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Applications Specialist of the Year 2025
Kicking off 2025 with an incredible team! It was great to come together, share insights, and set the stage for another impactful year at hashtag#INSIGHTEC. I’m honored to be recognized alongside Dylan as Applications Specialists of the year. This team’s dedication and passion inspire me every day. Huge thanks to our leadership and teammates for such a collaborative environment!
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60 minutes CBS
Experimental ultrasound treatment targeting brains in trials to help those with Alzheimer's, drug addiction
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ultrasound-treatment-alzheimers-drug-addiction-patients-60-minutes/
FAU, Delray Medical Center, Insightec Team Up on Groundbreaking Study
Experimental ultrasound treatment targeting brains in trials to help those with Alzheimer's, drug addiction
https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/alzheimers-focused-ultrasound-study.php
IEEE UFFC-S America Latina en/em Foco Webinar series
As part of our Latin America Outreach Initiative, we are hosting a monthly webinar series with Latin American speakers.
IEEE UFFC society Latin America Ultrasonics Symposium
As part of our Latin America Outreach Initiative, we are hosting a Latin America Ultrasonics Symposium in 2021. We believe that regional events such as Latin America Ultrasonics Symposium (LAUS) will promote new opportunities to the ultrasonics engineering community and help develop a critical mass for this initiative.
High-Resolution Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation Induces Limb-Specific Motor Responses in Mice in Vivo
Check out this great work by Christian Aurup on the EMG analysis of the motor evoked responses elicited by focused ultrasound neuromodulation. The results highlight one of the big advantages of focused ultrasound - the noninvasive, high spatial control of the brain!
Aurup et al., High-Resolution Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation Induces Limb-Specific Motor Responses in Mice in Vivo, Ultrasound Med Biol (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2020.12.013
Our paper was selected as front cover in IEEE Transaction on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
I am honored and humbled to have our paper "Real-time passive acoustic mapping using sparse matrix multiplication," as front cover in IEEE Transaction on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 68, no. 1, Jan. 2021.
Front cover link: https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2020.3042289
Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2020.3001848
Saharkhiz, et al.. Harmonic motion imaging of human breast masses: an in vivo clinical feasibility. Sci Rep 10, 15254 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71960-5
Harmonic motion imaging of human breast masses: an in vivo clinical feasibility
In our newest paper, we demonstrate an ultrasound-based imaging modality that can identify suspicious masses in the breast and help to differentiate cancerous from non-cancerous tissues.
Great work led by my mentee, Niloufar Saharkhiz :-)
Our lab is in the Greek news!
Recent technological advances have led to the development of Magnetic Resonance (MR)-guided Focused Ultrasound (FUS) (MRgFUS). This technique is increasingly gaining ground as an advantageous alternative to conventional treatment of a variety of conditions for which numerous clinical trials are currently ... [More]
Ultrasound Neuromodulation: Mechanisms and the Potential of Multimodal Stimulation for Neuronal Function Assessment
Would you like to know more about ultrasound neuromodulation? Read our mini-review to learn more about the potential insights into mechanisms that magnetic resonance imaging sequences along with a multimodal stimulation approach involving electrical, magnetic, chemical, light, and mechanical stimuli can provide.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00150/full
Kamimura HAS, et al. (2020) Ultrasound Neuromodulation: Mechanisms and the Potential of Multimodal Stimulation for Neuronal Function Assessment. Front. Phys. 8:150. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2020.00150
Displacement imaging for focused ultrasound peripheral nerve neuromodulation
We developed a method that non-invasively measures nerve engagement, via tissue displacement, during focused ultrasound neuromodulation of in vivo nerves using simultaneous high frame-rate ultrasound imaging.
Congrats Stephen for leading this work!
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9093080
S. A. Lee, H. A. S. Kamimura, M. T. Burgess, and E. E. Konofagou, "Displacement imaging for focused ultrasound peripheral nerve neuromodulation," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, doi: 10.1109/TMI.2020.2992498.
Student Paper Competition at the IEEE IUS 2019 6-9 October 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Proud of my mentee Stephen Alexander Lee. Columbia UEIL rocks!
Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound: Physical Principles and Biomedical Applications
As a guest editor for Frontiers in Physics and Frontiers in Physiology, I am glad to announce our special edition on Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound: Physical Principles and Biomedical Applications. This peer-reviewed, research topic focuses on several aspects of MRI-guided FUS. I invite you to check out the link below. If you think your paper could be a good fit, my colleagues Nicola Toschi, Allegra Conti, Anthony Novell, Andrea Duggento and I will be happy to handle your submission.
Our new paper is out. "Amelioration of the nigrostriatal pathway facilitated by ultrasound-mediated neurotrophic delivery in early Parkinson's disease" (by Karakatsani et al., 2019)
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Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2018, in recognition of the high quality and timeliness of reviews for Physics in Medicine and Biology
The peer-review is one of my favorite tasks as a researcher. By doing so, I can keep up to date on the most recent scientific developments. This award is a great motivation for me to continue doing my best in this task. Thanks, PMB!
Patent issued and what a nice way to get it!
USPTO Director Andrei Iancu personally presented us with the newly-issued patent during his talk at Columbia University (Nov. 29th, 2018)
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FAPESP Week New York 2018
Seeking for collaboration opportunities in this great event organized by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and The City University of New York (CUNY). What a privilege to be among these great scientists!
More information about the event on: http://agencia.fapesp.br/colaboracoes-internacionais-estimulam-a-pesquisa-internacional-e-de-qualidade/29272/
Best presentation award in the Winter School on Therapeutic Ultrasound 2017
I am very honored to receive directly from Dr. Gail Ter Haar and Dr. Jean-François Aubry the award for the best presentation in the Winter School on Therapeutic Ultrasound! The Winter School was a great experience with many of the best researchers in the field! I highly recommend it. In addition to that, you can enjoy an astonishing view of Mont Blanc.
Best 2016 Ph.D. dissertation award!
I am honored to receive the award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in the field of Medical Physics by the Brazilian Physical Society. I would like to thank my advisors, Prof. Antonio Carneiro, Prof. Octavio M. Pontes Neto, and Prof. Elisa Konofagou and for the financial support given by the São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP.
Grant approved in Brazil
I approved a grant to develop a device for a Brazilian company. The result can be found here (in Portuguese). We raised R$200k of public funding to develop this project. This project was later coordinated by Mr. Rogerio Bulha, since I moved to France to work as a postdoctoral research scientist.
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