552

A. Santillan

CREATING A NANOCOMPOSITE METAMATERIAL STRUCTURE USING THE RADIATION FORCE OF ULTRASOUND STANDING WAVES ......................................................................................................................................................1556

F. Mitri, D. Sinha

THE USE OF FRACTAL GEOMETRY IN THE DESIGN OF PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1559

A. Mulholland, J. Mackersie, R. O'Leary, A. Gachagan, A. Walker, N. Ramadas

3D-ANALYSIS OF BENDING-TYPE TRANSDUCERS FOR DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPLICATIONS .......................1563M. Jungwirth, M. Kaltenbacher, M. Rabl, S. Rupitsch

FINITE ELEMENT MODELING AND DESIGN OF CYMBAL TRANSDUCERS FOR POWER ULTRASONICS APPLICATIONS............................................................................................................................................................1567

F. Bejarano, M. Lucas

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF COATED NEEDLES FOR ULTRASOUND GUIDED INTERVENTION ..............................1571C. Korte, G. Weijers, D. Vriezema, A. Keereweer, J. Thijssen, H. Hansen

SIGNATURE-BASED ALGORITHM FOR IMPROVED NEEDLE LOCALIZATION IN ULTRASOUND IMAGES: A FEASIBILITY STUDY .........................................................................................................................................................1575

M. Daoud, P. Abolmaesumi, W. You, S. Salcudean, R. Rohling

DETECTING SMALL TARGETS USING WINDOWED TIME-REVERSAL MUSIC IMAGING: A PHANTOM STUDY...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1579

Y. Labyed, L. Huang

ANGULAR SPECTRUM APPROACH FOR FAST SIMULATION OF PULSED NON-LINEAR ULTRASOUND FIELDS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................1583

Y. Du, H. Jensen, J. Jensen

MULTIPHYSICS MODELING IN SUPPORT OF ULTRASONIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT: INTEGRATION OF FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION SIMULATIONS AND FIELD II APPLIED TO THE CAROTID ARTERY .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1587

A. Swillens, G. Santis, L. Lovstakken, J. Degroote

FREQUENCY DOMAIN TIME-SPACE DECOMPOSITION FOR EFFICIENT NEAR FIELD PRESSURE COMPUTATIONS .......................................................................................................................................................................................1591

E. Alles, K. Dongen, R. McGough

2D MATRIX ARRAY OPTIMIZATION BY SIMULATED ANNEALING FOR 3D HEPATIC IMAGING .................................1595B. Diarra, H. Liebgott, P. Tortoli, C. Cachard

ASSESSMENT OF ANISOTROPIC ELASTICITY OF SMALL BONE SAMPLES WITH RESONANT ULTRASOUND SPECTROSCOPY: ATTENUATION DOES NOT PREVENT THE MEASUREMENTS...................................1599

S. Bernard, Q. Grimal, S. Haupert, P. Laugier

QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND NONINVASIVE INVESTIGATION OF TRABECULAR ORGANIZATION AND ORIENTATION .................................................................................................................................................................................1603

F. Serrahsu, S. Wang, J. Cheng, Y. Qin

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FAST WAVE IN CANCELLOUS BONE USING THE BAYESIAN PROBABILITY THEORY APPROACH..................................................................................................................................................1606

M. Matsukawa, K. Mizuno, J. Hoffman, A. Nelson, M. Holland, Y. Nagatani, J. Miller

GUIDED MODE MEASUREMENT ON BONE PHANTOMS WITH REALISTIC GEOMETRY.................................................1610J. Foiret, J. Minonzio, M. Talmant, P. Laugier

2D NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION IN RANDOM ANISOTROPIC MEDIA: OCCURRENCE OF TWO LONGITUDINAL WAVES IN BONE-LIKE STRUCTURES ...............................................1614

M. Muller, E. Bossy, F. Meziere, A. Derode

A FAST ULTRASOUND MOLECULAR IMAGING METHOD AND ITS 3D VISUALIZATION IN VIVO................................1618X. Hu, L. Mahakian, C. Caskey, J. Beegle, D. Kruse, J. Rychak, P. Sutcliffe, K. Ferrara

TARGETED MICROBUBBLE-MEDIATED ULTRASOUND THERAPY: A FEASIBILITY STUDY .........................................1622R. Saini, A. Sorace, K. Hoyt

A NEW ULTRASOUND-BASED APPROACH TO VISUALIZE TARGET SPECIFIC POLYMERIC CONTRAST AGENT...................................................................................................................................................................................1626

M. Larsson, A. Bjallmark, M. Larsson, K. Caidahl, R. Winter, L. Brodin

THE PERIODICITY BETWEEN THE AGGREGATED MICROBUBBLES BY SECONDARY RADIATION FORCE ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................1630

S. Harput, B. Raiton, J. McLaughlan, S. Evans, S. Freear

TODOIDAL TRANSDUCER WITH TWO LARGE FOCAL ZONES FOR INCREASING THE COAGULATED VOLUME ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1634

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

A UNIFIED APPROACH FOR ULTRASOUND-MONITORED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND THERMAL THERAPY: COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION AND NAKAGAMI–BASED NECROSIS-FORMATION DETECTION......................................................................................................................................................................1638

S. Huang, H. Liu, M. Li

MR-GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND WITH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TEMPERATURE CONTROL FOR HYPERTHERMIA .............................................................................................................................................................................1641

Y. Liu, B. Fite, D. Kruse, L. Mahakian, E. Dumont, C. Caskey, K. Ferrara

DUAL FREQUENCY IMAGING AND THERAPEUTIC TRANSDUCER USING AN ACOUSTIC BAND-PASS FILTER FOR APPLICATION TO ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY ...........................................................................................................1645

T. Azuma, H. Kenmotsu, M. Hashidume, S. Umemura

A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR HARMONIC MOTION IMAGING FOR FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (HMIFU) WITH EX VIVO VALIDATION.................................................................................................................1649

G. Hou, J. Luo, F. Maruet, J. Vappou, E. Konofagou

DESIGN OF A FOCUSED ULTRASOUND PHASED ARRAY FOR THE TREATMENT OF STROKE: A SIMULATION STUDY ...............................................................................................................................................................................1653

D. Pajek, K. Hynynen

MULTIPLE-FREQUENCY PHASED ARRAY PATTERN SYNTHESIS FOR HIFU SURGERY..................................................1656J. Ballard, D. Liu, M. Almekkaway, E. Ebbini, A. Casper, A. Haritonova

MULTIPLE-FREQUENCY CALIBRATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL HYDROPHONE ARRAYS FOR INSTANTANEOUS BEAM WIDTH MEASUREMENTS OF SHOCK-WAVE LITHOTRIPTERS ...............................................1660

D. Gross, E. Filoux, J. Ketterling

SINGLE-TRANSDUCER ULTRASONIC CONTINUOUS-WAVE SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING CODED SEQUENCES ................................................................................................................................................................................................1664

F. Melandso, S. Jacobsen

AN ULTRASONIC PROBE AND TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING LONGITUDINAL AND SHEAR PROPERTIES OF VISCOUS LIQUIDS ...................................................................................................................................................1669

Z. Qu, Y. Ono

PARAMETER REPRODUCIBILITY OF POLYPROPYLENE FERROELECTRET TRANSDUCERS FOR AIR-COUPLED ULTRASONIC TESTING......................................................................................................................................................1673

M. Gaal, J. Doring, J. Bartusch, U. Beck, M. Weise, V. Bovtun, G. Brekow, M. Kreutzbruck

A TRACK-PAD DEVICE BASED ON A PIEZOELECTRIC BIMORPH...........................................................................................1676G. Caliano, N. Lamberti, A. Savoia, A. Iula

STUDY ON ROTATION SPEED CONTROL OF COILED STATOR ULTRASONIC MOTOR USING PULSE WIDTH MODULATION ............................................................................................................................................................................1680

T. Omura, M. Tanabe, K. Okubo, N. Tagawa

ANALYSIS OF FREQUENCY GAP OF NANOMECHANICAL ANTENNA STRUCTURE RESONATOR USING MATHIEU EQUATION ................................................................................................................................................................1683

H. Itoh, H. Tatebe

SELF-DEMODULATION EFFECTS IN NONLINEAR FOCUSED BEAMS.....................................................................................1687P. Konicek, M. Bednarik, M. Cervenka

WAVE PROPAGATION IN ELASTIC WAVEGUIDES WITH A FINITE LENGTH CRACK ......................................................1689M. Semkiv

ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR STANDING WAVES IN TWO COUPLED ACOUSTIC RESONATORS .....................................1692M. Bednarik, M. Cervenka, P. Konfcek

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN FUNCTIONALLY GRADED PLATES WITH THE HOMOTOPY ANALYSIS METHOD ..............................................................................................1696

L. Gao, J. Wang, Z. Zhong

MODELING ACOUSTIC WAVE FIELD PROPAGATION IN 3D BREAST MODELS ..................................................................1700N. Ozmen-Eryilmaz, L. Demi, E. Alles, M. Verweij, K. Dongen

TA2O5/SIO2 INSULATING ACOUSTIC MIRRORS FOR ALN-BASED X-BAND BAW RESONATORS ....................................1704J. Capilla, J. Olivares, M. Clement, J. Sangrador, E. Iborra, V. Felmetsger, A. Devos

COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS OF BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS AND FILTERS.................................................................................................................................................................1708

N. Selimovic, B. Bader, J. Kiwitt, M. Pitschi, T. Eibert

ON THE RULE OF THUMB FOR FLIPPING THE DISPERSION RELATION IN BAW DEVICES ...........................................1712S. Jose, R. Hueting, A. Jansman

GROWTH OF ALN ORIENTED FILMS ON INSULATING SUBSTRATES ....................................................................................1716J. Olivares, J. Capilla, M. Clement, J. Sangrador, E. Iborra

A PIEZOELECTRIC ACOUSTIC PUMP: DESIGN, MECHANISM AND CHARACTERIZATION............................................1723T. Li, J. Ma

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HALF-KERFED LINBO3-BASED HIGH-FREQUENCY (>100MHZ) ULTRASONIC ARRAY TRANSDUCERS .........................................................................................................................1727

J. Zhang, W. Xu, J. Carlier, X. Ji, B. Nongaillard, S. Queste, J. Zhou, Y. Huang

ELECTRODE DESIGN AND COUPLING OPTIMIZATION OF ALUMINUM NITRIDE DETF.................................................1731G. Vigevani, F. Goericke, I. Izyumin, B. Boser, A. Pisano

EASY GENERATION OF AIRBORNE ULTRASONIC HELICAL WAVEFRONTS ......................................................................1735J. Ealo, J. Prieto, F. Seco

A NOVEL METHOD TO FABRICATE FULL-KERFED HIGH-FREQUENCY (>100 MHZ) ULTRASONIC ARRAY TRANSDUCERS...........................................................................................................................................................................1739

J. Zhang, X. Ji, J. Zhou, Y. Huang, W. Xu, J. Carlier, J. Gao, B. Nongaillard

A STUDY OF 1-3 PSEUDO-RANDOM PILLAR PIEZOCOMPOSITES FOR ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS .....................1743H. Yang, J. Cannata, J. Williams, K. Shung

MICROMACHINING TECHNIQUES IN DEVELOPING HIGH FREQUENCY PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITE ULTRASOUND ARRAY TRANSDUCERS....................................................................................................................1747

C. Liu, F. Djuth, Q. Zhou, K. Shung

REAL-TIME 3D CATHETER LOCALIZATION SYSTEM USING ULTRASOUND: RECENT IN VIVO RESULTS TOWARDS ENDOVASCULAR ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR ........................................................1751

J. Mung, J. Yen, J. Moos, F. Weaver

A CMUT-BASED REAL-TIME VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM WITH ROW-COLUMN ADDRESSING ..............................................................................................................................................................................................1755

A. Chen, L. Wong, A. Logan, T. Yeow

REAL-TIME RECTILINEAR VOLUMETRIC ACQUISITION WITH A 7.5 MHZ DUAL-LAYER ARRAY TRANSDUCER – DATA ACQUISITION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING...........................................................................................1759

Y. Chen, M. Nguyen, J. Yen

DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH-DEFINITION INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM AND CATHETER..................................................................................................................................................................................................1762

K. Waters, R. Bautista, R. Zelenka, D. Masters, J. Reynolds, S. Nelson, D. Lam, R. Neville, T. Moore

STRAIN ESTIMATION IN THE CAROTID ARTERY FROM ULTRASONIC WALL TRACKING: A MULTIPHYSICS MODEL STUDY ..........................................................................................................................................................1766

A. Swillens, G. Santis, P. Segers, L. Lovstakken, J. Degroote, J. Vierendeels

INTRAMURAL SHEAR STRAIN CAN HIGHLIGHT THE PRESENCE OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS: A CLINICAL IN VIVO STUDY ....................................................................................................................................................................1770

G. Zahnd, L. Boussel, A. Serusclat, D. Vray

FEASIBILITY OF ELASTIC AND COMPOSITIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AN ARTERIAL PLAQUE BY DUAL MECHANICAL STRAIN AND THERMAL STRAIN IMAGING USING A SINGLE ULTRASOUND PROBE...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1774

D. Dutta, A. Mahmoud, K. Kim

PULSE WAVE IMAGING (PWI) AND ARTERIAL STIFFNESS MEASUREMENT OF THE HUMAN CAROTID ARTERY: AN IN VIVO FEASIBILITY STUDY ................................................................................................................1778

R. Li, J. Luo, T. Khamdaeng, E. Konofagou

DUAL-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED DELIVERY OF RAPAMYCIN FROM MICROBUBBLES DECREASES DRUG DOSE NEEDED TO REDUCE NEOINTIMA FORMATION IN VIVO........................................................1782

L. Phillips, A. Dhanaliwala, A. Klibanov, B. Wamhoff, J. Hossack

EFFECTS OF ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS ON SONOTHROMBOLYSIS WITH CONTRAST MICROBUBBLES .......................................................................................................................................................................................1786

M. Arditi, E. Gaud, B. Petit, F. Yan, P. Frinking, E. Allemann, F. Tranquart

EVALUATION OF DOXORUBICIN-CONTAINING MICROBUBBLES FOR ULTRASOUND-TRIGGERED DELIVERY ...................................................................................................................................................................................................1790

J. Escoffre, B. Geers, I. Lentacker, A. Bouakaz

THREE-DIMENSIONAL CRACK DEPTH PROFILE ASSESSMENT USING NEAR-FIELD SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE SIGNAL RESPONSE...............................................................................................................................................1794

J. Blackshire

MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMAL SPRAYED NICKEL ALUMINUM COATINGS USING A LASER ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUE ....................................................................................................................................................1798

C. Yeh, C. Yang, C. Su, W. Hsiao

GUIDED WAVES PROPAGATING IN PLATE WITH TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS ...............................................................1802S. Tseng, C. Yang

AN INVESTIGATION OF LAMB WAVE WITH QUANTITATIVE LASER ULTRASOUND VISUALIZATION SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1805

C. Wu, C. Yang

MULTI-CHANNEL RANDOM-QUADRATURE RECEIVER FOR INDUSTRIAL LASER-ULTRASONICS ............................1809B. Pouet, A. Wartelle, S. Breugnot

CONTINUOUS FEED GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PMN-PT SINGLE CRYSTALS.........................................1813K. Echizenya, M. Matsushita

SHEARWAVE GENERATION OF 6MHZ/128CH LINEAR ARRAY USING MN DOPED PMN-PT SINGLE CRYSTAL FOR ELASTOGRAPHY IMAGING.....................................................................................................................................1817

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

ADVANCEMENTS IN MICROMACHINED PC-MUTS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES......................................................................1821Y. Liang, K. Snook, B. Dunin, R. Sahul, W. Hackenberger

CHARACTERIZATION OF PMN-29%PT AS A FUNCTION OF TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE ......................................1825M. Sadiq, Z. Qiu, C. Demore, Z. Huang, S. Cochran

ULTRA LOW-PROFILE SELF-MATCHED HTCC SAW-DUPLEXER: MANUFACTURING AND PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES ...........................................................................................................................................................1829

R. Koch, C. Bauer, J. Kiwitt, F. Pitschi, R. Weigel

A DESIGN TECHNIQUE TO ENHANCE ISOLATION OF DUPLEXER IN SINGLE-ENDED AND DIFFERENTIAL MODES ..........................................................................................................................................................................1833

J. Tsutsumi, S. Inoue, M. Iwaki, M. Hara, H. Nakamura, K. Matsumoto, M. Ueda, Y. Satoh

A NONLINEAR ELASTIC MODEL FOR PREDICTING TRIPLE BEAT IN SAW DUPLEXERS ...............................................1837S. Inoue, M. Hara, M. Iwaki, J. Tsutsumi, H. Nakamura, M. Ueda, Y. Satoh, S. Mitobe

A NEW SIMULATION MODEL FOR NONLINEARITY OF SAW RESONATOR FILTERS .......................................................1842K. Nako, R. Nakagawa, T. Suzuki, K. Takigawa, H. Shimizu, H. Kyouya

NONLINEAR LUMPED ELECTRICAL MODEL FOR CONTOUR MODE AIN RESONATORS ...............................................1846J. Segovia-Fernandez, A. Tazzoli, M. Rinaldi, G. Piazza

MIXED FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS/BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD BASED ON CANONICAL GREEN’S FUNCTION TO ADDRESS NON PERIODIC ACOUSTIC DEVICES.............................................................................1850

T. Laroche, S. Ballandras, W. Daniau, J. Garcia, K. Dbich, M. Mayer, X. Perois, K. Wagner

FAST 3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC SEGMENTATION USING B-SPLINE EXPLICIT ACTIVE SURFACES: A VALIDATION STUDY IN A CLINICAL SETTING ..............................................................................................................................1854

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

FINE RESOLUTION 3D DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENTS OF MOUSE LEFT VENTRICLE USING ORTHOGONAL SETS OF 2D B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES...................................................................................................1858

D. Lin, Y. Xu, B. French, J. Hossack

THREE-DIMENSIONAL MYOCARDIAL STRAIN ESTIMATION FROM VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND: EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION IN AN ANIMAL MODEL..............................................................................................................1862

B. Heyde, R. Jasaityte, S. Bouchez, M. Vandenheuvel, D. Loeckx, P. Claus, P. Wouters, J. D'Hooge

METHODOLOGY TO REGISTER PROSTATE B-MODE AND ARFI IMAGES TO MR AND HISTOLOGY..........................1866C. Hsu, T. Polascik, M. Davenport, C. Kauffman, R. Gupta, E. Kulbacki, J. Madden, S. Lipman, M. Palmeri, K. Nightingale

A DOSE-EFFICIENT TREATMENT STRATEGY FOR HISTOTRIPSY BY REMOVING CAVITATION MEMORY .....................................................................................................................................................................................................1870

T. Wang, Z. Xu, T. Hall, J. Fowlkes, C. Cain

NON-INVASIVE FETAL THERAPY USING HISTOTRIPSY: SAFETY AND LOCAL IMPACT ON FETAL DEVELOPMENT.........................................................................................................................................................................................1874

Y. Kim, C. Fifer, S. Gelehrter, G. Owens, E. Vlaisavljevich, C. Cain, Z. Xu

THE EFFECT OF ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS ON THE NON-INVASIVE EMBOLUS TRAP (NET) USING A HISTOTRIPSY-GENERATED BUBBLE CLOUD .................................................................................................................................1878

S. Park, A. Maxwell, G. Owens, H. Gurm, C. Cain, Z. Xu

REGULATING ENERGY DELIVERY DURING INTRACARDIAC RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION USING THERMAL STRAIN IMAGING ...............................................................................................................................................................1882

C. Seo, D. Stephens, J. Cannata, A. Dentinger, F. Lin, S. Park, D. Wildes, K. Thomenius, P. Chen, T. Nguyen, A. Delarama, J. Jeong, A. Mahajan, K. Shivkumar, O. Oralkan, D. Sahn, P. Khuri-Yakub, M. O'Donnell

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE FOR VASCULAR STEM CELL THERAPY: AN IN VITRO VALIDATION ......................1886M. Kaya, C. Toma, J. Wang, M. Grata, H. Fu, F. Villanueva, X. Chen

OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL LIPOSOMELOADED MICROBUBBLES ...............................................1890Y. Luan, T. Faez, I. Skachkov, E. Gelderblom, B. Geers, I. Lentacker, T. Steen, M. Versluis, N. Jong

ULTRASOUND AND MICROBUBBLE MEDIATED DOXIL DELIVERY IN A MURINE BREAST CANCER MODEL: THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY DEPENDENCE ON TUMOR GROWTH RATE...............................................................1894

R. Seip, E. Leyvi, B. Raju, W. Shi, M. Bohmer, C. Chlon, C. Sio, K. Reibling, T. Swanson

BUBBLE DEPENDENCE OF THE MECHANISM OF FUS-INDUCED BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER OPENING IN MICE AND IN MONKEYS IN VIVO..................................................................................................................................................1898

Y. Tung, F. Marquet, T. Teichert, V. Ferrera, E. Konofagou

MONITORING OF MICROBUBBLE-MEDIATED ULTRASOUND THERAPY USING FLUORESCENT IMAGING: A FEASIBILITY STUDY ......................................................................................................................................................1902

A. Sorace, R. Saini, E. Rosenthal, K. Hoyt

IMAGING TUMOR VASCULARITY BY TRACING SINGLE MICROBUBBLES .........................................................................1906M. Siepmann, G. Schmitz, J. Bzyl, M. Palowski, F. Kiessling

ULTRASONIC WELDING USING COMPLEX VIBRATION AND HIGH FREQUENCY VIBRATION - VARIOUS ULTRASONIC VIBRATION SOURCES AND FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS OF ULTRASONIC WELDING - ......................................................................................................................................................................1910

J. Tsujino

OPTIMIZATION OF FRICTION STIR WELDING PARAMETER FOR AA 5083 BY RADIOGRAPHY AND ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUE ....................................................................................................................................................................1920

V. Joshi, K. Balasubramaniam, R. Prakash

HIGH TEMPERATURE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS FOR IN-SERVICE INSPECTION OF LIQUID METAL FAST REACTORS.......................................................................................................................................................................1924

J. Griffin, G. Posakony, R. Harris, D. Baldwin, A. Jones, L. Bond

MACRO ENERGY HARVESTER BASED ON ALUMINIUM NITRIDE THIN FILMS .................................................................1928T. Ricart, P. Lassagne, S. Boisseau, G. Despesse, A. Lefevre, C. Billard, S. Fanget, E. Defay

1-3 MICROFABRICATED COMPOSITE ACOUSTIC MATCHING LAYERS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSDUCERS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1932

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

TAPERED MICROSTRUCTURE FOR IMPEDANCE MATCHING USING PDMS MOULDING ...............................................1936D. Wu, A. Wright, P. Harris

COLLINEAR COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR IMPEDANCE MATCHING .................................................................................1940P. Harris, D. Wu, M. Thomson, R. Petherick, F. Lecarpentier, H. Chen

AN ALL-OPTICAL THIN-FILM HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER .............................................................1944C. Sheaff, S. Ashkenazi

INFLUENCE OF THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION OF PB(ZR,TI)O3 FILMS ON THE TRANSVERSE PIEZOELECTRIC COEFFICIENT D31 .......................................................................................................................1948

M. Cueff, M. Allain, J. Abergel, G. Rhun, M. Aid, E. Defay, D. Faralli

TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION OF SILICON MEMS RESONATORS BY HEAVY DOPING ............................................1952T. Pensala, A. Jaakkola, M. Prunnila, J. Dekker

LITHIUM-NIOBATE-BASED SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE DIRECTLY INTEGRATED ON IC ...........................1956K. Park, M. Esashi, S. Tanaka

THIN FILM TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY FOR TUNABLE SAW FILTER USING INTEGRATED FERROELECTRIC VARACTORS...........................................................................................................................................................1960

H. Hirano, T. Kikuta, M. Esashi, S. Tanaka

HOLLOW STEMS FOR HIGHER MICROMECHANICAL DISK RESONATOR QUALITY FACTOR ....................................1964L. Wu, M. Akgul, Z. Ren, Y. Lin, W. Li, C. Nguyen

A ROBUST DOPPLER ULTRASONIC 3D IMAGING SYSTEM WITH MEMS MICROPHONE ARRAY AND CONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR..............................................................................................................................................................1968

Y. Maeda, M. Sugimoto, H. Hashizume

SHEAR WAVE INDUCED PHASE ENCODING IMAGING WITH ENHANCED RESOLUTION...............................................1972S. McAleavey, V. Kakkad

COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF WAVEFRONT COHERENCE IMAGING METHODS IN THE PRESENCE OF CLUTTER........................................................................................................................................................................1977

J. Dahl, G. Trahey

TRANSDUCERS WITH NON-RECTANGULAR ELEMENTS ...........................................................................................................1981S. Nikolov, H. Jensen, T. Kling

COMPARATIVE RESOLUTION AND TRACKING PERFORMANCE IN B-MODE AND SHORT-LAG SPATIAL COHERENCE (SLSC) IMAGES.............................................................................................................................................1985

M. Bell, J. Dahl, G. Trahey

ADAPTIVE SPATIAL COMPOUNDING FOR NEEDLE VISUALIZATION ...................................................................................1989B. Zhuang, K. Dickie, L. Pelissier

SEPARABLE 2D DIRECT-SAMPLED IN-PHASE QUADRATURE BEAMFORMING FOR GREATLY INCREASED COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY.................................................................................................................................1993

K. Owen, M. Fuller, J. Hossack

FOCUSED ULTRASOUND WITH SUBMICRON BUBBLES PRODUCING INERTIAL CAVITATION SUPPRESSION IN BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER OPENING APPLICATION ....................................................................................1997

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

INITIAL IN VIVO FEASIBILITY OF A PRE-CLINICAL FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SYSTEM APPLIED TO BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER OPENING IN MONKEYS.........................................................................................................................2001

F. Marquet, Y. Tung, T. Teichert, V. Ferrera, E. Konofagou

IVUS IS STILL ALIVE - MULTI PARAMETER ANALYSIS FOR TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION OF CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND INTERPRETATION FROM ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY OBSERVATION...........................................................................................................................................................................................2005

Y. Saijo

FEASIBILITY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC-BASED ASSESSMENT OF MYOCARDIAL FIBER STRUCTURE IN INDIVIDUAL HEARTS ..............................................................................................................................................2009

M. Milne, G. Singh, J. Miller, M. Holland

AN EFFECTIVE MEDIUM MODEL FOR ULTRASOUND BLOOD CHARACTERIZATION ....................................................2013E. Franceschini, B. Metzger, G. Cloutier

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF THE STRUCTURE FACTOR MODEL ON TISSUE-MIMICKING PHANTOMS WITH HIGH SCATTERER CONCENTRATIONS .......................................................................................................2017

E. Franceschini, N. Awad

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ACTIVE CONTROL OF MICROBUBBLES IN BLOOD FLOW BY FORMING THEIR AGGREGATIONS .........................................................................................................................................................................2021

K. Masuda, R. Koda, N. Watarai, N. Shigehara, T. Ito, T. Kakimoto, Y. Miyamoto

IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ULTRASOUND BIOMICROSCOPY SYSTEM BY ROTATIONAL SCANNING OF A HIGH-FREQUENCY ANGLED NEEDLE TRANSDUCER .......................................................................................................2025

T. Bok, J. Kim, D. Paeng, J. Bae, C. Lee

ADAPTIVE ARRAY PROCESSING FOR ULTRASONIC NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION ..............................................2029M. Li, G. Hayward, B. He

ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY: PROMISE VERSUS REALITY ..........................................................................................................2033N. Duric, C. Li, O. Roy, S. Schmidt

ULTRASONIC IMAGING OF PITTING USING MULTILAYER SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING................................2042M. Skjelvareid, Y. Birkelund, T. Olofsson, Y. Larsen

GUIDED ACOUSTIC WAVES PROPAGATING AT SURFACES, INTERFACES AND EDGES .................................................2046A. Mayer, V. Krylov, A. Lomonosov

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON THE PRESSURE DEPENDENCE OF THE MINNAERT RESONANCE FREQUENCY FOR NITROGEN GAS BUBBLES IN WATER............................................................................................................2053

B. Hansen, J. Johansen

WAVE PROPAGATION IN A MICROPOROUS STRUCTURE FOR ANGLED EXCITATION ..................................................2057A. Dawson, R. Young, P. Harris

ESTIMATION OF ROCK ANISOTROPIC CONSTANTS USING SONIC DATA FROM DEVIATED WELLBORES...............................................................................................................................................................................................2061

B. Sinha

IRIDIUM INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCERS FOR ULTRA-HIGH-TEMPERATURE SAW DEVICES .....................................2065T. Aubert, O. Elmazria, J. Bardong, G. Bruckner

SAW PARAMETERS FOR LANGASITE AT HIGH TEMPERATURES ..........................................................................................2069E. Mayer, D. Eisele, L. Reindl, V. Plessky, D. Richter, H. Fritze

IMPACT OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE DIELECTRIC AND PIEZOELECTRIC BEHAVIOR ON LGT ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPERTIES UP TO 900°C ..................................................................................................................................2074

P. Davulis, M. Cunha

INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THERMALLY STABLE ALN LAMB WAVE RESONATORS AT HIGH TEMPERATURES.......................................................................................................................................................................................2078

C. Lin, T. Yen, V. Felmetsger, J. Kuypers, A. Pisano

IS ALN/SAPPHIRE BILAYER STRUCTURE AN ALTERNATIVE TO LANGASITE FOR ULTRA-HIGH-TEMPERATURE SAW APPLICATIONS ? ............................................................................................................................................2082

T. Aubert, O. Elmazria, J. Bardong, G. Bruckner, B. Assouar

EFFECT OF ANISOTROPY ON SAW BEHAVIOR IN LGS ORIENTATION WITH EULER ANGLES (0º, 22º, 90º)..................................................................................................................................................................................................................2086

N. Naumenko

COMPARISON BETWEEN ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE (ARFI)-BASED HEPATIC STIFFNESS QUANTIFICATION IN DEFORMED AND UNDEFORMED PRESSURIZED CANINE LIVERS .........................2090

V. Rotemberg, M. Palmeri, N. Rouze, R. Nightingale, K. Nightingale

SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY IN OBSTETRICS: QUANTIFICATION OF CERVIX ELASTICITY AND UTERINE CONTRACTION ......................................................................................................................................................................2094

J. Gennisson, M. Muller, O. Ami, V. Kohl, P. Gabor, D. Musset, M. Tanter

QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THERMAL LESION STIFFNESS IN THE LIVER: INITIAL EX VIVO RESULTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................2098

H. Xie, S. Zhou, V. Shamdasani, Y. Shi, J. Robert, J. Fraser, S. Chen, J. Greenleaf

IN VIVO ASSESSMENT OF RENAL TISSUE VISCOELASTICITY DURING ACUTE AND GRADUAL RENAL ISCHEMIA ....................................................................................................................................................................................2102

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

CLINICAL MULTI-PUSH ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE FOR EVALUATION OF RENAL TRANSPLANT STATUS.........................................................................................................................................................................................................2106

M. Scola, L. Baggesen, C. Wu, R. Detwiler, W. Chong, S. Jang, L. Burke, K. Jernigan, M. Caughey, M. Fisher, H. Zhu, S. Whitehead, C. Gallippi

INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND CHIRP IMAGING......................................................................................................................2110D. Maresca, K. Jansen, G. Renaud, W. Dekker, G. Soest, X. Li, Q. Zhou, J. Cannata, K. Shung, A. Steen

A HYBRID METHOD FOR RESTORING THE FIDELITY OF ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF VESSELS .................................2114T. Szabo, C. Smith, B. Chan, B. Harvey, A. Laprad, K. Lutchen

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FLOW BEHAVIOR OF CAROTID PLAQUE NEOVASCULATURE ...................................2118A. Hoogi, J. Bosch, Z. Akkus, G. Kate, S. Oord, A. Schinkel, N. Jong, D. Adam, A. Steen

PULSE WAVE ULTRASOUND MANOMETRY (PWUM): MEASURING CENTRAL BLOOD PRESSURE NON-INVASIVELY: ...................................................................................................................................................................................2122

J. Vappou, J. Luo, K. Okajima, M. Tullio, E. Konofagou

A METHOD FOR MEASURING THE VARIATION OF INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS DURING THE ENTIRE CARDIAC CYCLE USING B-MODE IMAGES .....................................................................................................................2126

T. Nilsson, A. Ahlgren, T. Jansson, H. Persson, K. Lindstrom, J. Nilsson, M. Cinthio

IN VIVO APPLICATION OF SLSC IMAGING IN HUMAN LIVER .................................................................................................2130M. Jakovljevic, G. Trahey, J. Dahl

DUAL SIDED AUTOMATED ULTRASOUND SYSTEM IN THE MAMMOGRAPHIC GEOMETRY .......................................2134P. Carson, F. Zafar, S. Verweij, W. Lee, M. Goodsitt, G. Lecarpentier, S. Sinha, F. Hooi, M. Roubidoux, J. Fowlkes

OPTIMIZING FREQUENCY AND PULSE SHAPE FOR ULTRASOUND CURRENT SOURCE DENSITY IMAGING .....................................................................................................................................................................................................2138

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

DEPENDENCY OF SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO ON TRANSDUCER DIAMETER AND BUFFER DIAMETER IN GUIDED WAVE TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY .................................................................................................................2142

H. Viumdal, S. Mylvaganam, K. Wu

ULTRASONIC CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMER INFILTRATION INTO FOAM MATERIALS ...................................2146J. Blackshire, R. Ko, M. Chen

NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF SOUND VELOCITY PROFILES .......................................................................................2150E. Kuhnicke, M. Lenz, M. Bock

MODELING NONLINEAR PRESSURE FIELDS IN INHOMOGENEOUS ATTENUATIVE MEDIA USING A LOSSY GREEN’S FUNCTION AND A CONTRAST SOURCE...........................................................................................................2154

L. Demi, N. Ozmen-Eryilmaz, K. Dongen, M. Verweij

VHF PHONONIC BAND GAP BAND PASS FILTERS USING COUPLED RESONATOR ACOUSTIC WAVEGUIDES (CRAW) ............................................................................................................................................................................2158

S. Mohammadi, A. Khelif, A. Adibi

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A METHOD FOR THE SIMULATION OF BACKSCATTER SIGNALS FROM FINITE, SHAPED SCATTERERS...............................................................................................................................................2161

M. Salzle, J. D'Hooge, M. Voormolen

THE INFLUENCE OF THE ULTRASONIC STRAIN ON THE POLARIZATION OF QUANTUM-WELL HETEROLASERS EMISSION ..................................................................................................................................................................2165

L. Kulakova, N. Averkiev, V. Gorelov

NUMERICAL STUDY OF LOW-FREQUENCY SOUND BEAMS .....................................................................................................2169M. Cervenka, M. Bednarik

TRIPLE FUNCTION IVUS: DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING, RADIATION FORCE, AND THERAPEUTIC FOR MICROBUBBLE-BASED DRUG DELIVERY........................................................................................................................................2173

J. Kilroy, J. Hossack

TISSUE ABLATION USING MULTI-FREQUENCY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ..........................................................................2177S. Guo, X. Jiang, W. Lin

NOVEL CONCEPT OF ARRAY TRANSDUCER ELEMENT USING COMBINED RESONANCE BETWEEN OSCILLATIONS OF HEMISPHERICAL PIEZOCERAMIC SHELL AND BULK WATER .........................................................2181

K. Otsu, S. Yoshizawa, S. Umemura

INTRACRANIAL DUAL-MODE IVUS AND HYPERTHERMIA USING CIRCULAR ARRAYS: PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS ............................................................................................................................................................2185

V. Patel, E. Light, C. Herickhoff, M. Palmeri, G. Grant, G. Britz, C. Wilson, S. Smith

ULTRASONIC CUTTING WITH A D31-MODE PMN-PT-DRIVEN PLANAR TOOL ....................................................................2189M. Sadiq, Y. Kuang, Z. Huang, S. Cochran

AN ELECTRONICALLY-SCANNED CMUT-IN-CMOS TRANSDUCER FOR HEMODIALYSIS VASCULAR ACCESS MONITORING............................................................................................................................................................................2193

D. Lemmerhirt, X. Cheng, D. Sanzi, G. Kruger, W. Weitzel

A BEAMFORMING STRATEGY DEDICATED TO POST LENS ULTRASOUND IMAGING AND OCULAR BIOMETRY AT 20 MHZ............................................................................................................................................................................2197

T. Mateo, Y. Mofid, J. Gregoire, F. Ossant

HIGH RANGE RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF A HUMAN CAROTID ARTERY USING FREQUENCY DOMAIN INTERFEROMETRY ....................................................................................................................................2201

H. Taki, T. Sakamoto, M. Yamakawa, T. Shiina, T. Sato, K. Taki, M. Kudo

MEAN SOUND SPEED ESTIMATION WITH FOCUSING QUALITY EVALUATION FOR MEDICAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................2205

S. Park, J. Lee, W. Lee, Y. Yoo

IMPROVING DEPTH OF FOCUS FOR SINGLE ELEMENT ANNULAR TRANSDUCERS ........................................................2209K. Huang, J. Liu, P. Li

FRESNEL BEAMFORMING AND DUAL APODIZATION WITH CROSS-CORRELATION FOR CURVILINEAR ARRAYS IN LOW-COST PORTABLE ULTRASOUND SYSTEM.......................................................................2213

M. Nguyen, J. Shin, J. Yen

CAPON BEAMFORMING APPLIED TO SECOND-HARMONIC ULTRASOUND EXPERIMENTAL DATA .........................2217S. Nasholm, A. Austeng, A. Jensen, C. Nilsen, S. Holm

HIGH FRAME RATE IMAGING WITH DIVERGING BEAM TRANSMISSION AND FOURIER RECONSTRUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................................................2221

J. Lu, H. Chen

QUANTIFYING LOCAL STIFFNESS VARIATIONS IN RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATIONS WITH DYNAMIC INDENTATION ...........................................................................................................................................................................................2225

R. Dewall, T. Varghese, C. Brace

NONINVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF BLADDER MUSCLE ACTIVITY USING RADIOFREQUENCY ULTRASOUND STRAIN IMAGING........................................................................................................................................................2229

T. Idzenga, F. Farag, J. Heesakkers, W. Feitz, C. Korte

IMAGING FEEDBACK OF HISTOTRIPSY TREATMENTS USING ULTRASOUND TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY.......................................................................................................................................................................................2233

T. Wang, T. Hall, Z. Xu, J. Fowlkes, C. Cain

FEATURE BASED ANALYSIS OF AXIAL-SHEAR STRAIN IMAGING FOR BREAST MASS CLASSIFICATION......................................................................................................................................................................................2237

H. Xu, T. Varghese, J. Jiang, T. Hall, J. Zagzebski

FOURIER DOMAIN AND HIGH FRAME RATE BASED ELASTOGRAPHY FOR BREAST NODULES INVESTIGATION .......................................................................................................................................................................................2241

A. Ramalli, S. Ricci, E. Giannotti, D. Abdulcadir, J. Nori, O. Basset, C. Cachard, R. Tarquini, P. Tortoli

NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF MECHANICAL PROPERTY CHANGES WITH CELL GROWTH IN A POLYMER-BASED VASCULAR GRAFT USING ULTRASOUND ELASTICITY IMAGING .....................................................2245

D. Dutta, K. Lee, R. Allen, J. Yu, Y. Wang, K. Kim

TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING WITH CMUTS..................................................................................................................................2249M. Legros, A. Novell, A. Bouakaz, G. Ferin, R. Dufait, D. Certon

HIGH FREQUENCY, HIGH FRAME RATE PULSE INVERSION CHIRP CODED TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING .....................................................................................................................................................................................................2253

J. Park, R. Chen, Q. Zhou, K. Shung

HIGH FREQUENCY (75MHZ) ULTRASOUND BASED TOOTH DIGITIZATION USING SPARSE SPATIAL COMPOUNDING.........................................................................................................................................................................................2257

S. Heger, T. Vollborn, J. Tinschert, F. Chuembou, S. Wolfart, K. Radermacher

SECOND HARMONIC IMAGING USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE SEQUENTIAL BEAMFORMING.................................2261Y. Du, J. Rasmussen, H. Jensen, J. Jensen

IN VIVO ENDOLUMINAL ULTRASOUND BIOMICROSCOPIC IMAGING OF COLON LESIONS IN MOUSE MODELS OF CANCER AND INFLAMMATION ..................................................................................................................2265

K. Alves, R. Soletti, M. Britto, D. Matos, H. Borges, M. Soldan, J. Machado

THIRD HARMONIC IMAGING USING PULSE INVERSION ...........................................................................................................2269J. Rasmussen, Y. Du, J. Jensen

MULTI MODALITY FUSION IMAGING TECHNIQUE FOR LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY GUIDING ..................................2273S. Zenbutsu, T. Yamaguchi, T. Igarashi

COMPOUND IMAGING USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE SEQUENTIAL BEAMFORMATION ............................................2277C. Jensen, J. Jensen, M. Hemmsen, J. Hansen

CHARACTERIZE THE VASCULATURES DISTRIBUTION OF MURINE TUMORS BETWEEN CENTER AND PERIPHERAL REGIONS BASED ON DOPPLER ULTRASOUND AND IMMUNOFLUORESCENT ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2281

J. Chen, C. Chiang, J. Hong, C. Yeh

LOW-LOSS SAW GAS SENSOR WITH SELF-TEMPERATURECOMPENSATION CHARACTERISTICS FOR SENSOR NETWORK ........................................................................................................................................................................2285

J. Hosaka, M. Hikita

CHARACTERIZATION OF LANGASITE FOR APPLICATION IN HIGH TEMPERATURE SAW SENSORS .......................2289S. Sakharov, N. Naumenko, A. Zabelin, S. Zhgoon

RESONANCE PROPERTIES OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR IN SUPERCRITICAL CO2...........................2293S. Kakio, K. Hayashi, E. Kondoh

SAW PHASE MODULATION BY OPTICAL ILLUMINATION OF GRAPHENE COMPOSITE FILMS DEPOSITED ON LINBO3...........................................................................................................................................................................2297

V. Chivukula, D. Ciplys, J. Kim, R. Rimeika, J. Xu, M. Shur

THE SYSTEM DESIGN OF A LOVE WAVE SENSOR FOR MEASURING LIQUID DIELECTRIC CONSTANT ..................................................................................................................................................................................................2301

Q. Xia, Z. Chen, M. Wang

A MINDLIN PLATE THEORY BASED PARALLEL 2D FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF QUARTZ CRYSTAL RESONATORS ........................................................................................................................................................................2305

J. Wang, Y. Chen, J. Du, L. Wang, H. Jing, D. Huang

ANALYSIS OF CAPACITANCES OF ELECTRICAL EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT OF QUARTZ-CRYSTAL TUNING FORK IN CONSIDERATION OF ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION USING CONFORMAL MAPPING METHOD..................................................................................................................................................................................2309

T. Ishikawa, H. Itoh

DEPOSITION OF CRACK-FREE 30 µM ALN ON IDT/ZNO/SI FOR WAVE GUIDING LAYER ACOUSTIC WAVE APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................2313

O. Legrani, O. Elmazria, P. Pigeat, A. Bartasyte, S. Zhgoon, A. Talbi

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF ENERGETIC PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT DURING

DEPOSITION ON (11 2 0) TEXTURE FORMATION IN ZNO FILMS ...........................................................................................2317

S. Takayanagi, T. Yanagitani, M. Matsukawa, Y. Watanabe

EXTENDED NECROSIS BY USING DUAL-CURVED THERAPEUTIC TRANSDUCER FOR NONINVASIVE HIFU SURGERY..........................................................................................................................................................................................2321

J. Jeong, J. Cannata, K. Shung

AUTOMATED TRANSDUCER TESTING AND CALIBRATION WITH A DYNAMIC PHANTOM ..........................................2325A. Valante, F. Riedel, G. Corner, J. Joy, S. Cochran

HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ARRAY TRANSDUCERS FOR SONOCHEMISTRY APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................2329

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

DESIGN OF 15 MHZ CONCAVE ARRAY TRANSDUCERS FOR OPHTHALMIC IMAGING ...................................................2333J. Cha, T. Song, J. Chang

LFE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS BASED ON INVERSION LAYER LINBO3 FOR MEDICAL IMAGING .......................2337J. Chen, G. Feng, C. Zhang, Z. Zhang

A MATRIX TRANSDUCER FOR 3D TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY WITH A SEPARATE TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE SUBARRAY ..............................................................................................................................................2341

S. Blaak, C. Lancee, J. Bosch, C. Prins, A. Steen, N. Jong

DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF PMN-PT BASED HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICES INTEGRATED INTO MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL TOOLS .....................................................................................2345

R. Ssekitoleko, C. Demore, S. Cochran, J. Ng, D. Flynn, M. Desmulliez

ONE-DIMENSIONAL OPTOACOUSTIC RECEIVE ARRAY EMPLOYING CHIRPED EXCITATION AND GPU-BASED BEAMFORMING ................................................................................................................................................................2349

Y. Shu, X. Guo, M. Liu, T. Buma

DESIGN OF HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND TRANSMITTERS BASED ON OPTOACOUSTIC GENERATION .............................................................................................................................................................................................2353

H. Baac, J. Ok, L. Guo

APPLYING ULTRASOUND BEAMFORMERS TO PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING .....................................................................2357T. Harrison, R. Zemp

CLINICAL DEMONSTRATION OF EPI-MODE PHOTOACOUSTIC CLUTTER REDUCTION USING PALPATION SCANNING ..........................................................................................................................................................................2360

M. Jaeger, D. Birtill, A. Gertsch, E. O'Flynn, J. Bamber

THERMOACOUSTIC IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY FOR ENHANCED BREAST CANCER DETECTION...................2364D. Bauer, X. Wang, J. Vollin, H. Xin, R. Witte

SOUND VELOCITY AND ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS OF PERFLUOROCARBON LIQUIDS USING PHOTOACOUSTIC METHODS ...............................................................................................................................................................2368

E. Strohm, M. Kolios

A MONTE CARLO STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF ERYTHROCYTE OXYGENATION ON PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS..................................................................................................................................................................2372

R. Saha, M. Kolios

THE USE OF OPTICALLY ACTIVATED NANOPARTICLES TO ENHANCE CONTROLLED LESION FORMATION FROM HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND EXPOSURES ...................................................................2376

J. McLaughlan, T. Murray, R. Roy

PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING USING NARROW BEAM SCANNING ...........................................................................................2380J. Xia, C. Wei, I. Pelivanov, M. O'Donnell

IMPROVED SYNTHETIC APERTURE FOCUSING TECHNIQUE FOR ACOUSTIC-RESOLUTION PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY .......................................................................................................................................................2384

M. Li, Y. Tseng, P. Wang

REAL-TIME TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY ON STANDARD ULTRASOUND USING MECHANICALLY INDUCED VIBRATION: SYSTEM DESIGN AND INITIAL RESULTS............................................................................................2388

R. Azar, L. Seybold, B. Kerby, S. Bernardo, C. Cheung, K. Dickie, L. Pelissier

SHEAR WAVE SPEED MEASUREMENTS USING ULTRASOUND RADIATION FORCE CAN BE DEPTH DEPENDENT................................................................................................................................................................................................2392

H. Zhao, P. Song, M. Urban, R. Kinnick, M. Yin, J. Greenleaf, S. Chen

HIGH FREQUENCY ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE ELASTOGRAPHY FOR IMAGING THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF TISSUES ......................................................................................................................................................................2396

C. Shih, C. Huang

FINITE ELEMENT MODELING FOR SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY ....................................................................................2400S. Zhou, J. Robert, J. Fraser, Y. Shi, H. Xie, V. Shamdasani

PRECISE TRACKING OF IMPULSIVE ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE INDUCED SMALL DISPLACEMENTS FOR SHEAR WAVE SPEED ESTIMATION ......................................................................................................2404

Y. Shen, F. Cai, Y. Xiao, T. Ling, C. Zeng, Q. Jin, M. Qian, X. Liu, H. Zheng

PHASE ABERRATION IN SHEAR WAVE DISPERSION ULTRASOUND VIBROMETRY ........................................................2408Y. Shi, H. Xie, V. Shamdasani, J. Fraser, J. Robert, S. Zhou, M. Urban, S. Chen, J. Greenleaf

IMPROVING THERMAL ABLATION DELINEATION WITH ELECTRODE VIBRATION ELASTOGRAPHY USING A BIDIRECTIONAL WAVE PROPAGATION ASSUMPTION.............................................................................................2412

R. Dewall, T. Varghese

IMPACTS OF THE CAPSULE ON ESTIMATION OF SHEAR VISCOELASTICITY OF LIVERS ............................................2416Y. Zheng, K. Chen, A. Yao, E. Zheng, T. Wang, S. Chen

THE EFFECT OF PRE-ACTIVATION VIAL TEMPERATURE ON THE ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES OF DEFINITY.....................................................................................................................................................................................................2420

B. Helfield, X. Huo, R. Williams, D. Goertz

OPTICAL FLUORESCENCE STUDIES OF PERFLUOROCARBON DROPLET VAPORIZATION..........................................2424N. Reznik, M. Seo, R. Williams, E. Bolewska-Pedyczak, M. Lee, N. Matsuura, J. Gariepy, F. Foster, P. Burns

USING FLUIDITY REGULATION TO CONTROL SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF LIPID-COATED BUBBLES............................2428C. Wang, C. Yeh

COUNTER FLOW MICROBUBBLE CHANNELING USING ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE FUNNEL.............................2432B. Raiton, J. McLaughlan, P. Smith, D. Cowell, S. Harput, S. Freear

IMPROVING THE QUANTITATIVE ABILITY OF CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND PERFUSION IMAGING: EFFECT OF CONTRAST ADMINISTRATION RATE AND IMAGING PLANE ORIENTATION ........................2436

K. Johnson, P. Kogan, S. Feingold, N. Garrett, I. Guracar, W. Arendshorst, P. Dayton

EXPERIMENTAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SECOND HARMONIC INVERSION IMAGING ON AN OPEN ULTRASONIC SCANNER.............................................................................................................................................................2440

F. Lin, F. Varray, A. Guibal, C. Cachard, O. Basset

ANALYSIS OF MINIMUM-VARIANCE AND WIENER-FILTERED BEAMFORMING STRATEGIES ...................................2444N. Nguyen, C. Abbey, M. Insana

COHERENT PLANE-WAVE COMPOUNDING AND MINIMUM VARIANCE BEAMFORMING.............................................2448A. Austeng, C. Nilsen, A. Jensen, S. Nasholm, S. Holm

SNR-DEPENDENT COHERENCE WEIGHTING FOR MINIMUM VARIANCE BEAMFORMING ..........................................2452Y. Wang, P. Li

PITCH-CATCH PHASE ABERRATION CORRECTION FOR 3D ULTRASOUND BRAIN HELMET ......................................2456B. Lindsey, S. Smith

PERFORMANCE OF ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMERS FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF A PARTIALLY SHADED OBJECT ......................................................................................................................................................................................2460

S. Mehdizadeh, A. Austeng, T. Johansen, S. Holm

DETECTION OF DISCONTINUITIES IN CONTACT PRESSURE BETWEEN ROUGH SURFACES .......................................2464A. Karloff, A. Chertov, R. Maev

ANALYSIS OF SUBHARMONIC RESONANCE IN ULTRASONIC TESTING OF A CLOSED CRACK BASED ON GAP-WIDTH-DEPENDENT PROPERTY OF INTERFACIAL STIFFNESS .............................................................................2468

K. Kenji, K. Naito, T. Sugiura

RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGIES FOR ULTRASONIC BEAM FOCUSSING IN NDE ................................................2472D. Billson, C. Purssell, S. Leigh, D. Hutchins

EFFECT OF ANGLE ERRORS IN CONICAL TIP BUFFER RODS ..................................................................................................2475J. Garcia-Alvarez, M. Garcia-Hernandez, J. Chavez, A. Turo, J. Salazar

GUIDED WAVES IN A SEVEN-WIRE STRAND UNDER VERTICAL LOAD ................................................................................2479I. Oguma, T. Sugiura

REDUCING ANCHOR LOSS IN MICROMECHANICAL RESONATORS USING PHONONIC CRYSTAL STRIPS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................2483

H. Hsu, F. Hsu, T. Huang, C. Wang, P. Chang

ISOLATION OF BULK ACOUSTIC WAVES IN A SENSOR ARRAY WITH PHONONIC CRYSTALS ....................................2487Y. Chen, L. Huang, T. Wu, J. Sun

EXPERIMENTAL EXPLORATION OF IMAGING PROPERTIES OF A TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLAT LENS MADE OF PHONONIC CRYSTALS........................................................................................................................................................2491

E. Manga, L. Haumesser, B. Morvan, E. Clezio, A. Hladky-Hennion

ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION THROUGH PLATES PERFORATED WITH COMPOUND HOLE ARRAYS .....................2495H. Estrada, D. Puig, V. Gomez-Lozano, A. Uris, P. Candelas, F. Belmar, F. Meseguer

PROPAGATION OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL PERIODIC STRUCTURES.........................2499S. Nikitov, V. Gigorievskii, I. Kotelyanskii, S. Suchkov, E. Mirgorodskaya, A. Gigorievskii, V. Luzanov, M. Fominskii

PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES UNDER HEXAGONAL PHONONIC GRATINGS............................................................................................................................................................................2503

V. Yantchev, I. Katardjiev, V. Plessky

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