Hill C R, Carpenter D A
Br J Radiol. 1976 Mar;49(579):238-43. doi: 10.1259/0007-1285-49-579-238.
The ultrasonic pulse-echo principle is capable of providing detailed information, of considerable potential diagnostic value, on the structure of soft tissues in relation to pathology, but the present generation of ultrasonic scanners does not fully exploit this possibility. The paper discusses the principal measures necessary to achieve tissue structure visualization and quantitative characterization and describes a clinically functioning system that has been built for this purpose with particular relation to cancer diagnosis. Examples of the application of the system are given in this and an accompanying paper.
超声脉冲回波原理能够提供有关软组织结构与病理关系的详细信息，具有相当大的潜在诊断价值，但目前一代的超声扫描仪并未充分利用这一可能性。本文讨论了实现组织结构可视化和定量表征所需的主要措施，并描述了一个为此目的而构建的临床运行系统，特别涉及癌症诊断。本文及一篇配套论文给出了该系统的应用实例。
