Artimino Conference on Medical Ultrasound 2015

The conference will take place on 7-10 June, 2015 at the Örenäs castle close to Helsinborg, Sweden.

The 2015 Artimino Ultrasound Conference is the 17th in a series of semi-annual conferences (begun as the New England Doppler Conferences) on the physics, bioengineering and clinical applications of ultrasound.

The New England Doppler Conference series was founded more than 30 years ago with the intention of giving scientists, engineers and clinicians an opportunity to discuss in depth the technical challenges of diagnosis using ultrasound in a remote, but comfortable setting and with a limited number of people. The format has been one of structured discussions rather than formal proffered papers.

Many major developments in the field, including the duplex scanner, colour Doppler imaging, vector velocity imaging, quantitative methods of haemodynamic assessment, nonlinear imaging as well as numerous technical and clinical innovations have been pioneered by participants of the New England Doppler and Artimino Conferences and discussed at its meetings.

For the seventeenths conference, the discussion will focus on leading edge developments such as microbubble and nanodroplet contrast agents, vector velocity, nonlinear and high frequency imaging as well as new developments in photoacoustics, ultrafast acquisition and synthetic aperture techniques. As well as a forum for discussion, the conference has traditionally paid special attention to its graduate student participants, a limited number of whom are invited to attend at a subsidised rate. A special area has this year been set aside for the students at the castle.

Conference objectives:

• To provide a forum to assess the current state-of-the-art ultrasound imaging and its applications in noninvasive diagnosis and therapy

• To identify key problems needing solutions for practical deployment

• To share insights into future directions with experts in allied imaging methodologies such as MRI and optics

The conference will provide a unique opportunity to address in depth a diverse range of key topics in ultrasound imaging and therapy, including:

• Ultrasound elastography

• Microbubble and nanodroplet contrast agents

• High frequency imaging and Doppler

• Photoacoustic imaging

• Gene and drug delivery with ultrasound

• Angiogenesis and tumour vascular imaging

• Quantitative haemodynamic measurement

• Cardiac and myocardial perfusion imaging

• Nonlinear imaging methods

• 3-D/4-D imaging and vector Doppler

• Ultrafast and synthetic aperture imaging and Doppler