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 …

Overview of optical biosensors for early cancer detection: fundamentals, applications and future perspectives

MY Azab, MFO Hameed, SSA Obayya - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Due to the increase in cancer incidence worldwide, a necessity for early
cancer detection arises. Since the conventional detection and treatment techniques are …

Deep learning of quantitative ultrasound multi-parametric images at pre-treatment to predict breast cancer response to chemotherapy

H Taleghamar, SA Jalalifar, GJ Czarnota… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
In this study, a novel deep learning-based methodology was investigated to predict breast
cancer response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) using the quantitative ultrasound …

Review of ultrasound image guidance in external beam radiotherapy part II: intra-fraction motion management and novel applications

T O'Shea, J Bamber, D Fontanarosa… - Physics in medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Imaging has become an essential tool in modern radiotherapy (RT), being used to plan dose
delivery prior to treatment and verify target position before and during treatment. Ultrasound …

Quantitative ultrasound radiomics in predicting response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced breast cancer: results from multi‐institutional …

D DiCenzo, K Quiaoit, K Fatima, D Bhardwaj… - Cancer …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background This study was conducted in order to develop a model for predicting response
to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) …

Non-invasive evaluation of breast cancer response to chemotherapy using quantitative ultrasonic backscatter parameters

L Sannachi, H Tadayyon, A Sadeghi-Naini, W Tran… - Medical image …, 2015 - Elsevier
Tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients (n= 30) with locally advanced
breast cancer (LABC) was examined using quantitative ultrasound. Three ultrasound …

Quantitative ultrasound evaluation of tumor cell death response in locally advanced breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy

A Sadeghi-Naini, N Papanicolau, O Falou… - Clinical Cancer …, 2013 - AACR
Purpose: Quantitative ultrasound techniques have been recently shown to be capable of
detecting cell death through studies conducted on in vitro and in vivo models. This study …

Multifunctional single beam acoustic tweezer for non-invasive cell/organism manipulation and tissue imaging

KH Lam, Y Li, Y Li, HG Lim, Q Zhou, KK Shung - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Non-contact precise manipulation of single microparticles, cells, and organisms has
attracted considerable interest in biophysics and biomedical engineering. Similar to optical …

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 …

A review of treatment planning for precision image-guided photon beam pre-clinical animal radiation studies

F Verhaegen, S van Hoof, PV Granton… - Zeitschrift für Medizinische …, 2014 - Elsevier
Recently, precision irradiators integrated with a high-resolution CT imaging device became
available for pre-clinical studies. These research platforms offer significant advantages over …