Conference Presentations

2024

International Tissue Elasticity Conference (ITEC), Lyon, France, October 2024.

Bisht, S.R., Marri, B.P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Elucidating the effect of fluid content on model-free elastography estimates using viscoelastic phantoms,” (lecture presentation).

2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), Taipei, Taiwan, 22nd-26th Sept. 2024.

Chandra, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Evaluation of a Mechanical Vibration System with Two End-Effectors for Longitudinal Shear Wave Viscoelastography: Simulations and In Vitro Studies Using Anisotropic Phantoms,” (poster presentation).
Patil, J.M., Rao, S., Vazhayil, V., Pandya, H.J., Mahadevan, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Differentiating glioblastoma and normal tissue using Nakagami and Burr distribution analyses of the echo envelope: An ex-vivo study.” (poster presentation).

186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Quebec, Canada, 8th-12th May 2024.

Mistry, N., Dhawan, R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Gold Nanoparticle-Coating Reduces Acoustic Pressure Threshold for Nanodroplet Vaporization,” (lecture presentation).
Khan, A., Bisht, S., Mistry, N., Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., and Dalvi, S. “Ultrasound Responsive Multi-Layered Emulsions for Drug Delivery,” (lecture presentation).
Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Learnings from developing a Scientific Writing Certification program at IIT Gandhinagar,” (lecture presentation).

2024 IEEE Latin American Ultrasonics Symposium (LAUS), Montevideo, Uruguay, 8th-10th May 2024.

Nair, H., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Ultrafast Doppler ultrasound for assessing blood perfusion in the foot: A feasibility study,” (lecture presentation).

2024 IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium (SAUS), Gandhinagar, India, 27th-29th March 2024.

Bisht, S.R., Marri, B.P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Characterizing the shear wave attenuation of viscoelastic phantoms,” (lecture presentation).
Chandra, A. and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Effect of fiber orientation on shear wave elastography estimates: In silico and experimental studies using a novel muscle phantom,” (poster presentation).
Karmakar, J., Dhawan, R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Assessing the confounding effect of vascularity on viscoelastic parameters using shear wave visco-elastography – A phantom study.”
Khan, A., Bisht, S.R., Mistry, N., Mercado-Shekhar K.P., and Dalvi S.V., “Ultrasound responsive multi-layered emulsions for drug delivery,” (lecture presentation).
Mistry, N., Dhawan, R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Gold nanoparticle-coating reduces acoustic pressure threshold for nanodroplet vaporization,” (lecture presentation).
KS, M., Bisht, S.R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Design and development of a portable, low cost and pure sinusoidal external mechanical vibration system for ultrasound shear wave elastography,” (1st Place, Best Poster Award).
Oza, S.H., Patil, J.M., Raval, V., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Differentiation of intraocular tumors using Nakagami envelope statistics,” (Best Poster Award Finalist).
Patil, J.M., Nair, H., Joshi, P., Murudkar, S., Shekhar, H., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Characterizing male baldness and female pattern hair loss via scalp and hair testing, and ultrasound envelope statistics: A pilot study,” (3rd Place, Best Poster Award).
Paul, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Quantifying the effect of transducer F-number, focal depth, and tissue viscosity on Scholte wave-induced bias in shear wave elastography: A numerical study,” (poster presentation).
Singh, A.K., Patil, J.M., and Shekhar, H. “The pth standard deviation factor-weighted delay-and-sum beamforming for needle visualization in B-mode ultrasound images,” (Best Poster Award Finalist).

2023

2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Montreal, Canada, 3rd-8th Sept. 2023.

Bisht, S.R., Patel, P., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Benchmarking Linear and Viscoelastic Shear Wave elastography against rheometry: a phantom study,” (poster presentation).
Marri, B., Karmakar, J., Bisht, S.R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Shear Wave viscoelastography of Phantoms with Tunable Viscoelastic Properties Fabricated Using a Combination of Low and High Viscosity Polyvinyl Alcohol,” (poster presentation).
Patil, J.M., Trivedi, V., Yadav, A., Pandya, H.J., Vazhayil, V., Rao, S., Mahadevan, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Differentiating normal brain tissue and glioblastoma using the integrated backscatter coefficient: An ex vivo study,” (poster presentation).

184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A, 8th-12th May 2023.

Kakkar, M., Patil, J.M., Trivedi, V., Yadav, A., Rao, S., Vazhayil, V., Mahadevan, A., Shekhar, H., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Evaluating the feasibility of differentiating glioblastoma and normal brain tissue using H-scan imaging: An ex vivo study,” (lecture presentation).
Kaushik, A., Menon, S., and Shekhar, H. “Delayed subharmonic response of a phospholipid-shelled ultrasound contrast agent: Effect of temperature, protein concentration and ambient pressure,” (lecture presentation).

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2023, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A., 21st-27th April 2023.

Raval, V., J. Karmakar, Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., Shekhar, H., and Singh, A. “Quantitative perfusion analysis using contrast-enhanced ultrasound for benign and malignant choroidal tumor,” (poster presentation).

3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials in Biology (2023). IIT Gandhinagar, India

Mistry, N., Dhawan, R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Ultrasound-Responsive Gold Nanoparticle-Coated Perfluorocarbon Lipid Nanodroplets as a Potential Carrier for Drug Delivery,” (lecture presentation).

2022

Symposium cum Hands-on Workshop on Medical Imaging, IISER Thruvananthapuram, 20th-22nd October 2022.

Bisht, S.R. and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Ultrasound shear wave elastography of viscoelastic tissue-mimicking polyvinyl alcohol phantoms: Comparison with rheometry,” **Won 3rd place best poster (tie).
Paul, A. and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “A numerical model for acoustic radiation force-induced ultrasound shear wave elastography,” **Won 3rd place best poster (tie).
Kakkar, M., Patil, J.M., Vazhayil, V., Rao, S., Mahadevan, A., Shekhar, H., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Evaluation of H-Scan Imaging for differentiating normal brain tissue and glioblastoma brain samples,” (poster presentation).
Patil, J.M., Vazhayil, V., Rao, S., Mahadevan, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* “Differentiating normal brain tissue and glioblastoma using the integrated backscatter coefficient in ultrasound imaging,” (poster presentation).
Nair, H.S. and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.*. “Ultrafast Doppler ultrasound assessment of perfusion in the foot: A feasibility study in healthy volunteers,” (poster presentation).

2021

180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America – Acoustics in Focus, Virtual, 8th-10th June 2021.

Sharma, A., Marapureddy, S.G., Bisht, S. R., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.. “Viscoelastic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography, “ (lecture presentation).
Yadav, A., Trivedi, V., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Evaluation of H-scan imaging in phantoms and ex vivo tissue,” (lecture presentation).

International Symposium on Ultrasound Imaging and Tissue Characterization (UITC), Virtual, 2nd – 4th June 2021.

Sharma, A., Marapureddy, S.G., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* “Characterization of the viscoelastic properties of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography,” (lecture presentation).

International Conference on Formulations in Food and Healthcare (ICFFH), Virtual, 8th-11th March 2021.

Sharma, A., Marapureddy, S.G., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* “Fabrication and characterization of tissue-mimicking viscoelastic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography,” (lecture presentation).

Conference Presentations

2024

International Tissue Elasticity Conference (ITEC), Lyon, France, October 2024.

Bisht, S.R., Marri, B.P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Elucidating the effect of fluid content on model-free elastography estimates using viscoelastic phantoms,” (lecture presentation).

2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), Taipei, Taiwan, 22nd-26th Sept. 2024.

Chandra, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Evaluation of a Mechanical Vibration System with Two End-Effectors for Longitudinal Shear Wave Viscoelastography: Simulations and In Vitro Studies Using Anisotropic Phantoms,” (poster presentation).

Patil, J.M., Rao, S., Vazhayil, V., Pandya, H.J., Mahadevan, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Differentiating glioblastoma and normal tissue using Nakagami and Burr distribution analyses of the echo envelope: An ex-vivo study.” (poster presentation).

186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Quebec, Canada, 8th-12th May 2024.

Mistry, N., Dhawan, R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Gold Nanoparticle-Coating Reduces Acoustic Pressure Threshold for Nanodroplet Vaporization,” (lecture presentation).

Khan, A., Bisht, S., Mistry, N., Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., and Dalvi, S. “Ultrasound Responsive Multi-Layered Emulsions for Drug Delivery,” (lecture presentation).

Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Learnings from developing a Scientific Writing Certification program at IIT Gandhinagar,” (lecture presentation).

2024 IEEE Latin American Ultrasonics Symposium (LAUS), Montevideo, Uruguay, 8th-10th May 2024.

Nair, H., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Ultrafast Doppler ultrasound for assessing blood perfusion in the foot: A feasibility study,” (lecture presentation).

2024 IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium (SAUS), Gandhinagar, India, 27th-29th March 2024.

Bisht, S.R., Marri, B.P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Characterizing the shear wave attenuation of viscoelastic phantoms,” (lecture presentation).

Chandra, A. and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Effect of fiber orientation on shear wave elastography estimates: In silico and experimental studies using a novel muscle phantom,” (poster presentation).

Karmakar, J., Dhawan, R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Assessing the confounding effect of vascularity on viscoelastic parameters using shear wave visco-elastography – A phantom study.”

Khan, A., Bisht, S.R., Mistry, N., Mercado-Shekhar K.P., and Dalvi S.V., “Ultrasound responsive multi-layered emulsions for drug delivery,” (lecture presentation).

Mistry, N., Dhawan, R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Gold nanoparticle-coating reduces acoustic pressure threshold for nanodroplet vaporization,” (lecture presentation).

KS, M., Bisht, S.R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Design and development of a portable, low cost and pure sinusoidal external mechanical vibration system for ultrasound shear wave elastography,” (1st Place, Best Poster Award).

Oza, S.H., Patil, J.M., Raval, V., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Differentiation of intraocular tumors using Nakagami envelope statistics,” (Best Poster Award Finalist).

Patil, J.M., Nair, H., Joshi, P., Murudkar, S., Shekhar, H., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Characterizing male baldness and female pattern hair loss via scalp and hair testing, and ultrasound envelope statistics: A pilot study,” (3rd Place, Best Poster Award).

Paul, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Quantifying the effect of transducer F-number, focal depth, and tissue viscosity on Scholte wave-induced bias in shear wave elastography: A numerical study,” (poster presentation).

Singh, A.K., Patil, J.M., and Shekhar, H. “The pth standard deviation factor-weighted delay-and-sum beamforming for needle visualization in B-mode ultrasound images,” (Best Poster Award Finalist).

2023

2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Montreal, Canada, 3rd-8th Sept. 2023.

Bisht, S.R., Patel, P., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., “Benchmarking Linear and Viscoelastic Shear Wave elastography against rheometry: a phantom study,” (poster presentation).

Marri, B., Karmakar, J., Bisht, S.R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Shear Wave viscoelastography of Phantoms with Tunable Viscoelastic Properties Fabricated Using a Combination of Low and High Viscosity Polyvinyl Alcohol,” (poster presentation).

Patil, J.M., Trivedi, V., Yadav, A., Pandya, H.J., Vazhayil, V., Rao, S., Mahadevan, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Differentiating normal brain tissue and glioblastoma using the integrated backscatter coefficient: An ex vivo study,” (poster presentation).

184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A, 8th-12th May 2023.

Kakkar, M., Patil, J.M., Trivedi, V., Yadav, A., Rao, S., Vazhayil, V., Mahadevan, A., Shekhar, H., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Evaluating the feasibility of differentiating glioblastoma and normal brain tissue using H-scan imaging: An ex vivo study,” (lecture presentation).

Kaushik, A., Menon, S., and Shekhar, H. “Delayed subharmonic response of a phospholipid-shelled ultrasound contrast agent: Effect of temperature, protein concentration and ambient pressure,” (lecture presentation).

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2023, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A., 21st-27th April 2023.

Raval, V., J. Karmakar, Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., Shekhar, H., and Singh, A. “Quantitative perfusion analysis using contrast-enhanced ultrasound for benign and malignant choroidal tumor,” (poster presentation).

3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials in Biology (2023). IIT Gandhinagar, India

Mistry, N., Dhawan, R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Ultrasound-Responsive Gold Nanoparticle-Coated Perfluorocarbon Lipid Nanodroplets as a Potential Carrier for Drug Delivery,” (lecture presentation).

2022

Symposium cum Hands-on Workshop on Medical Imaging, IISER Thruvananthapuram, 20th-22nd October 2022.

Bisht, S.R. and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Ultrasound shear wave elastography of viscoelastic tissue-mimicking polyvinyl alcohol phantoms: Comparison with rheometry,” **Won 3rd place best poster (tie).

Paul, A. and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “A numerical model for acoustic radiation force-induced ultrasound shear wave elastography,” **Won 3rd place best poster (tie).

Kakkar, M., Patil, J.M., Vazhayil, V., Rao, S., Mahadevan, A., Shekhar, H., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Evaluation of H-Scan Imaging for differentiating normal brain tissue and glioblastoma brain samples,” (poster presentation).

Patil, J.M., Vazhayil, V., Rao, S., Mahadevan, A., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* “Differentiating normal brain tissue and glioblastoma using the integrated backscatter coefficient in ultrasound imaging,” (poster presentation).

Nair, H.S. and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.*. “Ultrafast Doppler ultrasound assessment of perfusion in the foot: A feasibility study in healthy volunteers,” (poster presentation).

2021

180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America – Acoustics in Focus, Virtual, 8th-10th June 2021.

Sharma, A., Marapureddy, S.G., Bisht, S. R., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.. “Viscoelastic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography, “ (lecture presentation).

Yadav, A., Trivedi, V., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. “Evaluation of H-scan imaging in phantoms and ex vivo tissue,” (lecture presentation).

International Symposium on Ultrasound Imaging and Tissue Characterization (UITC), Virtual, 2nd – 4th June 2021.

Sharma, A., Marapureddy, S.G., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* “Characterization of the viscoelastic properties of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography,” (lecture presentation).

International Conference on Formulations in Food and Healthcare (ICFFH), Virtual, 8th-11th March 2021.

Sharma, A., Marapureddy, S.G., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* “Fabrication and characterization of tissue-mimicking viscoelastic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography,” (lecture presentation).

Nair, H.S. and **Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.*.** “Ultrafast Doppler ultrasound assessment of perfusion in the foot: A feasibility study in healthy volunteers,” (poster presentation).