TY - GEN
T1 - Use of piezoelectric materials as markers in ultrasound imaging
AU - Towe, Bruce C.
PY - 1999/12/1
Y1 - 1999/12/1
N2 - Piezoelectric materials can be used as a type of contrast agent and implanted marker in medical diagnostic ultrasound images. Their use depends on their generation of ultrasound evoked electrical potentials that can be detected by remote electrodes. When these potentials are introduced into the imaging circuits of real time ultrasound imaging machines, it can produce a high image contrast for the material. This approach is fundamentally different than the usual methods of producing contrast in diagnostic images because it depends on a different physical interaction process. The method appears suited to labeling objects, catheters, biopsy needles, and other kinds of objects used as implanted markers in the body.
AB - Piezoelectric materials can be used as a type of contrast agent and implanted marker in medical diagnostic ultrasound images. Their use depends on their generation of ultrasound evoked electrical potentials that can be detected by remote electrodes. When these potentials are introduced into the imaging circuits of real time ultrasound imaging machines, it can produce a high image contrast for the material. This approach is fundamentally different than the usual methods of producing contrast in diagnostic images because it depends on a different physical interaction process. The method appears suited to labeling objects, catheters, biopsy needles, and other kinds of objects used as implanted markers in the body.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0033335199
SN - 0780356756
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
BT - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
PB - IEEE
T2 - Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (1st Joint BMES / EMBS)
Y2 - 13 October 1999 through 16 October 1999
ER -