Three-dimensional spatial and temporal temperature imaging in gel phantoms using backscattered ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-30

  Anand, Ajay ^b   Savéry, David ^b   Hall, Christopher ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEL PHANTOMS; TISSUE NECROSIS; ULTRASOUND TEMPERATURE;

BACKSCATTERING; GELS; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMOCOUPLES; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEL; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GELS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846288851     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.208     Document Type: Article

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