A busy schedule at global conferences
In 2025, we attended seven conferences, including the following:
- ESM: At the biennial meeting of the European Society for Microcirculation (ESM) in Szeged, Hungary, in May, our Scientific Application Specialist Pia Pelaez presented a symposium session titled “From brain functions to microvessels: Functional ultrasound and super-resolution vascular imaging with Iconeus One”.
- Brain & Brain PET: To reach new audiences, our trusted distributor Scitech Korea attended the 32nd International Symposium on Cerebral Blood Flow, Metabolism and Function in Seoul, South Korea, in June.
- fUS BRAIN: This regular feature of our conference calendar took place in June at the PariSanté Campus, Paris, and was organized by Physics for Medicine Paris.
- KSBNS: The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences (KSBNS) conference at Incheon, South Korea, in August, featured talks by our Application Specialist Sara Romanzi and our co-founder, Professor Mickael Tanter.
- ECNP: In October, the 38th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) annual congress held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, had an industry session led by our Application Specialist Hippolyte De Valmont, titled “Pioneering real-time whole brain imaging with Iconeus One”.
- SfN: This major conference hosted by the Society for Neuroscience was held this year in November in San Diego, USA. It featured a satellite symposium dedicated to fUS imaging, and a talk by our Head of Product Development Dr Jeremy Ferrier titled “Functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI): Shaping the future of brain imaging”. Following our very successful ‘Product Theater’ session last year, we repeated this promotional session, with a presentation by Application Specialist Pia Pelaez focusing on the capabilities of Iconeus One.
Left: Dr Jeremy Ferrier (far left) talks to customers visiting the Iconeus booth at SfN in November – just one of the conferences we attended in 2025. Right: Iconeus One is a prominent feature on the booth of our distributors Scitech Korea at Brain & Brain PET in June.
Launch of the new Iconeus One range
Speaking of SfN, this was where we launched our new range for Iconeus One. The idea of this is that you can now match your fUS capabilities to your requirements, at a price that suits your budget:
- Iconeus One Xplore offers a versatile linear stage and easy-to-learn software for 2D imaging, making it a powerful yet affordable option for anyone starting out with fUS
- Iconeus One Xpand has a four-axis motorized platform, ULM capacity, and additional multi-dimensional options, offering the next level up in fUS functionality
- Iconeus One Xcel is ideal for anyone looking to push the boundaries of fUS, with 256 channels, 3D ULM capability, expert-level software, and additional scientific support.
The Iconeus One Xplore, Xpand and Xcel – providing a succession of features and a straightforward upgrade path making it easy for you to adapt to evolving research needs.
To find out more, download the brochure or get in touch with us directly!
Promoting fUS possibilities
The applications of functional ultrasound are many and varied, and in 2025 we continued our program of webinars explaining the possibilities to new (or established) audiences, including the following:
- Studying functional connectivity with functional ultrasound imaging
- Pioneering real-time whole brain imaging with functional ultrasound for brain disorder and neuropharmacology
- From brain function to microvessels: Functional ultrasound and super-resolution vascular imaging.
You can still watch all these on-demand on our dedicated webinars page.
Groundbreaking fUS publications
Citations of our fUS equipment in the scientific literature continued to be strong in 2025, and amongst these there were several highlights.
- Work by our own staff at Iconeus, in collaboration with Physics for Medicine Paris, led to a publication in eBiomedicine in January, describing how ‘waste’ data routinely acquired during fUS studies can provide real-time information on cardiac and respiratory pulsation in rodents and humans.
- Another paper published in eBiomedicine appeared in May, and described how researchers at the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon used Iconeus fUS equipment to show that 0.1 Hz neurovascular ‘travelling waves’ are a major contributor to cerebral hemodynamics during neuroinflammation.
- A paper in Geroscience published in March described how fUS and ULM on Iconeus One enabled demonstration of the negative effect of paclitaxel on neurovascular response and neurovascular networks in the mouse.
- An article in NeuroImage, published in June, described how researchers at Oklahoma University have shown that fUS correlates well to LSCI when imaging functional hyperemia in the mouse, while offering a greater depth of field.
- And in mid-November, our own staff were again authors, this time of an article in JoVE, which described a procedure for using the microbubble-enabled ULM technique to obtain super-resolved images of the brain microvasculature in rodents. There’s a video coming soon too!
Amongst others, papers in JoVE, Neuroimage and eBiomedicine outlined research carried out using Iconeus’ fUS equipment in 2025.
Keen to find out more about what’s being done with fUS? You can view an up-to-date listing of all papers published using our equipment on our website.
A fresh website for a new year
And finally, we’ve been busy updating our Iconeus website over the last year, which now includes:
- Video testimonials from Ioana-Emilia Mosneag, Professor Luciano De Fraga and Dr Rob Wykes
- A Scientific Posters page with short video highlights by the authors of conference posters
- A customer case-study focused on the work of Professor Stefano Tarantini at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Automated listing of peer-reviewed publications featuring fUS and Iconeus One, thanks to the use of Bioz badges
- Product pages dedicated to our fUS probes, and for our IcoScan, IcoStudio and IcoLab fUS software.
We think that these changes set us on the right foot as we head into 2026 – and we’re looking forward to what the year will bring for fUS!
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