The Quality assurance of ultrasound clinical imaging systems is essential for maintaining
their performance to the highest level and for complying with the requirements by various …

MEMS acoustic sensors are a type of physical quantity sensor based on MEMS
manufacturing technology for detecting sound waves. They utilize various sensitive …

Featured Application The present work is aimed at providing a novel image analysis-based
method for the maximum depth of penetration (DOP) measurement in Quality Assessment …

To date, Quality Assurance (QA) for diagnostic ultrasound is not mandatory despite the
continuous research in the field. Limits associated with visually assessed tests and the lack …

Introduction Phantom materials with tissue-equivalent physical properties that require
regular evaluation using patented phantoms are essential for medical device quality …

Ultrasound Colour Flow is an imaging technique that combines velocity with anatomical
information obtained by means of ultrasonic Doppler techniques and pulse-echo methods …

Depth of penetration (DOP) has been investigated in the scientific literature as an
informative parameter able to monitor over time both the sensitivity and the general …

Purpose Since handheld ultrasound devices are becoming increasingly ubiquitous,
objective criteria to determine image quality are needed. We therefore conducted a …

In recent years, the scientific community highlighted how the combination of the progressive
evolution of the Ultrasound (US) technologies and the difficulties in retrieving a fixed number …

In this paper, we deal with statistical modeling and a related case study for reliability when
multiple failure causes are present. At first, we present in detail two main approaches for …