Myocardial Tissue Characterization: An Approach Based on Quantitative Backscatter and Attenuation

Assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction and volumes by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography. A comparison of cineangiographic and radionuclide techniques.

1979 • 723 citations

Relationship between collagen and ultrasonic backscatter in myocardial tissue

1981 • 212 citations

Quantitation of regional cardiac function by two-dimensional echocardiography. I. Patterns of contraction in the normal left ventricle.

1983 • 192 citations

The dependence of ultrasonic attenuation and backscatter on collagen content in dog and rabbit hearts.

1980 • 190 citations

Changes in Myocardial Backscatter Throughout the Cardiac Cycle

1983 • 171 citations

Effects of myocardial ischemia on quantitative ultrasonic backscatter and identification of responsible determinants.

1981 • 150 citations

The study of left ventricular function from digitized echocardiograms

1978 • 149 citations

Quantitative broadband ultrasonic backscatter: An approach to nondestructive evaluation in acoustically inhomogeneous materials

1981 • 145 citations

Myocardial texture characterization by two-dimensional echocardiography

1983 • 141 citations

Effects of myocardial contraction on ultrasonic backscatter before and after ischemia

1984 • 122 citations

Detection of acute myocardial infarction in closed-chest dogs by analysis of regional two-dimensional echocardiographic gray-level distributions.

1983 • 117 citations

Broadband Integrated Backscatter: An Approach to Spatially Localized Tissue Characterization in Vivo

1979 • 114 citations

Detection of myocardial infarction in vitro based on altered attenuation of ultrasound.

1977 • 92 citations

Detection of cardiomyopathic changes induced by doxorubicin based on quantitative analysis of ultrasonic backscatter

1981 • 91 citations

Changes in myocardial backscatter throughout the cardiac cycle

1983 • 85 citations

Detection of ischemic myocardium in vivo through the chest wall by quantitative ultrasonic tissue characterization

1982 • 84 citations

The relationship between collagen and ultrasonic attenuation in myocardial tissue

1979 • 81 citations

Clinical application of amplitude processing of echocardiographic images.

1981 • 79 citations

Response characteristics of a finite aperture, phase insensitive ultrasonic receiver based upon the acoustoelectric effect

1981 • 71 citations

Enhanced detection of the evolution of tissue changes after acute myocardial infarction using color-encoded two-dimensional echocardiography.

1982 • 68 citations

Detection of spatially nonuniform ultrasonic radiation with phase sensitive (piezoelectric) and phase insensitive (acoustoelectric) receivers

1981 • 64 citations

Echocardiographic features of eosinophilic endomyocardial disease.

1982 • 64 citations

In vivo ultrasonic tissue characterization of human intracardiac masses

1983 • 63 citations

Changes in ultrasonic attenuation indicative of early myocardial ischemic injury

1979 • 58 citations

Relation between diastolic left ventricular wall stress and strain in man.

1974 • 57 citations

Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization: Correlation Between Biochemical and Ultrasonic Indices of Myocardial Injury

1976 • 55 citations

Ultrasonic Detection of Myocardial Infarction by Amplitude Analysis

1979 • 39 citations

Changes in ultrasonic attenuation indicative of early myocardial ischemic injury

1979 • 35 citations

Application of Phase-insensitive Detection and Frequency-Dependent Measurements to Computed Ultrasonic Attenuation Tomography

1981 • 34 citations

Ultrasonic attenuation of myocardial tissue: Dependence on time after excision and on temperature

1977 • 31 citations

Phase Cancellation, Reflection, and Refraction Effects in Quantitative Ultrasonic Attenuation Tomography

1977 • 28 citations

Echocardiography: M-Mode and Two-Dimensional Methods

1980 • 27 citations

Relation between myocardial injury and postextrasystolic potentiation of regional function measured by two-dimensional echocardiography

1983 • 24 citations

Effects of Anisotropy in the Ultrasonic Attenuation of Tissue on Computed Tomography

1981 • 23 citations

A Comparison of Finite Aperture Phase Sensitive and Phase Insensitive Detection in the Near Field of Inhonogeneous Material

1981 • 19 citations

Effects of anisotropy in the ultrasonic attenuation of tissue on computed tomography

1981 • 11 citations

Spatial Moments of the Ultrasonic Intensity Distribution for the Purpose of Quantitative Imaging in Inhomogeneous Media

1980 • 11 citations

A Power Sensitive Transducer for Echocardiography and Other Medical Ultrasonic Applications

1975 • 11 citations

Quantitative volume backscatter imaging: Preliminary clinical results

1983 • 8 citations

Differentiation of a-mode ultrasound signals from normal and ischemic myocardium by multivariate discriminant analysis of waveform parameters

1980 • 6 citations

Computer Simulation to Evaluate Strategies for Enhancing Accuracy in Attenuation Tomography

1982 • 6 citations

Ultrasonic Detection of Myocardial Infarction by Amplitude Analysis

1978 • 5 citations