Title :
Biomedical application of acoustic microscopy - diagnosis, assessing echogenecity and biomechanics
Author :
Saijo, Yoshifumi ; Hagiwara, Yoshihiro ; Kobayashi, Kazuto ; Okada, Nagaya ; Tanaka, Akira ; Hozumi, Naohiro ; Tanaka, Motonao
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Biomed. Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai
Abstract :
SAM technology has been applied in medical and biological studies for 1) intra-operative pathological examinations since it does not require special staining techniques, 2) determining the origin of echo in clinical ultrasound imaging and 3) assessing the elastic properties of biological materials. In this short course, some examples of the application of scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) systems in medicine and biology are shown. The SAM measurement of biological tissues is useful for classification of cancer tissues, determination of the origin of echo and application for assessing biomechanics in atherosclerosis.
Keywords :
acoustic microscopy; biological tissues; biomechanics; biomedical measurement; biomedical ultrasonics; cancer; cardiology; elasticity; tumours; SAM measurement; atherosclerosis; biomechanics; biomedical application; cancer tissues; clinical ultrasound imaging; echogenecity assessment; elastic property assessment; intra-operative pathological examination; scanning acoustic microscope system; Acoustic applications; Acoustic imaging; Biological tissues; Biomechanics; Biomedical acoustics; Biomedical imaging; Medical diagnostic imaging; Microscopy; Pathology; Ultrasonic imaging; acoustic microscopy; atherosclerosis; gastric cancer; myocardial infarction;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrasonics Symposium, 2008. IUS 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2428-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2480-1
DOI :
10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0489
