2017 News Archive

Spatial Angular Compounding Technique for H-scan Ultrasound Imaging

November 30, 2017

A paper co-authored by Professor Kevin Parker titled "Spatial Angular Compounding Technique for H-scan Ultrasound Imaging" will appear in the January 2018 issue of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and can be found here. The paper is a collaboration with Drs. Mawia Khairalseed (first author), Fangyuan Xiong, Jung-Whan Kim, Robert Mattrey, and Kenneth Hoyt at UT-Dallas/UT Southwestern Medical Center. The article describes the implementation of H-scan using plane wave imaging and the investigation of the impact of spatial angular compounding on H-scan image quality.

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OCT Paper Published

November 7, 2017

A manuscript titled "An approach to viscoelastic characterization of dispersive media by inversion of a general wave propagation model," authored by PhD student Fernando Zvietcovich and Professor Kevin Parker, was recently published.  The journal article, co-authored by Professor Jannick Rolland of the UR Institute of Optics, appears in the November 2017 issue of the Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences and can be found here.

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UR/UT-Dallas Publication

November 6, 2017

A manuscript co-authored by Professor Kevin Parker, graduate student Juvenal Ormachea, and former visiting student Alberto Terrazas, along with University of Texas at Dallas collaborators Dr. Kenneth Hoyt and Dr. Mawia Khairalseed was published by the Journal of Medical Imaging.  The journal article is titled "H-scan sensitivity to scattering size" and can be accessed here.

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Parker Paper Published

October 26, 2017

Professor Parker's manuscript titled "Hermite scatterers in an ultraviolet sky" was published in Physics Letters A.  The journal article can be viewed here.

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Chen attends IEEE IUS 2017

September 7, 2017

PhD candidate Shujie Chen attended and presented at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in Washington, DC from 6-9 September 2017.  Chen gave the following oral presentation:

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Parker Presents at AIUM

March 28, 2017

Professor Kevin Parker was an invited speaker at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine conference in Orlando, FL.  Parker's talk was titled "Rapid vs. Gradual Changes in Tissue Viscoelastic Properties."

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Parker Invited to Speak at UTSW

March 14, 2017

Professor Parker was asked to speak at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Grand Rounds Invited Lecture Series in Dallas, Texas.  His talk was titled "Elastography of the Liver: New Advances and Open Questions."  

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Samsung Collaboration

February 1, 2017

Professor Parker and Doctors Deborah Rubens and Ashwani Sharma (UR Imaging Sciences) are working with Samsung Medison to add elastography to image-guided liver biopsy.

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Parker Presents at LLE Seminar

January 27, 2017

Professor Parker was invited to speak at the UR Laboratory for Laser Energetics Science and Technology Seminar Series.  His talk was titled "Imaging the Biomechanical Properties of Tissues: From Research Techniques to Everyday Diagnostics."

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The Needle Pulse

January 24, 2017

"A new beam pattern devised by University of Rochester researchers could bring unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images, burn precise holes in manufactured materials at a nano scale—even etch new properties onto their surfaces."  Read more about Professors Kevin Parker and Miguel Alonso's exciting research here.  Read published articles on the needle pulse here.

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