Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues

1. State Of The Art Methods For Estimating Backscatter Coefficients
Goutam Ghoshal, Jonathan Mamou, Michael L. Oelze

2. Quantitative Ultrasound History and Successes
Goutam Ghoshal, Michael L. Oelze, William D. O'Brien Jr.

3. Statistics of Scatterer Property Estimates
Michael L. Oelze

4. Attenuation Compensation and Estimation
Timothy A Bigelow

5. Quantitative Ultrasound and Cell Death
Omar Falou, Ali Sadeghi-Naini, Azza Al-Mahrouki, Michael C. Kolios, Gregory J. Czarnota

6. Modeling of Ultrasound Backscattering by Aggregating Red Blood Cells
Emilie Franceschini, Guy Cloutier

7. Backscatter Quantification for the Detection of Metastatic Regions in Human Lymph Nodes
Jonathan Mamou, Alain Coron, Emi Saegusa-Beecroft, Masaki Hata, Eugene Yanagihara, Junji Machi, Pascal Laugier, Ernest J. Feleppa

8. Quantitative Ultrasound for Tissue-type Imaging of the Prostate: Implications for Planning and Guiding Biopsies and Focal Treatments
Ernest J. Feleppa, Christopher R. Porter

9. Therapy Monitoring and Assessment Using Quantitative Ultrasound
Michael L. Oelze, Jeremy P. Kemmerer, Goutam Ghoshal, Roxana M. Vlad

10. Review of Envelope Statistics Models for Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging and Tissue Characterization
François Destrempes, Guy Cloutier

11. The Quantitative Ultrasound Diagnosis of Liver Fibrosis Using Statistical Analysis of the Echo Envelope
Tadashi Yamaguchi

12. Recent Applications of Acoustic Microscopy for Quantitative Measurement of Acoustic Properties of Soft Tissues
Yoshifumi Saijo

13. Acoustic Microscopy of Cells
Eric M. Strohm, Greg J. Czarnota, Michael C. Kolios

14. Methods for Forward and Inverse Scattering in Ultrasound Tomography
Roberto J. Lavarello, Andrew J. Hesford

15. Clinical Results with Ultrasound Computed Tomography of the Breast
Michael André, James Wiskin, David Borup

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)