Quantitative ultrasound imaging of soft biological tissues: a primer for radiologists and medical physicists

G Cloutier, F Destrempes, F Yu, A Tang - Insights into Imaging, 2021 - Springer
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) aims at quantifying interactions between ultrasound and
biological tissues. QUS techniques extract fundamental physical properties of tissues based …

Image reconstruction in concrete ultrasound tomography: A systematic review

LG Anoni, VG Haach, L Khazanovich - Construction and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic tomography is a non-destructive testing method that allows for the internal
visualization of concrete structures without causing any damage. This technique is widely …

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 …

High resolution 3D ultrasonic breast imaging by time-domain full waveform inversion

F Lucka, M Pérez-Liva, BE Treeby, BT Cox - Inverse Problems, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrasound tomography (UST) scanners allow quantitative images of the human breast's
acoustic properties to be derived with potential applications in screening, diagnosis and …

3-D nonlinear acoustic inverse scattering: Algorithm and quantitative results

JW Wiskin, DT Borup, E Iuanow, J Klock… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a novel 3-D ultrasound technology, the quantitative transmission ultrasound
system and algorithm to image a pendent breast in a water bath. Quantitative accuracy is …

[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 …

Iterative methods for solving coefficient inverse problems of wave tomography in models with attenuation

AV Goncharsky, SY Romanov - Inverse Problems, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop efficient iterative methods for solving inverse problems of wave tomography in
models incorporating both diffraction effects and attenuation. In the inverse problem the aim …

Supercomputer technologies in inverse problems of ultrasound tomography

AV Goncharsky, SY Romanov - Inverse Problems, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This study focuses on the development of efficient methods for solving inverse problems of
ultrasound tomography as coefficient inverse problems for the wave equation. The inverse …

A computer simulation study of soft tissue characterization using low-frequency ultrasonic tomography

AV Goncharsky, SY Romanov, SY Seryozhnikov - Ultrasonics, 2016 - Elsevier
We investigate the potential of using ultrasonic diffraction tomography technique for
characterization of biological tissues. Unlike most of other studies where ultrasonic …

Copper oxide nanoparticles as contrast agents for MRI and ultrasound dual-modality imaging

O Perlman, IS Weitz, H Azhari - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Multimodal medical imaging is gaining increased popularity in the clinic. This stems from the
fact that data acquired from different physical phenomena may provide complementary …