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 …

Quantitative ultrasound imaging of soft biological tissues: a primer for radiologists and medical physicists

G Cloutier, F Destrempes, F Yu, A Tang - Insights into Imaging, 2021 - Springer
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) aims at quantifying interactions between ultrasound and
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 …

Scatterer size estimation for ultrasound tissue characterization: A survey

Z Zhou, R Gao, S Wu, Q Ding, G Bin, PH Tsui - Measurement, 2024 - Elsevier
Quantitative ultrasound is a cutting-edge ultrasound technology which can measure
quantified information related to tissue or material microstructures from ultrasound …

Analytic global regularized backscatter quantitative ultrasound

N Jafarpisheh, TJ Hall, H Rivaz… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

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 …

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 …

Quantitative assessment of media concentration using the Homodyned K distribution

A Cristea, N Collier, E Franceschini, J Mamou… - Ultrasonics, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Quantitative ultrasound techniques for assessing thermal ablation: Measurement of the backscatter coefficient from ex vivo human liver

A Rohfritsch, E Franceschini, A Dupré… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

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 …