Ultrasound Phase Contrast Thermal Imaging with Reflex Transmission Imaging Methods in Tissue Phantoms

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1995-2006

  Farny, Caleb H ^a   Clement, Gregory T ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase contrast imaging; Reflex transmission imaging; Thermometry

Indexed keywords

BACK PROJECTION; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; PEAK TEMPERATURES; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; SOUND FIELDS; SOUND SPEED; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STEADY-STATE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMAL IMAGING; TISSUE PHANTOM; TRANSMISSION IMAGING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOMETERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEATING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOMETRY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VELOCITY;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 71749092005     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.05.019     Document Type: Article

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