Emerging quantitative imaging techniques in sports medicine

D Hayashi, FW Roemer, JL Tol, R Heiss, MD Crema… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
This article describes recent advances in quantitative imaging of musculoskeletal extremity
sports injuries, citing the existing literature evidence and what additional evidence is needed …

US backscatter for liver fat quantification: an AIUM-RSNA QIBA pulse-echo quantitative ultrasound initiative

KA Wear, A Han, JM Rubin, J Gao, R Lavarello… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is believed to affect one-third of American adults.
Noninvasive methods that enable detection and monitoring of NAFLD have the potential for …

Comparison of radiologists and deep learning for US grading of hepatic steatosis

P Vianna, SI Calce, P Boustros, C Larocque-Rigney… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Screening for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is suboptimal due to the
subjective interpretation of US images. Purpose To evaluate the agreement and diagnostic …

US quantification of liver fat: past, present, and future

DT Fetzer, TT Pierce, ML Robbin, G Cloutier, A Mufti… - …, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Fatty liver disease has a high and increasing prevalence worldwide, is associated with
adverse cardiovascular events and higher long-term medical costs, and may lead to liver …

Skeletal Muscle assessment using quantitative ultrasound: A narrative review

A Ashir, S Jerban, V Barrère, Y Wu, SB Shah… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ultrasound (US) is an important imaging tool for skeletal muscle analysis. The advantages of
US include point-of-care access, real-time imaging, cost-effectiveness, and absence of …

The future is beyond bright: The evolving role of quantitative US for fatty liver disease

A Ozturk, V Kumar, TT Pierce, Q Li, M Baikpour… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality.
Nonfocal liver biopsy is the historical reference standard for evaluating NAFLD, but it is …

Extracellular matrix cues regulate mechanosensing and mechanotransduction of cancer cells

CT Mierke - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
Extracellular biophysical properties have particular implications for a wide spectrum of
cellular behaviors and functions, including growth, motility, differentiation, apoptosis, gene …

Simultaneous photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging: A review

Y Yu, T Feng, H Qiu, Y Gu, Q Chen, C Zuo, H Ma - Ultrasonics, 2024 - Elsevier
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging biomedical imaging technique that combines
the advantages of optical and ultrasound imaging, enabling the generation of images with …

Multi-wavelength interference phase imaging for automatic breast cancer detection and delineation using diffuse reflection imaging

A Mahmoud, YH El-Sharkawy - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Millions of women globally are impacted by the major health problem of breast cancer (BC).
Early detection of BC is critical for successful treatment and improved survival rates. In this …

Homodyned K-distribution parameter estimation in quantitative ultrasound: autoencoder and bayesian neural network approaches

AKZ Tehrani, G Cloutier, A Tang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) analyzes the ultrasound (US) backscattered data to find the
properties of scatterers that correlate with the tissue microstructure. Statistics of the envelope …