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Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization

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Abstract

For more than two decades, diagnostic ultrasound has been used as a non-ionizing means for imaging soft tissues and organs within the body1. Ultrasonic images, however, have not proved useful in unambiguously determining tissue pathology. Since the early 1970’s, though, it has been recognized that normal tissues exhibit significantly different acoustic properties than ischemic, infarcted, structurally disorganized or other abnormal tissues2,3. As a result, the quantitative measurement of the acoustic properties of tissue has become a popular and important area of research.

This work was supported partially by the U.S.P.H.S. through grant NCI-CA31303 and by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

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  1. Laboratory for Medical Ultrasonics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Padmakar P. Lele & Gerard E. Sleefe

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  2. Superior Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

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  3. National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Frascati, Italy

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Lele, P.P., Sleefe, G.E. (1987). Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization. In: Repacholi, M.H., Grandolfo, M., Rindi, A. (eds) Ultrasound. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1811-8_24

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