Biomedical Acoustics Technical Council Meeting Pittsburgh, 2015 BATC Chair: Nathan McDannold Welcome to BATC Welcome new attendees o 36 People signed the sign‐in sheet Google email list: o You can sign up for the BA mail list by sending an email to
[email protected] or visit http://groups.google.com/group/ASA_BATC, or contact Nathan McDannold at
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Pittsburgh meeting Thanks to: o Robert Keolian, Matthew Poese, CoChairs; Anthony Lyons, Technical Program Chair o TPOM representative: Siddhartha Sikdar Special sessions: o Acoustic Radiation Force in Biomedical Applications Organized by: Matthew W. Urban, Mostafa Fatemi o Ultrasonic Characterization of Bone Organized by: Keith A. Wear o Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Molecular Imaging Applications Organized by: Tyrone M. Porter, Jonathan A. Kopechek o Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Nonlinear Bubble Dynamics Organized by: Tyrone M. Porter, Jonathan A. Kopechek Thanks to continuing representatives: o Membership Committee: Tom Matula o ASACOS: Wayne Kreider o Medals and Awards: Constantin Coussios o Student Council: Camilo Perez o JASA and JASAEL Associate Editors: W.W.L. Au, C.C. Church, R.R. Fay, J.J. Finneran, M.C. Hastings, G. Haïat, D.K. Mellinger, D.L. Miller, A.N. Popper, T.J. Royston, A.M. Simmons, C.E. Taylor, K.A. Wear, Suk Wang Yoon o BA POMA Associate Editor: Timothy G. Leighton
TC meeting Monday Co‐Sponsored meeting relevant to BATC: o International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization (June 2015) o Reviewed efforts in ongoing efforts to define the ASA in the future
Student Council o Camilo Perez, BATC representatives
Student Competition Winners 1st: Jonathan Langdon, University of Rochester o Compensating for Scholte waves in single track location shear wave elasticity imaging 2nd: Erasmia Lyka, Oxford University o A sum‐of‐harmonics time‐domain method to distinguish harmonic and broadband signals during passive acoustic mapping of ultrasound therapies 3rd: Lauren Mancia, University of Michigan o Stress and strain fields produced by violent bubble collapse Thanks to Kevin Haworth and to the judges: Omer Inan, DongGuk Paeng, Bob McGough, Matt Urban, YiXian Qin, Diane Dalecki, Charles Thompson, Klazina Kooiman, Martin Verweij, Nathan McDannold, Tyrone Porter, & Siddhartha Sikdar
Technical Initiatives 2015 In Providence, EC approved two initiatives to provide funds for FUS Winter School and Non‐Linear Acoustics meetings, both in France Vera Khoklova provided an update ASA has $60,000 available for technical initiatives beyond the standing funds for TC’s Josh Gladden proposed a $30,000 initiative to support Physical Acoustics Summer School (PASS) for 2016. BATC gave unanimous approval $2100 in 2015 was approved on the Tech Council Friday consent agenda, to support the Support for Sonothrombolysis special session in Jacksonville.
JASA Associate Editor for Invited/Review/Tutorial Articles NEED HELP OF TC CHAIRS TO GET GOOD ARTICLES o TC chairs can make suggestions of areas for invited/review/tutorial or form committee (2 or 3) to suggest areas of possible articles & authors or communicate with members of TC that JASA wants I/R/T articles and that they could possibly volunteer (of course TC chair will be asked to validate) o CONTACT JIM LYNCH (
[email protected] ) CHIEF EDITOR or WHIT AU (
[email protected]) Associate Ed for I/R/T
Fall 2015 ASA meeting in Jacksonville, FL Oct 18‐22 2015 (170th Meeting) Richard Morris, Chair; Catherine Rogers, Judy Dubno, Technical Program Co‐Chairs Special sessions: o Numerical and analytical modeling of medical ultrasound (joint with Physical Acoustics) Organized by Martin Verweij and Robert McGough o Wave Propagation in Complex Media: From Theory to Applications (joint with Physical Acoustics) Organized by: Guillaume Haiat, Pierre Belanger
Spring 2016 meeting Salt Lake City 23‐27 May 2016 Scott Sommerfeldt, Kent Gee, Co‐Chairs Special Sessions o Controlled Drug Delivery and Release with FUS Organized by Costas Arvanitis and Alexander Klibanov o Focused ultrasound for brain treatments Organized by Kullervo Hynynen and Nathan McDannold
Fall 2016 Meeting Honolulu Joint with Acoustical Society of Japan November 28 ‐ December 2, 2016 Whitlow Au, David Adams, Co‐Chairs; Bruce Howe, Technical Program Chair BA Special sessions: o Ultrasonic characterization of bone Organized by Jim Miller and Mami MATSUKAWA o Nonlinear acoustics in medicine and biology Organized by Greg Clement and Tomoo Kamakura o Quantitative ultrasound: from micro to invivo Jonathan Mamou and Tadashi Yamaguchi o Medical acoustics in kidney and liver disease Michael Bailey University of Washington and Norihiro Koizumi University of Tokyo o Special Session in Celebration of Floyd Dunn Organized by Bill O’Brien and Yoshifumi Saijo of Tohoku University
Upcoming meetings Acoustics ‘17 Boston o 25‐29 June 2017 o Joint Meeting with the European Acoustics Association o Please start now thinking of special sessions! Martin Verweij (
[email protected]) wants to schedule a session on beamforming Parag Chitnis (
[email protected]) and Kang Kim (
[email protected]) wants to schedule a session on photoacoustics
Fellows Luncheon Aligned with its mission of student mentorship and increasing the participation of students in the ASA, the College of Fellows is continuing the “Fellows Luncheon” program. This pairs a student with a senior member/Fellow in their technical area for the “Society Luncheon and Lecture” at the ASA meetings. The ASA provides, at no cost, 13 tickets to the Student Council for the Fellows Luncheon, so that a ticket can be given to one student in each of the 13 technical areas. The Student Council typically raffles off and distributes the tickets at its Student Reception on Wednesday evenings, the evening before the Fellows Luncheon. Asking for a senior member/Fellow in your technical area who expects attend the Luncheon at the following meeting to volunteer to the winning student in your technical area. Note that there is no additional cost to the member, because the ticket is provided by ASA. Tony Hoover Co‐Chair, College of Fellows Steering Committee o Camilo Perez ASA Student Council
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We have a website! http://tcbaasa.org/ o We need suggestions for improvements – contact Jay Sutton (
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