Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues
暫譯: 軟組織中的定量超聲波

定量超音波（QUS）作為一個研究領域持續成熟，並準備迅速轉向常規的前臨床和臨床應用。本書將有兩個主要目的：

1. 提供QUS的進階教育，全面而徹底地回顧QUS的所有理論、物理和工程方面。
2. 由該研究領域的主要貢獻者回顧QUS的最新發展。

本書第二版將專注於六個與軟組織定量超音波相關的現代研究主題：

1. 基於頻譜的方法，用於組織特徵化、組織分類、癌症檢測等。
2. 用於組織特徵化的衰減估計及改善基於頻譜的方法。
3. 包絡統計分析作為量化和成像組織特性的手段。
4. 用於前臨床和臨床成像的超音波計算機斷層掃描。
5. 掃描聲學顯微鏡，用於以微米解析度形成軟組織的機械性質圖像。
6. 用於定量超音波的模擬物。

Dr. Jonathan Mamou graduated in 2000 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France. In January 2001, he began his graduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in May 2002 and 2005, respectively. He previously was the Associate Research Director of the F. L. Lizzi Center for Biomedical Engineering at Riverside Research in New York, NY. He currently holds a faculty position in the Department of Radiology of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, NY. Dr. Mamou also is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of New York University. His fields of interest include theoretical aspects of ultrasound scattering, ultrasonic medical imaging, quantitative acoustic microscopy, ultrasound contrast agents, and biomedical image processing. Dr. Mamou is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), a Seniormember of IEEE, and a member of the Acoustical Society of America. He is coeditor of the book "Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues" published by Springer, in 2013. In 2022, he was inducted into the Council of Distinguished Investigators of the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging. He served as the Chair of the AIUM High-Frequency Clinical and Preclinical Imaging Community of Practice. He is an Associate Editor of Ultrasonic Imaging and the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, and a reviewer for numerous journals.

Michael L. Oelze was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, in 1971. He received the B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from Harding University, Searcy, AR, USA, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL, USA. From 2002 to 2004, he was an NIH Fellow conducting research in quantitative ultrasound techniques for biomedical ultrasound applications in cancer detection. He is currently a Professor and the Associate Head for Graduate Affairs in ECE at UIUC, the Frederick and Elizabeth Nearing Scholar in the Grainger College of Engineering and a Health Innovator Professor in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. His research interests include biomedical ultrasound, quantitative ultrasound imaging for improving cancer diagnostics and monitoring therapy response, ultrasound bioeffects, ultrasound tomography techniques, ultrasound-based therapy, beamforming, and ultrasound-based medical implants. Dr. Oelze is currently a Fellow of the AIUM, and a member of ASA. He is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, for Ultrasonic Imaging, and for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

喬納森·馬穆博士於2000年畢業於法國巴黎的國立高等電信學院（Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications）。2001年1月，他開始在伊利諾伊大學厄本那-香檳分校（University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL）攻讀電機與計算機工程的研究生學位。他於2002年和2005年分別獲得碩士和博士學位。他曾擔任紐約Riverside Research的F. L. Lizzi生物醫學工程中心的副研究主任。目前，他在紐約的威爾康奈爾醫學院（Weill Cornell Medicine）放射科擔任教職。馬穆博士同時也是紐約大學電機工程系的兼任教授。他的研究領域包括超聲波散射的理論方面、超聲醫學影像、定量聲學顯微鏡、超聲對比劑和生物醫學影像處理。馬穆博士是美國超聲醫學學會（AIUM）的會士，IEEE的高級會員，以及美國聲學學會的成員。他是2013年由Springer出版的《軟組織中的定量超聲》（Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues）一書的共同編輯。2022年，他被選入放射學與生物醫學影像學院的傑出研究人員委員會。他曾擔任AIUM高頻臨床與前臨床影像實踐社群的主席。他是《超聲影像》（Ultrasonic Imaging）和《IEEE超聲、鐵電及頻率控制期刊》（IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control）的副編輯，並為多本期刊擔任審稿人。

邁克爾·L·奧爾茲於1971年出生於新西蘭漢密爾頓。他於1994年在美國阿肯色州西爾西的哈丁大學（Harding University）獲得物理學和數學的學士學位，並在美國密西西比州牛津的密西西比大學（University of Mississippi）獲得物理學博士學位。2000年至2002年，他在伊利諾伊大學厄本那-香檳分校（UIUC）電機與計算機工程系的生物聲學研究實驗室擔任博士後研究員。2002年至2004年，他是國立衛生研究院（NIH）研究員，進行定量超聲技術在癌症檢測中的生物醫學應用研究。目前，他是UIUC電機與計算機工程系的教授及研究生事務副主任，並在格蘭傑工程學院擔任弗雷德里克與伊莉莎白·尼亞林學者（Frederick and Elizabeth Nearing Scholar），以及在卡爾伊利諾伊醫學院擔任健康創新教授。他的研究興趣包括生物醫學超聲、用於改善癌症診斷和監測治療反應的定量超聲影像、超聲生物效應、超聲斷層成像技術、基於超聲的治療、波束形成和基於超聲的醫療植入物。奧爾茲博士目前是AIUM的會士，並且是美國聲學學會的成員。他是IEEE超聲學研討會的技術計畫委員會成員。目前，他擔任《IEEE超聲、鐵電及頻率控制期刊》、《超聲影像》和《IEEE生物醫學工程期刊》（IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering）的副編輯。