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The second CIUS full-day conference held on 23 November 2016 in Trondheim, attracted near 80 participants representing CIUS researchers, partners, collaborators and international speakers.\u00a0 The day had a varied programme and ample opportunity for networking across work packages, institutions, and fields of speciality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CIUS director Asta H\u00e5berg opened the day before leaving the floor for the invited speakers Dr Alan Hunter from University of Bath, and Dr Hua Wang from MIT.<\/p>\n

\"Presentations<\/p>\n

Dr Hunter spoke on the topic \u201cUnderwater crime scene investigation for the London Metropolitan Police\u201d, where the challenge is to develop an autonomous, compact, easy-to-use and affordable sonar vessel for finding missing persons and objects related to crime. He took us through the progress in the project so far, and future challenges, like identifying small objects.<\/p>\n

Dr Wang\u2019s presentation on \u201cSeismic Propagation in Borehole Environment\u201d took us through the use of wave dispersion characteristics by modelling of single and dual cased wells. \u00a0He presented a novel method for depicting and characterizing bore holes, even through double steel layers, using ultrasound.<\/p>\n

After a quick update on plans for the CIUS website and intranet by web- and communications officer Kari Williamson, it was time for speed updates. The topics ranged from improving ultrasound technology and image analysis to clinical applications. See the programme below for details.<\/p>\n

\"Speed<\/p>\n

The partner presentations ranged from open heart surgery applications and innovative projects, to the use of portable ultrasound at the patient bedside, also by non-expert users.<\/p>\n

First speaker was Erik Swensen, Vice President R&D at Medistim, who talked about the use and challenges of developing reusable ultrasound probes for monitoring vessel patency in open heart, peripheral and transplant surgery. He was followed by Svein-Erik M\u00e5s\u00f8y, CEO Inphase Solutions, who talked about innovation projects including using ultrasound for wireless transfer of information and power as well as for use in quality assurance. The last speaker in this section was H\u00e5vard Dalen, Professor NTNU and Senior Consultant Cardiology St. Olavs Hospital, who showed how portable ultrasound devices can be used with great success by medical students, medical residents and nurses, and how it improves diagnostic accuracy, and thereby reducing time to treatment<\/p>\n

\"Partner<\/p>\n

The final session saw updates from academia with Fabrice Prieur, Postdoc at UiO, talking about the use of 2nd harmonics, which is commonly used in medical ultrasound for SONAR imaging (non-linearity and its challenges). He demonstrated that the use of 2nd harmonics provides additional information also in SONAR. \u00a0Lasse L\u00f8vstakken, Professor NTNU, taking us through the latest in Doppler, software beamforming, functional ultrasound imaging and 3D tracking. CIUS Board Director and Programme Manager at GE Healthcare, Eva Nilssen, concluded the conference with a summary of the day.<\/p>\n

\"Closing<\/p>\n

The next CIUS conference day will be held in the last week of April and by request from our partners, the CIUS spring meeting will be extended to 1.5 day to get more time for workshops and partner-academia interaction.<\/p>\n

The presentations will be made available on the CIUS intranet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The programme:<\/h3>\n