Overview

Due to parallel advances in signal processing and computer hardware in the last 15 years, quantitative ultrasound techniques have reached maturity, allowing for the construction of quantitative maps or images of soft tissues. This book will focus on 5 modern research topics related to quantitative ultrasound of soft tissues: - Spectral-based methods for tissue characterization, tissue typing, cancer detection, etc.; - Envelope statistics analysis as a means of quantifying and imaging tissue properties; - Ultrasound elastography for quantifying elastic properties of tissues (several clinical ultrasound scanners now display elastography images); - Scanning acoustic microscopy for forming images of mechanical properties of soft tissues with micron resolution (desktop size scanners are now available); and - Ultrasound computer tomography for breast cancer imaging (new ultrasound tomography systems have been developed and are currently under evaluation clinically).

Full Product Details

Author:   Jonathan Mamou ,  Michael L. Oelze
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
Weight:   7.742kg
ISBN:  

9789402402100

ISBN 10:   9402402101
Pages:   444
Publication Date:   27 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

State of the art methods for estimating the backscatter coefficients.- Quantitative Ultrasound History and Successes.- Statistics of Scatterer Property Estimates.- Attenuation Compensation and Estimation.- Quantitative Ultrasound and Cell Death.- Modeling of Ultrasound Backscattering by Aggregating Red Blood Cells.- Backscatter Quantification for the Detection of Metastatic Regions in Human Lymph Nodes.- Quantitative Ultrasound for Tissue-type Imaging of the Prostate: Implications for Planning and Guiding Biopsies and Focal Treatments.- Therapy Monitoring and Assessment Using Quantitative Ultrasound.- Review of Envelope Statistics Models for Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging and Tissue Characterization.- The Quantitative Ultrasound Diagnosis of Liver Fibrosis Using Statistical Analysis of the Echo Envelope.- Recent Applications of Acoustic Microscopy for Quantitative Measurement of Acoustic Properties of Soft Tissues.- Acoustic Microscopy of Cells.- Methods for Forward and Inverse Scattering in Ultrasound Tomography.- Clinical Results with Ultrasound Computed Tomography of the Breast.

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From the reviews: The editors made an excellent choice of their collection of methods and applications in this rapidly evolving QUS research field. Therefore the reader whatever pre-knowledge he comes with will find basic or advanced information in this book. For newcomers to this topic the book is very suitable to get an excellent understanding for the basic and statistical methods used in QUS ... . This book is recommended for lecturers or teachers ... . (Christian Kollmann, Ultraschall in der Medizin European Journal of Ultrasound, Vol. 35 (2), April, 2014)

From the reviews: The editors made an excellent choice of their collection of methods and applications in this rapidly evolving QUS research field. Therefore the reader whatever pre-knowledge he comes with will find basic or advanced information in this book. For newcomers to this topic the book is very suitable to get an excellent understanding for the basic and statistical methods used in QUS ... . This book is recommended for lecturers or teachers ... . (Christian Kollmann, Ultraschall in der Medizin European Journal of Ultrasound, Vol. 35 (2), April, 2014)

From the reviews: The editors made an excellent choice of their collection of methods and applications in this rapidly evolving QUS research field. Therefore the reader whatever pre-knowledge he comes with will find basic or advanced information in this book. For newcomers to this topic the book is very suitable to get an excellent understanding for the basic and statistical methods used in QUS ... . This book is recommended for lecturers or teachers ... . (Christian Kollmann, Ultraschall in der Medizin European Journal of Ultrasound, Vol. 35 (2), April, 2014)

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