About the International Congress on Ultrasonics

History

The International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU) was constituted in 2005 as the result of the merger of two existing international Congresses: The World Congress on Ultrasonics (WCU) and Ultrasonics International (UI). The ICU is currently an international affiliated member of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA), the parent organization of many national and regional acoustical societies.

The history of the ICU, as the merger of the two previous Congresses on ultrasound, is relatively short. However, the history of the two Congresses integrating ICU, is much longer: the UI started in the 1960s and the WCU started in 1993. UI, the first international congress devoted to ultrasound, was linked to the journal “Ultrasonics” created by the group Butterworth-Heinemann in England and later acquired by the well known publisher Elsevier. The WCU was created in 1993, as an independent world congress, by a group of ultrasound scientists from several countries. The third WCU was held in Lyngby, Denmark jointly with the UI. This meeting was a first attempt towards a merger of WCU and UI. Finally, the last WCU meeting, again jointly with UI, was held in Beijing, China in 2005. This meeting marked the starting point of the definitive merger of both Congresses into the present ICU.

In fact, the first 2007 ICU Vienna was held at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, the second 2009 ICU Santiago in Chile, the third 2011 ICU in Gdansk, Poland, and the fourth 2013 ICU was held in Singapore. In 2015 the fifth ICU was held in Metz, France. The sixth ICU will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A for December 18-20, 2017.

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