Review of quantitative ultrasound: Envelope statistics and backscatter coefficient imaging and contributions to diagnostic ultrasound
Conventional medical imaging technologies, including ultrasound, have continued to
improve over the years. For example, in oncology, medical imaging is characterized by high …
improve over the years. For example, in oncology, medical imaging is characterized by high …
Quantitative ultrasound imaging of soft biological tissues: a primer for radiologists and medical physicists
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) aims at quantifying interactions between ultrasound and
biological tissues. QUS techniques extract fundamental physical properties of tissues based …
biological tissues. QUS techniques extract fundamental physical properties of tissues based …
High-frequency quantitative ultrasound for imaging prostate cancer using a novel micro-ultrasound scanner
D Rohrbach, B Wodlinger, J Wen, J Mamou… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2018 - Elsevier
Currently, biopsies guided by transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) are the only method for
definitive diagnosis of prostate cancer. Studies by our group suggest that quantitative …
definitive diagnosis of prostate cancer. Studies by our group suggest that quantitative …
Scatterer size estimation for ultrasound tissue characterization: A survey
Quantitative ultrasound is a cutting-edge ultrasound technology which can measure
quantified information related to tissue or material microstructures from ultrasound …
quantified information related to tissue or material microstructures from ultrasound …
Analytic global regularized backscatter quantitative ultrasound
Although a variety of techniques have been developed to reduce the appearance of B-mode
speckle, quantitative ultrasound (QUS) aims at extracting the hidden properties of the tissue …
speckle, quantitative ultrasound (QUS) aims at extracting the hidden properties of the tissue …
Unifying concepts of statistical and spectral quantitative ultrasound techniques
F Destrempes, E Franceschini… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) techniques using radiofrequency (RF) backscattered signals
have been used for tissue characterization of numerous organ systems. One approach is to …
have been used for tissue characterization of numerous organ systems. One approach is to …
High-frequency quantitative ultrasound spectroscopy of excised canine livers and mouse tumors using the structure factor model
P Muleki-Seya, R Guillermin, J Guglielmi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three scattering models were examined for characterizing ex vivo canine livers and HT29
mouse tumors in the 10-38-and the 15-42-MHz frequency bandwidth, respectively. The …
mouse tumors in the 10-38-and the 15-42-MHz frequency bandwidth, respectively. The …
Quantitative assessment of media concentration using the Homodyned K distribution
The Homodyned K distribution has been used successfully as a tool in the ultrasound
characterization of sparse media, where the scatterer clustering parameter α accurately …
characterization of sparse media, where the scatterer clustering parameter α accurately …
Quantitative ultrasound techniques for assessing thermal ablation: Measurement of the backscatter coefficient from ex vivo human liver
Background Understanding the changes occurring in biological tissue during thermal
ablation is at the heart of many current challenges in both therapy and medical imaging …
ablation is at the heart of many current challenges in both therapy and medical imaging …
Quantitative characterization of tissue microstructure in concentrated cell pellet biophantoms based on the structure factor model
E Franceschini, R De Monchy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) methods based on the backscatter coefficient (BSC) are
typically model-based. The BSC is estimated from experiments and is fit to a model. The fit …
typically model-based. The BSC is estimated from experiments and is fit to a model. The fit …