Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 82-94 , January 2007

Monitoring imaging of lesions induced by high intensity focused ultrasound based on differential ultrasonic attenuation and integrated backscatter estimation

  • Hui Zhong

      Affiliations

    • The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.China
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.China
    • ,
  • Ming-Xi Wan

      Affiliations

    • The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.China
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.China
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Ming-Xi Wan, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.R. China.
    • ,
  • Yi-Feng Jiang

      Affiliations

    • The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.China
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.China
    • ,
  • Su-Pin Wang

      Affiliations

    • The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.China
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.China

Received 15 December 2005 ,Revised 17 July 2006 ,Accepted 27 July 2006.

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PII: S0301-5629(06)01776-5

doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.07.034

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 82-94 , January 2007

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