Courses offered for the 2011 year.

1. 2011 Course Schedule
Location: Toronto, Canada Register for Courses:
Dates Description
Web: www.visualsonics.com/vsi-university
2-Day Abdominal and Tumor Imaging
Feb 22 - 23 Email: training@visualsonics.com
(Vevo 2100)
2-Day MicroMarker Contrast Imaging
Customer Website
Feb 24 - 25
(Vevo 2100)
Get VIP access to a wide variety of online
2-Day Cardiovascular Imaging resources and user forums here:
June 6 - 7 www.visualsonics.com/custlogin
(Vevo 2100)
1-Day Vascular Imaging
Find support materials for: VisualSonics
Training Courses
June 8
(Vevo 2100)
Vevo 660, Vevo 770, Vevo 2100,
MicroMarker contrast agents and
2-Day Abdominal and Tumor Imaging
June 9 - 10 Cellvizio LAB
(Vevo 2100)
• 30+ online instructional videos
2-Day Cardiovascular Imaging
Oct 31 - Nov 1 • Technical and procedural documents
(Vevo 2100)
including application-specific workbooks
2011 Schedule
1-Day VevoStrain Workshop
and protocols
Nov 2
(Vevo 2100) • An online forum to post questions and
engage in discussions about the
1-Day Vascular Imaging VisualSonics’ products
Nov 3
(Vevo 2100) Toronto, Canada
• Access to VisualSonics’ library of
published papers
2-Day Abdominal and Tumor Imaging
Nov 7 - 8
(Vevo 2100)
2-Day Vevo MicroMarker Contrast
Nov 9 - 10 Want to know more? Contact Us:
Imaging (Vevo 2100)
North American TF: +1.866.416.4636
European TF: +800.0751.2020

2. Course Descriptions Vascular and Doppler
®
Our Vevo courses offer hands-on One-Day Training
Our Vascular and Doppler Training Program will use the mouse
instruction at our laboratories in Toronto or Abdominal and 3-Dimensional model to help users optimize their use of the Vevo high resolution
Two-Day Training imaging system for cardio and vascular phenotyping.
Amsterdam. You can sign up for 1 or all 5 Our Abdominal and 3D Techniques Training Program will use the
courses. You will receive personal mouse model to help users optimize their use of the Vevo high • Overview of basic Doppler principles for quantification of blood
resolution imaging system for phenotyping of cancer models
instruction from our skilled applications and/or abdominal imaging.
flow
• Locating and obtaining 2D images of various vessels in the
team, who have trained researchers at • Obtaining 2D views of the liver, spleen, pancreas, gallbladder,
body, such as the carotid arteries, femoral arteries, renal
several institutions worldwide. kidney and adrenals
arteries, splenic arteries, abdominal aorta and branches off of
the vessel, i.e. mesenteric arteries
• Use of Pulsed Wave Doppler to obtain flow measurements of
• Obtaining Pulsed Wave Doppler of these vessels and
the renal artery and vein, portal vein, hepatic vessels, splenic
implementing flow measurement and quantification tools in the
vessels, abdominal aorta and IVC
software such as peak velocity, VTI, resistive and pulsatility
• Implementation of standard measurements used in the
indices…
abdomen
• How to use Color Doppler (for Vevo 2100 only)
• Creation of a 3D volumetric measurement in vivo in a
• Use of M-mode to aid in wall measurements of vessels
subcutaneous tumor model
• Workflow optimization
• How to use Color Doppler (for Vevo 2100 only)
• Use of Power Doppler to quantify percent vascularity
• Workflow optimization VevoStrain
One-Day Workshop
Cardiovascular This workshop is intended for Vevo 2100 user. If you are a
Two-Day Training Vevo 770 user and would like to see how this software works,
Our Cardiovascular Training Program will use the mouse model to you may certainly attend. However, this software is only available
help users optimize their use of the Vevo high resolution imaging on the Vevo 2100 system.
system for cardiovascular phenotyping.
Our VevoStrain Workshop will use the mouse model to help users
• How to do a mouse echocardiogram, including imaging the optimize the use of the VevoStrain software for global wall
heart in long axis, short axis and apical views. motion tracking in the left ventricle.
Courses Offered: • How to obtain images of the aortic valve, pulmonary valve,
mitral and tricuspid valves
• Normal and infarcted images for analysis will be provided
• How to use Color Doppler (for Vevo 2100 only)
• Overview of regional and global wall motion tracking
• Abdominal and 3-Dimensional • How to obtain and measure Pulsed Wave Doppler and M-mode
• How to quantify: velocity/displacement/strain/strain rate time to
spectrums
Two-Day Training • Diastolic function measurements
peak
• Quantification with a variety of graphs and parametric displays
• Left ventricular analysis
• How to export and understand the values
• Cardiovascular • Workflow optimization
• Image guided injection into the myocardium
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
MicroMarker Contrast Imaging with this course
• MicroMarker™ Contrast Imaging Two-Day Training
Two-Day Training 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
• Vascular and Doppler MicroMarker contrast agents.
One-Day Training
• Overview of available MicroMarker contrast agents for various
• VevoStrain™ applications
• Introduction of tail vein cannulation techniques (for agent
One-Day Workshop introduction)
• Hands-on practice sessions will involve both targeted and non-
targeted 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