Ultrasonic tissue characterization of atherosclerosis by a speed-of-sound microscanning system

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1571-1576

  Saijo, Yoshifumi ^b   Filho, Esmeraldo Santos ^b   Sasaki, Hidehiko ^b   Yambe, Tomoyuki ^b   Tanaka, Motonao ^b   Hozumi, Naohiro ^a,c   Kobayashi, Kazuto ^d   Okada, Nagaya ^d  

^a IEEE

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AICHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d HONDA ELECTRONICS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIPIDS; PIXELS; TISSUE;

ECHO INTENSITY; MICROSCANNING SYSTEM; SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPE (SAM) SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34548080267     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.427     Document Type: Article

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