Papers in refereed journal

1. FRANCESCHINI E., PAUZIN M.-C., MENSAH S., & GROBY J.-P.
2005 Soft tissue absorption tomography with correction for scattering aberrations, Ultrasonic Imaging 27(4) 221-236.

2. FRANCESCHINI E., MENSAH S., AMY D., & LEFEBVRE J.-P.
2006 A 2D anatomic breast ductal computer phantom for ultrasonic imaging, IEEE Trans. on Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 53(7) 1281-1288.

3. MENSAH S., FRANCESCHINI E., & LEFEBVRE J.-P.
2006 Mammographie ultrasonore en champ proche, Traitement de Signal numéro spécial Cancérologie 23(3) 259-275.

4. MENSAH S. & FRANCESCHINI E.
2007 Near-field ultrasound tomography, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 121(3) 1423-1433.

5. FRANCESCHINI E., MENSAH S., LE MARREC L., & LASAYGUES P.
2007 An optimization method for quantitative impedance tomography, IEEE Trans. on Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. special issue on High Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging in Industrial, Material and Biomaterial Applications 54(8) 1578-1588.

6. FRANCESCHINI E., YU F. T. H., & CLOUTIER G.
2008 Simultaneous estimation of attenuation and structure parameters of aggregated red blood cells from backscatter measurements, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 123 EL85-91.

7. YU F. T. H., FRANCESCHINI E., CHAYER B., ARMSTRONG J. K., MEISELMAN H. J., & CLOUTIER G.
2009 Ultrasonic parametric imaging of erythrocyte agregation using the structure factor size estimator, Biorheology 123 343-363

8. FRANCESCHINI E., YU F. T. H., DESTREMPES F. & CLOUTIER G.
2010 Ultrasound characterization of red blood cell aggregation with intervening attenuating tissue-mimicking phantoms, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 127(2) 1104-1115. Copyright 2010 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America.

9. SAHA R. K., FRANCESCHINI E. & CLOUTIER G.
2011 Assessment of accuracy of the structure-factor-size-estimator method in determining red blood cell aggregate size from ultrasound spectral backscatter coefficient, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 129(4) 2269-2277

10. ALESSANDRINI M., MAGGIO S., POREE J., DE MARCHI L., SPECIALE N., FRANCESCHINI E., BERNARD. O & BASSET O.
2011 A Restoration Framework for Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization, IEEE Trans. on Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., in press

11. FRANCESCHINI E., METZGER B. & CLOUTIER G.
2011 Forward problem study of an effective medium model for ultrasound blood characterization, IEEE Trans. on Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., in press

Patent

Co-holder of a US patent no PCT/CA2008/000673 published 23/10/2008, Method and system of ultrasound scatterer characterization

1. PAUZIN M.-C., FRANCESCHINI E., & MENSAH S.
2006 Tomographie ultrasonore d’absorption des tissus mous avec correction des effets de diffraction, Acte du 8ème Congrès Français d’Acoustique, Tours, 24-27 Avril.

2. FRANCESCHINI E., LE MARREC L., & MENSAH S.
2006 Une méthode d’optimisation pour la tomographie quantitative d’impédance, Acte du 8ème Congrès Français d’Acoustique, Tours, 24-27 Avril.

3. FRANCESCHINI E., PAUZIN M.-C., & MENSAH S.
2006 Ultrasonic absorption tomography on soft tissues with correction for scattering effects, Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging : From Nano to Macro (ISBI), DOI 872 0-7803-9577-8/06/.

4. MENSAH S., FRANCESCHINI E., & PAUZIN M.-C.
2007 Ultrasound mammography, Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Molecular Imaging Technology - EuroMedIm, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, vol. 571, no. 1, pp. 52-55.

5. LASAYGUES P., FRANCESCHINI E., GUILLERMIN R., LEFEBVRE J.-P., SALAUD N., & PETIT P.
2007 Two-dimensional ultrasonic computed tomography of growth bone, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, New York, October 28-31, pp. 1816-1819, DOI 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.457.

6. MENSAH S. & FRANCESCHINI E.
2007 Parametric acoustic microscopy, Proceedings of the International Congress on Ultrasonics, Vienna, April 9-13.

7. FRANCESCHINI E., MENSAH S., AMY D., & LEFEBVRE J.-P.
2007 Breast ductal computer phantoms, Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging (Ed. M.P. André, Springer), vol. 28, pp. 213-221.

8. LASAYGUES P., FRANCESCHINI E., DEBIEU E., & BRANCHERIAU L.
2007 Non-destructive diagnostic of integrity of green wood using ultrasonic diffraction tomography, Proceedings of the International Congress on Ultrasonics, Vienna, April 9-13.

9. FRANCESCHINI E., YU F. T. H., FENECH M., & CLOUTIER G.
2007 Evaluation of the Structure Factor Size Estimator from Simulated Ultrasonic Backscattered Signals from Blood, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, New York, October 28-31, pp. 2503-2506, DOI 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.630.

10. YU F. T. H., FRANCESCHINI E., ARMSTRONG J. K., MEISELMAN H. J., & CLOUTIER G.
2008 Ultrasound parametrical imaging of RBC aggregation in Couette and tube flows and local viscosity extrapolations,13th International Congress of Biorheology and 6th International Conference on Clinical Hemorheology, Penn State University, USA, July 9–13, in Biorheology 45, no.1-2, pp. 117

11. CLOUTIER G., YU F. T. H., FRANCESCHINI E., NGUYEN L. C., & ZIMMER A.
2008 Ultrasound determination of structural indices of red blood cell aggregation for in vivo scanning, 13th International Congress of Biorheology and 6th International Conference on Clinical Hemorheology, Penn State University, USA, July 9–13, in Biorheology 45, no.1-2, pp. 98.

12. ROUYER J., MENSAH S., LASAYGUES P., FRANCESCHINI E., DEBIEU E., & LEFEBVRE J. P.
2009 Prototype ANAÏS : Tomographe ultrasonore pour l’imagerie anatomique du sein - Comparaison avec l’échographie, 19ème Congrès Français de Mécanique, Marseille, 24-28 août.

13. FRANCESCHINI E., YU F. T. H., & CLOUTIER G.
2009 Ultrasound characterization of aggregated red blood cells : towards in vivo application, in Springer Proceedings in Physics, Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Non Homogeneous Media, pp. 293-302.

14. FRANCESCHINI E., YU F. T. H., DESTREMPES F., & CLOUTIER G.
2009 In vivo ultrasound characterization of red blood cell aggregation using the Structure Factor Size and Attenuation Estimator, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Rome, 20-23 September.

15. FRANCESCHINI E., LOMBARD B., & PIRAUX J.
2010 Caractérisation ultrasonore de la distribution de globules rouges : étude par simulation numérique, Acte du 10ème Congrès Français d’Acoustique, Lyon, 12-16 avril 2010.

16. FRANCESCHINI E., LOMBARD B., & PIRAUX J.
2010 Ultrasound characterization of red blood cells distribution : a wave scattering simulation study, Proceedings of the 6th conference of the GDR 2501 Research on Ultrasound Propagation for NDT jointly with the 10th Anglo-French Physical Acoustics Conference (AFPAC). Journal of Physics : Conference Series.

17. NGUYEN L.-C., TRIPETTE J., FRANCESCHINI E., CHIASSON J.-L., GIROUX M.-F., ROBILLARD P., SOULEZ G. & G. CLOUTIER
2010 In-situ characterization of red blood cell aggregation measured with high frequency ultrasound in type 2 diabetic patients, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, San Diego, 11-14 Octobre.

18. ALESSANDRINI M., MAGGIO S., POREE J., DE MARCHI L., SPECIALE N., FRANCESCHINI E., BERNARD. O & BASSET O.
2011 An expectation maximization framework for an improved ultrasound-based tissue characterization, SPIE Medical imaging conference, Orlando (USA), 12-17 Février

19. FRANCESCHINI E. & AWAD N.
2011 Experimental validation of the structure factor model on tissue-mimicking phantoms, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Orlando, 18-21 Octobre 2011.

20. FRANCESCHINI E., METZGER B. & CLOUTIER G.
2011 An effective medium model for ultrasound blood characterization, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Orlando, 18-21 Octobre 2011.

Ph. D. THESIS

FRANCESCHINI E., Tomographie ultrasonore dédiée à la détection du cancer du sein, Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I, soutenue le 2 novembre 2006. Ultrasound tomography applied to breast cancer detection