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General Technique Review

 

 

Helen F. Routh, “Doppler ultrasound: the ability to measure and image blood flow,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp.31-40, 1996.

 

Aaron Fenster and Donal B. Downey, “3-D Ultrasound imaging: a review,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp.41-51, 1996.

 

K.J. Parker, L. Gao, R.M. Lerner and S.F. Levinson, “Techniques for elastic imaging: a review,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp.51-59, 1996.

 

G.R.Lockwood, D.H. Turnbull, D.A. Christopher and F.S. Foster, “Beyond 30 MHz: application of high frequency ultrasound imaging,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp.60-71, 1996.

 

Nico de Jong, “Improvements in ultrasound contrast Agents,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp.71-80, 1996.

 

 

 

Speckle Tracking

 

 

T.J. Hall, Y. Zhu and C.S. Spalding, “In vivo real-time freehand palpation imaging,” Ultrasound in Med.& Biol., Vol. 29, pp.427-435, 2003.

 

I.A. Hein and W.D. O'Brien Jr., “Current time-domain methods for assessing tissue motion by analysis from reflected ultrasound echoes: a review,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control UFFC-40, 84-102 (1993).

 

Francesco Viola and William F. Walker “A Comparison of the Performance of Time-Delay Estimators in Medical Ultrasound,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control UFFC-40, 84-102 (1993).

 

 

 

 

Strain Rate Imaging

 

 

Alejandro F. Frangi, Wiro J. Niessen and Max A. Viergever, “Three-dimensional modeling for functional analysis of cardiax images: a review,” IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, Vol 20, No.1, pp.2-25, 2001.

 

J. D'hooge, P. Claus, B. Bijnens, J. Thoen, F. Van de Werf, P. Suetens, G.R. Sutherland, "Deformation imaging by ultrasound for the assessment of regional myocardinal function," IEEE Ultrasonic Symposium, 2003.

 

J. D'hooge, A. Heimdal, F. Jamal, T. Kukulski, B. Bijnens, F. Rademakers, L. Hatle, P. Suetens and G. R. Sutherland, "Regional strain and strain rate measurements by cardiac ultrasound: principles, implementation and limitations," Eur. J. Echocardiography, Vol 1, pp.154-170, 2000.

 

Elizabeth O. OFili and Navin C. Nanda, "Color Doppler imaging of the myocardium: current status and potential clinical applications," Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 177-185, 1998.

 

 

 

Vascular Elasticity

 

 

Daniel R. Kaiser, Kathleen Mullen, Alan J. Bank, “Brachial artery elastic mechanics in patients with heart failure,” Hypertension, Vol. 38, pp.1440-1445, 2001.

 

Alan J. Bank, Daniel R. Kaiser, Scott Rajala, Anthony Cheng, “In Vivo Human Brachial Artery Elastic Mechanics Effects of Smooth Muscle Relaxation,” Circulation, Vol. 100, pp.41-47, 1999.

 

Daniel R. Kaiser, Kathleen Mullen, Alan J. Bank, “Brachial Artery Elastic Mechanics in Patients With Heart Failure,” Circulation, Vol. 100, pp.41-47, 1999.

 

A. Eriksson, E. Greiff, T. Loupas, M. Persson and P. Pesque, “Arterial Pulse Wave Velocity With Tissue Doppler Imaging,” Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 571–580, 2002.

 

Jerome J. Mai and Michael F. Insana, “Strain Imaging of Internal Deformation,” Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., Vol. 28, No. 11/12, pp. 1475–1484, 2002.

 

David N. Ku, “Blood flow in arteries,” Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 1997. 29:399–434.

 

M.E. Rosar and Charles S. Peskin, “Fluid Flow in Collapsible Elastic Tubes: A Three-Dimensional Numerical Model,” New York Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 7, 281–302, 2001.

 

F.A. Lupotti, J.J. Mai, C. Pellot-Barakat and M.F. Insana, “Vascular Elasticity from Regional Displacement Estimates,” IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2003.

 

 

 

Elasticity Reconstruction

 

 

F. Kallel and M. Bertrand, “Tissue elasticity reconstruction using linear perturbation method,” IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, Vol. 15, 299–313, 1996.

 

M. M. Doyley, P. M. Meaney and J. C. Bamber, “Evaluation of an iterative reconstruction method for quantitative elastography,” Phys. Med. Biol. 45, pp.1521–1540, 2000.

 

D. Fu, S. F. Levinson, S. M. Gracewski and K. J. Parker, “Non-invasive quantitative reconstruction of tissue elasticity using an iterative forward approach,” Phys. Med. Biol. 45, pp.1495–1509, 2000.

 

P.E. Barbone and J. C. Bamber, “Quantitative elasticity imaging: what can and cannot be inferred from strain images,” Phys. Med. Biol. 47, pp.2147–2164, 2002.

 

 

 

Mechanical Measurement of Soft Tissue

 

 

Abbas Samani, Jonathan Bishop, Chris Luginbuhl and Donald B Plewes, “Measuring the elastic modulus of ex vivo small tissue samples,” Phys. Med. Biol., Vol. 48, 2183–2198, 2003.

 

 

 

Laser Induced Optical Breakdown

 

World of Physics: Beer's Law

 

A. Vogel, V. Venugopalan, “Mechanisms of pulsed laser ablation of biological tissues,” Chemical Reviews 2003, v.103, 577-644.

 

V. Venugopalan, A. Guerra III, K. Nahen, A. Vogel, “Role of laser-induced plasma formation in pulsed cellular microsurgery and micromanipulation,” Physical Review Letters 2002, v.88(7).

 

J. Noack, A. Vogel, “Laser-induced plasma formation in water at nanosecond to femtosecond time scales: Calculation of thresholds, absorption Coefficients, and energy density,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 1999, v.35, 1156-1167.

 

A. Vogel, J. Noack, K. Nahen, D. Theisen, S. Busch, U. Parlitz, D.X. Hammer, G.D. Noojin, B.A. Rockwell, R. Birngruber, “Energy balance of optical breakdown in water at nanosecond to femtosecond time scales,” Applied Physics B 1999, v.68, 271-280.

 

C.B. Schaffer, A. Brodeur, E. Mazur, “Laser-induced breakdown and damage in bulk transparent materials induced by tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses,” Measurement Science & Technology 2001, v.12, 1784-1794.

 

C.H. Fan, J. Sun, J.P. Longtin, “Plasma absorption of femtosecond laser pulses in dielectrics,” Journal of Heat Transfer 2002, v.124, 275-283.

 

C.B. Schaffer, N. Nishimura, E.N. Glezer, A.M.-T. Kim, E. Mazur, “Dynamics of femtosecond laser-induced breakdown in water from femtoseconds to microseconds,” Optics Express 2002, v.10(3), 196-203.

 

Optical-Thermal Response of Laser-Irradiated Tissue. Ed. A.J. Welch, M.J.C. van Gemert, Plenum Press, New York, 1995, pp. 709-763.

 

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L.V. Keldysh, “Ionization in the field of a strong electromagnetic wave,” Soviet Physics JETP 1965, v.20, 1307-1314.

 

P.K. Kennedy, “A first-order model for computation of laser-induced breakdown thresholds in ocular and aqueous media – Part I: Theory,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 1995, v.31, 2241-2249.

 

The Principles of Nonlinear Optics. Y.R. Shen, Wiley Press, New York, 1984, pp. 275-283.

 

Effects of High-Power Laser Radiation. J.F. Ready, Academic Press, New York, 1971.

 

F.H. Loesel, J.P. Fischer, M.H. Gotz, T. Juhasz, F. Noack, N. Suhm, J.F. Bille, “Non-thermal ablation of neural tissue with femtosecond laser pulses,” Applied Physics B 1998, v.66, 121-128.

 

D. Du, X. Liu, G. Korn, J. Squier, G. Mourou, “Laser-induced breakdown by impact ionization in SiO2 with pulse widths from 7 ns to 150 fs,” Applied Physics Letters 1994, v.64(23), 3071-3073.

 

C.H. Fan, J.P. Longtin, “Modeling optical breakdown in dielectrics during ultrafast laser processing,” Applied Optics 2001, v.40(18), 3124-3131.

 

F. Docchio, “Lifetimes of plasmas induced in liquids and ocular media by single Nd:YAG-laser pulses of different duration,” Europhysical Letters 1988, v.6, 407-412.

 

E.N. Glezer, C.B. Schaffer, N. Nishimura, E. Mazur, “Minimally disruptive laser-induced breakdown in water,” Optics Letters 1997, v.22(23), 1817-1819.

 

P.K. Kennedy, S.A. Boppart, D.X. Hammer, B.A. Rockwell, G.D. Noojin, W.P. Roach, “A first-order model for computation of laser-induced breakdown thresholds in ocular and aqueous media – Part II: Comparison to experiment,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 1995, v.31, 2250-2257.

 

J. Noack, A. Vogel, D.X. Hammer, G.D. Noojin, B.A. Rockwell, “Influence of pulse duration on mechanical effects after laser-induced breakdown in water,” Journal of Applied Physics 1998, 7488-7495.

 

L. Huang, J.P. Callan, E.N. Glezer, E. Mazur, “Gas under intense ultrafast excitation: Response of the dielectric function,” Physical Review Letters 1998, v.80, 185.

 

A. Oraevsky, L.B. Da Silva, A.M. Rubenchik, M.D. Feit, M.E. Glinsky, M.D. Perry, B.M. Mammini, W. Small IV, B.C. Stuart, “Plasma mediated ablation of biological tissues with nanosecond-to-femtosecond laser pulses: relative role of linear and nonlinear absorption,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 1996, v.2(4), 801-809.

 

H. Lubatschowski, A. Heisterkamp, F. Will, J. Serbin, T. Bauer, C. Fallnich, H. Welling, “Ultrafast laser pulses for medical applications,” Proceedings of SPIE 2002, v.4633, 38-49. [no PDF available]

 

D. Miller, G.J.R. Spooner, A.R. Williams, “Photodisruptive laser nucleation of ultrasonic cavitation for biomedical applications,” Journal of Biomedical Optics 2001, v.6(3), 351-358.

 

P. Dawson, “The physics of the oscillating bubble made simple,” European Journal of Radiology 2002, v.41, 176-178.

 

T.G. Leighton, A.D. Phelps, D.G. Ramble, D.A. Sharpe, “Comparison of the abilities of eight acoustic techniques to detect and size a single bubble,” Ultrasonics 1996, v.34, 661-667.

 

 

 

Bioeffects and Cell Biology Applications

 

 

K. Konig, I. Riemann, P. Fischer, K.-J. Halbhuber, “Intracellular nanosurgery witn near infrared femtosecond laser pulses,” Cellular and Molecular Biology 1999, v.45(2), 195-201. [no PDF available]

 

G.R. ter Haar, “Ultrasonic contrast agents: safety considerations reviewed,” European Journal of Radiology 2002, v.41, 217-221.

 

P. Chandraratna, J. Gallet, J. Jones, Y. Do, R. Gunawardana, Y. Narang, “An Investigation of Possible Effects of High-Frequency Ultrasound on Cellular Integrity of Cultured Fibroblasts,” Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology 1998, v.24(6), 911-914.

 

V. Venugopalan, A. Guerra III, K. Nahen, A. Vogel, “Role of laser-induced plasma formation in pulsed cellular microsurgery and micromanipulation,” Physical Review Letters 2002, v.88(7).

 

U. Tirlapur, K. Konig, “Femtosecond near-infrared laser pulses as a versatile non-invasive tool for intra-tissue nanoprocessing in plants without compromising viability,” The Plant Journal 2002, v.31(3), 365-374.

 

G.H. Henriksen, S.M. Assman, “Laser-assisted patch clamping: a methodology,” European Journal of Physiology 1997, v.433, 832-841.

 

K. Konig, I. Riemann, W. Fritzsche, “Nanodissection of human chromosomes with near-infrared femtosecond laser pulses,” Optics Letters 2001, v.26(11), 819-821.

 

 

 

Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging

 

 

P.A. Dayton, J.S. Allen, K.W. Ferrara, “The magnitude of radiation force on ultrasound contrast agents,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2002, v.112(5), 2183-2192.

 

P. Dayton, A. Klibanov, G. Brandenburger, K. Ferrara, “Acoustic radiation force in vivo: a mechanism to assist targeting of microbubbles,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 1999, v.25(8), 1195-1201.

 

M. Fatemi, J.F. Greenleaf, “Vibro-acoustography: an imaging modality based on ultrasound-stimulated acoustic emission,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 1999, v.96, 6603-6608.

 

M. Fatemi, J.F. Greenleaf, “Ultrasound-stimulated vibro-acoustic spectography,” Science 1998, v.280, 82-85.

 

D. Lohse, A. Prosperetti, “Controlling bubbles,” Journal of Physics:Condensed Matter 2003, v.15, S415-S420.

 

K. Nightingale, M.L. Palmeri, R.W. Nightingale, G.E. Trahey, “On the feasibility of remote palpation using acoustic radiation force,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2001, v.1, 625-634.

 

K. Nightingale, M.S. Soo, R.W. Nightingale, G.E. Trahey, “Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: in vivo demonstration of clinical feasibility,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology2002, v.28(2), 227-235.

 

A.P. Sarvazyan, O.V. Rudenko, S.D. Swanson, J.B. Fowlkes, S.Y. Emelianov, “Shear wave elasticity imaging: a new ultrasonic technology of medical diagnostics,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology1998, v.24(9), 1419-1435.

 

W.F. Walker, “Internal deformation of a uniform elastic solid by acoustic radiation force,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1999, v.105(4), 2508-2518.

 

 

 

DNC and Targeting

 

 

L. Balogh, R. Valluzzi, G.L. Hagnauer, K.S. Laverdure, S.P. Gido, D.A. Tomalia, “Formation of silver and gold dendrimer nanocomposites,” Journal of Nanoparticle Research 1999, v.1, 353-368.

 

J.R. Baker Jr., A. Quintana, L. Piehler, M. Banazak-Holl, D. Tomalia, E. Raczka, “The synthesis and testing of anti-cancer therapeutic nanodevices,” Biomedical Microdevices 2001, v.3(1), 61-69.

 

A. Quintana, E. Raczka, L. Piehler, I. Lee, A. Myc, I. Majoros, A.K. Patri, T. Thomas, J. Mule, J.R. Baker Jr., “Design and function of a dendrimer-based therapeutic nanodevice targeted to tumor cells through the folate receptor,” Pharmaceutical Research 2002, v.19(9), 1310-1316.

 

A.K. Patri, I.J. Majoros, J.R. Baker Jr., “Dendritic polymer macromolecular carriers for drug delivery,” Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 2002, V.6, 466-471.

 

 

 

Catheter

 

 

De Korte, C.L.; Cespedes, E.I.; Van Der Steen, A.F.W., "Influence of catheter position on estimated strain in intravascular elastography," IEEE Transactions on  Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol 46 , No. 3 , pp616-625, 1999.


Lupotti, F.A.; van der Steen, A.F.W.; Mastik, F.; de Korte, C.L., "Decorrelation-based blood flow velocity estimation: effect of spread of flow velocity, linear flow velocity gradients, and parabolic flow," IEEE Transactions on  Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol 49 , No. 9 , pp. 705-714, 2002.


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Photoacoustics and Thermoacoustics

 

 

Geng Ku and Lihong V. Wang, "Scanning thermoacoustic tomography in biological tissue," Medical Physics, Vol.27, 1195-1202 (2000).

 

Robert A. Kruger, William L. Kiser, Jr., Kathy D. Miller and Handel E. Reynolds, "Thermoacoustic CT: Imaging Principles," SPIE (2000).

 

Robert A. Kruger, Pingyu Liu, Yuncai Fang and C. Robert Appledorn , "Photoacoustic ultrasound (PAUS)-reconstruction tomography," Medical Physics, Vol.22, 1605-1609 (1995).

 

Robert A. Kruger, William L. Kiser Jr., Daniel R. Reinecke, and Gabe A. Kruger, "Thermoacoustic computed tomography using a conventional linear transducer array ," Medical Physics, Vol.30, (2003).

 

Minghua Xu and Lihong V. Wang, "Analytic explanation of spatial resolution related to bandwidth and detector aperture size in thermoacoustic or photoacoustic reconstruction ," Physical Review, Vol.67, 1-15 (2003).

 

Xueding Wang, Yongjiang Pang, Geng Ku, Xueyi Xie, George Stoica and Lihong Wang, "Noninvasive laser-induced photoacoustic tomography for structural and functional in vivo imaging of the brain," , Supplementary Figure 1 , and Supplementary Figure 2 . Nature Biotechnology, Vol.21, 803-806 (2003).

 

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Muscle

 

 

Sadao Kurokawa, Tetsuo Fukunaga, and Senshi Fukashiro, "Behavior of fascicles and tendinous structures of human gastrocnemius during vertical jumping," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol.90, 1349-1358 (2001).

 

Deanna S. Asakawa, Krishna S. Nayak, Silvia S. Blemker, Scott L. Delp, John M. Pauly, Dwight G. Nishimura, and Garry E. Gold, "Real-Time Imaging of Skeletal Muscle Velocity," Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Vol.18, 734-739 (2003).

 

 

Nerve

 

 

Martin Wolf, Ursula Wolf, Jee H. Choi, Rajarsi Gupta, Larisa P. Safonova, L. Adelina Paunescu,Antonios Michalos, and Enrico Gratton, "Functional Frequency-Domain Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Detects Fast Neuronal Signal in the Motor Cortex," NeuroImage , Vol.17, 1868-1875 (2002).

 

Maria Angela Franceschini and David A. Boas, "Noninvasive measurement of neuronal activity with near-infraredoptical imaging," NeuroImage, in press, (2004).

 

David M. Rector, Robert F. Rogers, James S. Schwaber, Ronald M. Harper, and John S. George,, "Scattered-Light Imaging in Vivo Tracks Fast and Slow Processes of Neurophysiological Activation," NeuroImage, Vol.14, 977-994 (2001).

 

John E. W. Mayhew, Stephen Askew, Ying Zheng, John Porrill, G. W. Max Westby, Peter Redgrave, David M. Rector and Rinald M. Harper, "Cerebral Vasomotion: A 0.1-Hz Oscillation in Reflected Light Imaging of Neural Activity," NeuroImage, Vol.4, 183-193 (1996).

 

Ichiji Tasaki, "Rapid structural changes in nerve fibers and cells associated with their excitation processes," Japanese Journal of Physiology, Vol.49, 125-138 (1999).

 

Ichiji Tasaki, "Rapid volume expansion in the torpedo electric organ associated with its postaynaptic potential," Bioechemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Vol.233, 305-308 (1997).

 

L.R. Gavrilov, "Use of focused ultrasound for stimulation of nerve structures," Ultrasonics, 132-138 (1984).