Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues

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.

Dr. Jonathan Mamou graduated in 2000 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France. In January 2001, he began his graduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in May 2002 and 2005, respectively. He previously was the Associate Research Director of the F. L. Lizzi Center for Biomedical Engineering at Riverside Research in New York, NY. He currently holds a faculty position in the Department of Radiology of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, NY. Dr. Mamou also is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of New York University. His fields of interest include theoretical aspects of ultrasound scattering, ultrasonic medical imaging, quantitative acoustic microscopy, ultrasound contrast agents, and biomedical image processing. Dr. Mamou is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), a Seniormember of IEEE, and a member of the Acoustical Society of America. He is coeditor of the book "Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues" published by Springer, in 2013. In 2022, he was inducted into the Council of Distinguished Investigators of the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging. He served as the Chair of the AIUM High-Frequency Clinical and Preclinical Imaging Community of Practice. He is an Associate Editor of Ultrasonic Imaging and the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, and a reviewer for numerous journals.

Michael L. Oelze was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, in 1971. He received the B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from Harding University, Searcy, AR, USA, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of