2001 IEEE ULTRASONICS SYMPOSIUM INVITED PAPERS

 

GROUP 1: MEDICAL ULTRASONICS

1) "Targeted Microbubble Contrast Agents: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Potential," Jonathan D. Lindner, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA

2) "Ultrasound Stimulated Vibroacoustography," James F. Greenleaf and M. Fatemi, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA

3) "A Hybrid Breast Biopsy System Combining Ultrasound and MRI," D. B. Plewes, C. Piron, C. Luginbuhl, P. Causer, and R. Shumak, Departments of Medical Biophysics, and Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Center, University of Toronto, Canada

4) "Acoustic Hemostasis," Lawrence A. Crum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

5) "Real Time Strain Imaging and in-vivo Applications in Prostate Cancer," A. Pesavento and A. Lorenz, Lorenz & Pesavento IT, Bochum, Germany

6) "High Resolution Flow Estimation for Medicine and Space Technology," Leandre Pourcelot, University of Tours, Tours, Cedex, France

 

GROUP 2: SENSORS, NDE, & INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

1) "Ultrasonic Sensors for Process Applications," Peter R. Hauptmann, Niels Hoppe, and Alf Puttmer, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

2) "Imaging Laser Ultrasonics Measurement of the Elastodynamic Properties of Paper," Ken Telschow and Vance A. Deason, Idaho National Engineering & Environment Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID

3) "Ultrasonic Separation of Suspended Particles," E. Benes, M. Groeschl, F. Trampler, Ch. Delouvroy, H. Boehm, L. Gherardini, S. Radel, H. Nowotny, Vienna University of Technology, Wien, Austria

4) "Ultrasonic Imaging Systems for Personal Identification," John K. Schneider and S. M. Gojevic, Ultra-Scan Corporation, Amherst, NY, USA

 

GROUP 3: PHYSICAL ACOUSTICS

1) "Use of Complex Frequencies to Characterize Lossy Materials," Arthur Ballato and R. A. Pasbre, Jr., US Army CECOM RDEC, Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA

2) "Thin Film Bulk Wave Acoustic Resonators for Wireless Application," Richard C. Ruby, John D. Larson III, Paul D. Bradley, and Yury Oshmyansky, Agilent Technologies, Newark, CA, USA

3) "Control of Optical Radiation by Means of Collinear and Noncollinear Acousto-optic Devices," Vitaly B. Voloshinov, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

4) "Analysis of Periodic Structures for BAW and SAW Resonators," Yook-Kong Yong, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

5) "Acoustic Ink Printing: An Application of Ultrasonics for Photographic Quality Printing," B. Hadimioglu, S. Elrod, and R. Sprague, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA

 

GROUP 4: SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES

1) "Elastic, Thermoelastic and Piezoelectric Properties of La3Ga5SiO14 and Structurally-related Crystals - An Application of Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy," J. Schreuer, ETH Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland

2) "Passive Integration with SAW Filter," Harufumi Mandai, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan

3) "Recent Advances on SAW Packaging," Richard Gruenwald, Peter Selmeier, Hans Krueger, Gregor Feiertag, and Clemens Ruppel, EPCOS AG, Munich, Germany

 

GROUP 5: TRANSDUCERS AND TRANSDUCER MATERIALS

1) "Development of High-frequency Medical Imaging Arrays," Tim Ritter, T. R. Shrout, and K. K. Shung, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA

2) "Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers and their Application," Josef Binder and A. Buhrdorf, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

3) "Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers with Integrated Optoelectronic Readout," F. Levent Degertekin, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

4) "Virtual Prototyping for Rapid Production of Ultrasonic Devices," P. Reynolds, D. Powell, D. Vaughan, J. Mould, Greg Wojcik, Weidlinger Asociates, Inc., Los Altos, CA, USA

WCU INVITED PAPERS

1) "Development of Industrial Models of High-power Stepped-plate Sonic and Ultrasonic Transducers for Use in Fluids," Juan A. Gallego-Juarez, G. Rodríguez-Corral, E. Riera-Franco de S., F. Vazquez-Martinez, V.M.  Acosta-Aparicio, and C. Campos-Pozuelo, Instituto de Acustica, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

2) "Recent Development of Ultrasonic Actuators," Sadayuki Ueha, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

3) " Chemical Consequences of Cavitation," Ken Suslick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA