Using high frequency ultrasound envelope statistics to determine scatterer number density in dilute cell solutions

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 878-881

  Tunis, A S ^a,b   Baddour, R E ^a,b   Czarnota, G J ^b   Giles, A ^b   Worthington, A E ^b   Sherar, M D ^a,b   Kolios, M C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell; Envelope statistics; High frequency; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; CELLS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENVELOPE STATISTICS; HFUS BACKSCATTER; HIGH-FREQUENCY; STRUCTURAL CHANGES;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33847164455     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1602990     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. P. M. Shankar, J. M. Reid, H. Ortega, C. W. Piccoli, and B. B. Goldberg. Use of non-rayleigh statistics for the identification of tumors in ultrasonic b-soans of the breast. IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 12(4):687-692, 1993.
2. P. M. Shankar. A model for ultrasonic scattering from tissues based on the k distribution. Phys Med Biol, 40(10):1633-49, 1995.
3. P. M. Shankar et al. Studies on the use of non-rayleigh statistics for ultrasonic tissue characterization. Ultrasound Med Biol, 22(7):873-82, 1996.
4. P. M. Shankar. A compound scattering pdf for the ultrasonic echo envelope and its relationship to k and nakagarni distributions. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroeleotr Freq Control, 50(3):339-343, 2003.
5. P. M. Shankar et al. Classification of ultrasonic b-mode images of breast masses using nakagami distribution. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control, 48(2):569-80, 2001.
6. P. M. Shankar et al. Classification of breast masses in ultrasonic b scans using nakagami and k distributions. Phys Med Biol, 48(14):2229-40, 2003.
7. X. Hao, C. J. Bruce, C. Pislaru, and J. F. Greenleaf. Segmenting high-frequency intracardiac ultrasound images of myocardium into infarcted, ischemic, and normal regions. IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 20(12): 1373-83, 2001.
8. B. I. Raju and M. A. Srinivasan. Statistics of envelope of high-frequency ultrasonic backscatter from human skin in vivo. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control, 49(7):871-82, 2002.
9. M. A. Barry, C. A. Behnke, and A. Eastman. Activation of programmed cell death (apoptosis) by cisplatin, other anticancer drugs, toxins and hyperthermia. Biochem Pharmacol, 40(10):2353-62, 1990.
10. nd ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2 ed, 1992.
11. P. M. Shankar. Ultrasonic tissue characterization using a generalized nakagami model. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroeleotr Freq Control, 48(6):1716-1720, 2001.
12. J. Beaulieu et al. High-frequency ultrasound characterization of microcellular components. In Proceedings of the 10th Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, page S123, Montreal, Canada, 2002.
13. G. J. Czarnota. Ultrasound imaging of apoptosis in vivo: Effects of subcellular nuclear morphology and cell membrane morphology. In Proceedings of the 10 Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, page SI 17, Montreal, Canada, 2002.
14. M. C. Kolios, G. J. Czarnota, A. E. Worthington, A. Giles, A. S. Tunis, and M. D. Sherar. Towards understanding the nature of high frequency backscatter from cells and tissues: An investigation of backscatter power spectra from different concentrations of cells of different sizes. In IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Montreal, Canada, 2004.
15. A.S. Tunis, G.J. Czarnota, A. Giles, M.D. Sherar, J.W. Hunt and M.C. Kolios. Monitoring structural changes in cells with high-frequency ultrasound signal statistics. Ultrasound Med Biol, 31(8):1041-1049, 2005.