3D ultrasound computer tomography for medical imaging

H Gemmeke, NV Ruiter - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2007 - Elsevier
Our 3D ultrasound computer tomograph (USCT) is an device method aimed at early breast
cancer diagnosis. It is capable of producing images with sub-millimeter resolution and high …

Blind signal separation for fast ultrasound computed tomography

T Noda, Y Jinnai, N Tomii, T Azuma - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14424, 2023 - arxiv.org
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer with a high mortality rate in women over the age
of 40. Many studies have shown that the detection of cancer at earlier stages significantly …

Acoustic attenuation imaging of tissue bulk properties with a priori information

FM Hooi, O Kripfgans, PL Carson - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Attenuation of ultrasound waves traversing a medium is not only a result of absorption and
scattering within a given tissue, but also of coherent scattering, including diffraction …

Ultrasound transmission attenuation tomography using energy-scaled amplitude ratios

T Chen, J Shin, L Huang - Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Ultrasound attenuation of breast tumors is related to their types and pathological states, and
can be used to detect and characterize breast cancer. Particularly, ultrasound scattering …

[PDF][PDF] Time-of-flight based calibration of an ultrasonic computed tomography system

A Filipik, J Jan, I Peterlik - Radioengineering, 2012 - academia.edu
The paper presents a novel method for calibration of measuring geometry and of individual
signal delays of transducers in ultrasonic computed tomography (USCT) systems via …

[PDF][PDF] First images with a 3D-prototype for ultrasound computer tomography

NV Ruiter, M Zapf, R Stotzka… - IEEE Ultrasonics …, 2005 - engineering.purdue.edu
Ultrasound computer tomography (USCT) is an ultrasound imaging method capable of
producing volume images with high spatial resolution and image quality. The long term goal …

Modified time-of-flight based calibration approach for ultrasonic computed tomography

A Filipik, J Jan, I Peterlik, D Hemzal… - 2008 30th Annual …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the previous paper [11], a method for geometrical and transducer-time-delay auto-
calibration of an ultrasonic computed tomography (USCT) system has been described …

Comparison of Wave-Equation Versus Measurement-Processing Transducer Calibration for Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography

J Zacal, D Hemzal, J Jan, A Filipik… - … Conference of the …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The contribution deals with the first step in using proper wave-equation based ultrasound
propagation model in image reconstruction from the ultrasonic computed tomography data …

3D regularized speed-map reconstruction in ultrasound transmission tomography

R Jiřík, I Peterlík, J Jan, N Ruiter… - 2009 IEEE International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper is focused on ultrasonic transmission tomography as a potential medical imaging
modality for breast cancer diagnosis. Ultrasound speed is one of the tissue parameters …

Calibrating an ultrasonic computed tomography system using a time-of-flight based positioning algorithm

A Filipik, I Peterlik, D Hemzal, J Jan… - 2007 29th Annual …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method for geometrical and time-delay auto-calibration of an
ultrasonic computed tomography (USCT) system. The algorithms used for the calibration are …