Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization And Quantitative Ultrasound Scatter Imaging: Methods And Approaches

Joie Pierce Jones; Sidney Leeman

doi:10.1117/12.934523

1 November 1982 Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization And Quantitative Ultrasound Scatter Imaging: Methods And Approaches

Joie Pierce Jones, Sidney Leeman

Proceedings Volume 0372, Physics and Engineering in Medical Imaging; (1982) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934523
Event: International Workshop on Physics and Engineering in Medical Imaging, 1982, Pacific Grove, United States

Abstract

Present medical ultrasound systems are based on energy detection methods and therefore only utilize echo intensity information. However, phase, as well as spectral information, is recorded by the transducer, which is a pressure sensitive device, but is not utilized in present display or measurement schemes. This additional information may be of diagnostic significance since the interaction between sound and tissue is exceedingly complex, since many types of tissue can be categorized in terms of their acoustical properties, and since changes in tissue acoustical properties can be correlated with specific pathological states. Thus, in principle, in vivo techniques could be devised which would extract and separate the medically significant features of the ultrasound interactions with tissue and would display ultrasonic tissue signatures appropriate for a differential diagnosis.

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Joie Pierce Jones and Sidney Leeman "Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization And Quantitative Ultrasound Scatter Imaging: Methods And Approaches", Proc. SPIE 0372, Physics and Engineering in Medical Imaging, (1 November 1982); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934523

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