Abdominal ultrasonography

Laser-based ultrasound inspection system

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Janez Rus

A laser-based ultrasound inspection system comprising an object for inspection (1), a laser device for ultrasound generation (3a), a laser device for ultrasound detection (3b), and a coating arrangement (4) including a laser absorbing layer (4a) disposed o ...

2024

An Animal-Specific FSI Model of the Abdominal Aorta in Anesthetized Mice

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Bram Trachet

Recent research has revealed that angiotensin II-induced abdominal aortic aneurysm in mice can be related to medial ruptures occurring in the vicinity of abdominal side branches. Nevertheless a thorough understanding of the biomechanics near abdominal side ...

Springer2015

Performance Comparison of Ultrasound-Based Methods to Assess Aortic Diameter and Stiffness in Normal and Aneurysmal Mice

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Bram Trachet

Objective Several ultrasound-based methods are currently used to assess aortic diameter, circumferential strain and stiffness in mice, but none of them is flawless and a gold standard is lacking. We aimed to assess the validity and sensitivity of these met ...

Public Library Science2015

Dissecting abdominal aortic aneurysm in Ang II-infused mice: suprarenal branch ruptures and apparent luminal dilatation

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Bram Trachet, Alessandra Piersigilli, Peter Modregger, Jessica Sordet

Aims In this work, we provide novel insight into the morphology of dissecting abdominal aortic aneurysms in angiotensin II-infused mice. We demonstrate why they exhibit a large variation in shape and, unlike their human counterparts, are located suprarenal ...

Oxford University Press2015

An Efficient Segmentation Method for Ultrasound Images based on a Semi-supervised Approach and Patch-based Features

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Xavier Bresson, Alessia Pica, Nawal Houhou, Anca-Ramona Ciurte

Segmenting ultrasound images is a challenging problem where standard unsupervised segmentation methods such as the well-known Chan-Vese method fail. We propose in this paper an efficient segmentation method for this class of images. Our proposed algorithm ...

2011

Sound Speed Estimation Using Wave-based Ultrasound Tomography: Theory and GPU Implementation

Martin Vetterli, Olivier Roy, Ali Hormati, Ivana Jovanovic, Reza Parhizkar

We present preliminary results obtained using a time domain wave-based reconstruction algorithm for an ultrasound transmission tomography scanner with a circular geometry. While a comprehensive description of this type of algorithm has already been given e ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2010