Ultrasonic attenuation tomography of soft tissues

KA Dines, AC Kak - Ultrasonic Imaging, 1979 - Elsevier
In this paper we show that one can measure integrated attenuation for a soft-tissue structure
simply by measuring the center frequencies of the incident and transmitted pulses. Except …

Added soft tissue contrast using signal attenuation and the fractal dimension for optical coherence tomography images of porcine arterial tissue

C Flueraru, DP Popescu, Y Mao… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
… contrast between soft-tissue components of porcine coronary vessels. One method involved
analyzing the attenuation of the OCT signal as a function of light penetration into the tissue. …

Anisotropy of the ultrasonic attenuation in soft tissues: Measurements invitro

JG Mottley, JG Miller - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990 - pubs.aip.org
… Sobel, and JG Miller, "Application of phase insensitive detection and frequency dependent
measurements to computed ultrasonic attenuation tomography," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. …

Imaging soft tissue through bone with ultrasound transmission tomography by reconstruction

PL Carson, TV Oughton, WR Hendee… - Medical …, 1977 - Wiley Online Library
… detecting small changes in the ultrasound velocity and ultrasound attenuation coefficient of
soft tissues in planes containing bones. Attenuation images of a transverse section of a leg of …

X-ray-based attenuation correction for positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanners

PE Kinahan, BH Hasegawa, T Beyer - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
… , 12 or body regions represented by combinations of air and soft tissue (lung) or combinations
of soft tissue and bone, the mass attenuation coefficient can be calculated according to the …

An exploratory study of contrast agents for soft tissue visualization by means of high resolution X‐ray computed tomography imaging

E Pauwels, D Van Loo, P Cornillie… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… two adjacent types of soft tissue have a different X-ray photon attenuation. Therefore, the …
that a clear difference in attenuation is obtained between stained and nonstained tissue. As this …

A computer simulation study of soft tissue characterization using low-frequency ultrasonic tomography

AV Goncharsky, SY Romanov, SY Seryozhnikov - Ultrasonics, 2016 - Elsevier
tomography operates at frequencies higher than 1 MHz, low-frequency tomography uses …
Such a choice is due to low attenuation at these frequencies, resulting in higher precision of …

Toward clinical X-ray phase-contrast CT: demonstration of enhanced soft-tissue contrast in human specimen

T Donath, F Pfeiffer, O Bunk, C Grünzweig… - Investigative …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… the tomographic axis (z-axis in Fig. 1B). For the tomographic scan, projection pairs of attenuation
… an improved contrast over attenuation-based images for soft tissues, their interpretation …

A frequency-shift method to measure shear-wave attenuation in soft tissues

S Bernard, S Kazemirad… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… ], and was combined to tomographic principles to provide attenuation maps. Although the
frequency dependence of shear-wave attenuation in soft tissues has already been reported, it …

… of human soft tissue attenuation correction in whole‐body PET/MR: Implications from PET/CT for optimization of MR‐based AC in patients with normal lung tissue

ME Lindemann, M Gratz, H Grafe, K Jannusch… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… positron emission tomography/… tissue segmentations in 60 patients with normal lung tissue
and without metal implants. In this study two improvement strategies with regard to soft tissue