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 …

High-frequency ultrasound scattering from microspheres and single cells

RE Baddour, MD Sherar, JW Hunt… - The Journal of the …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Assessing the proportion of biological cells in a volume of interest undergoing structural
changes, such as cell death, using high-frequency ultrasound (20–100 MHz), requires the …

Ultrasonic characterization of whole cells and isolated nuclei

LR Taggart, RE Baddour, A Giles, GJ Czarnota… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2007 - Elsevier
High frequency ultrasound imaging (20 to 60 MHz) is increasingly being used in small
animal imaging, molecular imaging and for the detection of structural changes during cell …

Monitoring structural changes in cells with high-frequency ultrasound signal statistics

AS Tunis, GJ Czarnota, A Giles, MD Sherar… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2005 - Elsevier
We investigate the use of signal envelope statistics to monitor and quantify structural
changes during cell death using an in vitro cell model. Using af/2.35 transducer (center …

Quantitative measurements of apoptotic cell properties using acoustic microscopy

EM Strohm, GJ Czarnota… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-resolved acoustic microscopy was used to measure properties of cells such as the
thickness, sound velocity, acoustic impedance, density, bulk modulus, and attenuation …

Predictive quantitative ultrasound radiomic markers associated with treatment response in head and neck cancer

WT Tran, H Suraweera, K Quaioit, D Cardenas… - Future Science …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: We aimed to identify quantitative ultrasound (QUS)-radiomic markers to predict
radiotherapy response in metastatic lymph nodes of head and neck cancer. Materials & …

High frequency ultrasound tissue characterization and acoustic microscopy of intracellular changes

S Brand, EC Weiss, RM Lemor, MC Kolios - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2008 - Elsevier
The objective of this work is to investigate changes in the acoustic properties of cells when
exposed to chemotherapy for monitoring treatment response. High frequency ultrasound …

Sizing biological cells using a microfluidic acoustic flow cytometer

EM Strohm, V Gnyawali, JA Sebastian, R Ngunjiri… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We describe a new technique that combines ultrasound and microfluidics to rapidly size and
count cells in a high-throughput and label-free fashion. Using 3D hydrodynamic flow …

High-frequency acoustic impedance imaging of cancer cells

MN Fadhel, ESL Berndl, EM Strohm… - Ultrasound in Medicine & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Variations in the acoustic impedance throughout cells and tissue can be used to gain insight
into cellular microstructures and the physiologic state of the cell. Ultrasound imaging can be …

Characterization of anisotropic myocardial backscatter using spectral slope, intercept and midband fit parameters

M Yang, TM Krueger, JG Miller… - Ultrasonic …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The specific myocardial structural components that contribute to the observed level of
backscatter from the heart and its dependence on the angle of insonification have not been …