Review of quantitative ultrasound: Envelope statistics and backscatter coefficient imaging and contributions to diagnostic ultrasound

ML Oelze, J Mamou - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional medical imaging technologies, including ultrasound, have continued to
improve over the years. For example, in oncology, medical imaging is characterized by high …

Structure function estimated from histological tissue sections

A Han, WD O'Brien - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasonic scattering is determined by not only the properties of individual scatterers but also
the correlation among scatterer positions. The role of scatterer spatial correlation is …

Using two-dimensional impedance maps to study weak scattering in sparse random media

AC Luchies, ML Oelze - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Impedance maps (ZMs) have been proposed as a tool for modeling acoustic properties of
tissue microstructure. Three-dimensional (3D) ZMs are constructed from a series of adjacent …

Using two-dimensional impedance maps to study acoustic properties of tissue microstructure

AC Luchies - 2016 - ideals.illinois.edu
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) imaging represents a set of techniques for estimating acoustic
properties of tissue microstructure that have confirmed potential for identifying disease and …

500-MHz quantitative acoustic microscopy imaging of unstained fixed 6-µm thin sections from cancerous human lymph nodes

D Rohrbach, E Saegusa-Beecroft… - 2016 IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantitative acoustic microscopy (QAM) at 500 MHz permits measuring acoustic properties,
such as speed of sound (SOS), attenuation (A) and acoustic impedance (Z), of tissue …