<p>Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for developed countries, including the United States. In order to diagnose and detect certain cardiac diseases, it is necessary to assess myocardial performance and ...
<p>Several groups have proposed classifying atherosclerotic disease by using acoustic radiation</p><p>force (ARF) elasticity methods to estimate the mechanical and material</p><p>properties of plaque. However, recent ...
<p>This dissertation aims to demonstrate the feasibility of direct infarct visualization using 3D medical ultrasound. The dissertation proceeds by providing the first ever demonstration of fully-sampled 3D ultrasonic speckle ...
<p>Aberration is a correctable phenomenon that degrades diagnostic quality in a significant number of ultrasound images. Previous aberration correction studies have focused on development of aberration estimation algorithms ...
<p>Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common non-cutaneous cancer in men in the United States. Early detection of PCa is essential for improving treatment outcomes and survival rates. However, diagnosis of PCa at an early ...
The intensities associated with the propagation of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound pulses are large enough to require a nonlinear description. As a nonlinear wave propagates it distorts, creating harmonics and ...
<p>Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer (pMUT) two-dimensional (2D) arrays have been proposed as an alternative to conventional bulk-PZT thickness-mode transducers for high frequency, forward-looking, ...
<p>Every day, 1,300 children in the U.S. and an additional 34,000 children worldwide are born prematurely. This study acts as a feasibility study for a proposed ultrasonic technique for the identification of preterm birth ...
<p>In the United States, heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalization. The medical industry places great emphasis on diagnosing heart disease through cardiac metrics like ejection fraction. Left ventricular ejection ...
<p>This dissertation investigates the feasibility of a real-time transthoracic Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging system to measure myocardial function non-invasively in clinical setting. Heart failure is an ...