A method to expedite data acquisition for multiple spatial-temporal analyses of tissue perfusion by contrast-enhanced ultrasound
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...The group of H. Ermert (ruhr-Universitaet bochum, bochum, Germany) [6] has developed a precise positioning system for a system of a reflector on one side of the breast and a curved array probe of a conventional ultrasound scanner on the opposite side....
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...The project was supported by the research center dar, project number 1M0572 and also partly by the research frame cEZ Ms 0021630513, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, czech republic; further support was provided by the joint program of the German academic Exchange service (daad) and the academy of sciences of the czech republic (project number d17-cZ15/09-10). access to the Metacentrum computing facilities provided under the program “Projects of large Infrastructure for research, development, and Innovations,” lM2010005, funded by the Ministry of Education, youth, and sports of the czech republic is also acknowledged. r. Jiřík, I. Peterlík, J. Fousek, and J. Jan are with the department of biomedical Engineering, brno University of Technology, brno, czech republic (e-mail: jirik@feec.vutbr.cz). n. ruiter, r. dapp, and M. Zapf are with the Institute for data Processing and Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein, Germany. digital object Identifier 10.1109/TUFFc.2012.2185 of images of the whole volume....
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...The first experimental setup for a full 3-d system (3-d UscT I) to investigate the feasibility of such a system has been developed at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany [8]....
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...Ermert (ruhr-Universitaet bochum, bochum, Germany) [6] has developed a precise positioning system for a system of a reflector on one side of the breast and a curved array probe of a conventional ultrasound scanner on the opposite side....
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...We have shown in vitro that FASC also improves contrast enhanced imaging [4-7]....
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...The development of UST breast cancer imaging is receiving renewed attention.(3,4) For example, a clinical ultrasound ring array scanner for breast cancer diagnosis (Computed Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE)) has been proposed....
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...Other UST systems have also been reported.(3,4) However, (Send correspondence to F....
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...on the other hand, there are methods to more quantitatively assess perfusion-related parameters like bolus, replenishment, or depletion methods [8]–[11], [15]–[17], [18]....
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..., [15]–[17], the TIcs are conventionally acquired in whole and sampled nonstop....
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...however, the proposed method can also be applied to a monoexponential model function as proposed in [15], as long as the “initial heel” is not strongly pronounced and does not “affect” the beginning of the TIc....
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...This flow velocity accords with blood flow in human capillaries, arterioles, and venules [32]....
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...such applications include tumor detection within various organs [2]–[4], examinations in cardiology [5]–[8] or of stroke patients [9]–[11], controlling and monitoring of transplantations [12], and so on....
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