2013 Annual Convention

Convention | Wednesday, April 10
10:45 AM–12:30 PM
Special Interest Sessions
Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging: Benefits and Challenges
With Increasing Acoustic Output Beyond Diagnostic Levels
Earn up to 1.75 CME credits.
Manhattan Ballroom Eighth Floor
BSI
Moderators: Kathy Nightingale, PhD, Thomas Szabo, PhD
This session is designed to educate users and researchers about the acoustic output
levels currently used in acoustic radiation force impulse imaging systems and
to discuss the potential for clinical benefit, the potential for bioeffects, and the
challenges in acoustic output characterization associated with increasing acoustic
output levels beyond the current US Food and Drug Administration levels.
10:45 AM–10:50 AM Introduction
Kathy Nightingale, PhD
10:50 AM–11:12 AM Clinical Opportunities and Biological Rationales in the Era
of Tissue Mechanical Imaging
Anthony Samir, MD
11:12 AM–11:34 AM The Historical Basis for the Food and Drug
Administration’s Maximum Exposure Level Guidance
for Diagnostic Ultrasound
Gerald Harris, PhD
11:34 AM–11:56 AM An Analysis of the Mechanical Index as a Means for
Ensuring Patient Safety During Acoustic Radiation Force
Impulse Imaging
Charles Church, PhD
11:56 AM–12:18 PM Investigation of the Use of Increased Acoustic Output
Levels for Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging in
the Research Setting
Mark Palmeri, MD, PhD
12:18 PM–12:30 PM Questions and Answers
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