Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues (Hardcover, 2, Second 2023)

Preface.- Part I: Backscatter Coefficient methods.- Chapter 1. Quantitative Ultrasound: an Emerging Technology for Detecting, Diagnosing, Imaging, Evaluating, and Monitoring Disease (Ernie Feleppa).- Chapter 2. Quantitative Ultrasound: Scattering theory (Michael Oelze).- Chapter 3. Quantitative Ultrasound: Experimental implementation (Michael Oelze).- Chapter 4. Extracting Quantitative Ultrasonic Parameters from the Backscatter Coefficient (Aiguo Han).- Part II: Attenuation Estimation Methods.- Chapter 5. Attenuation Compensation and Estimation (Timothy Bigelow and Yassin Labyed).- Chapter 6. Recent advances in attenuation estimation (Ivan Rosado Mendez).- Part III: Envelope Statistics Methods.- Chapter 7. Review of envelope statistics models for quantitative ultrasound imaging and tissue characterization (Francois Destrempes and Guy Cloutier).- Chapter 8. Information entropy and its applications (Po-Hsaing Tsui).- Part IV: Ultrasound Computed Tomography.- Chapter 9. Ultrasound Tomography (Nicole Ruiter, Torsten Hopp, Michael Zapf and Hartmut Gemmek).- Chapter 10. Full Wave Inversion and Inverse Scattering in Ultrasound Tomography/Volography (James Wiskin).- Chapter 11. Clinical Importance of 3D Volography in Breast Imaging (John Klock).- Part V: Acoustic microcopy.- Chapter 12. Acoustic Microscopy (Yoshifumi Saijo).- Chapter 13. Advanced Topics in Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy (Cameron Hoerig and Jonathan Mamou).- Part VI: Phantoms for Quantitative Ultrasound.- Chapter 14. Phantoms for Quantitative Ultrasound (Tim Stiles).- Index.