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Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ultrasound Imaging Artech House Series Bioinformatics & Biomedical Imaging Series Editors Stephen T. C. Wong, The Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ultrasound Imaging, Jasjit S. Suri, Chirinjeev Kathuria, Ruey-Feng Chang, Filippo Molinari, and Aaron Fenster, editors Biological Database Modeling, Jake Chen and Amandeep S. Sidhu, editors Biomedical Informatics in Translational Research, Hai Hu, Michael Liebman, and Richard Mural Genome Sequencing Technology and Algorithms, Sun Kim, Haixu Tang, and Elaine R. Mardis, editors Life Science Automation Fundamentals and Applications, Mingjun Zhang, Bradley Nelson, and Robin Felder, editors Microscopic Image Analysis for Life Science Applications, Jens Rittscher, Stephen T. C. Wong, and Raghu Machiraju, editors Next Generation Artificial Vision Systems: Reverse Engineering the Human Visual System, Maria Petrou and Anil Bharath, editors Systems Bioinformatics: An Engineering Case-Based Approach, Gil Alterovitz and Marco F. Ramoni, editors Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ultrasound Imaging Jasjit S. Suri Chirinjeev Kathuria Ruey-Feng Chang Filippo Molinari Aaron Fenster Editors artechhouse.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the U.S. Library of Congress. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-13: 978-1-59693-144-2 Cover design by Igor Valdman © 2008 ARTECH HOUSE, INC. 685 Canton Street Norwood, MA 02062 All rights reserved. Printed and bound in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All terms mentioned in this book that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalized. Artech House cannot attest to the accuracy of this information. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY The technical descriptions, procedures, and computer programs in this book have been developed with the greatest of care and they have been useful to the author in a broad range of applications; however, they are provided as is, witho ut warranty of any kind. Artech House, Inc. and the author and editors of the book titled Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ultrasound Imaging make no warranties, expressed or implied, that the equations, programs, and procedures in this book or its associated software are free of error, or are consi