3-D in vitro estimation of temperature using the change in backscattered ultrasonic energy

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1724-1733

  Arthur, R Martin ^a   Basu, Debomita ^a   Guo, Yuzheng ^a   Trobaugh, Jason W ^b   Moros, Eduardo G ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT MOTION; AVERAGE FILTER; BACK-SCATTERED; BOVINE LIVER; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DATA SETS; HILBERT TRANSFORM; IMAGE FEATURES; IMAGE REGIONS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LINEAR PROBE; NON-INVASIVE; NON-RIGID; NON-RIGID MOTION; NON-RIGID TRACKING; NUDE MICE; PHASED ARRAYS; RF SIGNAL; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SOFT TISSUE; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION; TEMPERATURE IMAGING; TEMPERATURE MAPS; THREE DIMENSIONS; ULTRASONIC ENERGY; UNIFORM HEATING;

BACKSCATTERING; ESTIMATION; HEATING; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; MUSCLE; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEAT; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; THERMOMETER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; TURKEY (BIRD);

ANIMALS; CATTLE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; THERMOMETERS; TRANSDUCERS; TURKEYS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955379595     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1611     Document Type: Article

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