By Goutam Ghoshal, Jonathan Mamou, Michael L. Oelze (auth.), Jonathan Mamou, Michael L. Oelze (eds.)
Due to parallel advances in sign processing and computing device within the final 15 years, quantitative ultrasound recommendations have reached adulthood, making an allowance for the development of quantitative maps or pictures of sentimental tissues. This ebook will concentrate on five glossy study subject matters regarding quantitative ultrasound of soppy tissues: - Spectral-based equipment for tissue characterization, tissue typing, melanoma detection, etc.; - Envelope information research as a way of quantifying and imaging tissue homes; - Ultrasound elastography for quantifying elastic homes of tissues (several scientific ultrasound scanners now show elastography images); - Scanning acoustic microscopy for forming photographs of mechanical houses of sentimental tissues with micron solution (desktop measurement scanners are actually available); and - Ultrasound machine tomography for breast melanoma imaging (new ultrasound tomography structures were constructed and are at present less than review clinically).
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However, progress was modest and the bistable images were often challenging for diagnostic interpretation in the late 2 Quantitative Ultrasound History and Successes 23 1950s and 1960s. It was a time when most of the progress was being made in the university and/or hospital settings by true pioneers. The 15-year period between the early 1970s and mid 1980s witnessed the greatest expansion of diagnostic ultrasound imaging capabilities, starting with bistable, static and ending with grey-scale, real-time capabilities.
Several commercial ultrasound tomography imaging systems are available today (Jeong et al. 2005; Duric et al. 2005; Johnson et al. 2007; Li et al. 2008). Researchers have used a spectral target detection method based on a constrained 28 G. Ghoshal et al. energy minimization technique to construct attenuation tomograms and developed a High Resolution Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography (HUTT) system (Jeong et al. 2005). Researchers at the Karmanos Cancer Institute developed a Computerized Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE) device to record reflected, transmitted and diffracted ultrasound signals from the breast to construct sound speed and attenuation tomograms (Duric et al.