Recent developments in ultrasound imaging technology

Organizers: Denis Kouamé and L. Pourcelot

The intrinsic ease for the use of ultrasound, its advantages including real-time imaging, physiologic measurements, medium characterization, use of non-ionizing radiation, and in particular its reasonable cost, make it one of the most widely used imaging systems. Ultrasound techniques are applied in a wide range of areas including biomedical, space, underwater, non-destructive testing and many industrial areas. As in communications and speech processing, the heart of ultrasound imaging technology is the relevant signal processing techniques involved. This special session aims at providing scientists, engineers and clinicians with an historical and up-to-date overview on the signal processing developments in the area of industrial and biomedical ultrasound. The second aim is to create an opportunity for encounter between signal processing and ultrasound imaging communities.

Overview lecture:
  Authors: Denis Kouame, Jean-Marc Girault, Jean-Marc Grégoire and Léandre Pourcelot, University of Tours,France
  Title: Ultrasound imaging : principles, signal acquisition and new advanced processing : biomedical and industrial applications.

Regular lectures:

• Title: Ultrasonic Imaging of the Mechanical Properties of Tissues Using Localized, Transient Acoustic Radiation Force
  Authors: Kathryn Nightingale, Mark Palmeri, Caterina Gallippi, Amy Congdon, Gregg Trahey, Duke University
• Title: High resolution ultrasonic brain imaging: adaptive focusing based on twin-arrays
  Author: J.-F. Aubry, F.Vignon, M. Tanter, M. Fink ESPCI, University of Paris VII
• Title: Array Signal Processing Approaches to Ultrasound-Based Arterial Pulse Wave Velocity Estimation
  Author: Ralph T. Hoctor, Aaron M. Dentinger and Kai E. Thomenius GE Global Research
• Title: Real-time digital processing of Doppler ultrasound signals
  Author: Piero Tortoli University of Florence
• Title: Ultrasound Tomography of the Breast Using Linear Arrays
  Author: Pai-Chi Li and Sheng-Wen Huang University, Taipei