AMUM 2010
Advanced Metrology for Ultrasound
in Medicine
12 - 14 May 2010
AMUM 2010 is a unique opportunity for the world's
ultrasound experts from medicine, industry and academia to explore the
measurement challenges presented by new and future clinical ultrasound
equipment.
Click here for the preliminary
programme
Call for Posters and Student Prize
We are now opening an additional call for
posters on topics relevant to the conference theme of metrology for
ultrasound in medicine. The call is open until 11 April but authors
are advised to submit as soon as possible as acceptance of good quality and
relevant abstracts will made on a continuous basis. Successful authors
will have the option to submit written paper for the conference proceedings.
The poster session will be on Thursday 13 May.
In order to encourage submissions from students and health service
medical physics trainees, we will award a cash prize of £250 for the
best student poster submitted by authors in this category.
Registration Options
In order to make the AMUM conference more accessible and to encourage
participation of post-graduate students and trainees, we are now opening
single day and student registrations
options.
Eligibility: To be eligible for student registration or the
student prize, you must be studying for a full-time post-graduate qualification
(up to PhD level or equivalent) or be health service medical physics trainee. A
confirmation letter from your Head of Department is required.
Contacts
Overview
Reliable and accurate measurement methods are essential to allow new
applications like elastography and HIFU to reach their full potential and to
ensure that ultrasound’s reputation for clinical safety can be maintained
in the face of all these new advances. This conference follows on from a very
successful first meeting in 2004 and it is our intention that it will likewise
provide a framework for the development of measurement methods to meet these
challenges over the next decade.
Topics will include:
- Measurement challenges arising from advances in diagnostic and
imaging applications
(e.g. elastography, coded/chirp excitation, 3D
ultrasound, intravascular, high frequency)
- Measurement challenges arising from by advances in therapeutic and
surgical applications
(e.g. HIFU, lithotripsy, contrast agents)
- Improved field characterisation in water (including correcting for
measurement system limitations)
- Field characterisation in media other than water
- Exposure and biological interaction with tissue
- Measurement of acoustic properties of materials
- Modelling of the acoustic field
- Emerging technologies for generating ultrasound
- Alternative technologies for sensing ultrasound
- Calibration and measurement traceability
- Standards, compliance testing and quality assurance
- Ultrasound safety and biophysical endpoints
Click here for further details, including
speaker list
The meeting will be held close to London at the
National Physical
Laboratory in Teddington, UK. There will be a range of invited keynote
speakers, proffered papers, and ample time for open discussion. In addition
there will be a dedicated poster session (with a prize for the most outstanding
student presentation), a chance for researchers to display new devices or
methods, a commercial exhibition and a visit the new Ultrasonics laboratories
at NPL.
This conference is being held in association with
Precision Acoustics
Ltd.
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