Method and system with oppositely-facing ultrasonic transducers for determining tissue pathology

TE Doyle, LA Neumayer - US Patent 10,041,910, 2018 - Google Patents
A method for determining a pathology of a tissue sample. The method includes steps of
coupling the tissue sample between two oppositely-facing ultrasonic transducers; acquiring …

Scattering by single physically large and weak scatterers in the beam of a single-element transducer

JP Kemmerer, ML Oelze, M Gyöngy - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Quantitative ultrasound techniques are generally applied to characterize media whose
scattering sites are considered to be small compared to a wavelength. In this study, the …

Evaluation of ultrasound scattering models adapted for two types of scatterers to extract scatterer parameters from cell-pellet biophantoms

P Muleki-Seya, A Han… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound backscatter coefficient allows the evaluation of tissue microstructure parameters.
Scatterer parameters are then extracted using ultrasound scattering models. It is generally …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of chromatin structure on quantitative ultrasound parameters

M Pasternak, L Doss, G Farhat, A Al-Mahrouki… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract High-frequency ultrasound (~ 20 MHz) techniques were investigated using in vitro
and ex vivo models to determine whether alterations in chromatin structure are responsible …

Cancer characterization using quantitative ultrasound and light backscattering spectroscopy

C Malinet - 2023 - hal.science
Cancer development is characterized by complex processes that occur in different stages,
involving tissue changes at various scales. In a clinical context, cancer characterization aims …

[图书][B] Quantitative ultrasound characterization of responses to radiotherapy in vitro and in vivo

RM Vlad - 2009 - collectionscanada.gc.ca
Cancer is not a modern disease. Human malignant tumours have been described in pictures
and in writing dating back to ancient civilizations, for example, bone cancers …

[HTML][HTML] Sound scattering from two concentric fluid spheres (L)

J McNew, R Lavarello, WD O'Brien Jr - The Journal of the …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The solution to the problem of plane wave and point source scattering by two concentric fluid
spheres is derived. The effect of differences in sound speed, density, and absorption …

Quantitative ultrasound from single cells to biophantoms to tumors

WD O'Brien, A Han, T Auger - 2012 Annual International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is no underestimating the importance of modern imaging to the improved detection
and management of diseases such as cancer. Ultrasound offers a cost-effective and safe …

High frequency ultrasound imaging and simulations of sea urchin oocytes

EM Strohm, LA Wirtzfeld, GJ Czarnota… - The Journal of the …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
High frequency ultrasound backscatter signals from sea urchin oocytes were measured
using a 40 MHz transducer and compared to numerical simulations. The Faran scattering …

Simulating acoustic wave reflection, transmission, and scattering in k-Wave for quantitative ultrasound applications

KJ Nagabhushana - 2021 - ideals.illinois.edu
K-Wave is a versatile and powerful acoustic simulator that has gained popularity in the
Medical Ultrasound research community. In this work, k-Wave was used to model two …