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 …

Anthropomorphic phantoms have been used to provide residents with training in ultrasound-
guided breast biopsy. However, different individuals differ in terms of the acoustic properties …

This article reports experimental validation for spatiotemporal deconvolution methods and
simple empirical formulas to correct pressure and beamwidth measurements for spatial …

Tissue characterization based on the backscatter coefficient (BSC) can be degraded by
acoustic nonlinearity. Often, this degradation is due to the method used for obtaining a …

In this study, we compared multiple quantitative ultrasound metrics for the purpose of
differentiating muscle in 20 healthy, 10 dystrophic and 10 obese mice. High-frequency …

Meniscal tear in the knee joint is a highly common injury that can require an ablation.
However, the success rate of meniscectomy is highly impacted by difficulties in estimating …

A polyurethane-based tissue mimicking material (TMM) and blood mimicking material
(BMM) for the acoustic and thermal characterization of high intensity therapeutic ultrasound …

Ultrasound backscatter coefficient allows the evaluation of tissue microstructure parameters.
Scatterer parameters are then extracted using ultrasound scattering models. It is generally …

Diagnostic ultrasound is the most heavily utilized imaging modality in medicine worldwide
second only to digital X-ray. Conventional B-mode imaging relies on small impedance …

In doing interventional treatment under the guidance of ultrasonography, the medical team
detects the legion site with ultrasonic equipment at first, and insert angio needle. In this …