2011 Course Schedule

Location: Toronto, Canada

Dates Description

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Feb 22 - 23

2-Day Abdominal and Tumor Imaging (Vevo 2100) 2-Day MicroMarker Contrast Imaging (Vevo 2100) 2-Day Cardiovascular Imaging (Vevo 2100) 1-Day Vascular Imaging (Vevo 2100) 2-Day Abdominal and Tumor Imaging (Vevo 2100) 2-Day Cardiovascular Imaging (Vevo 2100) 1-Day VevoStrain Workshop (Vevo 2100) 1-Day Vascular Imaging (Vevo 2100) 2-Day Abdominal and Tumor Imaging (Vevo 2100) 2-Day Vevo MicroMarker Contrast Imaging (Vevo 2100)

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Feb 24 - 25

June 6 - 7

June 8

VisualSonics Training Courses

June 9 - 10

30+ online instructional videos Technical and procedural documents including application-specific workbooks and protocols An online forum to post questions and engage in discussions about the VisualSonics products Access to VisualSonics library of published papers

Oct 31 - Nov 1

2011 Schedule

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Toronto, Canada

Nov 7 - 8

Nov 9 - 10

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Course Descriptions
Our Vevo courses offer hands-on instruction at our laboratories in Toronto or Amsterdam. You can sign up for 1 or all 5 courses. You will receive personal instruction from our skilled applications team, who have trained researchers at several institutions worldwide.

Vascular and Doppler One-Day Training

Abdominal and 3-Dimensional Two-Day Training

Our Abdominal and 3D Techniques Training Program will use the mouse model to help users optimize their use of the Vevo high resolution imaging system for phenotyping of cancer models and/or abdominal imaging. Obtaining 2D views of the liver, spleen, pancreas, gallbladder, kidney and adrenals Use of Pulsed Wave Doppler to obtain flow measurements of the renal artery and vein, portal vein, hepatic vessels, splenic vessels, abdominal aorta and IVC Implementation of standard measurements used in the abdomen Creation of a 3D volumetric measurement in vivo in a subcutaneous tumor model How to use Color Doppler (for Vevo 2100 only) Use of Power Doppler to quantify percent vascularity Workflow optimization

Our Vascular and Doppler Training Program will use the mouse model to help users optimize their use of the Vevo high resolution imaging system for cardio and vascular phenotyping. Overview of basic Doppler principles for quantification of blood flow Locating and obtaining 2D images of various vessels in the body, such as the carotid arteries, femoral arteries, renal arteries, splenic arteries, abdominal aorta and branches off of the vessel, i.e. mesenteric arteries Obtaining Pulsed Wave Doppler of these vessels and implementing flow measurement and quantification tools in the software such as peak velocity, VTI, resistive and pulsatility indices How to use Color Doppler (for Vevo 2100 only) Use of M-mode to aid in wall measurements of vessels Workflow optimization

Cardiovascular Two-Day Training

VevoStrain One-Day Workshop

Our Cardiovascular Training Program will use the mouse model to help users optimize their use of the Vevo high resolution imaging system for cardiovascular phenotyping. How to do a mouse echocardiogram, including imaging the heart in long axis, short axis and apical views. How to obtain images of the aortic valve, pulmonary valve, mitral and tricuspid valves How to use Color Doppler (for Vevo 2100 only) How to obtain and measure Pulsed Wave Doppler and M-mode spectrums Diastolic function measurements Left ventricular analysis Workflow optimization Image guided injection into the myocardium

This workshop is intended for Vevo 2100 user. If you are a Vevo 770 user and would like to see how this software works, you may certainly attend. However, this software is only available on the Vevo 2100 system. Our VevoStrain Workshop will use the mouse model to help users optimize the use of the VevoStrain software for global wall motion tracking in the left ventricle. Normal and infarcted images for analysis will be provided Overview of regional and global wall motion tracking How to quantify: velocity/displacement/strain/strain rate time to peak Quantification with a variety of graphs and parametric displays How to export and understand the values

Courses Offered:

Abdominal and 3-Dimensional Two-Day Training Cardiovascular Two-Day Training MicroMarker Contrast Imaging Two-Day Training Vascular and Doppler One-Day Training VevoStrain One-Day Workshop

Our MicroMarker Training Program will use the mouse model to help users optimize their use of the Vevo high resolution imaging system for contrast-enhanced and molecular imaging, using MicroMarker contrast agents. Overview of available MicroMarker contrast agents for various applications Introduction of tail vein cannulation techniques (for agent introduction) Hands-on practice sessions will involve both targeted and nontargeted imaging with MicroMarker contrast agents and software analysis tools Models may include subcutaneous tumors, normal abdominal organs, hind limb inflammatory model and normal eye and heart models Workflow optimization

MicroMarker Contrast Imaging Two-Day Training

This is a post processing feature. Computers for analysis will be provided for this hands-on session. There is no animal handling with this course