2014 News Archive
Himanshu Shekhar Awarded ASA Hunt Fellowship
November 13, 2014
Himanshu Shekhar, who received his Ph.D. in May of 2014, has been awarded the very prestigious Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America for 2015-2016. Himanshu completed his doctoral work in Prof. Marvin Doyley’s group, working on high frequency ultrasound imaging. The Hunt Fellowship was established by the Acoustical Society of America to honor the legacy of the late Prof. Frederick Vinton Hunt of Harvard University. Himanshu received one of two Hunt fellowships which were awarded this year for his proposal titled “Ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery for treating vascular disease.” He will complete this research in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, working with Prof. Christy Holland. Congratulations Dr. Shekhar!
Continue ReadingNayak Recognized for Outstanding Presentation at ITEC 2014
September 11, 2014
Rohit Nayak, a Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Marvin Doyley's lab, attended and presented at the 2014 International Tissue Elasticity Conference which took place in Snowbird, UT from September 7-10, 2014. Rohit was awarded Second Place in the Best Student Oral Presentation Awards! The presentation - co-authored by Prof. Doyley and Ph.D. candidate Prashant Verma - was titled "Multi-element synthetic aperture vascular elastography for carotid imaging." Congratulations to Rohit on a job well done!
Continue ReadingVerma and Fernandes Accepted into HHMI Fellowship
July 29, 2014
Prashant Verma (Physics) and Ninoshka Fernandes (BME), both Ph.D. candidates advised by Prof. Marvin Doyley, have been accepted into the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Med-into-Grad Fellowship in Cardiovascular Science. This prestigious HHMI sponsored URMC fellowship augments traditional Ph.D. training with clinical rotations, a clinical co-mentor, a weekly Cardiovascular Research Institute seminar series, and translational cardiovascular coursework to train the next generation of bench-to-bedside cardiovascular scientists. Prashant received the fellowship based on his application titled, "Using plane wave elastography to estimate the viscoelastic parameters of the vascular tissue." Ninoshka received the fellowship based on her application titled, "Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging of inflammation and angiogenesis targeted contrast agents to characterize plaque development and vulnerability in atherosclerosis". Congratulations to Prashant and Ninoshka!
Continue ReadingHuntzicker/Nayak/Doyley Paper Published
July 7, 2014
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidates Steven Huntzicker and Rohit Nayak and Prof. Marvin Doyley on the publication of their manuscript titled "Quantitative sparse array vascular elastography: the impact of tissue attenuation and modulus contrast on performance." The publication appears in the July-September 2014 issue of the Journal of Medical Imaging.
Continue ReadingShekhar wins best paper award
May 9, 2014
Himanshu Shekhar won the Best Student Paper Award in Biomedical Acoustics at the 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held in Providence, Rhode Island from May 5-9, 2014. His paper was titled, "Nonlinear intravascular ultrasound contrast imaging with a modified clinical system." Himanshu's Ph.D. degree will be conferred in a ceremony taking place on Saturday, May 17th. Congratulations to Himanshu on all counts!
Continue ReadingHuntzicker and Shekhar present at ASA conference
May 7, 2014
Ph.D. student Steven Huntzicker and Himanshu Shekhar, who has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, attended and presented at the 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held in Providence Rhode Island from May 5-9, 2014. Both Steve and Himanshu presented posters on May 7th. Steve's presentation was titled, "Can quantitative synthetic aperture vascular elastography predict the stress distribution within the fibrous cap non-invasively." Himanshu's presentation was titled "Nonlinear intravascular ultrasound contrast imaging with a modified clinical system." Both presentations were well-received.
Continue ReadingJoHannah Kohl successfully defends her M.S. thesis
April 18, 2014
Congratulations to JoHannah Kohl who successfully defended her M.S. thesis titled, "Beamforming Technique for Non-invasive Vascular Elastography" on Friday, April 18, 2014. JoHannah has been advised by Prof. Marvin Doyley and has been conducting research in his Parametric Imaging Research Laboratory. Congratulations, JoHannah, on a job well done!
Continue ReadingIvy Awuor awarded AHA Fellowship
April 10, 2014
Congratulations to Raquel (Ivy) Awuor, an undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering student who conducts research in Prof. Marvin Doyley's lab! Ivy was awarded the American Heart Association (AHA) Founders Affiliate Undergraduate Student Summer Fellowship. The fellowship was awarded for her proposal titled, "Development of a Nonlinear Intravascular Ultrasound System for Imaging the Vasa Vasorum in Coronary Arteries." Ivy will spend the upcoming summer conducting this exciting research in Prof. Doyley's Parametric Imaging Research Lab. From the AHA: "The American Heart Association supports highly promising, undergraduate students for full-time research fellowships over a minimum of a ten-week period during the summer. The goal of this program is to encourage students to pursue careers in cardiovascular research."
Continue ReadingHimanshu Shekhar successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis
April 9, 2014
Congratulations to Himanshu Shekhar who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Acoustic Characterization and Nonlinear Imaging of Ultrasound Contrast Agents for Intravascular Assessment of Atherosclerosis”. Himanshu’s public defense took place on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, immediately followed by a closed-door defense session. Himanshu has been advised by Prof. Marvin Doyley. His Ph.D. committee was chaired by Prof. Sheryl Gracewski; other committee members were Prof. Kevin Parker, Prof. Diane Dalecki, and Dr. Karl Schwarz. Again, congratulations to Himanshu and many thanks for his hard work and significant contributions to Prof. Doyley’s Parametric Imaging Research Lab!
Continue ReadingShekhar/Awuor/Doyley Paper Published
March 10, 2014
The manuscript titled "The delayed onset of subharmonic and ultraharmonic emissions from a phospholipid-shelled microbubble contrast agent" co-authored by Ph.D. candidate Himanshu Shekhar, undergraduate research assistant Ivy Awuor, and Prof. Marvin Doyley was published in the April 2014 issue of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. The manuscript was also co-authored by collaborators at Targeson, Inc. and appears in the special Festschrift issue in honor of the UR ECE Department's own Prof. Robert C. Waag.
Continue ReadingDoyley and Verma attend the SPIE Medical Imaging Syposium
February 24, 2014
Prof. Marvin Doyley and Ph.D. student Prashant Verma attended the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference held in San Diego, California from February 18 - 21. Prof. Doyley once again served as Co-Chair of the Technical Conference on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography. He also co-chaired the Ultrasound Elastography Technical Workshop. Prashant presented his poster titled "Synthetic Aperture Elastography: A GPU Based Approach."
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