Experimental Application of Ultrafast Imaging to Spectral Tissue Characterization

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2506-2519

  Garcia Duitama, Julian ^a,b   Chayer, Boris ^a   Han, Aiguo ^b   Garcia, Damien ^a,c   Oelze, Michael L ^b   Cloutier, Guy ^a,c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backscatter coefficient; Erythrocyte aggregation; Planar reflector technique; Plane wave imaging; Quantitative ultrasound; Reference phantom technique; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BACKSCATTERING; BEAMFORMING; BLOOD; ELASTIC WAVES; SAMPLING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; PLANAR REFLECTORS; PLANE WAVE; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; REFERENCE PHANTOM TECHNIQUE;

TISSUE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FOCUSING IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PIG; PLANE WAVE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCER IMAGING; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; SOUND SPEED; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION; ULTRASOUND ULTRAFAST IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CELL TRACKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; ERYTHROCYTE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING PHANTOM; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL TRACKING; ERYTHROCYTES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84938208238     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.04.017     Document Type: Article

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