BACKGROUND Until recently, the limit of spatial resolution of ultrasound systems has prevented characterization of structures <1 mm. Hence, the study of ovarian follicular development in rodents has been based on one-time histological examination of excised tissues; i.e., longitudinal study of day-to-day ovarian changes has not been possible in mice and rats. The objective was to establish an u...

Ultrasound computer tomography is an imaging method capable of producing volume images with high spatial resolution. The imaged object is enclosed by a cylindrical array of transducers. While one transducer emits a spherical wavefront (pulse), all other transducers are recording the radiofrequency (RF) a–scans simultaneously. Then another transducer acts as the emitter and so on. In this paper ...

Freehand 3D ultrasound is acquired by attaching a position sensor to the probe of a conventional 2D diagnostic ultrasound machine. As the clinician moves the probe, its position and orientation is recorded with respect to some fixed datum. The 2D ultrasound images are also recorded. If both the images and the position readings are independently time-stamped then they can be matched up to create...

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for women all over the world. Since the cause of the disease remains unknown, early detection and diagnosis is the key for breast cancer control, and it can increase the success of treatment and save lives. Ultrasound imaging is one of the most frequently used diagnosis tools to detect and classify abnormalities of the breast. In order to elimi...

AIM This study was conducted to measure the cross sectional area (CSA) of the ulnar nerve (UN) in the cubital tunnel and to evaluate the role of high-resolution ultrasonography in the diagnosis of ulnar nerve neuropathy (UNN). MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross sectional study with 64 arms from 32 patients (34 neuropathic, 30 nonneuropathic). Diagnosis was confirmed by nerve conduction st...

Evolution in ultrasound technology leads to birth of high frequency, high resolution linear transducers which in turn revolutionized the imaging of superficial structures. The majority of cases presenting to clinician in day-to-day practice as facial lumps or neck lump could be evaluated using ultrasound and help in imaging of salivary gland lesions. The age of the clinical presentation and mor...

Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography is a developing hybrid imaging modality that combines high optical contrast and good ultrasonic resolution for imaging soft biological tissue. We developed a photorefractive-crystal-based, time-resolved detection scheme with the use of a millisecond long ultrasound burst to image both the optical and the mechanical properties of biological tissues, with i...

Photo-acoustic Tomography (PAT) and Thermo-acoustic Tomography (TAT) are medical imaging modalities that combine the high contrast of radiative properties of tissues with the high resolution of ultrasound. In both modalities, a first step concerns the reconstruction of the radiation-induced source of ultrasound. Transient Elastography (TE) and Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) combine the h...

The carpal tunnel contains the median nerve, nine flexor tendons, two synovial bursae, and peritendinous subsynovial connective tissue (SSCT). Fibrosis of the SSCT is the most consistent pathological finding in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. We investigated the anatomy and gliding characteristics of the flexor digitorum superficialis tendon and its adjacent SSCT with high-resolution ultr...

We previously proposed a deformable model for automatic and accurate segmentation of prostate boundary from 3D ultrasound (US) images by matching both prostate shapes and tissue textures in US images[6]. Textures were characterized by a Gabor filter bank and further classified by support vector machines (SVM), in order to discriminate the prostate boundary from the US images. However, the step ...