2020 Conference Awardees
1st Place: Bernhard Kreft
Charité University,
Berlin,
Berlin,
GERMANY.
"DETECTION OF CEREBRAL STIFFNESS BEFORE AND AFTER LUMBAR PUNCTURE BY NONINVASIVE TIME-HARMONIC ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY." 2nd Place: Qi Zeng
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
CANADA. "3D MULTIFREQUENCY LIVER SHEAR WAVE ABSOLUTE VIBRO-ELASTOGRAPHY WITH AN XMATRIX ARRAY – PRELIMINARY IN-VIVO VALIDATION."
3rd Place: Anna Knight
Duke University,
Durham,
North Carolina,
USA.
"DEMONSTRATION OF ULTRASONIC ROTATIONAL 3D SWE INDUCED COMPLEX SHEAR WAVE PATTERNS IN SKELETAL MUSCLE IN VIVO."
2018 Conference Awardees
1st Place: Fernando Zvietcovich
University of Rochester,
New York, New York
USA.
"REVERBERANT 3D OPTICAL COHERENCE ELASTOGRAPHY
(REV3D-OCE): A NOVEL METHOD FOR THE 3D ELASTIC MAPPING
OF LAYERS IN CORNEA." 2nd Place: Lana Keijzer
Erasmuc Medical Center,
Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland,
THE NETHERLANDS "MULTIPLE WAVE MODES INDUCED BY AORTIC VALVE CLOSURE
IN THE INTERVENTRICULAR SEPTUM: AN IN-VIVO AND
IN-SILICO STUDY."
3rd Place: Brandon Rebholz
Pennsylvania State University,
University Park,
Pennsylvania,
USA.
"MULTIDIMENSIONAL MOTION ESTIMATION WITH STOCHASTIC
INTERPOLATION VIA DISJUNCTIVE KRIGING."
Best Poster: Fernando Zvietcovich
University of Rochester,
New York, New York
USA
"GAUSSIAN SHEAR WAVE PROPAGATION IN VISCOELASTIC
MEDIA: VALIDATION OF AN APPROXIMATE FOREWARD MODEL."
2016 Conference Awardees
1st Place: Lindsay Drehfal
University of Winsonsin,
Madison, Wisconsin,
USA.
"SHEAR WAVE SPEED ESTIMATION COMPARISON OF EARLY
AND LATE PREGNANCY IN THE IN VIVO HUMAN UTERINE CERVIX."
2nd Place: Vincent Sayseng
Columbia University,
New York, New York,
USA. "OPTIMIZATION OF TRANSMIT PARAMETERS FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL CARDIAC STRAIN ESTIMATION WITH COHERENT COMPOUNDING IN
SILICO IN VITRO, AND IN VIVO ."
3rd Place: Lea Melki
Columbia University
New York, New York,
USA.
"REPRODUCIBILITY AND ANGLE INDEPENDENCE OF ELECTROMECHANICAL WAVE IMAGING FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTIVATION DURING SINUS RHYTHM IN HEALTHY HUMANS."
Best Poster: Tuathan O'Shea
The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton, Surrey,
UNITED KINGDOM.
"TEMPORAL REGULARISATION OF LONG ULTRASOUND SEQUENCE TRACKING AND USE FOR MOTION COMPENSATION IN RADIOTHERAPY.
2015 Conference Awardees
1st Place:
Heiko Tzschätzsch
Charité University,
Berlin,
Germany.
"TOMOGRAPHIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY
BY MULTIFREQUENCY WAVE NUMBER INVERSION."
2nd Place: Elira Maksuti
KTH Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm,
Sweden. "ACCURACY OF ARTERIAL SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY
BY PHASE VELOCITY ANALYSIS-VALIDATION WITH
MECHABICAL TESTING IN PHANTOMS."
3rd Place: Maria Theodorou
The Institute of Cancer Research,
Sutton, Surrey,
UNITED KINGDOM. "QUANTITATIVE POROELASTIC PROPERTY IMAGING
COMBINING SHEAR WAVE AND STRAIN ELASTOGRAPHY."
Best Poster:
Katrin Skerl
University of Dundee,
Dundee,
Scotland,
UNITED KINGDOM.
"SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY STIFFNESS CORRELATES WITH
FIBRO-GLANDULAR COMPOSITION OF BREAST TISSUE."
2014 Conference Awardees
1st Place:
Tomasz Czernuszewicz
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC,
USA "IN VIVO CHARACTERIZATION OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE IN HUMAN CAROTID ARTERIES WITH HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CORRELATION USING ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE (ARFI) ULTRASOUND."
Joint 2nd Place:
Anne Leonhard
Institute of Clinical Medicine,
Aarhus University,
Aarhus,
DENMARK
"QUANTITATIVE SONOELASTOGRAPHY OF THE UTERINE CERVIX BY INTERPOSITION OF A SYNTHETIC REFERENCE MATERIAL AND INTRA-INTEROBSERVER EVALUATION."
&
Rohit Nayak
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY,
USA
"MULTI-ELEMENT SYNTHETIC APERTURE VASCULAR ELASTOGRAPHY FOR CAROTID IMAGING."
2013 Conference Awardees
First Place: Seung Yun Lee Duke University,
Durham, NC,
USA
"ASSESSMENT OF CUTANEOUS SCLEROTIC DISORDERS USING ARFI SWEI."
Second Place: Elie Salloum University of Montréal Hospital Research Center,
Montréal, Québec,
CANADA
"ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM FOLLOW–UP AFTER ENDOVASCULAR REPAIR IN A CANINE MODEL WITH NON–INVASIVE VASCULAR ELASTOGRAPHY."
Third Place: Mallory R Scola-Selza The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC,
USA
"ACCOUNTING FOR MASS IN VISCOELASTIC STRAIN RESPONSE (ViSR) ULTRASOUND."
2012 Conference Awardees
First Place: Daniel Thomas Seidl
Boston University,
Boston, MA, USA
"IMAGING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CELLS."
Second Place: Stephen Rosenzweig
Duke University,
Durham, NC, USA
"3D RECONSTRUCTION OF IN VIVO ARFI AND
SWEI IMAGES OF THE PROSTATE."
Third Place:
Mohammad Honarvar
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
"SHEAR MODULUS RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT HOMOGENEITY ASSUMPTIONS:
A NEW CURL–BASED FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION."
2011 Conference Awardees
First Place:Thu–Mai Nguyen
Institut Langevin Ondes et Images,
Paris, France
"IN VIVO ASSESSMENT OF CORNEAL SHEAR ANISOTROPY
USING SUPERSONIC SHEAR IMAGING."
Second Place: Ronny X. Li Columbia University,
New York, New York, USA
"PULSE WAVE IMAGING FOR ARTERIAL STIFFNESS MEASUREMENT
IN NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL HUMAN ARTERIES IN VIVO."
Third Place: Christina Hsu Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina, USA
"MULTIMODALITY IMAGE REGISTRATION OF PROSTATE ARFI IMAGES
TO MR AND HISTOLOGY DATA."
2010 Conference Awardees
First Place:Emilie Macé
Institut Langevin,
Paris, France
"IN VIVO STUDY OF CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA USING SHEAR WAVE IMAGING."
Second Place:Eduardo Fleury CTC Genese Medicina Diagnóstica,
São Paulo, Brazil
"THYROID ELASTOGRAPHY: EXPERIENCE OF 200 CASES."
Third Place: Jean Provost Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
"MAPPING THE ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION SEQUENCE OF THE HEART USING ELECTROMECHANICAL WAVE IMAGING: A VALIDATION STUDY IN CANINES."
2009 Conference Awardees
First Place: Richard Lopata Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
"ON THE FEASIBILITY OF MONITORING CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY AND
FIBROSIS USING BIPLANE ULTRASOUND STRAIN IMAGING."
Second Place: Douglas Dumont Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina, USA
"GENERATION AND TRACKING OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY AND
LONGITUDINALLY-PROPAGATING MECHANICAL WAVES
USING A SINGLE TRANSDUCER:
VASCULAR APPLICATIONS."
Third Place: Adam Pattison Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
"MEASURING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF GRAY AND WHITE MATTER IN VIVO USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY."
