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William D. O'Brien, Jr. publications: Michael L. Oelze publications: Aiguo Han publications:

Bioacoustics Research Laboratory
Seminars and MiniSeminars

Spring 2010

Tuesdays 3:20 - 5:00 pm in 3269 Beckman Institute

Unless otherwise noted.

DATE	SPEAKER	INFO
Jan 19	BRP Experiments - No Seminars
Jan 26	Chenara Johnson Jeremy Kemmerer	The Endothelial Cell's Role in US/UCA-Induced Angiogenesis Quantitative Ultrasound Assessment of Liver Tissue Ablation using HIFU
Feb 2	Alex Dapore Paul Linden Aiguo Han Adam Luchies	Effective Scattering Diameter Estimation for Three Dimensional Impedance Maps Contrast Estimation of Small Lesions in Field II Acoustic Properties of Cells: Literature Review and Estimates of Models Making Scatterer Size Estimates When Specular Scatterers are Present
Feb 9	Chenara Johnson	Examining the Mechanism of US-induced Angiogenesis
Feb 16	Daniel King Brendon Smith	Sonoporation of Chinese Hamster Ovary cells Using Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Introduction Von Willebrand Factor Measurement Methods
Feb 18 - Thursday ECE Colloquium 151 Everitt Lab 4 pm	Professor Caterina M. Gallippi, Joint Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University	Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Ultrasound for Clinical Diagnostic Imaging of Atherosclerosis, Subcutaneous Bleeding, and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Feb 23	Scott Leithem Alex Pawlicki	Improving Methods to Determine Ultrasound Contrast Agent Concentration Using Acoustic Backscatter Insertion Loss Measurements of Attenuating Phantoms
Mar 2	Jeremy Kemmerer Paul Linden Adam Luchies	Ultrasound Image Guidance of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound eSNR Improvements with REC Making QUS Estimates When Specular Scatterers are Present
Mar 9	Aiguo Han Alex Haak	Ultrasonic Backscatter Coefficient Quantitative Estimates from Chinese Hamster Ovary Cell Pellet Biophantoms Limitation of Attenuation Slope Estimation Using Spectral Shift
Mar 16	AIUM Practice Chenara Johnson Roberto Lavarello Alex Dapore Daniel King	Examining the Role of Ultrasound Contrast Agents in Ultrasound-Induced Angiogenesis First Experimental Implementation of Scatterer Size Imaging on an Ultrasonic Breast Tomographic Scanner Analysis of Human Fibroadenoma Using 3-Dimensional Impedance Maps Experimental Comparison Between Microbubble Activity and Sonoporation Efficacy of Monolayer Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells
Mar 23	Spring Break / AIUM
Mar 30	Jeremy Kemmerer Paul Linden Scott Leithem	An Approach to Estimating Attenuation Changes during HIFU Resolution Enhancement Compression Estimation of Ultrasound Contrast Agent Parameters Using Acoustic Backscatter- Methods and Results
Apr 6 Imaging and Visualization Form 12:00 Noon 2269 Tower Room	Lauren Wirtzfeld, PhD	Quantitative Ultrasound Measurements of Fibroadenomas
Apr 6	Brendon Smith Chenara Johnson	Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Vascular Health Ultrasound-induced Angiogenesis
Apr 8 Bioengineering Seminar 12:00 Noon 2240 DCL	Michael Oelze	Recent Advances in Quantitative Ultrasonic Imaging
Apr 13	Roberto Lavarello Alex Dapore Alex Pawlicki	Scatterer Size Distributions and Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging ESD Estimation from 3D Acoustic Impedance Maps Estimating Attenuation from the VisualSonics Vevo 2100
Apr 20	Daniel King Aiguo Han Brendon Smith Adam Luchies	Theory of Nonlinear Bubble Oscillations and Ultrasound Propagation in Bubbly Liquids Ultrasonic Backscatter Coefficient Quantitative Estimates from Chinese Hamster Ovary Cell Pellet Biophantoms A Validated Sandwich ELISA for the Detection of von Willebrand Factor in Rabbit Plasma Specular Echo Detection Using Generalized Spectrum Parameters
Apr 27	Greg Czarnota, MD, PhD Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto	Monitoring Cancer Responses to Treatment: from Mice to Humans with Ultrasound and Light
May 4	Scott Leithem	Measuring the Effect of Peak Rarefactional Pressure on UCA Backscatter