Ultrasound Imaging Advances and Applications
Ultrasound Imaging: Advances and Applications presents some of the recent advances in Ultrasound imaging technology covering several organs and techniques in a Biomedical Engineering (BME) perspective. The focus of the book is in the algorithms, meth
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Jo˜ao Miguel Sanches • Andrew F. Laine Jasjit S. Suri Editors
Ultrasound Imaging Advances and Applications
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Editors Jo˜ao Miguel Sanches Department of Bioengineering Institute for Systems and Robotics Instituto Superior T´ecnico Technical University of Lisbon Lisboa Portugal [email protected]
Andrew F. Laine Department of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University New York USA
Jasjit S. Suri Biomedical Technologies, Inc. Denver, CO, USA and Idaho State University (Affiliated) Pocatello, ID, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-1179-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-1180-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1180-2 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011939302 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Diagnostic and therapeutic Ultrasound has recently taken an explosive growth for better safer, economic, mobile and high quality healthcare. This technology is very appealing for medical applications because it is non-ionizing, non-invasive and is available in most of the medical and clinical facilities. Its low cost, when compared with other medical image modalities, makes it one of the preferred tools for medical monitoring, follow-up and diagnosis. Besides the traditional fields of cardiology and obstetrics, where it is extensively used for long time, it has become also very useful in the diagnosis of diseases of the prostate, liver and coronaries and carotids atherosclerosis. However, Ultrasound images present poor quality, very low signal to noise ratio and a lot of artifacts. The extraction of useful information from Ultrasound data for diagnosis is a challenge task that makes this medical image modality a very active field of research. The difficulties are being overcome and novel and advanced methods are being proposed for detection, characterization and segmentation of abnormalities in several organs. In fact, Ultrasound application range is vast, covering almost all organs, including the brain where Transcranial Doppler (TCD) Ultrasound is very important to assess the brain vasculature. This book presents some of the recent advances in Ultrasound imaging technology covering several organs and techniques in a Biomedical Engineering (BME) perspective. The fo
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