IUS 2016 News Archives - 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium

23 Sep

IUS 2016 PICMUS CHALLENGE

The first challenge on Plane wave Imaging in Medical UltraSound (PICMUS) has taken place during the IEEE IUS last Wednesday during lunch time.
https://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Challenge/IEEE_IUS_2016/

The session was the opportunity to recall the scope of the challenge, to give the opportunity to some participants to present their method and also to have a global discussion of the results and the challenge itself. The top 3 participants of each of the four categories received a certificate from the IEEE as well as some prices sponsored by Verasonics. 5 teams received a price.
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Teodora Szasz – IRIT, France
Adrien Besson – EPFL, Switzerland
Dan Cohen and Meged Shoham – Technion Israel
Ali Deylami – Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
Peter Kruizinga – Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands

With around 30 participants and more than 160 attendees to the session the conference committee considers that this new feature of the conference was a success. It should be maintained in the future conferences.

12 Sep

RESTAURANTS DOWNTOWN TOURS FOR YOUR LUNCK BREAKS AND DINNERS

For lunch breaks

The local organizing committee arranged this short list of restaurants (pink dot) and sandwich/bakery shops (green dot) for you intention to facilitate your lunch around the Vinci convention center (walking distance).

	1. Brasserie de l’Univers European cuisine 8 place Jean Jaurès +33 (0)2 47 05 50 92 www.groupedegenne.com	2. Newlita North-american cuisine 17 place Jean Jaurès +33 (0)2 47 60 98 65
	3. Hippopotamus Traditionnal and vegetarian cuisines 24 boulevard Heurteloup +33 (0)2 47 31 04 40 www.hippopotamus.fr	4. La Chope Traditionnal cuisine – Sea foods 25 bis avenue Grammont +33 (0)2 47 20 15 15 www.lachope.info
	5. La Scala Mediterranean and vegetarian cuisines 32 avenue de Grammont +33 (0)2 47 20 81 91 www.la-scala.org	6. Le Congrès Traditionnal cuisine 27 boulevard Heurteloup +33 (0)2 47 20 47 48
	7. Le Continental Pub Traditionnal cuisine 12 place Jean Jaurès +33 (0)2 47 05 43 14 www.continentalpub.fr	8. Le Cozy Traditionnal cuisine 72 rue Bernard Palissy +33 (0)2 47 64 63 27 barlecozy.olympe.in
	9. Le Café Leffe Traditionnal cuisine 26 rue Edouard Vaillant +33 (0)2 47 64 84 45 www.cafeleffe-tours.fr	10. Les Relais d’Alsace Traditionnal cuisine – Sea foods 48 rue Nationale +33 (0)2 47 05 66 84 tours.lesrelaisdalsace.com

Other restaurants areas downtown Tours

The local organizing committee arranged this map for you intention to facilitate the localization of restaurants.

You can use this site http://online.citybreak.com/Search/activity/Search.aspx?onlineid=195286271&culture=en to book a selection of restaurants

06 Sep

TRAINS FROM PARIS TO TOURS ON SEPTEMBER 17th & 18th

The local organizing committee recommends booking an electronic ticket (https://uk.voyages-sncf.com/en/#/) for a direct train connection from Paris Airport Charles de Gaulle 2 and Montparnasse train station to Saint-Pierre-des-Corps city (See below the list of direct trains). At the Saint-Pierre-des-Corps train station, many options to reach Tours city are available: taxi or train shuttle.

Saturday 17^th and Sunday 18^th September

Airport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV -> Saint-Pierre-des-Corps train station

8:19 am – 10:01 am

10:16 am – 11:59 am

2:49 pm – 5:29 pm

4:21 pm – 5:58 pm

6:09 pm – 7:59 pm

6:47 pm – 9:39 pm

To reach Montparnasse train station from the Airport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV, we recommend to take a taxi or the train RER B then Metro line 4 or 6.

Montparnasse train station -> Saint-Pierre-des-Corps train station

6:40 am – 7:45 am

7:16 am – 8:22 am

7:46 am – 8:45 am

8:46 am – 9:45 am

10:46 am – 11:45 am

12:16 pm – 1:22 pm

2:46 pm – 3:57 pm

4:46 pm – 5:45 pm

6:16 pm – 7:21 pm

6:46 pm – 7:45 pm

7:16 pm – 8:20 pm

3 types of tickets

Non-flexible tickets – These tickets can only be used on the specific service shown, and cannot be exchanged or refunded if you decide to change your plans.

More flexible tickets – It may be possible to exchange or fully or partially claim a refund in some circumstances if you decide to change your plans.

Most flexible tickets – These tickets may be fully exchangeable and refundable before departure if you decide to change your plans.

29 Jun

IUS 2016 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION

The Student Paper Competition identifies and recognizes outstanding research in the field of ultrasonics conducted by students. The award consists of a certificate and monetary prize.

The Student Paper Competition posters will remain on display for the duration of the symposium. Up to six awards may be given upon recommendation of the selection committee. Awards will be given to deserving papers, and the committee is not obliged to give any award. The winners will be honored during the symposium’s banquet.

This year finalists for the IEEE IUS 2016 Student Paper Competition award are:

PA-1 The effect of ultrafast imaging on shear wave observations

Annette Caenen¹, Mathieu Pernot², Darya Shcherbakova¹, Ingvild Kinn Ekroll³, Patrick Segers¹, Abigail Swillens¹

¹IBiTech – bioMMeda, Department of Electronics and Information systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, ²Institut Langevin, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, CNRS UMR 7587, INSERM U979, Paris, France, ³Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

PA-2 Quantitative MR-guided transient shear wave imaging for tissue elasticity assessment

Yu Liu¹, Jingfei Liu¹, Brett Fite¹, Josquin Foiret¹, Kent Leach¹, Katherine Ferrara¹

¹Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis, Davis, California, USA

PA-3 Multiplane wave imaging for ultrafast ultrasound imaging at higher signal-to-noise ratio

Elodie Tiran¹, Thomas Deffieux¹, Mafalda Correia¹, David Maresca¹, Bruno-Felix Osmanski¹, Lim-Anna Sieu², Antoine Bergel², Ivan Cohen², Mathieu Pernot¹, Mickael Tanter¹

¹Institut Langevin, ESPCI-ParisTech, PSL University, CNRS UMR7587, INSERM U979, Paris, France, ²Neuroscience Paris Seine, University Pierre et Marie Curie, UMCR 18, INSERM U1130, CNRS UMR8246, France

PA-4 Intracardiac myocardial elastrography for lesion quantification in cardiac radiofrequency ablation

Ethan Bunting¹, Clement Papadacci¹, Elaine Wan², Julien Grondin¹, Elisa Konofagou^1,3

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, ²Division of Cardiology, Columbia University, New York, New YOrk, USA, ³Department of Radiology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

PA-5 Single red blood cell oxygen saturation imaging using multispectral photoacoustic microscopy

Michael Moore^1,2, Patrick Schygulla³, Eric Strohm^1,2, Michael Kolios^1,2

¹Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, ²Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada,³Heidelberg University, Germany

PA-6 A Smartphone-based Portable Ultrasound System for Point-of-Care Diagnosis

Woojin Jung¹, Pilsu Kim¹, Minsuk Park¹, Sua Bae¹, Youngbae Lee¹, Sangbum Kye², Tai-kyong Song¹

¹Electronic Engineering, Sogang University, Korea, Republic of,²HANSONO Co.,Ltd., Korea, Republic of

PA-7 Focused ultrasound hyperthermia mediated drug delivery using thermosensitive liposomes and visualized with in vivo two-photon microscopy

Marc Santos^1,2, Kullervo Hynynen^1,2, David Goertz^1,2

¹Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ²Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PA-8 Controlled ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening using passive acoustic mapping of subharmonic microbubble activity

Ryan Jones^1,2, Meaghan O’Reilly^1,2, Lulu Deng¹, Kogee Leung¹, Kullervo Hynynen^1,3

¹Physical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ²Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ³Medical Biophysics and Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PA-9 High Temperature Static Strain Microwave Acoustic Sensor

Anin Maskay^1,2, Mauricio Pereira da Cunha^1,2

¹Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA, ²Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA

PA-10 Speeding up SAFT 3D processing by greedy sparse deconvolution

Jan Kirchhof¹, Fabian Krieg^1,2, Florian Römer¹, Alexander Ihlow¹, Ahmad Osman², Giovanni del Galdo¹

¹Institute for Information Technology, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, ²Department of Component Inspections, Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP, Saarbrücken, Germany

PA-11 Ultrasonic imaging in highly attenuating materials with Walsh-Hadamard codes and the decomposition of the time reversal operator

Eduardo Lopez Villaverde¹, Sebastien Robert¹, Claire Prada²

¹CEA, LIST, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, ²Institut Langevin, Paris, France

PA-12 Differential optical interferometer for measuring transient SAW generated with ultra-wideband IDT

ANURUPA SHAW¹, Damien Teyssieux¹, Vincent Laude¹

¹Institut FEMTO-ST, UMR CNRS 6174, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

PA-13 Evidence of a large band gap in a phononic strip

Etienne Coffy¹, Sébastien Euphrasie¹, Pascal Vairac¹, Abdelkrim Khelif¹

¹MN2S, FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France

PA-14 Acoustic nonlinearity as a mechanism for liquid drop explosions in drop-chain fountains generated by a focused ultrasound beam

Elena Annenkova¹, Wayne Kreider², Julianna Simon², Oleg Sapozhnikov^1,2

¹Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, ²Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

PA-15 Direct shadowgraphic observation of needle hydrophone-field interaction at 10 million frames per second

Kristoffer Johansen¹, Jae Hee Song², Paul Prentice¹

¹CavLab, Cluster of Ultrasound Science, Technology and Engineering Research, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Division of Imaging and Technology, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, United Kingdom

PA-16 Modeling Nonlinear Behavior of RF Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

Vikrant Chauhan¹, Markus Mayer², Christian Huck², Herbert Zidek², Robert Weigel¹, Amelie Hagelauer¹, Maximilian Pitschi²

¹Institute of electronics engineering, Erlangen Nuremberg University, Erlangen, Germany, ²Advanced Development, TDK Corporation, Munich, Germany

PA-17 Rayleigh SAW assisted SH-SAW immunosensor on X-cut 148-Y LiTaO<sub>3</sub>

Takashi Kogai^1,2, Hiromi Yatsuda¹, Jun Kondoh²

¹Japan Radio Co., Ltd., Japan, ²Shizuoka University, Japan

PA-18 Nonlinear BAW Filter Effects on the Performance of an LTE Receiver

Victor Silva Cortes¹, Vikrant Chauhan¹, Robert Weigel¹, Georg Fischer¹, Amelie Hagelauer¹

¹Institute of Electronics Engineering, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

PA-19 High-temperature SAW electrodes based on Ir-Rh thin films

Amine TAGUETT¹, Thierry AUBERT^1,2, Marc Lomello¹, Omar Elmazria³, Jaafar Ghanbaja³, Abdelkrim Talbi⁴

¹Laboratoire SYMME, Université de Savoie, Annecy-le-Vieux, France, ²Laboratoire LMOPS, CentraleSupélec – Université de Lorraine, Metz, France, ³Institut Jean Lamour (IJL), UMR 7198 CNRS-Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France, ⁴LIA LEMAC/LICS – IEMN, EC Lille-CNRS, Lille, France

PA-20 A MEMS T/R switch embedded in CMUT structure for ultrasound imaging frontends

Xiao Zhang¹, Arooba Zeshan², Oluwafemi Adelegan¹, F. Yalcin Yamaner², Omer Oralkan¹

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, ²School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul Medipol University, Beykoz, Istanbul, Turkey

PA-21 Real-Time Imaging, Targeting, and Ablation of Ex-Vivo Tissue Using a Handheld Histotripsy Transducer and Coregistered 64-Element High-Frequency Endoscopic Phased Array

Jeffrey Woodacre¹, Thomas Landry¹, Jeremy Brown¹

¹Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

PA-22 Laser-Generated-Focused Ultrasound Transducers for Microbubble-Mediated, Dual-Excitation Sonothrombolysis

Jinwook Kim¹, Brooks D. Lindsey², Wei-Yi Chang¹, Xuming Dai³, Joseph M. Stavas⁴, Paul A. Dayton², Xiaoning Jiang¹

¹Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, ²Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, ³Division of Cardiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, ⁴Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

PA-23 High Frequency Integrated Transceiver System-on-a-Chip for CMUT based IVUS on a Guidewire

Jaemyung Lim¹, Coskun Tekes², F. Levent Degertekin³, Maysam Ghovanloo⁴

¹School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, ²G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technlolgy, USA,³G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, ⁴School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

09 Jun

IUS 2016 REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN AND PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE

100 days prior to the annual IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium that will be held at the VINCI Convention Center in Tours – France, from September 18th to 21st 2016. The registration system is now open and the full program available: all details below.

IUS 2016 registrations

Registrations for IUS 2016 are now open. A dedicated website is available for the registration process: http://ieee2016.sciencesconf.org/.

Early bird registration rates deadline is August 12th 2016. Complete registration requires full payment and the relevant supporting documents. Please be noted that the registration will not be processed without the receipt of the documentation
– Payment must be made in euros
– Accepted credit Card : Visa, Master cards, American Express.

Registration fees for IEEE Members, Non-IEEE Members, Student (IEEE Members), Student (Non-IEEE Members) and others are available on IUS 2016 Registration Fees Page.

The deadline for Online Registration is September 10th 2016. All registration and payment received after this date will be considered as On-site Registration and processed on-site.

IUS 2016 scientific program

The full scientific program of IUS 2016 is now available online: IUS 2016 Program.

A total of 1146 oral and poster presentations will be presented with the following distribution among IEEE-UFFC technical program sections:

Group 1: Medical Ultrasonics – 706 presentations
Group 2: Sensors, NDE & Industrial Applications – 161presentations
Group 3: Physical Acoustics – 110 presentations
Group 4: Microacoustics – SAW, FBAR, MEMS – 81 presentations
Group 5: Transducers & Transducer Materials – 128 presentations

Detailed day by day program is featured on IUS 2016 website:

Sunday September 18th	Monday September 19th	Tuesday September 20th	Wednesday September 21st
Short courses	Oral Sessions	Oral Sessions	Oral Sessions
	Poster Sessions	Poster Sessions	Poster Sessions

Hotel accomodations

The local organizing committee, with the Tourism Office of Tours city, arranged a hotel-booking center for your intention to facilitate your accommodation in Tours during the symposium. The hotel-booking center provides you different opportunities (more than 3000 nights) including Hotel rooms and Aparthotel. The registration deadline is August 15th 2016.
However, we recommend you to register as soon as possible. In addition to our hotel-booking center, Airbnb is also an alternative way for your accommodation.

08 Jun

IUS 2016 PLENARY SESSION WILL FEATURE ACOUSTIC POT DEVICES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE BUILDINGS

The plenary session of the 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium will be dedicated to a very interesting field of Acoustics. The presentation entitled “Archaeology of the Sound through the Acoustic Pot Devices in Medieval and Renaissance Buildings: an Exploration of the Instigator’s Aim” will be presented by Bénédicte Palazzo-Bertholon and Jean-Christophe Valière from the ArcheoAcoustic laboratory of Poitiers University. The session will open the scientific sessions of IUS 2016 on Monday 19th of Septembre at the Auditorium François 1er in the Vinci conference center.

Archaeology of the Sound through the Acoustic Pot Devices in Medieval and Renaissance Buildings: an Exploration of the Instigator’s Aim

In the construction of religious buildings, the architectural acoustics is at the heart of the concerns of both builders and users. Some churches of the Middle Ages and Renaissance conserve in their walls, potteries identified as empirical devices of acoustic correction. This technique, which has archeological evidences in many European countries and the all around the Mediterranean sea, is still a mystery for scientists, because no discipline succeeded, alone by itself, in grasping the subject. This is why an interdisciplinary team was formed there about ten years ago, gathering archaeologists, acousticians, musicologists and historians to understand the acoustic aim and the specifications of these devices. This research crosses archaeological evidences, textual and graphical sources, the acoustic measurements, the knowledge of singing and the perception of sound in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The acoustic methodologies mainly aim at catching resonance frequencies of the pots and then interpret the results in light of the singing practice. In most examples, it follows that the frequencies of the pots are always close to the singing voice pitch and the first harmonics. In addition, in many buildings, pots are often tuned on the fourth and occasionally on the fifth, which are characteristics intervals of antique and medieval music.

After a brief presentation of these technical devices used for over eight centuries to improve the perception of sound, we will present a specific case study located in the cathedral Notre-Dame of Noyon, in Picardy, France. Under the liturgical choir of the church, there remains a vault called “phonocamptique” in the literature of the nineteenth century. This is an underground room of 15 m² which contains 64 pots imbedded in the north, south and west walls. These 64 pots can be separated into two groups of 32 tuned in the fourth (statistically) and distributed with an interesting scheduling but we have not yet penetrated the meaning. The lack of textual evidence about its use has led us to make a fine acoustic analysis of the vault at first. This was performed by means of a microphones antenna showing that the pots act not only on the decay rate of the modes but also on the distribution of sound in space. Then a sung performance with an early music ensemble allowed us to experience the effect of pots in real conditions.

The results confirm the acoustic vocation of the vault and show that these initiators may had wanted to “improve resonating voice” in the words of the ancient texts.

	Bénédicte Palazzo-Bertholon
Bénédicte Palazzo-Bertholon (PhD) is archaeologist and archaeometrist, specialized in physical and chemical characterization of materials of the medieval architecture. Associate researcher of the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance of Tours (CESR) and of the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM) of Poitiers, she co-directs since 2005, an interdisciplinary research group on the archaeo-acoustic, with Jean-Christophe Valière (Institut Pprime, Poitiers). She co-edited a first collective work on this topic entitled Archéologie du son. Les dispositifs de pots acoustiques dans les édifices anciens (in English : Sound’s archaeology. Devices of acoustic pots in ancient buildings), published in 2012. Within the frame of this research program, she studies archaeological remains of acoustic pot devices in churches of Middle Ages and Renaissance, to understand the purpose of their implementation, both acoustic, liturgical and symbolic.
	Jean-Christophe Valière
Jean-Christophe Valière received the Ph.D. degree in acoustics from the University of Le Mans, France, in 1991. He is currently a Professor at the University of Poitiers, France, since 1999. His research concerns the signal processing for acoustics and fluid mechanics such as old recordings restoration or high speed source localization by means of time-frequency, or time-scale transformations. This last two decades, his interest has been focused on the development of signal processing techniques to acoustic particle velocity measurement using Laser Doppler Velocimetry or Particle Image Velocimetry and their applications for non-linear acoustics and aeroacoustics. Recently, he is involved in archeoacoustic studies concerning acoustic potteries in medieval churches. A large part of these recent studies has been recently published in French in a special issue of the “Bulletin Monumental”. He is currently IEEE, SFA, EEA member.

25 May

2016 ULTRASONICS SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Following the IUS 2016 conference , select papers will be invited to submit a full manuscript for publication consideration in the 2016 Ultrasonics Special Issue of the IEEE T-UFFC. Furthermore, the invited speakers and the student paper finalist are also encouraged to submit papers to this special issue.

Deadline for Paper Submission: December 1, 2016

Guest Editors: Scott Smith – smithls@ge.com
Ton van der Steen
Lori Bridal
Mario Kupnik
Koen W.A. van Dongen
Omer Oralkan
Robert Weigel

PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES IN IEEE PERIODICALS BASED UPON IEEE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (T-UFFC)

IEEE’s technical publications shall include original material, which appears only once in the archival literature. Nevertheless, it is common in technical publishing for material to be presented at various stages of its evolution by publishing early ideas in a workshop, more developed work in a conference, and most fully developed contributions as journal or transactions articles. IEEE recognizes the importance of this evolutionary publication process as a significant means of scientific communication and fully supports this publishing paradigm, but IEEE requires that this evolutionary process be fully referenced. Accordingly, the publication in an IEEE periodical of original technical material contained in a conference article or articles is permitted provided that:

The manuscript contains substantial additional technical material. This must be justified based on one or more of the following: new theoretical or experimental results, enhanced modeling and characterization, descriptions of new applications, better placing the study in its context, greater depth of discussion, more elaborate analysis of results and additional references.
As a guideline for authors, the T-UFFC have set the quantitative threshold for substantial additional technical materialto be 40-50%. Final validation that this guideline is respected is at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.
The conference version(s) must be declared when submitting the journal paper in two places: (i) in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief together with a specific statement describing the differences between the submitted journal manuscript and the original conference paper (ii) in the journal paper through an appropriate citation to the conference paper(s). The conference paper(s) mustbe uploaded as supporting document(s).
IEEE policy now requires that all IEEE content be screened for possible plagiarism. Therefore, all submissions will be screened via CrossCheck – which compares submitted manuscripts against a large database of published technical papers (as well as over 6 billion Web pages), and provides editors with a summary report that highlights any similarity to previously published work.
If responding to a Special Issue call:

a. All special issue manuscripts shall undergo the standard peer review process.

b. The article should be identified as Manuscript Type “Special Issue” during submission.

c. Late manuscripts may or may not be included in the special issue, depending on whether the review of the manuscript is completed in time for the special issue. The special issue will not be delayed to accommodate late manuscripts. Manuscripts with incomplete reviews shall be included in a subsequent regular issue, if accepted.

6. For full IEEE Publications Policy and further details concerning material reuse please see Sections 8.1.7 and Section 8.2.4.G of the IEEE Publications Operations Manual http://www.ieee.org/documents/opsmanual.pdf

Text is adapted with permission from IEEE PSPB Operations Manual 8.1.7.E [http://www.ieee.org/documents/opsmanual.pdf]

T-UFFC Editor in Chief S.Freear@leeds.ac.uk,

Date 16^th July 2016

31 Mar

IUS PLANE WAVE IMAGING CHALLENGE

For the first time, a challenge in medical ultrasound will be organized during IEEE IUS 2016.

The topic of this first challenge is Plane wave imaging: https://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Challenge/IEEE_IUS_2016/

A brief analysis of the litterature in the field of ultrasound plane wave imaging led to the following remarks : an important part of the contributions done in our field is computational research; there are many algorithms/methods developped for image construction/beamforming especially for high frame rate plane wave imaging and currently there are no means to compare them all in a fair manner,i.e. same configurations, simulations, experiments, metrics, optimal tuning of each method etc…

In response to these observations and inspired by what is already done for other medical imaging modalities in other conferences, we propose to organize a challenge on plane wave imaging. The challenge is supported by a specific web platform: https://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Challenge/IEEE_IUS_2016/ . It will be presented at the next IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2016 in Tours (France).

Some datasets consisting of the pre-beamformed single element signals for several angle of insonnification (simulations and experiments) are be provided to the challengers. They will have to construct/beamform images at a specific grid imposed by the organizers and upload their final envelope image on the platform. The datasets are designed to enable the evaluation of the following image quality metrics: resolution, contrast, penetration. These datasets will also be used to ensure that no geometric distortion is introduced during image construction and to ensure that speckle is preserved.

The competition is organized in order to motivate participants. For each participant, the results for the different metrics will be used to allocate points. These points will serve to classify and rank the challengers and designate a winner. Several categories will be organized. In three categories the maximum number of angles will be imposed (low medium and high number of angles) and only the image quality metrics will be used for attributing points and make the ranking. In a last category, challengers will be free to use the number of angles they want and this number will be included as a correction factor for the attribution of the number of points.
The aim of the challenge goes much beyond the simple designation of a winner. The aim is also to analyse more finely the different methods.

For all details and information connect to the following site: https://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/Challenge/IEEE_IUS_2016/

01 Mar

IUS 2016 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION SYSTEM IS OPEN

The annual 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium will be held at the VINCI Convention Center, TOURS, FRANCE, from September, 18-21, 2016. Oral and poster presentation formats will be used at the symposium. Papers are solicited for this conference describing original work in the field of ultrasonics.

The abstract submission system opens Tuesday March 1st, 2016 and closes Friday, April 1st, 2016, 11:59 pm Pacific Time: to access to the dedicated submission site please follow this link: IUS 2016 abstract submission system (http://submissions.mirasmart.com/ius2016/).

Please read the following information and instructions before submitting your abstract.

Abstract Rights Transfer to IEEE

IMPORTANT – When authors submit abstracts via the linked abstract submission site, it is understood that the authors have resolved the intellectual property right issues with their employers and other parties involved, and have transferred their abstract rights to IEEE. Authors who have concerns about intellectual property rights should consult their attorney for legal advice (for example, filing provisional patent applications). The abstracts will be kept confidential until they have been accepted and placed in the conference program. After that time (around the end of June 2016), the abstracts may be published both online and in print, or be accessible through the “Meeting Planner” to help attendees to prepare and/or individualize their conference programs.

Abstract submission instructions

– Abstract Format: Each abstract should be presented into the following three sections:
(1) Background, Motivation, Hypothesis and Objectives;
(2) Statement of Contribution/Methods;
(3) Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
– The total number of characters excluding spaces, title, author names, and affiliations is limited to 2500.
– Figures and Tables: Figures and tables are allowed as long as they are in the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG or .jpg) or Graphic Interchange Format (GIF or .gif) file format. Although a picture is a thousand words, each figure or table will only count for 500 characters towards the allowed total of 2500 characters.
– An overall abstract is limited to one page, including three sections and all figures.
– Size of Figures and Tables: To fit into one page, the original size of figures and tables may need to be reduced. If the figures and/or tables are large, it is recommended to reduce their size, so that both the width and height of these items does not exceed 800 pixels before you upload them during abstract submission. Smaller sizes of figures and tables will ensure that the production of an electronic abstract book is a reasonable file size, which is helpful in the abstract review process and convenient for users who download the abstract book.
– Student Paper Competition: If you are a student, you may wish to participate in the Student Paper Competition. For consideration, please make your selection during your abstract submission. Abstracts submitted by students for the Student Paper Competition will undergo the same review process as any other abstract submitted to the symposium. The finalists, determined based on review and ranking of their abstract, will be notified and invited to present during a special Student Paper Competition session on the first day of the symposium. The presentations will be evaluated by a panel of judges, and winners in each technical area will be selected.
– Oral or Poster Preference: The mode of presentation that can be selected by authors during the abstract submission is “Oral”, “Poster” or “Either”. Although the Technical Program Committee (TPC) will consider the authors’ presentation preferences during the abstract evaluation process, the final decision on “Oral” or “Poster” of an abstract will be made by the TPC. Please note that the acceptance of an abstract or not by the conference will solely depend on the quality of the abstract, not on authors’ “Oral” or “Poster” selection.
– Student Travel Support: If you are a student, you may request Student Travel Support which is independent from Student Paper Competition. If you request Student Travel Support, please select “Yes” to the question “Do you require travel support?” during your abstract submission. Otherwise, your request will not be considered even if you have provided information such as laboratory name, advisor’s name, IEEE membership number, graduation date, etc. Please note that you are not eligible for Student Travel Support unless you are an IEEE UFFC member. If you are not a member, please join the IEEE and UFFC society. A discounted membership is available for students.
– Oral or Poster Presentation Preference: The presentation preference – “Oral” or “Poster”, can be selected by authors during the abstract submission. Although the Technical Program Committee (TPC) will consider the authors’ presentation preferences during the abstract evaluation process, the final decision will be made by the TPC based on authors’ preference, abstract review and ranking. Please note that the acceptance of an abstract for presentation at the symposium will solely depend on the quality of the abstract and the outcome of the review, and it will not be affected by the authors’ “Oral” or “Poster” selection.
– Abstract Evaluation: Your abstract will be evaluated by the Technical Program Committee (TPC) and the decision to accept, reject or combine abstracts is final. The committee will also determine the form of presentation, either “Oral” or “Poster”.
– Presentation Guides: If your abstracts are accepted, please check the Oral Presentation Guide and/or Poster Presentation Guide as appropriate to prepare your presentations.
– Missed Emails: The following abstract submission site also contains a copy of all emails that the site has sent to you automatically regarding both your abstract submissions and review results (the review results will be available at the beginning of June 2016). If your email spam filters delete the emails, you can always access them using your usernames and passwords (see the “Email History” link after you log in). If you have more than one account, please check all of your accounts.
– IMPORTANT – When you use the “Submit My Abstract” link in the online submission site, you will receive an automatic confirmation email containing your abstract ID.

Papers are solicited for this conference describing original work in the field of ultrasonics from the following subject classifications:

Group 1: Medical Ultrasonics MBB Medical Beamforming and Beam Steering MBE Biological Effects & Dosimetry MBF Blood Flow Measurement MCA Contrast Agents MEL Elastography MIM Medical Imaging MPA Medical Photoacoustics MSD System & Device Design MSP Medical Signal Processing MTC Medical Tissue Characterization MTH Therapeutics, Hyperthermia, and Surgery	Group 2: Sensors, NDE & Industrial Applications NAF Acoustics Microfluidics NAI Acoustic Imaging NAM Acoustic Microscopy NAS Acoustic Sensors NDE General NDE Methods NEH Energy Harvesting NFM Flow Measurement NMC Material & Defect Characterization NPA Photoacoustics NPC Process Control NSP Signal Processing NTD Transducers: NDE and Industrial NUA Underwater Acoustics NWP Wave Propagation
Group 3: Physical Acoustics PAT Acoustic Tweezers and Particle Manipulation PNL Nonlinear Acoustics PGP General Physical Acoustics POA Opto-acoustics PPN Phononics PTF Thin Films PMI Magnetic/Electromagnetic Interactions PUM Ultasonic Motors & Actuators	Group 4: Microacoustics: SAW, FBAR, MEMS ADA Device Applications ADD Device Design ADM Device Modeling AMP Materials & Propagation AMS Microacoustic Sensor Devices & Applications
Group 5: Tranducers & Transducer Materials TMC Materials Fabrication and Characterization TMO Modeling (Analytical & Numerical) TFT Thin and Thick Piezoelectric Films TMU Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers TMI Biomedical Diagnostic and Imaging Transducers TTT Biomedical Therapeutic Transducers THF Front-end and Integrated Electronics TFI High Frequency Transducers TPF Applications of Piezoelectrics & Ferroelectrics

01 Feb

2016 ULTRASONICS AWARDS – CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Dear Colleague:

We are writing to ask your help in identifying potential recipients of threeawards that are offered annually by the IEEE UFFC designed to recognize very significant contributions in the field of ultrasonics. The 3 Awards are:

IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award
IEEE Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonics Award (aimed at mid career members)
Rayleigh Award

Descriptions of the awards and criteria for eligibility are available on the IEEEUFFC Awards website.

Nominations for the Early Career Investigator and Carl Hellmuth HertzAwards are aimed at individuals in small and large companies, government laboratories, and academic institutions. In recognition of the wide differences in the kinds of contributions that are central to the goals of each of these divergent components of our Ultrasonics community, a flexible two-page nomination format will be employed. The submission should begin with the name and contact information (email and telephone) of the nominator followed by that information for the nominee. The next entry should be a brief (one sentence or less) proposed citation that will accompany the announcement of the award if the candidate is selected. The remainder of the two-page submission may be used as the nominator chooses to highlight reasons that the selection committee should consider in evaluating the candidate. Suggested entries are 1) educational history, 2) professional history, 3) engineering, scientific, and technological contributions, 4) previous awards or other professional recognitions, and 5) A synopsis of the contributions that motivate the nominator to promote the candidate. Please identify which of the five groups of theUltrasonics Symposium’s Technical Program Committee (Group 1: Medical Ultrasonics; Group 2: Sensors, NDE, and Industrial Applications; Group 3: Physical Acoustics; Group 4: MicroAcoustics – SAW, FBAR, MEMS; andGroup 5: Transducers and Transducer Materials) reflects most closely the contributions of the candidate.

The Rayleigh Award represents the highest honor for achievement within theUFFC Society in the field of Ultrasonics. The achievement may be in technical innovations, research, education, publications and related professional endeavors. Typically, the recipient will have demonstrated these accomplishments over a sustained period of time. Nominators are encouraged to focus the 2 page submission on how the nominee has changed the field of ultrasonics and created new opportunities for academic inquiry and or commercial success.

The format for the submission is at the discretion of the nominator. Tables, bulleted lists, and the judicious use of white space are often more effective in communicating than densely packed text. Highlighting a specific patent or the nominee’s contributions to a successful device or product illustrated with a photo might be appropriate for some candidates, whereas highlighting a published paper or a particularly impactful presentation the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium might be appropriate for others. Active collaboration between the nominator and the nominee in the preparation of the submission is encouraged. Self nomination is also permitted. A selection committee drawn from a very wide range of interests, backgrounds, and affiliations will evaluate and rank the submissions.

Submissions are due no later than March 1, 2015 and are required to be in pdf format and of two pages in length. No supplemental material will be considered.

For the Early Career and Hertz awards, please send this material as an email attachment to Yook-Kong Yong at the email address below. Please use the Subject line “IEEE Ultrasonics Awards” and please title the attached pdf file with the nominee’s name in the form “Joseph_Jones.pdf”. Yong will acknowledge each submission by email. If you do not receive an acknowledgement within one week, please contact him.

To nominate candidates for the Early Career Investigator and Carl Hellmuth Hertz Awards please contact:

Dr. Yook-Kong Yong
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
School of Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ 08854
yyong@rci.rutgers.edu
Phone:1 848-445-3219
http://www.civeng.rutgers.edu/fac/yook-kong-yong

To nominate candidates for the Rayleigh Award please contact:

Dr. Pierre Khuri-Yakub
E. L. Ginzton Laboratory
348 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4088
khuri-yakub@stanford.edu
Phone: 1 (650) 723-0718
http://www-kyg.stanford.edu/khuriyakub/opencms/en/home/

Thanks for your help in identifying outstanding candidates for these prestigiousawards.

Yook-Kong Yong and Pierre Khuri-Yakub on behalf of the IEEE UFFCUltrasonics Committee.