Echo-Power Estimation from Log-Compressed Video Data in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1826-1837

  Payen, Thomas ^a,b   Coron, Alain ^a,b   Lamuraglia, Michele ^a,b,c   Le Guillou Buffello, Delphine ^a,b   Gaud, Emmanuel ^d   Arditi, Marcel ^d   Lucidarme, Olivier ^e   Bridal, S Lori ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^d Bracco Suisse SA   (Switzerland)

^e PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Echo power; Linearization; Log compression; Microbubbles; Perfusion quantification; Video compression

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; LINEARIZATION; MANUFACTURE; PIXELS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; VIDEO RECORDING;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ULTRASOUND; DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED; ECHO-POWER; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MICROBUBBLES; PERFUSION QUANTIFICATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

BR 38; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVU; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IN VIVO STUDY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MICROBUBBLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; ECHO-POWER; LINEARIZATION; LOG COMPRESSION; MICROBUBBLES; PERFUSION QUANTIFICATION; VIDEO COMPRESSION;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATA COMPRESSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84883457768     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.03.022     Document Type: Article

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