Publications

1. N Lu, J Foiret, Y Guo, B Yoon, KW Ferrara. “Improving Ultrasound Spine Imaging with a Large-Aperture Array”. Science Advances, 2025, 11 (30). Doi:10.1126/sciadv.adw2601.

2. N Lu, E Yeats, JR Sukovich, TL Hall, Z Xu. “Treatment Envelope of Transcranial Histotripsy: Strategies to Improve the Treatment Efficacy for Targets Near Skull Surface”. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2024. Doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ad8d9f.

3. N Lu, F LaRocca, S Talathi. “Accurate and Robust Eye Tracking with Ultrasound: A Computational Study.” IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) Proceedings, 2023. Doi: 10.1109/IUS51837.2023.10306398.

4. N Lu, TL Hall, JR Sukovich, SW Choi, J Snell, N McDannold, Z Xu. “Two-step Aberration Correction: Application to Transcranial Histotripsy”. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022; 67 (12). Doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac72ed.

5. N Lu, D Gupta, BJ Daou, A Fox, D Choi, JR Sukovich, TL Hall, S Camelo-Piragua, N Chaudhary, J Snell, AS Pandey, DC Noll, Z Xu. “Transcranial MR-guided Histotripsy for Brain Surgery – Pre-clinical Investigation”. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2022; 48 (1). Doi: 10.1016/j. ultrasmedbio.2021.09.008.

6. N Lu, TL Hall, D Choi, D Gupta, BJ Daou, JR Sukovich, A Fox, TI Gerhardson, AS Pandey, DC Noll, Z Xu. “Transcranial MR-Guided Histotripsy System.” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2021; 68 (9). Doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2021. 3068113.

7. R Wodnicki, J Foiret, B Liu, N Lu, X Sun, J Zhang, H Kang, H Bendjador, L Fu, C Notard, M Legros, Q Zhou, KW Ferrara. “Handheld Large 2D Array with Azimuthal Planewave and Row-Multiplexed Elevation Beamforming Enabled by local ASIC Electronics”. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2025; 72 (7). Doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025. 3570732.

8. J Foiret, W Choi, EY Park, N Lu, A Kamaya, AM Vezeridis, R Ahmed, G Trahey, KW Ferrara. “Applying Large Aperture Acquisition for Rapid Ultrasonics Abdominal Imaging”. Under review, 2025. 

9. E Yeats, N Lu, JR Sukovich, Z Xu, TL Hall. “Aberration Correction Expands the Treatment Envelope for Histotripsy in the Liver.” Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2025; 70 (23). Doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ae222c.

10. E Yeats, G Stocker, N Lu, M Komaiha, JR Sukovich, Z Xu, TL Hall. “In Vivo Cavitation-Based Aberration Correction of Histotripsy in Porcine Liver”. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2024; 71(8). Doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2024. 3409638.

11. SW Choi, M Komaiha, D Choi, N Lu, TI Gerhardson, A Fox, N Chaudhary, S Camelo-Piragua, TL Hall, AS Pandey, Z Xu, JR Sukovich. “Neuro-navigation-guided Transcranial Histotripsy (NaviTH) System”. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2024. Doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2024. 04.001.

12. S Haskell, N Lu, G Stocker, Z Xu, JR Sukovich. “Monitoring Cavitation Dynamics Evolution in Tissue-mimicking Hydrogels for Repeated Exposures via Acoustic Cavitation Emissions”. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023; 153 (237). Doi:10.1121/10.0016849.

13. E Yeats, N Lu, JR Sukovich, Z Xu, TL Hall. “Soft Tissue Aberration Correction for Histotripsy Using Acoustic Emissions from Cavitation Cloud Nucleation and Collapse”. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2022; 49 (5). Doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.01.004.

14. D Gupta, D Choi, N Lu, SP Allen, TL Hall, DC Noll, Z Xu. “MR-thermometry Targeting for MR-guided histotripsy treatments”. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2022; 49 (5). Doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.12.009.

1. N Lu, J Foiret, B Yoon, KW Ferrara. “Real-time volumetric spine imaging for interventional guidance with a large-aperture array”. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2024, Taipei.

2. N Lu, J Foiret, EY Park, S Poplack, KW Ferrara. “High-resolution large field-of-view volumetric ultrasound scanner for breast imaging.” IEEE IUS 2024, Taipei.

3. N Lu, F LaRocca, S Talathi. “Accurate and robust eye tracking with ultrasound: a computational study.” IEEE IUS 2023, Montreal, Canada. 

4. N Lu, M Komaiha, JR Sukovich, TL Hall, Z Xu. “Passive cavitation mapping for transcranial histotripsy.” IEEE IUS 2023, Montreal, Canada. 

5. N Lu, JR Sukovich, S Camelo-Piragua, Z Xu, AS Pandey. “Ablation of human brain tumors using histotripsy”. Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Meeting 2023, Washington D.C., USA. 

6. N Lu, JR Sukovich, TL Hall, Z Xu. “Treatment envelope of transcranial histotripsy: Strategies to improve the treatment efficacy for targets near skull surface.” International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) 2023, Lyon, France. 

7. N Lu, JR Sukovich, TL Hall, Z Xu. “Electronic steering capabilities of aberration correction for transcranial histotripsy.” IEEE IUS 2022, Venice, Italy. 

8. N Lu, TL Hall, JR Sukovich, et al. “Two-step aberration correction: application to transcranial histotripsy”. ISTU 2022, Toronto, Canada. 

9. N Lu, TL Hall, JR Sukovich, Z Xu. “Aberration correction for transcranial histotripsy”. IEEE IUS 2021, virtual. 

10. N Lu, D Gupta, BJ Daou, et al. “Transcranial MR-guided histotripsy for brain surgery – re-clinical investigation”. ISTU 2021, virtual (selected as Student Speed Talk Finalist) and 7th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound, 2020, virtual. 

11. N Lu, TI Gerhardson, D Choi, et al. “MR-guided histotripsy system for transcranial therapy.” IEEE IUS 2020, virtual. 

12. N Lu, JR Sukovich, T Gerhardson, et al. “Ablation of human brain tumors using histotripsy”. IEEE IUS 2019, Glasgow, UK.