Karla P. Mercado-Shekhar

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Associate Professor
  2024 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Assistant Professor
  2019 - 2024
• University of Cincinnati Medical Center Postdoctoral Fellow
  2014 - 2019
• University of Rochester Graduate Teaching Assistant
  2010 - 2012

Education

• University of Rochester Doctor of Philosophy
  2009 - 2015
• University of Rochester Master of Science
  2009 - 2010
• Boston University Bachelor of Science
  2005 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (25)

• Ultrasound Shear Wave Attenuation Estimates are Sensitive to In situ Fluid Content: In vitro and Ex vivo Studies
  Ultrasonic Imaging 2026 DOI: 10.1177/01617346251382098
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• Multitask Learning Framework for Elasticity and Viscosity Image Reconstruction in Ultrasound Viscoelastography
  IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics 2026 DOI: 10.1109/TUSON.2026.3650938
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• Gold Nanoparticle Coating Reduces Acoustic Pressure Threshold for Perfluorohexane Nanodroplet Vaporization: Potential Mechanisms and Therapy Implications
  IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience 2026 DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2025.3644373
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• Quantifying the effect of fiber pennation angle on shear wave viscoelastography estimates: In silico and phantom studies
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2025 DOI: 10.1121/10.0035788
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• Modified Power Law Dispersion Model for Shear Waves in Soft Tissues
  IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 2025 DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2025.3595228
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• Deep denoising approach to improve shear wave phase velocity map reconstruction in ultrasound elastography
  Medical Physics 2024 DOI: 10.1002/mp.17581
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• Ultrasound Biomarkers: Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound and Nakagami Imaging to Differentiate Benign and Malignant Choroidal Tumor
  Current Eye Research 2024 DOI: 10.1080/02713683.2024.2366307
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• Systematic quantification of differences in shear wave elastography estimates between linear-elastic and viscoelastic material assumptions
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2024 DOI: 10.1121/10.0025291
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• Viscoelastic Characterization of Phantoms for Ultrasound Elastography Created Using Low- and High-Viscosity Poly(vinyl alcohol) with Ethylene Glycol as the Cryoprotectant
  ACS Omega 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c09224
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• Tethered spinal cord tension assessed via ultrasound elastography in computational and intraoperative human studies
  Communications Medicine 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s43856-023-00430-6
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