IEEE IUS 2021 Patrons & Supporters
Special Thanks
The conference organizers gratefully acknowledge the generous support provided by the following
Verasonics designs and markets leading-edge Vantage™ ultrasound research systems for academic and commercial investigators. These real-time, software-based, programmable ultrasound systems accelerate research by providing unsurpassed speed and control to simplify the data collection and analysis process. Researchers in 34 countries routinely use the unparalleled flexibility of the Vantage platform to advance the art and science of ultrasound through their own research efforts. In addition, to protect your investment and encompass additional research options, every Vantage System can be upgraded to any configuration. Verasonics’ Vantage Systems are the ideal solution for ultrasound driven research and development in biomedical, materials science, earth sciences, and the physics of acoustics.
Mindray is a leading global developer of medical devices and solutions, dedicated to making better healthcare more accessible to humanity. Since its foundation in 1991, Mindray has been exclusively focused on the medical industry in the fields of Patient Monitoring & Life Support, In-Vitro Diagnostics, and Medical Imaging.
Headquartered in Shenzhen China, Mindray is a multinational corporation with subsidiaries in more than 30 countries in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. The company’s products and services can be found in healthcare facilities in over 190 countries.
Driven by innovation, Mindray has built up a global R&D network with 9 research centers in the US and China. Focused on fully understanding the needs of both patients and practitioners, Mindray’s insightful innovation produces ergonomically optimized medical devices that are readily accessible by the healthcare practitioner, allowing doctors and nurses to focus on the patient, not the machine.
Mindray closely controls all aspects of R&D and production, from design through to manufacturing of the final product. An integrated in-house production facility ensures the highest quality and also reduces costs, maximizing value for customers and ultimately making healthcare accessible to more people.
VINNO, Innovation For A Better Life, is a manufacturing challenger in Color Doppler Ultrasound market, a products and solutions' provider in 100+ countries globally. We are committed to continuously have heavy investment in R&D toimprove outcomes for our customers to meet the evolving challenges around the world. In past 11 years, together with our customers and academic professionals we developed full range of product portfolio and holding nearly 300 invention patents to satisfy various applications in the field.
Vermon is leading the development and industrialization of state-of-the-art ultrasound solutions for medical and industrial applications.
Vermon’s commitment is to innovate, design and manufacture advanced transducers and arrays with cutting-edge technology to support its customers' innovative ultrasound applications while strengthening their long-term market position with superior ultrasound imaging performances.
FUJIFILM VisualSonics, Inc is the undisputed world leader in the development of real-time ultrasound and photoacoustic systems, providing tools specifically designed to support imaging-based research. Our cutting edge technologies support researchers at the world’s top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, hospitals, and universities in their research efforts across areas including cardiovascular, cancer, neurobiology, developmental biology, and acoustics. These technologies support applications including genetic research, phenotypic studies, drug development, imaging systems development, and many more. VisualSonics' platforms combine a broad range of frequencies, high resolution, real-time data acquisition, and access to quantifiable data, all supported by powerful user-friendly software.
Founded in Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park, Shanghai, Acoustic Life Science Co., Ltd. (ALS) is a high-tech company dedicated to the research, development, manufacture, and application of advanced medical ultrasound technology.
With cutting-edge technology, ALS specializes in high-end medical imaging ultrasound products, including ceramic probes, piezoelectric composite, and single crystal probes.
We are focusing on medical ultrasound probes and exploring more potentials, such as endoscopic ultrasound transducers, intravascular ultrasound imaging catheters, and hand-held ultrasonic probe solution, aiming to innovate and deliver high quality products to the worldwide customers.
We provide technical expertise and engineering support for emerging applications in advanced ultrasound technologies.
Daxsonics offers services to help companies develop ultrasound products. We work in at all stages of the life cycle providing a range of services including R&D, acoustic stack design, transducer design, electronics, software design, firmware design, and system integration. Our team of industry leading experts consistently come up with creative solutions to help develop market-disrupting products. We specialize in:
- High-frequency (>30MHz) ultrasound transducer and beamformer design
- Transducers and electronics for high-intensity focused ultrasound for thermal ablation and histotripsy
- Transducer design for small packaging and high-volume, low-cost manufacturing
- Advanced signal and image processing
- Artificial intelligence and computer vision programming applied to ultrasound imaging
scia Systems is a full range supplier of advanced ion beam and plasma processing equipment. The systems are applicable for etching (e.g., delayering of dies), trimming (e.g., surface correction of filter devices) and coating (e.g., temperature compensation films) processes in the production of microelectronics and MEMS.
Our process equipment achieves Angstrom precision in frequency, surface and thickness trimming, in manufacturing of BAW and SAW devices. The industry proven scia Trim 200, enables ion beam trimming of functional layers in compound wafers, which leads to excellent material properties.
Due to their flexible and modular design, the systems can be configured according to customer specific requirements for both, high volume production as well as research and development environments. Together with our worldwide service partners, we offer comprehensive service and superior technology support.
The Focused Ultrasound Foundation was created to improve the lives of millions of people worldwide by accelerating the development of focused ultrasound, an early-stage noninvasive therapeutic technology with the potential to transform the treatment of many medical disorders. The Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that focused ultrasound finds its place as a mainstream therapy within years, not decades, and works to fund research, foster collaboration, and build awareness among patients and professionals. Since its establishment in 2006, it has become the largest non-governmental source of funding for focused ultrasound research.
Qualified and cost-effective medical ultrasound systems manufacturer.
As an ISO 9001/13485 & CE certified industrial entity and national hi-tech corporation, Ecare Electronics Science & Technology Co., Ltd. has been focusing on R&D and manufacturing of medical ultrasound devices since 2007.
Ecare has a full product line, including handheld, laptop, portable and trolley color doppler ultrasound imaging devices. Some of the products have treatment function integrated.
A strict quality management system is deployed in Ecare to control every process in R&D, manufacturing, inspection and warehousing.
Ecare always sync with the frontier ultrasound imaging researches and try to apply them to products.
Company Introduction:
Doppler is a world leading manufacturer to provide high performance nondestructive testing instruments & transducers, dedicate to build a renowned world brand of ultrasound. Doppler was established in 2008, located in Guangzhou, China, certified as National High-tech Enterprise.
The ultrasonic inspection system for detecting the presence, magnitude and position of flaws in materials. Our products are designed to apply for non-destructive testing on materials like pipeline corrosions & weld defects, GIS conductor weld cracks, aerospace composite material defects, railway tracks & wheel defects, steel plate cracks etc.
Product Range:
Doppler launched high standard products with strong technical indexes in market, composite conventional crystal probes and high performance composite phased array probes (including linear array, 2D array, concave, annular sectorial and so on), special high frequency probes and TOFD probes. Doppler independently developed ultrasonic equipment and scanners: portable ultrasonic phased array flaw detector,digital ultrasonic flaw detectors, and a variety of scanners for pipe and plate weld. The great performance of products have reached or surpassed the international advanced level.
us4us Ltd. delivers advanced ultrasound research systems and OEM components optimized for software-defined ultrasound applications and GPU processing. Our solutions feature raw RF acquisition and high-speed PCIe data streaming, enabling the end user to implement their own real-time CPU/GPU processing algorithms. An open SDK provides flexibility and easy integration with C/C++/Python/Matlab.
Our current offering:
• us4R-lite – a low-cost, portable ultrasound research system featuring 256TX/64RX channels and an external Thunderbolt 3 interface (40Gb/s). The first truly portable solution to work with your PC/notebook.
• us4R – an advanced 2D/3D-ready ultrasound research system featuring 256TX/256RX channels and an extremely high data transfer rate (up to 30GB/s). The system is intended for real-time implementation of advanced/complex ultrasound processing algorithms on GPUs.
• us4OEM – a credit-card sized ultrasound front-end module with 128TX/32RX channels for integration in the end-user system/solution.
Furthermore, we offer consulting and development services in the area of ultrasound methods, systems, and product development.
Focus & Fusion Healthcare is dedicated in researching, developing and manufacturing innovative and high-quality clinical ultrasound diagnostic equipment. Based on our unique HI® imaging platform, BTM® transducer platform and precisely controlled processing technology, our products demonstrate both high-performance and great reliability. As one of the few manufacturers in this industry who are able to independently provide full-stack solution, i.e. hardware, algorithm, application, transducer, we are capable to provide advanced solutions such as multi-beam forming, full acoustic field focusing, 768 elements premium transducer and so on.
Sonic Concepts™ is a global leader in designing and delivering innovative therapeutic and focused ultrasound solutions for leading-edge pre-clinical research. In addition to their HIFUPlex™ and NeuroFUS™ systems, the company creates customized ultrasound devices tailored for unique clinical and industrial needs. Sonic Concepts also offers custom R&D engineering, design, and prototyping services, plus scalable manufacturing of specialized ultrasound transducers and systems for a wide variety of therapy and imaging purposes. Every day, researchers and organizations around the world use Sonic Concepts’ best-in-class customizable products and turnkey ultrasonic therapy and imaging solutions to make medical breakthroughs and solve complex problems.
Ultrafast Science, a Science Partner Journal is an online-only Open Access journal published in affiliation with Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of CAS and distributed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The journal’s mission is to build a platform for ultrafast scientific research; present new theories, concepts, ideas, technologies and progress in this field; publish the latest research representing the forefront of the discipline and that of international concern; and promote academic exchange and development worldwide. Ultrafast Science publishes high-quality original research articles, comprehensive reviews, editorials, and perspectives which feature high novelty, significance and technical quality in cutting-edge and emerging topics in ultrafast science with broad interest from scientific communities. Learn more at: https://spj.sciencemag.org/journals/ultrafastscience
Electronics & Innovation, Ltd is a focused and dynamic company fulfilling the market demand for rugged and reliable RF power amplifiers. Founded in 2003, by former ENI engineers and executives, E&I was incorporated on the 16th of March, 2004. We are located in Rochester, NY, where all products are designed, assembled, and tested at our facility. E&I services and supports all major markets; operating globally through distributor outlets worldwide. E&I is committed to providing RF power amplifier solutions of the highest quality, durability, and ruggedness. Our amplifiers have under gone tests by the military and have proven to be even more reliable than the original ENI amplifiers. In addition unlike the old ENI amplifiers, they are CE marked, RoHS Compliant and meet all relevant emissions and safety standards. The Difference to You E&I has the people, the products, and the capabilities to meet your RF needs. Quality is and has been at the cornerstone of our growth – we constantly strive to be better, so that you can achieve more.