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Poster competition

The Biomedical Acoustics Student Poster Competition (also known as the Student Paper Award) was established by the Technical Committee to acknowledge high-quality scientific presentations by students doing research in Biomedical Acoustics. The competition also serves as an opportunity for young acousticians to network. Currently, student members of the BATC are eligible to enter the competition, which consists of a two-hour poster session judged by members of BATC. Winners are selected based on a student’s (a) conception, execution, and analysis of the study, (b) ability to present and defend the material, and (c) understanding of how the research fits into the broader scientific context of the BATC. Winners receive a cash award.

2025 New Orleans

  1. Yike Wang
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Advisor: Pengfei Song
    Functional ultrasound localization microscopy on freely moving rats

    Harshith Kumar Adepu
    Purdue University
    Advisor: Luz D. Sotelo
    Ultrasonic evaluation of internal features in additively manufactured SS316L: Impact of process-induced microstructure heterogeneity

    Giulia Tuccio
    University of Trento
    Advisor: Libertario Demi
    Evaluaton of sonobiopsy feasibility and safety in a mouse model of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

  2. Benjamin Wood
    Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    Advisor: Hong Chen
    Passive cavitation detection analysis of color Doppler twinkling from polymethylmethacrylate

  3. Abigail Collins
    Botnar Institute for Musculoskeletal Sciences at University of Oxford
    Advisor: Constantin Coussios
    Effect of point spread function: Deconvolution strategies for accurate spatiotemporal cavitation doses by passive acoustic mapping

    Ferdousi Sabera Rawnaque
    The Pennsylvania State University
    Advisor: Juliana Simon
    Cavitation bubble nuclei in healthy vs. cancerous 3D cell cultures

  4. Audience choice

    Ferdousi Sabera Rawnaque
    The Pennsylvania State University
    Advisor: Juliana Simon
    Cavitation bubble nuclei in healthy vs. cancerous 3D cell cultures

2024 Ottawa

  1. Kamso Onyemeh
    Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
    Advisor: Mark Burgess
    Active targeting of nanotherapeutics using power cavitation imaging with a linear array transducer

  2. Dingyue Zhang
    Washington University in St. Louis
    Advisor: Hong Chen
    Evaluaton of sonobiopsy feasibility and safety in a mouse model of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

    Elahe Memari
    Concordia University
    Advisor: Brandon Helfield
    The role of fluid flow patterns in microbubble-mediated endothelial cell membrane permeabilization

  3. Hongchen Li
    Erasmus MC
    Advisor: Klazina Kooiman
    Microstreaming profile of a phospholipid-coated wall-attached microbubble undergoing shape oscillation

    Audience choice

    Kyle Hazel
    Concordia University
    Advisor: Brandon Helfield
    Focused ultrasound-guided delivery of gene editing protein in human induced pluripotent stem cells

2022 Denver

  1. Veerle Brans
    University of Oxford
    Advisor: Eleanor Stride
    Exploration of ultrasound-mediated microbubble-cell membrane interactions using novel protein-loaded microbubbles and their role in immunomodulation

  2. Grace Conway
    University of Pittsburgh
    Advisor: Flordeliza Villanueva
    Ultrasound-targeted microbubble cavitation increases paracellular gaps in an in vitro blood brain barrier model

    Molly Smallcomb
    Pennsylvania State University
    Advisor: Julianna Simon
    Comparison between focused ultrasound and dry needling treatments in a murine Achilles tendinopathy model

    Oliver Pattinson
    University of Southampton
    Advisor: Nick Evans, Dario Carugo
    Ultra-High Speed Quantification of Cell Strain During Cell-Microbubble Interactions

  3. Audience choice

    Audrey Evans
    University of Wisconsin
    Advisor: Chu Ma, Susan Hagness
    The evolution of microwave-induced thermoacoustic signal characteristics generated during pulsed microwave ablation

2021 Seattle

  1. Junqin Chen
    Duke University
    Advisor: Pei Zhong
    Cavitation is the primary mechanism for stone dusting in holmium: YAG laser lithotripsy

  2. Christopher Pacia
    Washington University in St. Louis
    Advisor: Hong Chen
    Sonobiopsy increases release of circulating tumor DNA for sensitive molecular diagnosis of glioblastoma

  3. Ekaterina Ponomarchuk
    Moscow State University
    Advisor: Vera Khokhlova
    Elastic properties of human hematoma model and its sensitivity to histotripsy liquefaction

2019 Louisville

  1. Billy Yiu
    University of Waterloo
    Advisor: Alfred Yu
    Live Color Encoded Speckle Imaging Platform for Real-Time Complex Flow Visualization In Vivo

  2. Frederick Damen
    Purdue University
    Advisor: Craig Goergen
    Spatial Analysis of Cardiac Strain Using High-Frequency Four-Dimensional Ultrasound in Mice

  3. Joseph Majdi
    George Mason University
    Advisor: Siddartha Sikdar
    Tissue Doppler Imaging To Detect Muscle Fatigue

2018 Minneapolis

  1. Dezhuang Ye
    Advisor: Hong Chen
    Intranasal Administration of Temozolomide Combined with Focused Ultrasound to Enhance the Survival of Mice with Glioma (A Pilot Study)

  2. Parker O’Brien
    Advisor: Emad Ebbini
    Broadband Transskull Multi-focus Wavefront Synthesis

  3. Tho Tran
    Advisor: Lawrence Le
    A nonlinear grid-search inversion for cortical bone thickness and ultrasonic velocities

2017 Boston

  1. Ying Zhang
    Duke University
    Advisor: Pei Zhong
    Interaction between lithotripsy-induced surface acoustic waves and pre-existing cracks

  2. Clair Rabut
    Inserm Institute
    Advisor: Mickael Tanter
    Full 3D dynamic functional ultrasound imaging of neuronal activity in mice

  3. Natalia Ilyina
    KU Leuven
    Advisor: Jan D’hooge
    Model-based ultrasound attenuation estimation

2016 Salt Lake City

  1. Harriet Lea-Banks
    Oxford University
    Advisor: Constantin Coussios, Eleanor Stride
    Ultrasound-mediated transport of nanoparticles and the influence of particle density

  2. Amin Jafari Sojahrood
    Advisor: Michael Kolios
    Development of a nonlinear model for the pressure dependent attenuation and sound speed in a bubbly liquid and its experimental validation

  3. Shenwen Huang
    University of Cincinnati
    Advisor: Christy Holland
    Lytic efficacy of tissue plasminogen activator and ultrasound in porcine clots doped with barium sulfate in vitro

    Sanjay Yengul
    Boston Univ., Harvard Univ.
    Advisors: Paul Barbone, Bruno Madore
    Towards validation of shear wave elastography using vibration rheometry in soft gels

    Alec Hughes
    University of Toronto
    Advisor: Kullervo Hynynen
    Phased array techniques for multiple focus synthesis in transcranial focused ultrasound

2015 Pittsburgh

  1. Jonathan Langdon
    University of Rochester
    Advisor: Stephen McAleavey
    Compensating for Scholte waves in single track location shear wave elasticity imaging

  2. Erasmia Lyka
    Oxford University
    Advisor: Constantin C. Coussios
    A sum-of-harmonics time-domain method to distinguish harmonic and broadband signals during passive acoustic mapping of ultrasound therapies

  3. Lauren Mancia
    University of Michigan
    Advisor: Eric Johnsen
    Stress and strain fields produced by violent bubble collapse

2014 Providence

  1. Himanshu Shekhar
    University of Rochester
    Advisor: Marvin Doyle
    Nonlinear intravascular ultrasound contrast imaging with a modified clinical system

  2. Karla P. Mercado
    University of Rochester
    Advisor: Diane Dalecki
    Characterizing collagen microstructure using high frequency ultrasound

  3. Tom Kokhuis
    Erasmus Medical Center
    Advisor: Nico de Jong
    StemBells: Localized stem cell delivery using targeted microbubbles and acoustic radiation force

2013 Montreal

  1. Amin Jafari Sojahrood
    Ryerson University
    Advisor: Michael Kolios
    Bifurcation structure of the ultrasonically excited microbubbles undergoing buckling and rupture

  2. Pol Grasland-Mongrain
    Inserm
    Advisor: Cyril Lyfon
    Electromagnetic hydrophone for high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) measurement

  3. Matthew Adams
    Boston University
    Advisor: Ronald Roy
    Improving the acousto-optic detection of high-intensity focused ultrasound lesions

2012 Kansas City

  1. Kirthi Radhakrishnan
    University of Cincinnati
    Advisor: Christy K. Holland
    Pulse duration dependence of cavitation emissions and loss of echogenicity from ultrasound contrast agents insonified by Doppler pulses

  2. Kun Jia
    Zhejiang University
    Advisor: Keji Yang
    Compound manipulation of micro-particles using a single device: Ultrasonic trapping, transporting, and rotating

  3. Karla P. Mercado
    University of Rochester
    Advisor: Diane Dalecki
    Parametric imaging of three-dimensional engineered tissue constructs using high-frequency ultrasound

2011 Seattle

  1. Peng Zhang
    Boston University
    Advisor: Tyrone Porter
    The application of phase-shift nano emulsion in high intensity focused ultrasound-mediated heating and its potential in monitoring lesion formation

  2. Himanshu Shekhar
    University of Rochester
    Advisor: Marvin Doyle
    TA coded excitation technique for the functional imaging of coronary atherosclerosis using ultrasound contrast agents

  3. Pavlos Anastasiadis
    University of Hawaii
    Advisor: John Allen
    Ultrasound-induced permeability variations in cell gap junctions for drug delivery

2010 Baltimore

  1. Kelly Garvin
    University of Rochester
    Advisors: Diane Dalecki & Denise Hocking
    Ultrasound standing wave fields induce endothelial cell sprouting within three-dimensional engineered tissue

  2. Christian Anderson
    Washington University in St. Louis
    Advisor: James Miller
    Comparison of conventional ultrasonic phase velocity and attenuation measurements of cancellous bone to estimates obtained using Bayesian probability theory

2009 Portland

  1. Kelly Garvin
    University of Rochester
    Advisors: Diane Dalecki & Denise Hocking
    Ultrasound standing wave fields control the spatial distribution of cells and protein in three-dimensional engineered tissue

2008 Paris

  1. Moire Smith
    Cambridge University
    Advisor: Nigel Slater
    The effect of HIFU on pH responsive PEGylated Micelles

  2. Todd Hay
    University of Texas
    Advisor: Mark Hamilton
    Frequency response of bubble pulsation in tubes with arbitrary wall impedance

  3. Dorothée Bossis
    Université Pierre et Marie Curie France
    Advisor: Pascal Laugier
    1 kHz sound stimulates nitric oxide and prostaglandin E2 production by rat mesenchymal stem cells

2007 Salt Lake City

  1. Matthew Urban
    Mayo Clinic
    Advisor: James Greenleaf
    Harmonic motion detection in a vibrating scattering medium

  2. Jose Sanchez
    University of Illinois
    Advisor: Michael Oelze
    An ultrasonic imaging speckle suppression technique by means of frequency compounding and coded excitation

2006 Providence

  1. Jamie Collin
    Oxford University
    Advisor: Constantin Coussios
    Interpreting passive cavitation detection signals during high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)

  2. Matthew Urban
    Mayo Clinic
    Advisor: James Greenleaf
    Motion detection for vibe-acoustography

2005 Vancouver

  1. Adam Maxwell
    University of Washington
    Advisor: Lawrence Crum
    A mechanistic analysis of stone comminution in lithotripsy

  2. Parag Chitnis
    Boston University
    Advisor: Robin Cleveland
    Secondary shock wave emissions from cavitation in lithotripsy

  3. Honorable mentions

    Wayne Kreider
    University of Washington
    Advisor: Lawrence Crum
    Modeling of initial bubble growth rates during high-intensity focused ultrasound

    Heather Argadine
    Mayo Clinic
    Advisor: Mark Bolander
    1 kHz vibration increases proteoglycan production in ATDC5 chondrocytes

2004 New York City

  1. Paolo Zanetti
    Boston University
    Advisor: Ronald Roy
    Signal-to-noise ratio and attenuation of Optison microbubbles in blood as a function of imaging frequency

  2. Jeremy Bercoff
    Laboratorie Ondes et Acoustique
    Advisor: Mathais Fink
    Studying viscoelasticty in soft tissue with supersonic shear imaging

2003 Nashville

  1. Ajay Anand
    University of Washington
    Advisor: Peter J. Kaczkowski
    Monitoring evolution of HIFU-induced lesions with backscattered ultrasound

  2. Yuan Jing
    Boston University
    Advisor: Robin Cleveland
    Effect of aberration on the acoustic field in tissue harmonic imaging (THI)

2002 Cancun

  1. Parag Chitnis
    Boston University
    Advisor: Robin Cleveland
    Comparison of the cavitation fields of an electromagnetic and electrohydraulic lithotripter

  2. Javier van Cauwelaert
    Boston University
    Advisor: Robin Cleveland
    Progress of crack formation in artificial kidney stones subject to shock waves

2002 Pittsburgh

  1. Stanley Samuel
    University of Michigan
    Advisor: Charles Meyer
    A robust roughness quantification technique using a standard imaging array transducer

  2. Yufeng Zhou
    Duke University
    Advisor: Pei Zhong
    Reduction of tissue injury without compromising stone comminution in shock wave lithotripsy

2001 Chicago

  1. Oliver Kripfgans
    University of Michigan
    Advisor: Brian Fowlkes
    Acoustic vaporization of single droplets

  2. Sandra Poliachik
    University of Washington
    Advisor: Wayne Chandler
    Role of high intensity focused ultrasound induced cavitation on platelet activation

  3. Mark Haun
    University of Illinois
    Advisor: William O’Brien
    Efficient three-dimensional cylindrical-geometry ultrasound imaging

2000 Atlanta

  1. Constantin C. Coussios
    Cambridge University
    Advisor: John Ffowcs Williams
    Ultrasonic scattering from blood as a means of measuring hemolysis

  2. Xufeng Xi
    Duke University
    Advisor: Pei Zhong
    Dynamic photorealistic study of the transient stress fields in solids during shock wave lithotripsy

  3. Dahlia Sokolov
    University of Washington
    Advisor: Lawrence Crum
    Bubble translation due to radiation force in SWL

    Mark Haun
    University of Illinois
    Advisor: William O’Brien
    Efficient three-dimensional cylindrical-geometry ultrasound imaging

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