{"id":2387,"date":"2024-10-08T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T08:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.iitgn.ac.in\/muselaboratory\/?page_id=2387"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:53:14","slug":"conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.iitgn.ac.in\/muselaboratory\/conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;off|desktop&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Hero&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_stops=&#8221;#ffffff 0%|#e7edf9 100%&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;#e7edf9&#8243; min_height=&#8221;461px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;16px||6px|||&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;130px||130px|&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; min_height=&#8221;274px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|auto|-2px|auto||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;||-2px|||&#8221; inline_fonts=&#8221;Georgia&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #092796;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Conference Presentations<br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; min_height=&#8221;135px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; inline_fonts=&#8221;ABeeZee&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #1b7213;\">2026<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #051377;\"><b><i>31st European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging (ESUCI), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 22\u201323, 2026.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><b>Dhawan, R.<\/b><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Trivedi, V., Shukla, H., Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/strong>, Bader, K.B.<\/span><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><b> Shekhar, H., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUltrasound contrast agent detection is enhanced using chirp-coded subharmonic excitation and Volterra filtering\u201d (oral presentation).<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\"><b><i>*Finalist for the Competition Session*<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\"><b><i><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><b>Dhawan, R.,<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Jain, S., Agarwal, M., Ruparel, H.V.<\/strong>,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><b> Shekhar, H., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cReconstruction of microvasculature images from sparse data using a hybrid attention-based U-Net architecture with transformer encoding\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><b><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><b><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><b>Jain, S<\/b><strong>., Gaonkar, S., Borate, A., <\/strong><b>Dhawan, R.<\/b><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bader, K.B., and<\/span><b> Shekhar, H., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUltrasound image segmentation of histotripsy ablation using DeepLabV3 with combined Dice\u2013Focal loss\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><b>K.S., M.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Hegde R, and <\/span><b>Shekhar, H<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>.<\/strong> \u201cImproving passive cavitation detection using a metallic metamaterial acoustic filter\u201d (oral presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #2d2d2d;\"><b>K.S., M.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Menon, S.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Kaushik, A.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Shekhar, H<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cTemporal evolution of nonlinear cavitation response in encapsulated microbubbles: Effect of ambient conditions\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #1b7213;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #1b7213;\">2025<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #061f6b;\"><i>2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS),<\/i> <em>Utrecht, Netherlands, 15th-18th Sept. 2025.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #061a66;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #212121;\"><strong>Chandra, A.<\/strong>, and <strong>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.,<\/strong> &#8220;Viscoelasticity imaging of muscle-mimicking phantoms and ex vivo goat muscle using automated fiber pennation angle estimation with angle-adaptive shear wave directional filters,&#8221; (lecture presentation). <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\">*Selected for the Student Pitch Competition*<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #212121;\"><strong>Patil, J.M.<\/strong>,<strong> Dharvia, A.,<\/strong> Raval, V., and <strong>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.,<\/strong> &#8220;Differentiating benign and malignant ocular choroidal tumors using Nakagami and Burr envelope statistics,&#8221; (lecture presentation). <span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\">*Selected for the Student Pitch Competition*<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><b>Singh, A.K., and<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Shekhar, H<\/span>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAccelerating total focusing method with pth root delay and sum and nth coherence factor weighted delay and sum using sparse arrays: A comparative study&#8221; (poster presentation). <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\">*Finalist for the Best Student Poster Competition*<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><b>Singh, A.K.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Shekhar, H<\/span>., <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>et al. <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEnhancing passive cavitation imaging nth coherence factor weighted delay and sum integrate: A comparative study&#8221; (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">Gomez, M., Singh, M., <strong>Shekhar, H.,<\/strong> and Bader, K.B. &#8220;Ultrafast tracking of histotripsy bubble clouds combined with modeling to predict treatment outcomes&#8221; (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Sahshong, P.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <strong>Chandra, A., Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/strong>, and Bhatt, M.<\/span><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cImprovement in Phase Velocity Reconstruction Using Attention<br \/>Based Deep Denoising of Shear Wave Velocity Fields\u201d\u00a0 (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #190487;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Conference proceeding citation<\/span>: P. Sahshong, A. Das, <strong>A. Chandra, K. P. Mercado-Shekhar<\/strong> and M. Bhatt, &#8220;Improvement in phase velocity reconstruction using attention based deep denoising of shear wave velocity fields,&#8221; <em>2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)<\/em>, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2025, pp. 1-4, doi: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0c71c3;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/11201458\" style=\"color: #0c71c3; text-decoration: underline;\">10.1109\/IUS62464.2025.11201458<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Das, A., Sahshong, P.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <strong>Chandra, A., Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/strong>, and Bhatt, M.<\/span><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShear wave dispersion estimation using deep learning with a multi-frequency approach\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #190487;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Conference proceeding citation<\/span>: A. Das, P. Sahshong, <strong>A. Chandra, K. P. Mercado-Shekhar<\/strong> and M. Bhatt, &#8220;Shear wave dispersion estimation using deep learning with a multi-frequency approach,&#8221; <em>2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)<\/em>, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2025, pp. 1-4, doi: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0c71c3; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/11201520\" style=\"color: #0c71c3; text-decoration: underline;\">10.1109\/IUS62464.2025.11201520<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #061a66;\">25th Annual International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU), Banff, Canada, 19th-22nd June 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Shekhar H., <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Musings in therapeutic ultrasound: From bubbles to beamforming and beyond,&#8221; <em><strong><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\">*Frederick Lizzi Early Career Award Talk*<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Shekhar, H<\/span>., Trivedi, V.,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><b>Singh, A.K., <\/b>Wallach, E., Basterrechea, K.F., <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Bader, K.B. &#8220;Advancing active and passive imaging techniques for histotripsy monitoring&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(*invited lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Mistry, N., Dhawan, R., KS, M., <\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Shekhar, H.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><\/strong>&#8220;Coating perfluorohexane nanodroplets with gold nanoparticles reduces the vaporization pressure threshold,\u201d (lecture presentation).<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>KS, M., <\/strong>Ramesh, H., Jahankir, M.J.B.,<strong> Kumar, D., Mercado-<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Shekhar, K.P.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Shekhar, H. <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><\/strong>&#8220;Shape modification of ex-vivo cartilage using focused ultrasound: A feasibility study,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>KS, M., <\/strong>Hegde, R., and<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Shekhar, H<\/span>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cImproving cavitation detection using a metallic metamaterial acoustic filter\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><b>Singh, A.K.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Basterrechea, K.F.,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bader, K.B., <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Shekhar, H<\/span>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPassive cavitation imaging using compressed sensing with pth root beamforming: Evaluation for monitoring histotripsy\u201d (poster presentation)<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Gomez, M., Singh, M., <strong>Shekhar, H<\/strong>., and Bader, K. B., &#8220;Ultrafast Tracking of Histotripsy Bubble Clouds Combined with Modeling to Predict Treatment Outcomes&#8221; (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><span dir=\"ltr\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Singh, M., Schade, G., <strong>Trivedi, V.<\/strong>, Singh, A. K., <strong>Shekhar, H.,<\/strong> Maxwell, A. D., and Bader, K. B., &#8220;Development of An Image-Guided Histotripsy System for Renal Cell Carcinoma,&#8221; (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #1b7213;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #1b7213;\"><strong>2024<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #082c87;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 18th-22nd November 2024<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Shekhar, H., Trivedi, V., <\/b><b><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #062172;\"><span style=\"color: #0f0f0f;\">Wallach., E. , Basterrechea, K. F., Bader, K. B., \u201cEvaluation of nonlinear imaging strategies for histotripsy monitoring,\u201d (lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #062172;\"><span style=\"color: #0f0f0f;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #082c87;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Rochester Center of Biomedical Ultrasound Symposium, Rochester, NY, USA, 12th November 2024<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #062172;\"><span style=\"color: #0f0f0f;\">, \u201cEnabling ultrasound techniques for tissue characterization\u201d <em><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\"><strong>*Distinguished RCBU Alumni Lecture*<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #062172;\"><i>International Tissue Elasticity Conference (ITEC), <\/i>Lyon, France, October 2024.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Bisht, S.R.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Marri, B.P., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cElucidating the effect of fluid content on model-free elastography estimates using viscoelastic phantoms,\u201d (lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #061f6b;\"><i>2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), <\/i>Taipei, Taiwan, 22nd-26th Sept. 2024.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><b>Singh, A.K.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #262626;\">Shekhar, H<\/span>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAccelerating Total Focusing Method Using Sparse Arrays with Modified Coherence Factor Weighting for Non destructive Testing\u201d\u00a0 (lecture presentation)<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Chandra, A.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Evaluation of a Mechanical Vibration System with Two End-Effectors for Longitudinal Shear Wave Viscoelastography: Simulations and In Vitro Studies Using Anisotropic Phantoms,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Patil, J.M.,<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rao, S., Vazhayil, V., <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pandya, H.J., <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mahadevan, A., <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDifferentiating glioblastoma and normal tissue using Nakagami and Burr distribution analyses of the echo envelope: An ex-vivo study.\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #061a66;\">23rd Annual International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound, Taipei, Taiwan, 19th-22nd Sept. 2024<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Jain, S., Agarwal, M., Dhawan, R., Mistry, N.<\/strong>, and <strong>Shekhar, H.<\/strong> &#8220;Suppressing Streak Artifacts in Ultrasound Images during Therapy Guidance by a Hybrid U-Net and Enhanced Masked Autoencoder,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Dhawan, R., Agarwal, M., Jain, S., Ruparel, H.V.,<\/strong> and <strong>Shekhar, H<\/strong>. \u201cReconstruction of Ultrasound Super-Resolution Images using a Hybrid Attention-based U-Net Architecture applied to sparse data.\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #424242;\"><b>Singh, A.K. and<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><b>Shekhar, H. <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEffect of therapy pulse duration on passive cavitation imaging performance in silico\u201d, (poster presentation)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #061a72;\"><i>186<\/i><i>th<\/i><i> Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, <\/i>Ottawa, Quebec, Canada, 8th-12th May 2024.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Mistry, N., Dhawan, R.,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P<\/b><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cGold Nanoparticle-Coating Reduces Acoustic Pressure Threshold for Nanodroplet Vaporization,\u201d (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khan, A., <\/span><b>Bisht, S., Mistry, N.,<\/b> <b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P<\/b><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Dalvi, S. \u201cUltrasound Responsive Multi-Layered Emulsions for Drug Delivery,\u201d (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLearnings from developing a Scientific Writing Certification program at IIT Gandhinagar,\u201d (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #062268;\"><i>2024 IEEE Latin American Ultrasonics Symposium (LAUS), <\/i>Montevideo, Uruguay, 8th-10th May 2024.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Nair, H.,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultrafast Doppler ultrasound for assessing blood perfusion in the foot: A feasibility study,\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #071775;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>2024 IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium (SAUS)<\/i><i>, <\/i>Gandhinagar, India, 27th-29th March 2024.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Bisht, S.R.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Marri, B.P., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cCharacterizing the shear wave attenuation of viscoelastic phantoms,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lecture <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Chandra, A.<\/b><b> and Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;Effect of fiber orientation on shear wave elastography estimates: In silico and experimental studies using a novel muscle phantom,&#8221; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Karmakar, J.,<\/b> <b>Dhawan, R.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cAssessing the confounding effect of vascularity on viscoelastic parameters using shear wave visco-elastography &#8211; A phantom study.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khan, A.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Bisht, S.R., Mistry, N., Mercado-Shekhar K.P., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Dalvi S.V., \u201cUltrasound responsive multi-layered emulsions for drug delivery,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lecture <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0presentation).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Mistry, N.,<\/b> <b>Dhawan, R.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cGold nanoparticle-coating reduces acoustic pressure threshold for nanodroplet vaporization,\u201d (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lecture <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>KS, M.,<\/b><b> Bisht, S.R., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cDesign and development of a portable, low cost and pure sinusoidal external mechanical vibration system for ultrasound shear wave elastography,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\">*1st place, Best Poster Award*<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Oza, S.H.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Patil, J.M.,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Raval, V., and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cDifferentiation of intraocular tumors using Nakagami envelope statistics,\u201d (Best Poster Award Finalist).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Patil<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><b> J.M.,<\/b> <b>Nair, H., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joshi, P., Murudkar, S., <\/span><b>Shekhar, H., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><b> Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cCharacterizing male baldness and female pattern hair loss via scalp and hair testing, and ultrasound envelope statistics: A pilot study,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #262626;\"><span class=\"break-words           tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\">*3rd place, Best Poster Award*<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Paul, A., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cQuantifying the effect of transducer F-number, focal depth, and tissue viscosity on Scholte wave-induced bias in shear wave elastography: A numerical study,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><b>Singh, A.K., <\/b><b>Patil, J.M., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Shekhar, H.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThe pth standard deviation factor-weighted delay-and-sum beamforming for needle visualization in B-mode ultrasound images,\u201d (Best Poster Award Finalist).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #494949;\"><b>Shekhar, H.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <\/span><b><span style=\"color: #494949;\">Singh, A.K<\/span>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEffect of the therapy pulse duration on the performance of passive cavitation imaging: A simulation study\u201d (poster presentation)<\/span><\/span>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Das, S.<\/b>, <b>Singh, A. K.<\/b> and <b>Shekhar, H.<\/b>, \u201cSparse array implementation of synthetic aperture focusing technique with pth-root beamforming for non destructive testing applications\u201d (poster presentation)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #358715;\"><strong>2023<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #062868;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), <\/i>Montreal, Canada, 3rd-8th Sept. 2023<i>.<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Bisht, S.R.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Patel, P., Thareja, P., and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cBenchmarking Linear and Viscoelastic Shear Wave elastography against rheometry: a phantom study,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Marri, B., Karmakar, J., <\/b><b>Bisht, S.R<\/b><b>.,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cShear Wave viscoelastography of Phantoms with Tunable Viscoelastic Properties Fabricated Using a Combination of Low and High Viscosity Polyvinyl Alcohol,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Patil, J.M.,<\/b><b> Trivedi, V., Yadav, A., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pandya, H.J., <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vazhayil, V., Rao, S., Mahadevan, A., <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDifferentiating normal brain tissue and glioblastoma using the integrated backscatter coefficient: An ex vivo study,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Singh, A.K.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Basterrechea,\u00a0 K. F., Bader,\u00a0 K. B., <\/span><b>Shekhar, <\/b><b>H<\/b><b>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPassive Cavitation Imaging Using Pth Root Delay Add Sum beamforming: in vitro and in Vivo Feasibility Assessment for histotripsy Guidance\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #071375;\"><strong><i>184<\/i><i>th<\/i><i> Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, <\/i>Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A, 8th-12th May 2023<i>. <\/i><\/strong><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Kakkar, M., Patil, J.M., <\/b><b>Trivedi, V., <\/b><b>Yadav, A.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Rao, S., Vazhayil, V., Mahadevan, A., Shekhar, H., and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P<\/b><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cEvaluating the feasibility of differentiating glioblastoma and normal brain tissue using H-scan imaging: An ex vivo study,\u201d (lecture\u00a0 presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Kaushik, A.<\/b><b>, Menon, S.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Shekhar, H<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cDelayed subharmonic response of a phospholipid-shelled ultrasound contrast agent: Effect of temperature, protein concentration and ambient pressure,\u201d (lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3f3f3f;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Trivedi, V.<\/b>, Wallach, E., Bader, K. B.,\u00a0 <b>Shekhar, H.<\/b>\u00a0 \u201cContrast- specific imaging of histotripsy: Chirp-coded subharmonic imaging combined with Volterra Filtering,\u201d (lecture presentation). <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #070666;\"><i>Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2023,<\/i> New Orleans, LA, U.S.A., 21st-27th April 2023.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raval, V.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>J. Karmakar, Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Shekhar, H.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Singh, A. \u201cQuantitative perfusion analysis using contrast-enhanced ultrasound for benign and malignant choroidal tumor,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #070666;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials in Biology (2023). <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #070666;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">IIT Gandhinagar, India<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Mistry, N.,<\/b> <b>Dhawan, R<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">., and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cUltrasound-Responsive Gold Nanoparticle-Coated Perfluorocarbon Lipid Nanodroplets as a Potential Carrier for Drug Delivery,\u201d (lecture\u00a0 presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #398710;\"><strong>2022<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span class=\"citation-doi\"><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #070c75;\"><i>Symposium<\/i> cum Hands-on Workshop on <i>Medical Imaging, <\/i>IISER Thruvananthapuram, 20th-22nd October 2022.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Bisht, S.R<\/b><b>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cUltrasound shear wave elastography of viscoelastic tissue-mimicking polyvinyl alcohol phantoms: Comparison with rheometry,\u201d<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> **Won 3<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> place best poster (tie).<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><i>Paul, A<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA numerical model for acoustic radiation force-induced ultrasound shear wave elastography,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">**Won 3<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> place best poster (tie).<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Kakkar, M.,<\/b><b> Patil, J.M.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Vazhayil, V., Rao, S., Mahadevan, A., <\/span><b>Shekhar, H.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201c<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evaluation of H-Scan Imaging for differentiating normal brain tissue and glioblastoma brain samples,\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Patil, J.M.<\/b><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vazhayil, V., Rao, S., Mahadevan, A., and<\/span> <b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.*<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cDifferentiating normal brain tissue and glioblastoma using the integrated backscatter coefficient in ultrasound imaging,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Nair, H.S.<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.*.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cUltrafast Doppler ultrasound assessment of perfusion in the foot: A feasibility study in healthy volunteers,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(poster presentation)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #474747;\"><b>Trivedi, V.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Wallach, E., Bader, K. B.,\u00a0 <\/span><b>Shekhar, H.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u201cHistotripsy image guidance using subharmonic imaging with chirp-coded excitation and Volterra Filtering,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #474747;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><b>Singh, A.K.<\/b><strong>, Shekhar, H. <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cP-th Root Compression Delay Add Sum Beamforming for Cavitation Imaging: In Vitro Evaluation\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #474747;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #072e77;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>IEEE International Ultrasound Symposium, Venice, Italy, October 10-13, 2022.<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3d3d3d; font-size: medium;\"><b>Trivedi, V.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Wallach, E., Bader, K. B.,\u00a0 <\/span><b>Shekhar, H.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u201cContrast-Enhanced Imaging of Histotripsy Bubble Clouds using Chirp Coded Excitation and Volterra Filtering,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #072f7a; font-size: medium;\"><i>21st Annual International Society on Therapeutic Ultrasound, Toronto, Canada, June 7 &#8211; 10, 2022.<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3d3d3d; font-size: medium;\"><b>Trivedi, V.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Wallach, E., Bader, K. B.,\u00a0 <\/span><b>Shekhar, H.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u201cHistotripsy bubble cloud contrast using chirp coded excitation and Volterra filtering,\u201d (poster presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large; color: #408c17;\"><strong>2021<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #061c6b;\"><strong><i>180<\/i><i>th <\/i><i>Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America \u2013 Acoustics in Focus<\/i>, Virtual, 8th-10th June 2021.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Sharma, A.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Marapureddy, S.G., <\/span><b>Bisht, S. R.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Thareja, P., and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P..<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;Viscoelastic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography, \u201c (lecture\u00a0 presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Yadav, A.,<\/b><b> Trivedi, V., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Evaluation of H-scan imaging in phantoms and ex vivo tissue,&#8221; (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lecture\u00a0 presentation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #050a5e;\"><strong><i>International Symposium on Ultrasound Imaging and Tissue Characterization (UITC), <\/i>Virtual, 2nd \u2013 4th June 2021.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Sharma, A.,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Marapureddy, S.G., Thareja, P., and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.*<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;Characterization of the viscoelastic properties of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography,&#8221; (lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #070666;\"><strong><i>International Conference on Formulations in Food and Healthcare (ICFFH), <\/i>Virtual, 8th-11th March 2021.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Sharma, A.,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Marapureddy, S.G., Thareja, P., and <\/span><b>Mercado-Shekhar, K.P.*<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cFabrication and characterization of tissue-mimicking viscoelastic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography,\u201d (lecture presentation).<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span class=\"citation-doi\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #006ac1;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #0c71c3;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference Presentations 2026 31st European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging (ESUCI), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 22\u201323, 2026. 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