Courses & Lectures
Note: the program may be subject to (minor) changes
1st Day - Basics
- Introduction: Tracking motions in the body
- Back to basics: Generate images from sound
- Simulations: how and why?
2nd Day - Benchmarking
3rd Day - Doppler
4th Day - Speckles
- Speckle tracking
- Optical flow & elastography
5th Day - Advanced techniques
- Speed-of-sound mapping, Image registration, Misc
Hands-on sessions
2nd Day - Acquire & Simulate
- Acquisitions with a Verasonics scanner in a rotating disk
- Ultrasound simulations with Matlab (download)
3rd Day - Analyze
- Beamforming
- Color Doppler
- Vector Doppler (download)
4th Day - Keep analyzing
- Speckle tracking in a rotating phantom
- Speckle tracking in a simulated carotid bifurcation
- Pre-processing and post-processing (download)
5th Day - Meet clinicians
- Vascular ultrasonography
- Echocardiography
- Simulate realistic ultrasound data using open-source Matlab codes
- Generate B-mode and color Doppler images & understand the underlying physics
- Acquire raw ultrasound data in a dynamic phantom with a Verasonics scanner
- Reconstruct the motion fields using open-source Matlab codes
- 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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