Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging

RW Prager, UZ Ijaz, AH Gee… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
This review is about the development of three-dimensional (3D) ultrasonic medical imaging,
how it works, and where its future lies. It assumes knowledge of two-dimensional (2D) …

Breast cancer imaging: a perspective for the next decade

A Karellas, S Vedantham - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Breast imaging is largely indicated for detection, diagnosis, and clinical management of
breast cancer and for evaluation of the integrity of breast implants. In this work, a prospective …

Euclidean distance matrices: essential theory, algorithms, and applications

I Dokmanic, R Parhizkar, J Ranieri… - IEEE Signal Processing …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Euclidean distance matrices (EDMs) are matrices of the squared distances between points.
The definition is deceivingly simple; thanks to their many useful properties, they have found …

In vivo breast sound-speed imaging with ultrasound tomography

C Li, N Duric, P Littrup, L Huang - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2009 - Elsevier
We discuss a bent-ray ultrasound tomography algorithm with total-variation (TV)
regularization. We have applied this algorithm to 61 in vivo breast datasets collected with …

[BOK][B] Seismic inversion

GT Schuster - 2017 - library.seg.org
This book describes the theory and practice of inverting seismic data for the subsurface rock
properties of the earth. The primary application is for inverting reflection and/or transmission …

Waveform inversion with source encoding for breast sound speed reconstruction in ultrasound computed tomography

K Wang, T Matthews, F Anis, C Li… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) holds great promise for improving the detection
and management of breast cancer. Because they are based on the acoustic wave equation …

Frequency domain ultrasound waveform tomography: breast imaging using a ring transducer

GY Sandhu, C Li, O Roy, S Schmidt… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Application of the frequency domain acoustic wave equation on data acquired from
ultrasound tomography scans is shown to yield high resolution sound speed images on the …

Ultrasonic computed tomography based on full-waveform inversion for bone quantitative imaging

S Bernard, V Monteiller, D Komatitsch… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce an ultrasonic quantitative imaging method for long bones based on full-
waveform inversion. The cost function is defined as the difference in the L 2-norm sense …

Comparing different ultrasound imaging methods for breast cancer detection

N Ozmen, R Dapp, M Zapf, H Gemmeke… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound is frequently used to evaluate suspicious masses in breasts. These evaluations
could be improved by taking advantage of advanced imaging algorithms, which become …

Computed ultrasound tomography in echo mode for imaging speed of sound using pulse-echo sonography: proof of principle

M Jaeger, G Held, S Peeters, S Preisser… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2015 - Elsevier
The limitations of diagnostic echo ultrasound have motivated research into novel modalities
that complement ultrasound in a multimodal device. One promising candidate is speed of …