Ultrasound imaging

PNT Wells - Physics in medicine & biology, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrasound imaging is now in very widespread clinical use. The most important
underpinning technologies include transducers, beam forming, pulse compression, tissue …

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 …

Detection of breast cancer with ultrasound tomography: First results with the Computed Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE) prototype

N Duric, P Littrup, L Poulo, A Babkin… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Although mammography is the gold standard for breast imaging, its limitations result in a
high rate of biopsies of benign lesions and a significant false negative rate for women with …

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 …

Full wave 3D inverse scattering transmission ultrasound tomography in the presence of high contrast

J Wiskin, B Malik, D Borup, N Pirshafiey, J Klock - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
We present here a quantitative ultrasound tomographic method yielding a sub-mm
resolution, quantitative 3D representation of tissue characteristics in the presence of high …

An improved automatic time-of-flight picker for medical ultrasound tomography

C Li, L Huang, N Duric, H Zhang, C Rowe - Ultrasonics, 2009 - Elsevier
Objective and motivation Time-of-flight (TOF) tomography used by a clinical ultrasound
tomography device can efficiently and reliably produce sound–speed images of the breast …

Photoacoustic imaging of the breast using the twente photoacoustic mammoscope: present status and future perspectives

D Piras, W **a, W Steenbergen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Twente photoacoustic mammoscope (PAM) uses pulsed light at 1064 nm to excite PA
signals. Detection is using a planar 590-element ultrasound (US) sensor matrix. Image …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-body imaging using low frequency transmission ultrasound

J Wiskin, B Malik, C Ruoff, N Pirshafiey, M Lenox… - Academic radiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Rationale and Objectives To indicate that 3D low-frequency ultrasound tomography with 3D
data acquisition (volography) is a safe, low-cost, high-resolution, whole-body meso-scale …

Quantitative transmission ultrasound tomography: Imaging and performance characteristics

B Malik, R Terry, J Wiskin, M Lenox - Medical physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Quantitative Transmission (QT) ultrasound has shown promise as a breast imaging
modality. This study characterizes the performance of the latest generation of QT ultrasound …