Tissue imaging using the transmission of 100-MHz-range ultrasound through a fused quartz fiber

Author

Irie, Takasuke ; Hasegawa, T. ; Itoh, Kenji ; Hirota, Noriyuki ; Tagawa, Norio ; Yoshizawa, Masamitsu ; Moriya, Takehiro ; Iijima, Toru

Author_Institution

Microsonic Co., Ltd., Kokubunji, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

2010

Lastpage

2013

Abstract

We have studied transmission methods of high-frequency ultrasonic waves through a thin fiber for direct observation of the microscopic image of the tissue. We reported previously that C-mode images of an artificial bone and an animal bone placed in water were obtained by reflection method using a fused quartz fiber as the probe. In this paper, we describe that the C-mode images of the tissue on the glass in water were obtained by penetration method.

Keywords

acoustic wave reflection; biomedical ultrasonics; bone; medical image processing; quartz; ultrasonic waves; C-mode images; animal bone; artificial bone; frequency 100 MHz; fused quartz fiber; glass; high-frequency ultrasonic waves; microscopic tissue imaging; penetration method; reflection method; ultrasound transmission methods; water; Glass; Image resolution; Manipulators; Steel; Transducers; Wires; C-mode image; high-frequency ultrasonic wave; microscopic image; penetration method; quartz fiber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Prague

ISSN

1948-5719

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5684-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2013.0513

Filename

6724774