UBM2010 Final Program
Monday, September 13, 2010
15:00

Bus departs from Sendai station to Hotel Matsushima Taikanso

15:00-REGISTRATION

18:00-

WELCOME RECEPTION
Welcome address by Professor Masaaki SATO, Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Transducer and Instrumentation

Chair: Kirk SHUNG (University of Southern California)

8:30- 9:00

Marc

LETHIECQ

University FrançoisRabelais of Tours

9:00- 9:30

Jeff

KETTERLINGRiverside Research Institute In vivo imaging with an annular-array at 40 and 20 MHz

9:30- 9:50

MutsuoISHIKAWATokyo Institute ofTechnologyHydrothermally deposited PZT films and their electrical properties

SUGANUMAAcqiris Japan

Recent advances of high frequency digitizer cards

9:50- 10:10 Ichiro

New curved lead-free thick film transducers for UBM applications

COFFEE BREAK

Small Animal Imaging

Chair: Stuart FOSTER (University of Toronto)

10:30- 11:00 Stuart

FOSTER

University of Toronto

State of the art in micro-ultrasound for mice

11:00- 11:30 Daniel

TURNBULLNew York University

Novel transgenic mice for multimodality imaging of angiogenesis

11:30- 11:50 JohnHOSSACK

University of Virginia

A singular value filter for rejection of stationary artifact in mousecardiac ultrasound

LUNCH

Cardiovascular Applications

Chair: Hiroshi KANAI (Tohoku University)

13:20- 13:40 Hideyuki

HASEGAWATohoku University

13:40- 14:00 Yasunori

HONJO

Tohoku University

14:00- 14:20 Kazuki

IKESHITA

Tohoku University

Very high frame rate imaging of cardiovascular tissues
Two-dimensional ultrasonic measurement of heart wall motion at hightemporal and spatial resolutions
Flow-mediated change in viscoelastic property of radial arterial wall byaccurate detection of arterial wall boundaries

COFFEE BREAK

IVUS and Intravascular Imaging

Chair: Ton VAN DER STEEN (Erasmus Medical Centre)

14:40- 15:10 Ton

VAN DER STEEN Erasmus Medical Centre

15:10- 15:30 Guy

CLOUTIER

University of Montreal
Hospital Research Center

Intravascular ultrasound elastography and modulography of coronary
atherosclerotic plaques before and after directional atherectomy

15:30- 15:50 Hiroyuki

YAGAMI

Terumo Co. Ltd.

Recent advances in intravascular ultrasound

IVUS and combined IVUS/optical imaging

17:00- 20:00 DINNER CRUISE

Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Clinical Applications

Chair: Ronald SILVERMAN (Columbia University)

8:30- 9:00Ronald

SILVERMAN

Columbia University

Diagnostic imaging of the eye with optics and ultrasoundbiomicroscopy

9:00- 9:20

WilliamO’BRIEN

University of Illinois

Quantitative ultrasound imaging of breast tumors

9:20- 9:40

TadashiYAMAGUCHI

Chiba University

9:40- 10:00 Yoshihiro

HAGIWARA

Tohoku University

Liver fibrosis characterization based on quantification of heterogeneityof scatterer distribution
What determines the joint stiffness? Multimodality analysis by highfrequency ultrasound, immunohistology and PCR

10:00- 10:20 Jonathan

MAMOU

Riverside Research Institute

Envelope and backscatter quantification of excised cancerous human
lymph nodes

COFFEE BREAK

Contrast Agents and Phantoms

Chair: Shin-ichiro UMEMURA (Tohoku University)
Comparison of spatial resolution and detection capability for highfrequency imaging systems using a novel anechoic-sphere phantom
Characterisation of high resolution ultrasound scanners using theEdinburgh pipe phantom

10:40- 11:00 Erwan

FILOUX

Riverside Research Institute11:00- 11:20 Carmel

MORAN

University of Edinburgh

11:20- 11:40 PaulHARRIS

Industrial Research Ltd.

Microstructured materials – propagation and use

11:40- 12:00 Yukiko

WATANABE

Tohoku University

Delivery of Na/I symporter gene into skeletal muscle by using
nanobubbles and ultrasound

13:30- 14:00 Kirk

SHUNG

University of Southern
California

Development of very high frequency ultrasonic transducers from 100
MHz to 1 GHz

14:00- 14:20 Lauren

WIRTZFELD

University of Illinois

Evaluation of single cells in culture at 170 MHz

14:20- 14:40 Sara

JAFARI

Pierre and Marie Curie
University

Nonlinear, detection of biodegradable, experimental nanoparticles
using a high frequency ultrasound prototype

LUNCH

Cellular Imaging

Chair: William O'BRIEN (University of Illinois)

COFFEE BREAK

Backscatter

Chair: Guy Cloutier (University of Montreal)

15:00- 15:30 Guy

CLOUTIER

15:30- 15:50 Taku

FUKUSHIMA

15:50- 16:10 WilliamO’BRIEN

Pathophysiological impact of erythrocyte aggregation demonstrated by
Research Center, University
a new cellular imaging method: The structure factor size andof Montreal Hospitalattenuation estimator
Estimation of scatterer’s size by normalized power spectrum of highTohoku University
frequency ultrasonic RF echo for assessment of red blood cellaggregation
Ultrasonic backscatter coefficient quantitative estimates from cells
University of Illinois
within cell pellet biophantoms

Special Session
16:10- 17:00 Mickael

Chair: Lori BRIDAL (Pierre and Marie Curie University )TANTER

Ultrafast ultrasound imaging in small animal models: Concepts andapplications

Institut Langevin

19:00- 21:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

Thursday, September 16, 2010
Novel Instruments

Chair: Marc LETHICQ (University François-Rabelais of Tours)

8:30- 9:00

Lori

BRIDAL

9:00- 9:30

RobertLEMOR

9:30- 9:50

Naohiro

HOZUMI

Pierre and Marie CurieUniversity
Fraunhofer Institute for
Biomedical Engineering

Nonlinear detection of targeted microbubbles in a cell culture modelfor VEGFR2 expression using a high frequency prototype
A platform for combined high resolution acoustic and optoacoustic
preclinical and clinical imaging
Development of acoustic impedance microscope and its medical andAichi Institute of Technology
biological applications

COFFEE BREAK

Acoustic Microscopy
10:10- 10:30 Kazuto

KOBAYASHI

10:30- 10:50 Takashi

SHISHITANI

10:50- 11:10 Tsutomu

UEMURA

11:10- 11:30 Kazutoshi KUMAGAI

Chair: Naohiro HOZUMI (Aichi Institute of Technology)
Development of ultrasound impedance microscope from industrial
view
Evaluation of HIFU effect on tissues by ultrasound impedance
Tohoku University
microscope
Precise observation for biological tissue and cultured cells by acoustic
Aichi Institute of Technology
impedance microscope
Assessment of smart-aging of the skin - Comparison of high frequency
Tohoku Universityultrasound imaging and biomechanical techniques
Honda Electronics Co. Ltd.

Closing Remarks
11:30- 11:50 Yoshifumi SAIJO
12:00

Tohoku University

Bus departs from the hotel to Sendai station

High resolution ultrasonic imaging in the next dacade: Where are weheading?