UFFC2019 US school

Courses & Lectures

Note: the program may be subject to (minor) changes

1^st Day - Basics

• Introduction: Tracking motions in the body
• Back to basics: Generate images from sound
• Simulations: how and why?

2^nd Day - Benchmarking

• In vitro set-ups
• In vivo references

3^rd Day - Doppler

• Color Doppler
• Flow imaging innovations

4^th Day - Speckles

• Speckle tracking
• Optical flow & elastography

5^th Day - Advanced techniques

• Speed-of-sound mapping, Image registration, Misc

Hands-on sessions

2^nd Day - Acquire & Simulate

• Acquisitions with a Verasonics scanner in a rotating disk
• Ultrasound simulations with Matlab (download)

3^rd Day - Analyze

• Beamforming
• Color Doppler
• Vector Doppler (download)

4^th Day - Keep analyzing

• Speckle tracking in a rotating phantom
• Speckle tracking in a simulated carotid bifurcation
• Pre-processing and post-processing (download)

5^th Day - Meet clinicians

• Vascular ultrasonography
• Echocardiography

• Simulate & Understand •

- Simulate realistic ultrasound data using open-source Matlab codes
- Generate B-mode and color Doppler images & understand the underlying physics

• Acquire & Analyze •

- Acquire raw ultrasound data in a dynamic phantom with a Verasonics scanner
- Reconstruct the motion fields using open-source Matlab codes

• GE Healthcare-sponsored clinical demo •

- Participate in a live 4-D echocardiography projected on a large screen
- Use one of the 8 EchoPAC clinical software to measure cardiac volumes and strains

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