Scatterer size estimation for ultrasound tissue characterization: A survey

Z Zhou, R Gao, S Wu, Q Ding, G Bin, PH Tsui - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative ultrasound is a cutting-edge ultrasound technology which can measure
quantified information related to tissue or material microstructures from ultrasound …

A tutorial in photoacoustic microscopy and tomography signal processing methods

E Hysi, MJ Moore, EM Strohm, MC Kolios - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Over the last two and a half decades, photoacoustic (PA) imaging has become an important
area of research in biomedical optics. Combining the high contrast of optical imaging with …

Noninvasive estimation of tissue temperature response to heating fields using diagnostic ultrasound

R Seip, ES Ebbini - IEEE transactions on biomedical …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A noninvasive technique for monitoring tissue temperature changes due to heating fields
using diagnostic ultrasound is described. The approach is based on the discrete scattering …

Quantitative ultrasound radiomics for therapy response monitoring in patients with locally advanced breast cancer: Multi-institutional study results

K Quiaoit, D DiCenzo, K Fatima, D Bhardwaj… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is the standard of care for patients with
locally advanced breast cancer (LABC). The study was conducted to investigate the utility of …

Characterization of tissue microstructure using ultrasonic backscatter: Theory and technique for optimization using a Gaussian form factor

ML Oelze, JF Zachary, WD O'Brien Jr - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
Characterization of tissue microstructure through ultrasonic backscatter is hypothesized to
aid in detection and classification of diseased tissues. Radio frequency signals …

Method and apparatus for measuring characteristics of meat

RP Clinton - US Patent 5,872,314, 1999 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus for measuring characteristics of meat, such as beef. More
particularly, the invention uses quantitative analysis of ultrasonic A scan signals to measure …

Noninvasive estimation of tissue temperature via high-resolution spectral analysis techniques

AN Amini, ES Ebbini… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the noninvasive temperature estimation from pulse-echo radio frequency
signals from standard diagnostic ultrasound imaging equipment. In particular, we investigate …

Frequency-dependent attenuation-compensation functions for ultrasonic signals backscattered from random media

ML Oelze, WD O'Brien Jr - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
Estimations of scattering parameters, such as average scatterer diameter, from rf signals
backscattered from random media (tissues) are made from the frequency dependence of the …

Chemotherapy-response monitoring of breast cancer patients using quantitative ultrasound-based intra-tumour heterogeneities

A Sadeghi-Naini, L Sannachi, H Tadayyon, WT Tran… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Anti-cancer therapies including chemotherapy aim to induce tumour cell death. Cell death
introduces alterations in cell morphology and tissue micro-structures that cause measurable …

Breast-lesion characterization using textural features of quantitative ultrasound parametric maps

A Sadeghi-Naini, H Suraweera, WT Tran, F Hadizad… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
This study evaluated, for the first time, the efficacy of quantitative ultrasound (QUS) spectral
parametric maps in conjunction with texture-analysis techniques to differentiate non …