About the BATC
The Biomedical Acoustics Technical Committee (BATC), one of the most diverse groups in the Acoustical Society of America, is comprised of individuals whose interests cover a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications or, more generally, the interaction of sound with biological materials. Biomedical Acoustics was formerly known as Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration.
The Biomedical Acoustics TC is concerned with the study of the interactions of acoustic waves with biological materials, including cells, tissues, organ systems and entire organisms. Relevant areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Diagnostic and therapeutic applications of acoustics in medicine
- Biological effects of exposure to mechanical vibration and acoustic waves
- Acoustic propagation in biological materials
- Instrumentation
- Ultrasound field calibration, exposimetry and dosimetry
- Ultrasound contrast agents
- Medical image and signal processing
- Characterization and processing of biological materials
- Physiological measurements
Chair of Biomedical Acoustics: Julianna C. Simon
The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Program in Acoustics
jcsimon@psu.edu
Student Council Representative: Chirag A. Gokani
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Mechanical Engineering
chiragokani@gmail.com
Biomedical Acoustics Webmaster: Pradosh P. Dash
Georgia Institute of Technology
Department of Mechanical Engineering
ppdash@gatech.edu
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Student resources
- Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications by A. D. Pierce
- Introduction to Elastic Wave Propagation by Bedford and Drumheller
- Dan Russell’s Acoustics and Vibrations Animations
- Noe Jimenez’s acoustics simulations
- Scott Schoen Jr.’s acoustics notes
- Chirag Gokani’s acoustics quals review site
Technical Committee Meeting Notes
We will begin uploading our meeting notes to this page starting in the Sydney meeting (December 2023).