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Previous medical applications of ultrasound computed tomography showed promise of increased resolution over conventional pulse-echo imaging and exhibited potential for quantitative tissue characterization. 1-4 This research was limited by significant technical difficulties due in part to inadequate beam sampling and, in some cases, the assumptions associated with the straight-line ray-optical approach to pulse propagation. Nonetheless, experimental systems were constructed and credible clinical results were obtained in the breast where the range of tissue properties is less than in other parts of the body. Theoretical research has continued but few experimental systems have been built and there has been limited new work in tissue.5,6
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André, M.P. et al. (1995). A New Consideration of Diffraction Computed Tomography for Breast Imaging: Studies in Phantoms and Patients. In: Jones, J.P. (eds) Acoustical Imaging. Acoustical Imaging, vol 21. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1943-0_40
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