| Session Index | 
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| Lecture Sessions | 
| Monday September 13, 2021 (08:00-10:00) | 
| Brain Special Session  Chair: Costas Arvanitis - Georgia Institute of Technology;  | 
| PPN: Phononics  Chair: Vincent Laude - Institut FEMTO-ST;  | 
| MCA: Contrast Imaging  Chair: Paul Dayton - University of North Carolina/NCSU; Mike Averkiou - University of Washington;  | 
| NAF: Acoustic Microfluidics & NFM: Flow Measurement  Chair: James Friend - UCSD; Matthias Rutsch - Technische Universität Darmstadt;  | 
| PAT: Acoustic Tweezers & Particle Manipulation I  Chair: Teng Ma - Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;  | 
| Monday September 13, 2021 (10:30-12:00) | 
| MTH: Ultrasound Therapy  Chair: Zhen Xu - University of Michigan;  | 
| MIS: Image Enhancement  Chair: Jeremy Dahl - Stanford University; Kai Thomenius - Massachusetts Institute of Technology;  | 
| MSD: 3D & Advanced Imaging Systems  Chair: Piero Tortoli - University of Florence; Steven Freear - University of Leeds;  | 
| TMI: Polymers & Multomodal Probes  Chair: Yongrae Roh - Kyungpook National University; Jessica Liu  Strohmann - Qualcomm;  | 
| APM: Plate Wave & MEMS Resonators I  Chair: Songbin Gong - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Tuomas Pensala - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland;  | 
| Tuesday September 14, 2021 (08:00-09:30) | 
| Immunostimulation Special Session  Chair: Richard Price - University of Virginia;  | 
| MTC: Quantitative Ultrasound in Cardiopulmonary Applications  Chair: Aiguo Han - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign;  | 
| MIS: Imaging I  Chair: Kailiang Xu - Fudan University; Adrian Basarab - University of Toulouse;  | 
| TMI: Large Arrays  Chair: Qifa Zhou - University of Southern California; Weibao Qui - henzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences;  | 
| MIM: Super-Resolution Imaging I (AM)  Chair: Mickael Tanter - INSERM; Shigao Chen - Mayo Clinic;  | 
| Tuesday September 14, 2021 (10:00-11:30) | 
| Clinical Special Session  Chair: Tim Ziemlewicz - University of Wisconsin; Steven Freear - University of Leeds;  | 
| MBB: Beamforming I  Chair: Wei-Ning Lee - The University of Hong Kong;  | 
| MIS: Imaging II  Chair: Nicholas Bottenus - University of Colorado Boulder;  | 
| TMU: CMUT  Chair: Dominique Certon - Université de Tours; Omer Oralkan - NC State University;  | 
| MIM: Novel Imaging Methods I  Chair: Gianmarco Pinton - University of North Carolina; Wei-Ning Lee - The University of Hong Kong;  | 
| Tuesday September 14, 2021 (11:45-13:15) | 
| MBE: Tissue-Ultrasound Interactions  Chair: Alfred Yu - University of Waterloo;  | 
| PFC: Phononic Frequency Combs & PPA: Physical Acoustics  Chair: Yook-Kong Yong - Rutgers University;  | 
| NSP: Signal Processing - Machine Learning & Communications  Chair: Erdal Oruklu - Illinois Institute of Technology; Joel Harley - University of Florida;  | 
| Wednesday September 15, 2021 (08:00-10:00) | 
| NTC: Transducers & Industrial Applications - In Memoriam: Jiromaru Tsujino  Chair: Kentaro Nakamura - Tokyo Institute of Technology;  | 
| MPA: Photoacoustic Imaging  Chair: Geoffrey Luke - Dartmouth; Xueding Wang - University of Michigan;  | 
| MEL: New Elasticity Imaging Methods  Chair: Stefan Catheline - INSERM, LabTAU;  | 
| PAT: Acoustic Tweezers & Particle Manipulation III  Chair: Antoine Riaud - Fudan University, China;  | 
| ASD: SAW Devices I  Chair: Ben Abbott - Skyworks Solutions; Ken-ya Hashimoto - University of Electronic Science and Technology of China;  | 
| Wednesday September 15, 2021 (10:30-12:00) | 
| MTH: Drug Delivery & BBB Opening  Chair: Ayache Bouakaz - INSERM;  | 
| NDE: Non-Destructive Evaluation & NMC: Material Characterization I (AM)  Chair: Walter Arnold - Fraunhofer Institute for NDT; Bernhard Tittmann - Pennsylvania State University;  | 
| TTT: Novel Applications  Chair: Xiaoning Jiang - NC State University; Xiang Li - NC State University;  | 
| Special Session: Frontiers of Physical Acoustics  Chair: Alexei Maznev - MIT;  | 
| MTC: Applications of Tissue Characterization  Chair: Massimo Mischi - Einhoven University of Technology;  | 
| Wednesday September 15, 2021 (12:15-13:15) | 
| MIM: Functional US & Contrast Imaging  Chair: Elisa Konofagou - Columbia University;  | 
| MIS: Microscopy  Chair: Gianmarco Pinton - University of North Carolina; Olivier Couture - CNRS at Sorbonne University;  | 
| MEL: Cardiovascular Elasticity Imaging  Chair: Matthew Urban - Mayo Clinic;  | 
| AME: Materials & Evaluation II  Chair: Ausrine Bartasyte - University of Franche-Comté; Mauricio Pereira da Cunha - University of Maine;  | 
| MIM: Deep learning Based Imaging  Chair: Jianwen Luo - Tsinghua University;  | 
| Thursday September 16, 2021 (08:00-10:00) | 
| MTN: Theranostics  Chair: Helen Mulvana - University of Strathclyde; Mark Borden - University of Colorado;  | 
| MBF: Advanced & Innovative Flow Imaging  Chair: Lasse Lovstakken - Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Damien Garcia - CREATIS insa-lyon;  | 
| NAS: Acoustic Sensors & NAI: Acoustic Imaging  Chair: Jafar Saniie - Illinois Institute of Technology; David Greve - Carnegie Mellon University;  | 
| PPA: Physical Acoustics  Chair: Jan Brown - Jan Brown Consulting;  | 
| ABD: BAW Devices  Chair: Amelie Hagelauer - University of Bayreuth; Rich Ruby - Broadcom;  | 
| Thursday September 16, 2021 (10:30-11:45) | 
| MTH: Neuromodulation  Chair: Hairong Zheng - Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology;  | 
| MBB: Beamforming II  Chair: Robert Rohling - University of British Columbia;  | 
| MEL: Elasticity Imaging in Anisotropic Organs  Chair: Caterina Gallippi - University of North Carolina;  | 
| TMU: PMUT  Chair: Alessandro Savoia - Università degli Studi Roma Tre; Susan Trolier-Mckinstry - Penn State University;  | 
| MIM: Super-Resolution Imaging II (AM)  Chair: Kang Kim - University of Pittsburgh; Jeremy Dahl - Stanford University;  | 
| Poster Sessions | 
| Sunday September 12, 2021 (14:00-16:00) | 
| ABD: BAW Devices & ASD: SAW Devices (PM)  Chair: Paul Bradley - Broadcom; Hagen Schmidt - Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden;  | 
| MCA: Nanobubble & Nanodroplet High Resolution Contrast Imaging & Imaging Modes (PM)  Chair: Parag Chitnis - George Mason University;  | 
| MEL: New Methods in Elastography (PM)  Chair: Miguel Bernal - Verasonics, Inc.;  | 
| MBE: Microbubbles, LIPUS & Stimulation I (PM)  Chair: Rifat Ahmed - Duke University;  | 
| MIM: Functional US & Brain Imaging (PM)  Chair: Marvin Doyley - University of Rochester;  | 
| MIM: Super-Resolution Imaging I (PM)  Chair: Pengfei Song - University of Illinois;  | 
| MPA: Photoacoustic Imaging I (PM)  Chair: Xueding Wang - University of Michigan; Roger Zemp - University of Alberta;  | 
| MTH: Bioeffects (PM)  Chair: Emad Ebbini - University of Minnesota;  | 
| MTH: Drug Delivery (PM)  Chair: Costas Arvanitis - Georgia Institute of Technology;  | 
| MEL: Vascular Elastography (PM)  Chair: Mostafa Fatemi - Mayo Clinic;  | 
| TMI: Medical Imaging & Therapeutic Transducers (PM)  Chair: Charles Emery - Ulthera;  | 
| Monday September 13, 2021 (05:45-07:45) | 
| ABD: BAW Devices & AMR: AM MEMS Resonators (AM)  Chair: Masanori Ueda - TAIYO YUDEN; Jyrki Kaitila - NA;  | 
| MCA: Imaging Modes, Nanodroplet & Therapeutic Applications (AM)  Chair: Mike Averkiou - University of Washington;  | 
| MBB: Adaptive Beamforming (AM)  Chair: Hideyuki Hasegawa - University of Toyama;  | 
| MBE: Microbubbles, LIPUS & Stimulation II (AM)  Chair: Diya Wang - Xi'an Jiaotong University;  | 
| MIM: Novel Image Analysis (AM)  Chair: Kang Kim - University of Pittsburgh;  | 
| MBF: Blood Flow Imaging I (AM)  Chair: Alessandro Ramalli - University of Florence;  | 
| MPA: Photoacoustic Imaging II (AM)  Chair: Mohammad Mehrmohammadi - Wayne State University; Muyinatu Bell - Johns Hopkins University;  | 
| MTH: Bioeffects & Plane Waves & Contrast Agents (AM)  Chair: Weibao Qiu - Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology;  | 
| MTN: Theranostic Imaging & Mapping (AM)  Chair: Julianna Simon - Pennsylvania State University;  | 
| MEL: Cardiovascular Elastography I (AM)  Chair: Hendrik Hansen - Radboud University Medical Center;  | 
| MSD: Ultrasound Devices for Enhanced Therapy & Novel Imaging System (AM)  Chair: Jin Ho Chang - Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology; John Hossack - University of Virginia;  | 
| TMI: Medical Imaging/Therapy Transducers & Electronics (AM)  Chair: Koko Lam - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University;  | 
| NSH: Structural Health Monitoring & NSP: Signal Processing (AM)  Chair: Paul Wilcox - University of Bristol; Yufeng Lu - Bradley University;  | 
| MIS: Heart, Lung, Thyroid, & Tongue (AM)  Chair: Jonathan Mamou - Riverside Research; Libertario Demi - University of Trento;  | 
| ASD: SAW Devices II (AM)  Chair: Jan Kuypers - MEMS2market; Natalya Naumenko - National University of Science and Technology;  | 
| Monday September 13, 2021 (12:15-14:15) | 
| AFD: Filter Design (PM)  Chair: Maximilian Pitschi - Qualcomm; Shogo Inoue - Qorvo;  | 
| MTN: Theranostic Methods (PM)  Chair: Charles Caskey - Vanderbilt University;  | 
| MBB: Adaptive Imaging Methods (PM)  Chair: Hanna Bendjador - Stanford University;  | 
| MIS: Imaging & Image Enhancement & Decluttering II (PM)  Chair: Dainel Rohrbach - Verasonics;  | 
| MIM: Super-Resolution Imaging IV (PM)  Chair: Jean Provost - Polytechnique Montreal;  | 
| MBF: Blood Flow Imaging II (PM)  Chair: Jérôme Baranger - SickKids Hospital;  | 
| MPA: Photoacoustic Imaging III (PM)  Chair: Kelsey Kubelick - Georgia Tech and Emory University;  | 
| MTH: Hyperthermia, Histotripsy & Immunomodulation II (PM)  Chair: William Apoutou NDjin - INSERM;  | 
| MTH: Brain & Neuromodulation II (PM)  Chair: Qifa Zhou - University of Southern California;  | 
| MEL: Cardiovascular Elastography II (PM)  Chair: Murad Hossain - Columbia University;  | 
| MSD: Medical Device (PM)  Chair: Sevan Harput - London ; Enrico Boni - University of Florence;  | 
| NSP: Signal Processing Deep Learning (PM)  Chair: Erdal Oruklu - Illinois Institute of Technology;  | 
| Tuesday September 14, 2021 (05:45-07:45) | 
| MTC: Tissue Characterization I (AM)  Chair: Mathieu Pernot - ESPCI Paris;  | 
| MCA: High Resolution Contrast Imaging (AM)  Chair: Olivier Couture - CNRS at Sorbonne University;  | 
| MBB: Synthetic Transmit Focusing (AM)  Chair: Svetoslav Nikolov - BK Ultrasound;  | 
| MIS: Imaging & Image Enhancement & Decluttering I (AM)  Chair: Brett Byram - Vanderbilt University; Ivan Suarez - INSERM;  | 
| MIM: Novel Imaging Methods II (AM)  Chair: Mohamed Almekkawy - Pennsylvania State University;  | 
| MBF: Blood Flow Imaging III (AM)  Chair: Solveig Fadnes - Norwegian University of Science and Technology;  | 
| MPA: Photoacoustic Imaging IV (AM)  Chair: Kelsey Kubelick - Georgia Tech and Emory University;  | 
| MTH: Hyperthermia, Histotripsy & Immunomodulation I (AM)  Chair: Mingxi Wan - Xi’an Jiaotong University; William Apoutou NDjin - INSERM;  | 
| MTH: Brain & Neuromodulation I (AM)  Chair: ShinIchiro Umemura - Tohoku University;  | 
| MEL: Elastography Applications (AM)  Chair: Jean Luc Gennisson - Universite Paris-Saclay;  | 
| MSD: Novel Devices for Tissue Characterization & Investigation (AM)  Chair: Enrico Boni - University of Florence; Sevan Harput - London ;  | 
| AME: Materials & Evaluation I (AM)  Chair: Marta Clement - Polytechnic University of Madrid; Ryo Nakagawa - Murata Manufacturing;  | 
| PAT: Acoustic Tweezers & Particle Manipulation II  Chair: Ji Wang - Ningbo University, China;  | 
| MIS: Segmentation/Image Processing (AM)  Chair: Olivier Bernard - CREATIS - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1;  | 
| MBB: Coherence & Deep Learning Beamformers (AM)  Chair: Rudd van Sloun - Eindhoven University of Technology;  | 
| Tuesday September 14, 2021 (13:30-15:30) | 
| MTC: Applications of Tissue Characterization I (PM)  Chair: Chris De Korte - Radboud University Medical Center;  | 
| MIS: Plane Waves & Contrast Agents (PM)  Chair: Olivier Couture - CNRS at Sorbonne University;  | 
| MBB: Beamforming Methodologies & Devices (PM)  Chair: Jian-Yu Lu - University of Toledo;  | 
| NPC: Process Control & Industrial Ultrasound & NEH: Energy Harvesting (PM)  Chair: Bernhard Tittmann - Pennsylvania State University; James Blackshire - Air Force Research Laboratory;  | 
| MIM: Novel Imaging Methods III (PM)  Chair: Gregg Trahey - Duke University;  | 
| MBF: Blood Flow in Microvessels & MCA: Therapeutic Application (PM)  Chair: Jørgen Jensen - Technical University Denmark;  | 
| TPM: Piezoelectrics I (PM)  Chair: Jeremy Brown - Dalhousie University;  | 
| MTH: Cavitation (PM)  Chair: Hong Chen - Washington University in St. Louis;  | 
| TMS: Transducer Modeling I (PM)  Chair: Anne-Christine Hladky - CNRS;  | 
| MEL: Applications in Elastography (PM)  Chair: Steve McAleavey - University of Rochester;  | 
| Wednesday September 15, 2021 (05:45-07:45) | 
| MTC: Fundamental Research in Tissue Characterization (AM)  Chair: Matthew Bruce - University of Washington;  | 
| MTN: Theranostic Molecular Delivery & Detection (AM)  Chair: Harriet Lea-Banks - University of Toronto;  | 
| MBB: Volumetric Beamforming & Imaging (AM)  Chair: Giulia Matrone - University of Pavia;  | 
| MIM: Deep learning Based Segmentation (AM)  Chair: Yoshifumi Saijo - Tohoku University;  | 
| MIM: Super-Resolution Imaging III (AM)  Chair: Meng-Xing Tang - Imperial College London; Georg Schmitz - Ruhr-Universität Bochum;  | 
| MBF: Processing & Filtering in Blood Flow Imaging (AM)  Chair: Francois Vignon - Butterfly;  | 
| TPM: Piezoelectrics II (AM)  Chair: Jianren Yuan - ALS Ultrasound;  | 
| MTH: Cavitation & Thermal Ablation (AM)  Chair: Yaoyao Cui - Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; ShinIchiro Umemura - Tohoku University;  | 
| TMS: Transducer Modeling II (AM)  Chair: Stefan Rupitsch - University of Freiburg;  | 
| MEL: Advancements in Elastography (AM)  Chair: Annette Caenen - Ghent University;  | 
| TMU: Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers I (AM)  Chair: Christine Demore - University of Toronto;  | 
| NTC: Transducers & NFM: Flow Measurement  Chair: Kui Yao - A STAR, Singapore; Nishal Ramadas - Hy-Met Limited, UK;  | 
| PMI: Modeling & Inversion & POA: Opto-Acoustics (AM)  Chair: Anthony Mulholland - University of Bristol;  | 
| NAI: Acoustic Imaging & Microscopy & NPA: Photoacoustics (AM)  Chair: William Wright - University College Cork; Edward Haeggstrom - University of Helsinki;  | 
| NDE: Non-Destructive Evaluation & NMC: Material Characterization II (AM)  Chair: Anthony Gachagan - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; Walter Arnold - Fraunhofer Institute for NDT;  | 
| Wednesday September 15, 2021 (13:30-15:30) | 
| MTC: Tissue Characterization II (PM)  Chair: Michael Oelze - University of Illinois;  | 
| MIS: Tissue Characterization, Real-Time Imaging & Imaging Processing (PM)  Chair: Dezhuang Ye - Washington University in St. Louis;  | 
| APM: Plate Wave & MEMS Resonators II (PM)  Chair: Sunil Bhave - Purdue University; Ventsislav Yantchev - Chalmers University of Technology;  | 
| NSP: Signal Processing Communications & NPA: Photoacoustics (PM)  Chair: Jafar Saniie - Illinois Institute of Technology; Joel Harley - University of Florida;  | 
| TMI: Imaging Transducers & Electronics (PM)  Chair: David Cowell - University of Leeds; Enrico Boni - University of Florence;  | 
| MIM: 3D Imaging & Tomography (PM)  Chair: Liangzhong Xiang - University of California Irvine;  | 
| TPF: Applications of Piezoelectrics (PM)  Chair: Tomas Gómez Álvarez-Arenas - CSIC;  | 
| MTH: Thermal Ablation & MTC: Theranotics (PM)  Chair: Cameron Hoerig - Riverside Research;  | 
| NDE: Non-Destructive Evaluation (PM)  Chair: Robert Addison - Rockwell Science Center; Lawrance Kessler - Sonoscan Inc.;  | 
| MEL: Musculoskeletal Elastography & Anisotropy (PM)  Chair: Kathy Nightingale - Duke University;  | 
| TMU: Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers II (PM)  Chair: A. Sanli Ergun - Orchard Ultrasoud Innovation;  | 
| Thursday September 16, 2021 (05:45-07:45) | 
| MTC: Applications of Tissue Characterization II (AM)  Chair: Roberto Lavarello - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú;  | 
| MIS: Tissue Characterization & Real Time Imaging (AM)  Chair: Emilie Franceschini - CNRS at Aix-Marseille University;  | 
| MIM: Deep learning Based Diagnosis (AM)  Chair: Libertario Demi - University of Trento;  | 
| MIM: 3D & 4D Imaging (AM)  Chair: Richard Lopata - Eindhoven University; Hairong Zheng - Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology;  | 
| MIM: Artificial Intelligence Based Image Methods (AM)  Chair: Jianwen Luo - Tsinghua University; Qiong He - -;  | 
| MIS: Coded Excitation & Tomography (AM)  Chair: James Wiskin - QT Ultrasound Inc.; Mohamed Almekkawy - Pennsylvania State University;  | 
| NAS: Acoustic Sensors (AM)  Chair: Kentaro Nakamura - Tokyo Institute of Technology; Jagannath Devkota - National Energy Technology Laboratory;  | 
| PUM: Ultrasonics Motors & Actuators (AM)  Chair: Masaya Takasaki - Saitama University;  | 
| APR: Plate Wave Resonators (AM)  Chair: Tao Han - Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Michio Kadota - Tohoku University;  | 
| TMU: Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers III (AM)  Chair: Erik Vilain Thomsen - DTU;  | 
| NAF: Acoustic Microfluidics (AM)  Chair: Long Meng - Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology;  | 
| PGA: General Physical Acoustics (AM)  Chair: Vincent Laude - Institut FEMTO-ST;  | 
| MTC: Machine Learning in Tissue Characterization (AM)  Chair: Kay Raum - Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin;  | 
| PNL: Nonlinear Physical Acoustics & PTF: Thin Films (AM)  Chair: Ji Wang - Ningbo University, China;  | 
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