Biomedical Acoustics Technical Committee

General resources

Biomedical acoustic societies

• Focused Ultrasound Foundation
• International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound
• American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine
• IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectronics, and Frequency Control Society 
• American Associated of Physicists in Medicine
• International Symposium of Nonlinear Acoustics
• European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Agents
• International Contrast Ultrasound Society
• International Bubble Conference
• International Commision for Acoustics

Research Laboratories and Foundations

• BADER Lab
• Biomedical Ultrasonics and Cavitation Laboratory (BUCL)
• Bioacoustics Research Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Biomedical Ultrasonics, Biotherapy and Biopharmaceuticals Laboratory (BUBBL), University of Oxford
• Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
• Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation
• Focused Ultrasound Laboratory, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Image-guided Ultrasound Therapeutics Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, OH USA
• Laboratory of Ultrasonic Electronics, Doshisha University
• Medical Imaging Group, University of Cambridge
• Physical Acoustics Laboratory, Boston University
• UC-Davis Ferrara Lab
• Ultrasound Research Laboratory, University of Cincinnati
• UNC-NCState Joint program – The Dayton Lab
• University of Michigan – Therapeutic Ultrasound Group
• University of Utah – Laboratory of Ultrasonic Drug Delivery
• University of Washington – Larry Crum

Software Packages

• FDA HITU Simulator
• FOCUS – Fast Object-oriented C++ Ultrasound Simulator

Standards

• Acoustical Society of America – Standards Secretariat
• S1/WG 22 Bubble Detection and Cavitation Monitoring
• IEC 62555:2013: Ultrasonics – Power Measurement – Output Power Measurement for High Intensity Therapeutic Ultrasound (HITU) Transducers and Systems
• IEC 62556:2014: Surgical Systems – Specification and Measurement of Field Parameters for High Intensity Therapeutic Ultrasound (HITU) Transducers and Systems
• IEC 61828:2001: Ultrasonics – Focusing Transducers, Definitions and Measurement Methods for the Transmitted Fields
• IEC 62937: Ultrasonics – Measurement of Ultrasound Field Parameters at High Pressure Therapeutic Levels in Water
• IEC 62937: Ultrasonics – Measurement of Ultrasound Field Parameters at High Pressure Therapeutic Levels in Water
• Standardization of Ultrasound Medical Devices: A comprehensive listing of standards of interest to the BATC membership courtesy of Subha Maruvada.