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Written By: Chris de Korte, General Chair IEEE IUS 2025

The annual International Ultrasonics Symposium was held this year in Utrecht, the Netherlands. From September 15-19, 2025. 1750 delegates were present in the Jaarbeurs Convention Center together with 200 online participants to hear about the latest developments in ultrasound imaging, transducers, resonators, and ultrasound therapy. On the first day, 350 delegates participated in 14 short courses. Furthermore, 150 delegates joined the Dutch Ultrasound Ecosystem (DUE) day: 6 ultrasound research sites scattered over the Netherlands (Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Delft, Twente, and Utrecht) presented their research project and labs. 

The next 2-day course in Nijmegen will be held at June 25 and 26. 

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Liver steatosis (fatty liver) quantification using ultrasound imaging is a new tool incorporated by all major vendors. However, the problem is that the different implementations result in different steatosis values. To synchronize these systems, the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA, sponsored by RSNA and NIH) has setup a worldwide program to test these systems using calibrated values.

At MUSIC, we tested 8 different ultrasound systems from almost all major vendors. Since we had to test on 4 phantoms by 2 observers at different imaging depths and repeat these tests after 2 days, a total number of 7.500 measurements were performed.

These blinded measurements were sent to the QIBA consortium and will be combined with all other measurements performed by 25 other testing sites.

On March 20, prof. Richard Lopata, alumnus of MUSIC, gave his inaugural lecture with the title “Good Vibrations: Innovating with Sound and Light to support the healthcare system under pressure”.

Elk jaar worden in Nederland ongeveer 3.000 chirurgische ingrepen uitgevoerd om een vernauwing in de halsslagader te verwijderen - één van de belangrijkste oorzaken van een beroerte. Deze levensreddende ingreep kan na de operatie echter leiden tot verstoringen in de bloedstroompatronen, waardoor het risico bestaat dat de slagader opnieuw vernauwd raakt. Onderzoek hiernaar wordt vanuit het TURBO-programma ondersteund.

Michel Reijnen (UT) and Anne Saris (Radboudumc) received a TURBO grant for their research on Blood flow Evaluation After carotid surgical Treatment (BEAT); towards an improved treatment strategy for patients with carotid artery stenosis 

At the 35^th EUROSON meeting in Naples, the prize for the best published paper of the European Federation of Societies in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology was awarded to Gert Weijers for his paper entitled “Noninvasive Staging of Hepatic Steatosis Using Calibrated 2D US with Liver Biopsy as the Reference Standard as published in Radiology

On Tuesday August 27, 2024 Remy proudly defended his PhD thesis under the title "Advanced echocardiography in childhood cancer survivers, Fingerprinting the heart". 

On wednesday June 5, 2024 Judith defended her thesis named Ultrasound wave-tracking, pushing boundaries for vascular imaging.