Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2011CB707900, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 81127901, 81227004, 11374155, 11074123, 11174141, 11274170, 61072027, 11161120324 and 11104140, the National High-tech Research and Development Program under Grant Nos 2012AA022702, the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of China (NCET-11-0236), and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant Nos BK2011543 and BK2011812.
A software-based method is proposed to eliminate the flooding interference strips in B-mode images, and to evaluate the cavitation bubbles generated during high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) exposures. In vitr...