Conference Proceedings (2015 ~ Present)

2022

N. Lu, T. Hall, J. Sukovich, S. Choi, J. Snell, N. McDannold, Z. Xu. “Two-step Aberration Correction for Transcranial Histotripsy”. Oral Presentation at ISTU 2022, Toronto, Canada.

G. Stocker, N. Lu, Z. Xu, J. Sukovich, T. Hall. “Evaluating Cavitation Mapping During Histotripsy with Electronic Focal Steering”. Oral Presentation at International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) 2022.

S. Haskell, J. Sukovich, Z. Xu, “Cavitation dynamics and shockwave evolutions during histotripsy treatment”. Poster presentation at International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) 2022

S.W. Choi, D. Choi, M. Komaiha, J. Sukovich, N. Lu, T. Gerhardson, N. Chaudhary, S. Camelo-Piragua, A. Pandey, Z. Xu. “Neuronavigation-guided transcranial histotripsy on cadavers: a feasibility study”, Oral Presentation at International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) 2022, In-person

S.W. Choi, D. Choi, M. Komaiha, J. Sukovich, N. Lu, T. Gerhardson, N. Chaudhary, S. Camelo-Piragua, A. Pandey, Z. Xu. “Neuronavigation-guided transcranial histotripsy on cadavers: a feasibility study”, Student Finalist Poster Presentation at International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) 2022, In-person

S.W. Choi, J. Sukovich, D. Choi, M. Komaiha,  N. Lu, T. Gerhardson, N. Chaudhary, S. Camelo-Piragua, A. Pandey, Z. Xu. “Neuronavigation-guided transcranial histotripsy on cadavers: a feasibility study”, Student Finalist Poster Presentation at Focused UItrasound Symposium 2022, In-person

S. Duclos, A. Andjelkovic-Zochowska, S. Camelo-Piragua, N. Chaudhary, J. Sukovich, T. Hall, A. Pandey, Z. Xu. “Transcranial Histotripsy Induces Blood Brain Barrier Opening and Repair.” Poster Presentation at International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) 2022, Toronto, CA. 

C.L. Hendren, E.C. Hobson, Z. Xu, T.L. Hall, C.X. Deng. “High-Throughput Acoustic Rheometry System Tracks Clotting Blood in Real Time”. Poster Presentation at International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) 2022, Toronto, Canada.

2021

G. Stocker, J. Lundt, S. W. Choi, T. Gerhardson, J. Sukovich, T. Hall, Z. Xu. “Method of Fabrication for a Densely Packed Therapeutic Ultrasound Array”. Poster Presentation at IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2021, virtual.

N. Lu, J. Sukovich, T. Hall, Z. Xu. “Aberration Correction for Transcranial Histotripsy”. Poster Presentation at IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2021, virtual.


N. Lu, D. Gupta, D. Noll, Z. Xu, et al. “Transcranial MR-guided Histotripsy for Brain Surgery – Preclinical Investigation”. Oral Presentation at International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) 2021, virtual.

Gupta D, Lu N, Fox A, Choi D, Daou BJ, Pandey A, Hall T, Xu Z, and Noll D, “Technical feasibility and imaging of transcranial MR-guided in-vivoHistotripsy treatment”. Oral, In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Virtual. 2021

2020

N. Lu, T. Hall, D. Noll, Z. Xu, et al. “Transcranial MR-Guided Histotripsy System.”  Oral Presentation at IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2020, virtual.

N. Lu, D. Gupta, D. Noll, Z. Xu, et al. “Transcranial MR-guided Histotripsy Treatment: An In-vivo Pig Study”. Oral presentation at 7th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound, 2020, virtual.

J. Sukovich, T. Hall, N. Lu, Z. Xu. “Transmit-Receive Capable Histotripsy Systems for Real-time Treatment Localization and Mapping and Evaluating Induced Tissue Damage”. 7th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound, 2020, virtual.

D. Gupta, N. Lu, S. Peltier, D. Noll, et al. “MRI assessment and monitoring of cavitation-based ultrasound therapy (histotripsy) for transcranial brain treatment in vivo.” International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Conference, 2020, virtual.

2019

 N. Lu, J. Sukovich, T. Gerhardson, Z. Xu, et al. “Ablation of Human Brain Tumors Using Histotripsy”. Poster Presentation at IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2019, Glasgow, UK.

2018

Worlikar T, Vlaisavljevich E, Gerhardson T, Greve J, Wan S, Kuruvilla S, Lundt J, Ives K, Hall TL, Welling TH, Lee F, Xu Z “Non-Invasive Ablation of Liver Tumor using Histotripsy in a subcutaneous in vivo Murine Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Model”. The international conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology , Honolulu,HI, United States of America, 07/2018

Li Y, Hall TL, Xu Z, Cain CA “Enhanced shock scattering histotripsy with pseudo-monopolar ultrasound pulses.”. Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America, 05/2018

2017

Worlikar T, Vlaisavljevich E, Gerhardson T, Greve J, Wan S, Ives K, Hall TL, Welling TH, Xu Z “Non-Invasive Liver Cancer Ablation using Histotripsy in an in vivo Murine Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Model”. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Washington, DC, United States of America, 09/2017

Macoskey JJ, Sukovich JR, Hall TL, Cain CA , Xu Z “Acoustic Cavitation Emission Feedback to Monitor Tissue Fractionation During Histotripsy Therapy”. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Washington, DC, United States of America, 09/2017

Shi A, Hall TL, Worlikar T, Xu Z “Integrated histotripsy and bubble coalescence transducer for rapid tissue ablation”. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Washington, DC, United States of America, 09/2017

Vlaisavljevich E, Worlikar T, Gerhardson T, Greve J, Wan S, Ives K, Hall TL, Welling T, Xu Z “Non-Invasive Liver Cancer Ablation using Histotripsy in an in vivo Murine Model”. International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound Symposium, Nanjing, China, 06/2017

Vlaisavljevich E, Gerhardson T, Hall TL, Xu Z “Effects of F-number on the histotripsy intrinsic threshold and cavitation bubble cloud behavior.”. International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound Symposium, Nanjing, China, 06/2017

Sukovich JR, Gerhardson T, Macoskey JJ, Cain CA, Xu Z “A comparative study of transcranial histotripsy applied with and without aberration correction.”. International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound Symposium, Nanjing, China, 06/2017

2016

Lundt J, Allen S, Sukovich J, Hall T, Xu Z “Effects of Dosing and Focal Spacing in Rapid Ablation of Large Tissue Volume Using Histotripsy with Electronic Focal Steering.”. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, France, 09/2016

Sukovich J, Cain CA, Hall T, Allen S, Pandey A, Chaudhary N, Camelo-Piragua S, Snell J, Xu ZY, Cannata J, Teofilovic D, Bertolina J, Xu Z “In Vivo Histotripsy Brain Treatments”. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Tours, France, 09/2016

Gerhardson T, Sukovich JR, Pandey AS, Xu Z “Transcranial Histotripsy Aberration Correction with Drainage Catheter Integrated Hydrophone for Treatment of Intracerebral Hemorrhage”. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Tours, France, 09/2016

Zhang X, Macoskey J, Ives K, Owens G, Gurm H, Shi J, Pizzuto M, Cain CA, Xu Z “Noninvasive Thrombolysis using Microtripsy in a Porcine Deep Vein Thrombosis Model”. International Symposium of Focused Ultrasound, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, 08/2016

Lundt J, Allen S, Sukovich J, Hall T, Cain CA, Xu Z “Effects of Dosing and Focal Spacing in Rapid Ablation of Large Tissue Volume Using Histotripsy with Electronic Focal Steering”. International Symposium of Focused Ultrasound, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, 08/2016

Lundt J, Allen S, Sukovich J, Hall T, Cain CA, Xu Z “Effects of Dosing and Focal Spacing in Rapid Ablation of Large Tissue Volume Using Histotripsy with Electronic Focal Steering”. International Symposium of Focused Ultrasound, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, 08/2016

Sukovich J, Cain CA, Xu ZY, Pandey A, Snell J, Chaudhary N, Camelo-Piragua S, Allen S, Paeng D-G, Cannata J, Teofilovic D, Bertolina J, Kassell N, Hall T, Xu Z “In vivo porcine histotripsy brain treatments”. International Symposium of Focused Ultrasound, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, 08/2016

Lundt JE, Allen SP, Sukovich JR, Hall TL, Cain CA, Xu Z “Noninvasive, Rapid Ablation of Large Tissue Volume Using Histotripsy”. International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound Symposium,, Tel Aviv, Israel, 03/2016

2015

Zhang X, Owens G, Gurm HS, Ding Y, Cain CA, Xu Z “Non-invasive Thrombolysis using Histotripsy beyond the “Intrinsic” Threshold (Microtripsy)”. EEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 10/2015

Sukovich JR, Kim Y, Pandey A, Gurm H, Cain CA, Xu Z “Transcranial Histotripsy therapy to treat hemorrhagic stroke.”. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, 10/2015

Sukovich JR, Kim Y, Pandey A, Gurm H, Cain CA, Xu Z “Targeted lesion generation through the skull using histotripsy without aberration correction”. International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound Symposium, 04/2015

Vlaisavljevich E, Aydin O, Lin K-W, Fowlkes JB, El-Sayed M, Xu Z “Investigation of the role of ultrasound frequency and droplet composition in nanodroplet-mediated histotripsy”. International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound Symposium, Utrecht, Netherlands, 04/2015

Zhang X, Owens G, Gurm HS, Ding Y, Cain CA, Xu Z “Non-invasive Thrombolysis using Histotripsy beyond the “Intrinsic” Threshold (Microtripsy)”. International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound Symposium, 04/2015