Publications
2025
Chandra, A., Wubet, M., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* “Quantifying the effect of fiber pennation angle on shear wave viscoelastography estimates: In silico and phantom studies,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (accepted for publication).
2024
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Raval, V.*, Karmakar, J., Kannan, K., Oza, S., Patil, J., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. (2024) “Ultrasound biomarkers: Contrast enhanced ultrasound and Nakagami imaging to differentiate benign and malignant choroidal tumors,” Current Eye Research, 1-7, doi: 10.1080/02713683.2024.2366307.
Bisht, S.R., Paul, A., Patel, P., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* (2024) “Systematic quantification of differences in shear wave elastography estimates between linear-elastic and viscoelastic material assumptions,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155:2025-2036, doi: 10.1121/10.0025291.
Bisht, S.R., Marri, B.P., Karmakar, J., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* (2024) “Viscoelastic characterization of phantoms for ultrasound elastography created using low- and high-viscosity poly(vinyl alcohol) with ethylene glycol as the cryoprotectant,” ACS Omega, doi: 10.1021/acsomega.3c09224.
Das, M., Pandey, V., Jajoria, K., Bhatia, D., Gupta, I., and Shekhar, H.* (2024) “Glycosylated porphyrin derivatives for sonodynamic therapy: ROS generation and cytotoxicity studies in breast cancer cells,” ACS Omega, 9(1):1196-1205, doi: 10.1021/acsomega.3c07445.
Kerensky, M., Paul, A., Routkevitch, D., Hersh, A.M., Kempski-Leadingham, K.M., Davidar, A.D., Judy, B.F., Punnoose, J., Williams, A., Kumar, A., Lehner, K., Smith, B., Son, J.K., Azadi, J.R., Shekhar, H., Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., Thakor, N.V., Theodore, N., and Manbachi, A.* (2024) “Quantifying tethered spinal cord tension: Ultrasound elastography results from computational, cadaveric, and intraoperative first-in-human studies,” Communications Medicine (Nature Portfolio), 4(4), doi: 10.1038/s43856-023-00430-6.
2023
Kakkar, M., Patil, J.M., Trivedi, V., Yadav, A., Saha, R.K., Rao, S., Vazhayil, V., Pandya, H.J., Mahadevan, A., Shekhar, H., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* (2023) “Hermite-scan imaging for differentiating glioblastoma from normal brain: simulations and ex vivo studies for applications in intra-operative tumor identification,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154:3833–3841, doi: 10.1121/10.0023952.
Bisht, S.R., Trivedi, V.V., Bhardwaj, R., Jha, C.K., Ghosh, D., and Shekhar, H.* (2023). “Pulsing and detection strategies for contrast-enhanced ultrasound: A narrative review,” IEEE Open Journal of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 3:56-69, doi: 10.1109/OJUFFC.2023.3275936.
Kaushik, A., Khan, A.H., Pratibha, Dalvi, S.V., and Shekhar, H.* (2023). “Effect of temperature on the acoustic response and stability of size-isolated protein-shelled ultrasound contrast agents and SonoVue,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153:2324, doi: 10.1121/10.0017682.
Sharma, A., Marapureddy, S. G., Paul, A., Bisht, S.R., Kakkar, M., Thareja, P., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* (2023). “Characterizing viscoelastic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 49(2):497-511, doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.09.019.
2022
Khan, A.H., Jiang, X., Kaushik, A., Nair, H.S., Edirisinghe, M., Mercado-Shekhar, K.P., Shekhar, H., and Dalvi, S.V.* (2022). “Combining Ultrasound and Capillary-Embedded T-Junction Microfluidic Devices to Scale Up the Production of Narrow-Sized Microbubbles through Acoustic Fragmentation,” Langmuir, 38 (33):10288-10304, doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c01676.
Jha, C.K., Jajoria, K., Chakrabarty, A.L., and Shekhar, H.* (2022). “A Fiber Bragg Grating-based Sensor for Passive Cavitation Detection at MHz frequencies,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2022.3161848.
Wallach, E. L., Shekhar, H., Flores-Guzmán, F., Hernandez, S.L. and Bader, K.B.* (2022). “Histotripsy Bubble Cloud Contrast With Chirp-Coded Excitation in Preclinical Models,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 69(2): 787-794, doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2021.3125922.2022
2021
Roy, J., Pandey, V., Gupta, I, and Shekhar, H.* (2021). “Antibacterial Sonodynamic Therapy: Current Status and Future Perspectives,” ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00587
Bansal, K., Jha, C.K., Bhatia, D.*, and Shekhar, H.* (2021).”Ultrasound-enable therapeutic delivery and regenerative medicine: Physical and biological perspectives,” ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00276
Bisht, S.R., Mishra, P., Yadav, D., Rawal, R., and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.* (2021). “Current and emerging diagnostic techniques for oral cancer screening and diagnosis: A review,” Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 3(4): 042003. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2516-1091/ac1f6c
Bader, K.B.*, Wallach, E.L., Shekhar, H., Flores-Guzman, F., Halpern, H.J., and Hernandez, S.L. (2021). “Estimating the mechanical energy of histotripsy bubble clouds with high frame rate imaging,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 66(16):165004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ac155d
Singh, G., Paul, A., Shekhar, H., and Paul, A.* (2021). “Pulsed ultrasound assisted thermo-therapy for sub surface tumor ablation: A numerical investigation,” Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 13(4):041007. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048674
Pal, U., Nayak, A., Medisetti, T., Gogoi, G., Shekhar, H., Prasad, M.S.N., Vaidya, J.S., Pandya, H.J.* (2021). “Hybrid spectral-IRDx: near-IR and ultrasound attenuation system for differentiating breast cancer from adjacent normal tissue,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2021.3077582