A theoretical comparison of attenuation measurement techniques from backscattered ultrasound echoes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2316-2324

  Labyed, Yassin ^a   Bigelow, Timothy A ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; BACKSCATTERED ULTRASOUND; DIFFERENCE METHOD; HYBRID METHOD; NUMBER DENSITY; PULSE LENGTH; REGION OF INTEREST; SCATTERER SIZE; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; TISSUE PATHOLOGY; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

SCATTERING;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79954459174     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3559677     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bigelow, T. (2010). " Estimating the total ultrasound attenuation along the propagation path by applying multiple filters to backscattered echoes from a single spherically focused source.," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 57 (4), 900-907. 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1494
2. Bigelow, T. A., McFarlin, B. L., O'Brien, W. D., Jr., and Oelze, M. L. (2008). " In vivo ultrasonic attenuation slope estimates for detecting cervical ripening in rats: Preliminary results.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123 (3), 1794-1800. 10.1121/1.2832317 (Pubitemid 351379605)
3. Bigelow, T. A., and O'Brien, W. D., Jr. (2004). " Scatterer size estimation in pulse-echo ultrasound using focused sources: Calibration measurements and phantom experiments.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116 (1), 594-602. 10.1121/1.1757453 (Pubitemid 38916034)
4. Bigelow, T. A., and O'Brien, W. D., Jr. (2006). " Impact of local attenuation approximations when estimating correlation length from backscattered ultrasound echoes.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120 (1), 546-553. 10.1121/1.2208456 (Pubitemid 44014192)
5. Flax, S. W., Pelc, N. J., Glover, G. H., Gutmann, F. D., and McLachlan, M. (1983). " Spectral characterization and attenuation measurements in ultrasound.," Ultrason. Imaging 5 (2), 95-116. 10.1016/0161-7346(83)90013-5 (Pubitemid 13034586)
6. Hall, T. J., Insana, M. F., Harrison, L. A., and Cox, G. G. (1996). " Ultrasonic measurement of glomerular diameters in normal adult humans.," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 22 (8), 987-997. 10.1016/S0301-5629(96) 00142-1 (Pubitemid 26423853)
7. Hyungsuk, K., and Varghese, T. (2007). " Attenuation estimation using spectral cross-correlation.," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 54 (3), 510-519. 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.274 (Pubitemid 46495669)
8. Insana, M., Zagzebski, J., and Madsen, E. (1983). " Improvements in the spectral difference method for measuring ultrasonic attenuation.," Ultrason. Imaging 5 (4), 331-345. (Pubitemid 14151898)
9. Insana, M. F., Wagner, R. F., Brown, D. G., and Hall, T. J. (1990). " Describing small-scale structure in random media using pulse-echo ultrasound.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87 (1), 179-192. 10.1121/1.399283 (Pubitemid 20090722)
10. Kim, H., and Varghese, T. (2008). " Hybrid spectral domain method for attenuation slope estimation.," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 34 (11), 1808-1819. 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.04.011
11. Kuc, R. (1980). " Clinical application of an ultrasound attenuation coefficient estimation technique for liver pathology characterization.," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. BME-27 (6), 312-319. 10.1109/TBME.1980.326739 (Pubitemid 10000795)
12. Kuc, R. (1984). " Estimating acoustic attenuation from reflected ultrasound signals: Comparison of spectral-shift and spectral-difference approaches.," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. 32 (1), 1-6. 10.1109/TASSP.1984.1164282
13. Kuc, R., and Schwartz, M. (1979). " Estimating the acoustic attenuation coefficient slope for liver from reflected ultrasound signals.," IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultrason. 26 (5), 353-361.
14. Landini, L., and Sarnelli, R. (1986). " Evaluation of the attenuation coefficients in normal and pathological breast tissue.," Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 24 (3), 243-247. 10.1007/BF02441619 (Pubitemid 16107591)
15. Landini, L., Sarnelli, R., and Squartini, F. (1985). " Frequency-dependent attenuation in breast tissue characterization.," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 11 (4), 599-603. 10.1016/0301-5629(85)90031-6 (Pubitemid 15000119)
16. Leeman, S., Ferrari, L., Jones, J. P., and Fink, M. (1984). " Perspectives on attenuation estimation from pulse-echo signals.," IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultrason. 31 (4), 352-361. (Pubitemid 14651336)
17. McFarlin, B. L., O'Brien, W. D., Jr, Oelze M. L., Zachary, J. F., and White-Traut, R. C. (2006). " Quantitative ultrasound assessment of the rat cervix.," J. Ultrasound Med. 25 (8), 1031-1040. (Pubitemid 44157335)
18. Narayana, P. A., and Ophir, J. (1984). " The measurement of attenuation in nonlinearly attenuating media by the zero crossing method.," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 10 (6), 715-718. 10.1016/0301-5629(84)90231-X (Pubitemid 15103331)
19. Oelze, M. L., Zachary, J. F., and O'Brien, W. D., Jr. (2002). " Characterization of tissue microstructure using ultrasonic backscatter: Theory and technique for optimization using a Gaussian form factor.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112 (3), 1202-1211. 10.1121/1.1501278 (Pubitemid 35006673)
20. Parker, K. J., Lerner, R. M., and Waag, R. C. (1988). " Comparison of techniques for in vivo attenuation measurements.," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 35 (12), 1064-1068. 10.1109/10.8691 (Pubitemid 19029915)
21. Parker, K. J., and Waag, R. C. (1983). " Measurement of ultrasonic attenuation within regions selected from B-scan images.," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. BME-30 (8), 431-437. 10.1109/TBME.1983.325148 (Pubitemid 13025154)
22. Treece, G., Prager, R., and Gee, A. (2005). " Ultrasound attenuation measurement in the presence of scatterer variation for reduction of shadowing and enhancement.," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 52 (12), 2346-2360. 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1563279 (Pubitemid 43254200)
23. Yao, L. X., Zagzebski, J. A., and Madsen, E. L. (1990). " Backscatter coefficient measurements using a reference phantom to extract depth-dependent instrumentation factors.," Ultrason. Imaging 12 (1), 58-70. 10.1016/0161-7346(90)90221-I (Pubitemid 20156728)