Browsing Duke Dissertations by Subject "ultrasound"

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Improved Endocardial Border Definition with Short-Lag Spatial Coherence (SLSC) Imaging

Lediju Bell, Muyinatu A. (2012)

<p>Clutter is a problematic noise artifact in a variety of ultrasound applications. Clinical tasks complicated by the presence of clutter include detecting cancerous lesions in abdominal organs (e.g. livers, bladders) and ...
Shear Wave Imaging using Acoustic Radiation Force

Wang, Michael Haizhou (2013)

<p>Tissue stiffness can be an indicator of various types of ailments. However, no standard diagnostic imaging modality has the capability to depict the stiffness of tissue. To overcome this deficiency, various elasticity ...
Ultrasound Catheter Transducers for Intracranial Brain Imaging and Therapy

Herickhoff, Carl Dean (2011)

<p>Each year, over 13,000 people in the United States die from a primary malignant brain tumor. Currently, primary BTs are treated most commonly by surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic chemotherapy, though each of these ...