Session Index

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;