Twinkling effect in detecting kidney stone

• Main Author: Lim, Ee Wei.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49883
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Kidney stone is a common urologic disease but ultrasound diagnosis of kidney stone is usually not easy because of the bad image quality. The “twinkling artefact” is a useful tool in diagnosing the kidney stone as well as for better tissue characterisation. This artefact is being described as a rapid...