Young Investigator Award Recipients
The Young Investigator Awards encourage quality research and the presentation of meritorious scientific papers.
This year, Verasonics is sponsoring the Young Investigator Awards. Verasonics is a leader in research ultrasound equipment and is focused on providing researchers and developers with the most advanced and flexible tools enabling them to develop new algorithms and products used in biomedical ultrasound, materials science, earth sciences, and the physics of acoustics and ultrasonics. The company has customers located in over 35 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
Abdul-Kareem Ahmed, MD
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Bilateral MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Central Lateral Thalamotomy for Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia: Preliminary Results
Javier Ajenjo Barcenas, PhD
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PAM and FUS-assisted AAV Delivery into the Brain for Quantitative PET/CT Imaging
Ali Bassir, MD
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Pivotal Study of Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation of the Prostate: MR Thermometry Parameters and Clinical Response at 4-year Follow-up
Sheng Chen
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Simultaneous Monitoring of Bone and Soft Tissue with a Rapid MRI Method for Focused Ultrasound Surgery
Riccardo Ciocca
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A Noninvasive Biomarker of Microbubbles Distribution in the Brain: Comparison Between Intraoperative CEUS and Perfusion MRI
Daniel Düx, MD
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A 10-year Multicenter Experience of MR-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) in 105 Patients with Extra-Abdominal Desmoid Tumors
Areej Ennasr
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Examination of Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (LIFU) Parameters and Longevity of Effect for Human Neuromodulation
Yutong Guo, PhD
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Microbubble Properties and Ultrasound Frequency can Modulate the Blood-Brain Barrier Phenotype
Alayna Hay, PhD
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Investigating the Ablative and Immunological Outcomes of Histotripsy Treatment for Canine Osteosarcoma
Alexander In
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Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound to Insula Attenuates Contact Heat Evoked Potentials and Reduces Pain Perception in Humans
Ayesha Jameel
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The Evolution of Thalamic Ventral Intermediate Nucleus Targeting in MRgFUS Thalamotomy for Tremor, an International Perspective 2019 to 2021
Sara Johnson, PhD
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Non-Contrast MR Biomarker of Thermal Ablation in MRgFUS Treatments via Supervised Learning to MR-Registered Histology
Ryan Jones, PhD
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A Fully Electronically Steerable Modular MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Phased Array System
Stephen Lee
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Focused Ultrasound Modulates Neuropathic Pain
Xiaoyue Li
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Real-Time Harmonic Motion Imaging Guided Focused Ultrasound (HMIgfUS) in Breast Cancer Patients in Vivo
Katherine Liu
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Beta-Amyloid Changes in PET after Neuronavigation-Guided Focused Ultrasound Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
Veronika Purrer, MD
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Quantitative and Qualitative Tremor Evaluation after tcMRgFUS Thalamotomy in ET
Lauren Ruger
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Histotripsy Ablation of Spontaneously Occurring Canine Bone Tumors in Vivo
Tao Sun, PhD
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Focused Ultrasound Immunomodulation on the Myeloid Compartment of the Brain in Treating GBM and Alzheimer’s Disease
Dezhuang (Summer) Ye, PhD
Abstract Titles:
Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Intranasal Delivery of AAV to Targeted Brain Regions with Minimal Systemic Exposure
Ultrasound with Microbubbles Accelerates Glymphatic Transportation