Papers published :

 

Between 1986 and 1989

Between 1990 and 1994

Between 1995 and 1999

Between 2000 and 2004

Since 2005

 

 

 

 

Papers published between 1986 and 1989  

1. Durand L.G., de Guise J., Cloutier G., Guardo R., Brais M., Evaluation of FFT-based and modern parametric methods for the spectral analysis of bioprosthetic valve sounds. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., BME-33 (6): 572-578, 1986.

2. Cloutier G., Guardo R., Durand L.G., Spectral analysis of closing sounds produced by Ionescu-Shiley bioprosthetic aortic heart valves. Part I: Optimal number of poles and zeros for parametric spectral analysis. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 25 (5): 487-491, 1987.

3. Cloutier G., Grenier M.C., Guardo R., Durand L.G., Spectral analysis of closing sounds produced by Ionescu-Shiley bioprosthetic aortic heart valves. Part II: Computer simulation of aortic closing sounds and estimation of their truncation level and signal-to-noise ratio. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 25 (5): 492-496, 1987.

4. Cloutier G., Guardo R., Durand L.G., Spectral analysis of closing sounds produced by Ionescu-Shiley bioprosthetic aortic heart valves. Part III: Performance of FFT-based and parametric methods for extracting diagnostic spectral parameters. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 25 (5): 497-503, 1987.

5. Cloutier G., Durand L.G., Guardo R., Sabbah H.N., Stein P.D., Bias and variability of diagnostic spectral parameters extracted from closing sounds produced by bioprosthetic valves implanted in the mitral position. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 36 (8): 815-826, 1989.

6. Baranek H., Lee H.C., Cloutier G., Durand L.G., Automatic detection of sounds and murmurs in patients with "Ionescu-Shiley" aortic bioprostheses. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 27 (5): 449-455, 1989.

Papers published between 1990 and 1994                          ↑ Top

7. Cloutier G., Lemire F., Durand L.G., Latour Y., Langlois Y.E., Computer evaluation of Doppler spectral envelope area in patients having a valvular aortic stenosis. Ultrasound Med. Biol., 16 (3): 247-260, 1990.

8. Durand L.G., Blanchard M., Cloutier G., Sabbah H.N., Stein P.D., Comparison of pattern recognition methods for computer assisted classification of phonocardiograms of patients with a porcine bioprosthetic valve implanted in the mitral position. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 37 (12): 1121-1129, 1990.

9. Cloutier G., Durand L.G., Évaluation par échocardiographie Doppler de la sévérité des obstructions des valvules aortiques naturelles. Innov. Tech. Biol. Méd., 11 (4): 435-457, 1990.

10. Cloutier G., Durand L.G., Caractérisation du flot sanguin au niveau des valvules aortiques naturelles. Innov. Tech. Biol. Méd., 11 (5): 581-593, 1990.

11. Allard L., Langlois Y.E., Durand L.G., Roederer G.O., Beaudoin M., Cloutier G., Roy P., Robillard P., Computer analysis and pattern recognition of Doppler blood flow spectra for disease classification in the lower limb arteries. Ultrasound Med. Biol., 17 (3): 211-223, 1991.

12. Cloutier G., Lemire F., Durand L.G., Latour Y., Jarry M., Solignac A., Langlois Y.E., Change in amplitude distributions of Doppler spectrograms recorded below the aortic valve in patients with a valvular aortic stenosis. Ultrasound Med. Biol., 17 (7): 667-678, 1991.

13. Cloutier G., Allard L., Guo Z., Durand L.G., The effect of averaging cardiac Doppler spectrograms on the reduction of their amplitude variability. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 30 (2): 177-186, 1992.

14. Allard L., Langlois Y.E., Durand L.G., Roederer G.O, Cloutier G., The effect of ensemble averaging on amplitude and feature variabilities of Doppler spectrograms recorded in the lower limb arteries. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 30 (3): 267-276, 1992.

15. Shung K.K., Cloutier G., Lim C.C., The effects of hematocrit, shear rate, and turbulence on ultrasonic Doppler spectrum from blood. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 39 (5): 462-469, 1992.

16. Guo Z., Durand L.G., Allard L., Cloutier G., Lee H.C., Langlois Y.E., Cardiac Doppler blood-flow signal analysis, Part I: Evaluation of the normality and stationarity of the temporal signal. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 31 (3): 237-241, 1993.

17. Guo Z., Durand L.G., Allard L., Cloutier G., Lee H.C., Langlois Y.E., Cardiac Doppler blood-flow signal analysis, Part II: Time/frequency representation based on autoregressive modelling. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 31 (3): 242-248, 1993.

18. Cloutier G., Shung K.K., Cyclic variation of the power of ultrasonic Doppler signals backscattered by polystyrene microspheres and porcine erythrocyte suspensions. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 40 (9): 953-962, 1993.

19. Cloutier G., Shung K.K., Study of red cell aggregation in pulsatile flow from ultrasonic Doppler power measurements. Biorheology, 30 (5 & 6): 443-461, 1993.

20. Cloutier G., Shung K.K., Durand L.G., Experimental evaluation of intrinsic and nonstationary ultrasonic Doppler spectral broadening in steady and pulsatile flow loop models. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferro. Freq. Control., 40 (6): 786-795, 1993.

21. Allard L., Cloutier G., Durand L.G., Roederer G.O., Langlois Y.E, Limitations of ultrasonic Duplex scanning for diagnosing lower limb arterial stenoses in the presence of adjacent segment disease. J. Vasc. Surg., 19 (4): 650-657, 1994.

22. Guo Z., Durand L.G., Allard L., Cloutier G., Lee H.C., Classification of lower limb arterial stenoses from Doppler blood flow signal analysis with time-frequency representation and pattern recognition techniques. Ultrasound Med. Biol., 20 (4): 335-346, 1994.

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23. Cloutier G., Allard L., Durand L.G., Changes in ultrasonic Doppler backscattered power downstream of concentric and eccentric stenoses under pulsatile flow. Ultrasound Med. Biol., 21 (1): 59-70, 1995.

24. Allard L., Cloutier G., Durand L.G., Doppler velocity ratio measurements evaluated in a phantom model of multiple arterial disease. Ultrasound Med. Biol., 21 (4): 471-480, 1995.

25. Allard L., Cloutier G., Durand L.G., Effect of the insonification angle on the Doppler backscattered power under red blood cell aggregation conditions. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferro. Freq. Control., 43 (2): 211-219, 1996.

26. Cloutier G., Qin Z., Durand L.G., Teh B.G., Power Doppler ultrasound evaluation of the shear rate and shear stress dependences of red blood cell aggregation, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 43 (5): 441-450, 1996.

27. Cloutier G., Allard L., Durand L.G., Characterization of blood flow turbulence with pulsed-wave and power Doppler ultrasound imaging. J. Biomechanical Eng., 118 (3): 318-325, 1996.

28. Weng X., Cloutier G., Pibarot P., Durand L.G., Comparison and simulation of different levels of erythrocyte aggregation with pig, horse, sheep, calf, and normal human blood, Biorheology, 33 (4 & 5): 365-377, 1996.

29. Weng X., Cloutier G., Beaulieu R., Roederer G.O., Influence of acute-phase proteins on erythrocyte aggregation, Am. J. Physiol., 271 (Heart and Circulatory Physiology 40): H2346-H2352, 1996.

30. Allard L., Cloutier G., Durand L.G., Évaluation par écho-Doppler des sténoses artérielles des membres inférieurs en présence de lésions étagées, Artères et Veines, 15 (2): 51-60, 1996.

31. Fontaine I., Cloutier G., Allard L., Non-Gaussian statistical property of the ultrasonic Doppler signal downstream of a severe stenosis, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 23 (1): 41-45, 1997.

32. Cloutier G., Weng X., Roederer G.O., Allard L., Tardif F., Beaulieu R., Differences in the erythrocyte aggregation level between veins and arteries of normolipidemic and hyperlipidemic individuals, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 23 (9): 1383-1393, 1997.

33. Cloutier G., Qin Z., Ultrasound backscattering from non-aggregating and aggregating erythrocytes - A review, Biorheology, 34 (6): 443-470, 1997.

34. Qin Z., Durand L.G., Cloutier G., Kinetics of the "black hole" phenomenon in ultrasound backscattering measurements with red blood cell aggregation, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 24 (2): 245-256, 1998.

35. Guo Z., Durand L.G., Allard L., Cloutier G., Fenster A., In vitro evaluation of multiple arterial stenoses using three-dimensional power Doppler angiography, J. Vasc. Surg., 27 (4): 681-688, 1998.

36. Qin Z., Durand L.G., Allard L., Cloutier G., Effects of a sudden flow reduction on red blood cell rouleau formation and orientation using RF backscattered power, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 24 (4): 503-511, 1998.

37. Weng X., Roederer G.O., Beaulieu R., Cloutier G., Contribution of acute-phase proteins and cardiovascular risk factors to erythrocyte aggregation in normolipidemic and hyperlipidemic individuals, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 80 (6): 903-908, 1998.

38. Sava H., Durand L.G., Cloutier G., Performance of short-time spectral parametric methods for reducing the variance of the Doppler ultrasound mean instantaneous frequency estimation, Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 37 (3): 291-297, 1999.

39. Allard L., Cloutier G., Power Doppler ultrasound scan imaging of the level of red blood cell aggregation – An in vitro study, J. Vasc. Surg., 30 (1): 157-168, 1999.

40. Weng X., Cloutier G., Genest J. Jr., Contribution of the -455G/A polymorphism at the b-fibrinogen gene to erythrocyte aggregation in patients with CAD, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 82 (5): 1406-1411, 1999.

41. Fontaine I., Bertrand M., Cloutier G., A system-based approach to modeling the ultrasound signal backscattered by red blood cells, Biophysical J., 77 (11): 2387-2399, 1999.

42. Allard L., Cloutier G., Guo Z., Durand L.G., Review of the assessment of single level and multilevel arterial occlusive disease in lower limbs by duplex ultrasound, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 25 (4): 495-502, 1999.

43. Cloutier G., Characterization of erythrocyte aggregation with ultrasound, Biorheology, 36 (5&6): 443-446, 1999.

Papers published between 2000 and 2004                         ↑ Top

44. Teh B.G., Cloutier G., Modeling and analysis of ultrasound backscattering by spherical aggregates and rouleaux of red blood cells, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferro. Freq. Control., 47 (4): 1025-1035, 2000.

45. Cloutier G., Qin Z., Shear rate dependence of ultrasound backscattering from blood samples characterized by different levels of erythrocyte aggregation, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 28 (4): 399-407, 2000.

46. Cloutier G., Qin Z., Garcia D., Soulez G., Oliva V., Durand L.G., Assessment of arterial stenosis in a flow model with power Doppler angiography: Accuracy and observations on blood echogenicity, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 26 (9): 1489-1501, 2000.

47. Cloutier G., Chen D., Durand L.G., Performance of time-frequency spectral techniques to estimate the intensity of blood flow turbulence with pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 27 (4): 535-550, 2001.

48. Brunette J., Mongrain R., Cloutier G., Bertrand M., Bertrand O.F., Tardif J.C., A novel realistic three-layer phantom for intravascular ultrasound imaging, Int. J. Cardiac Imaging, 17 (5): 371-381, 2001.

49. Savéry D., Cloutier G., A point process approach to assess the frequency dependence of ultrasound backscattering by aggregating red blood cells, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 110 (6): 3252-3262, 2001.

50. Fontaine I., Savéry D., Cloutier G., Simulation of ultrasound backscattering by red cell aggregates: Effect of shear rate and anisotropy, Biophysical J., 82 (4): 1696-1710, 2002.

51. Cloutier G., Chen D., Durand L.G., A new clutter rejection algorithm for Doppler ultrasound, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 22 (4): 530-538, 2003.

52. Fontaine I., Cloutier G., Modeling the frequency dependence (5-120 MHz) of ultrasound backscattering by red cell aggregates in shear flow at a normal hematocrit, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 113 (5): 2893-2900, 2003.

53. Maurice R.L., Ohayon J., Frétigny, Y., Bertrand M., Soulez G., Cloutier G., Non-invasive vascular elastography : Theoretical framework, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 23 (2): 164-180, 2004.

54. Lupotti F.A., Zimmer A., Daronat M., Foster F.S., Van der Steen A.F.W., Cloutier G., Effects of aggregation of red cells and linear velocity gradients on the correlation-based method for quantitative IVUS blood flow at 20 MHz, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 30 (2): 205-214, 2004.

55. Cloutier G., Soulez G., Qanadli S.D., Teppaz P., Allard L., Qin Z., Cloutier F., Durand L.G., A multimodality vascular imaging phantom with fiducial markers visible in DSA, CTA, MRA and ultrasound, Med. Physics, 31 (6): 1424-1433, 2004.

56. Boussion N., Soulez G., de Guise J., Daronat M., Qin Z., Cloutier G., Geometrical accuracy and fusion of multimodal vascular images : A phantom study, Med. Physics, 31 (6): 1434-1443, 2004.

57. Létourneau-Guillon L., Soulez G., Beaudoin G., Oliva V.L., Giroux M.F., Qin Z., Boussion N., Thérasse E., de Guise J., Cloutier G., CT and MR imaging of nitinol stents with distal markers, J. Vasc. Interv. Radiol., 15: 615-624, 2004.

58. Cloutier G., Daronat M., Savéry D., Garcia D., Durand L.G., Foster F.S., Non-Gaussian statistics and temporal variations of the ultrasound signal backscattered by blood at frequencies between 10-58 MHz: Experimental results, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 116 (1): 566-577, 2004.

59. Maurice R.L., Ohayon J., Finet G., Cloutier G., Adapting the Lagrangian speckle model estimator for endovascular elastography: Theory and validation with simulated radio-frequency data, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 116 (2): 1276-1286, 2004.

60. Lerouge S., Raymond J., Salazkin I., Qin, Z., Gaboury L., Cloutier G., Oliva V., Soulez G., Endovascular aneurysm repair with stent-grafts: experimental models can reproduce endoleaks, J. Vasc. Interv. Radiol., 15 (9): 971-979, 2004.

Papers published since 2005                                       ↑ Top

61. Maurice R.L., Brusseau E., Finet G., Cloutier G., On the potential of the Lagrangian speckle model estimator to characterize atherosclerotic plaques in endovascular elastography : In vitro experiments using an excised human carotid artery, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 31 (1): 85-91, 2005.

62. Savéry D., Cloutier G., Effect of red cell clustering and anisotropy on ultrasound blood backscatter : A Monte-Carlo study, IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferro. Freq. Control, 52 (1): 94-103, 2005.

63. Godbout B., de Guise J., Soulez G., Cloutier G., 3D elastic registration of vessel structures from IVUS data on biplane angiography, Acad. Radiol., 12 (1): 10-16, 2005.

64. Maurice R.L., Daronat M., Ohayon J., Stoyanova E., Foster F.S., Cloutier G., Non-invasive high-frequency vascular ultrasound elastography, Physics Med. Biol., 50: 1611-1628, 2005.

65. Genevès C., Wilquem F., Treyve F., Cloutier G., Soulez G., Saïdane K ,  Study of non-stationary mode flow of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, J. Applied Biomat. Biomech., 3(3): 176-184, 2005.

66. Major A., Guidoin R., Soulez G., Gaboury L.A., Cloutier G., Sapoval M., Douville Y., Dionne G., Geelkerken R.H., Petrasek P., Lerouge S., Implant degradation and poor healing after endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms: An analysis of explanted stent-grafts, J. of Endovasc Ther, 13:457-467, 2006.

67. Gennisson J.L., Cloutier G., Sol-gel transition in agar-gelatin mixtures with transient elastography, IEEE Trans. Ultras. Ferro. Freq. Controls, 53(4): 716-723, 2006. (vidéo).

68. Bertolotti C., Qin Z., Lamontagne B., Durand L.G., Soulez G., Cloutier G., Influence of multiple stenoses on echo-Doppler functional diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease : a numerical and experimental study, Annals Biomed. Eng., 34(4): 564-574, April, 2006.

69. Roy Cardinal M.H., Meunier J., Soulez G., Maurice R.L., Therasse É, Cloutier G., Intravascular ultrasound image segmentation : A three-dimensional fast-marching method based on gray level distributions, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 25(5): 590-601, 2006.

70. Gennisson J.L., Lerouge S., Cloutier G., Assessment by transient elastography of the viscoelastic properties of blood during clotting, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 32 (10): 1529-1537, 2006.

71. Tang A., Cloutier G., Therasse É., Beaudoin G., Qanadli S., Giroux M.F., Boussion N., de Guise J., Oliva V., Soulez G., Optimization of spatial resolution for peripheral magnetic resonance angiography, Academic Radiology, 14 (1): 54-61, June 2007.

72. Fromageau J., Gennisson J.L., Schmitt C., Maurice R.L., Mongrain R., Cloutier G., Estimation of polyvinyl alcohol cryogel mechanical properties with four ultrasound elastography methods and comparison with gold standard testings, IEEE Trans. Ultras. Ferro. Freq. Controls, 54 (3): 498-509, March 2007.

73. Stoyanova E., Trudel M., Felfly H., Garcia D., Cloutier G., Characterization of circulatory disorders in b-thalassemic mice by non-invasive ultrasound biomicroscopy, Physiological Genomics, 29: 84-90, 2007.

74. Savery D., Cloutier G., High-frequency ultrasound backscattering by blood:  Analytical and semi-analytical models of the erythrocyte cross-section, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121(6): 3963-3971, 2007.

75. Maurice R.L., Fromageau J., Brusseau E., Finet G., Rioufol G., Cloutier G., On the potential of the Lagrangian estimator for endovascular ultrasound elastography:  In vivo human coronary artery study, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 33(8): 1199-1205, 2007.

76. Maurice R.L., Fromageau J., Yu F., Stoyanova E., Qin Z., Peng J., Hamet P., Tremblay J., Cloutier G., Ultrasound Micro-Elastography:  A new imaging modality to phenotype hypertension in rat models, Canadian Acoustics, 35(2): 55-60, 2007.

77. Yu F.T.H., Cloutier G., Experimental ultrasound characterization of red blood cell aggregation using the structure factor size estimator (SFSE), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 122(1): 645-656, July 2007.

78. Garcia D., Fenech M., Qin Z., Soulez G., Cloutier G., Signal losses with real-time 3D power Doppler imaging, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 33(10): 1632-1639, 2007.

79. Schmitt C., Soulez G., Maurice R.L., Giroux M.F., Cloutier G., Non-invasive vascular elastography:  Toward a complementary characterization tool of atherosclerosis in carotid arteries, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 33(12):1841-1858, 2007.

80. Amararene A., Cloutier G., The intensity reflection coefficient:  An alternative method for investigating blood backscattering properties with ultrasound, Clinical Hemorheology and microcirculation, 38: 189-200, 2008.

81. Maurice R.L., Fromageau J., Roy Cardinal M.H., Doyley M., Demuinck E., Robb J., Cloutier G., Characterization of atherosclerotic plaques and mural thrombi with intravascular ultrasound elastography:  A potential method evaluated in an aortic rabbit model and a human coronary artery, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 12(3):290-298, 2008, Special issue on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging.

82. Nguyen L.C., Yu F.T.H., Cloutier G., Cyclic changes in blood echogenicity under pulsatile flow are frequency dependent, Ultrasound Med. Biol., 34(4):664-673, 2008.

83. Janvier M.A., Durand L.G., Roy Cardinal M.H., Renaud I., Chayer B., Bigras P., de Guise J., Soulez G., Cloutier G., Performance evaluation of a medical robotic 3D-ultrasound imaging system, Medical Image Analysis, 12: 275-290, 2008.

84. Franceschini E., Yu F.T.H., Cloutier G., Simultaneous estimation of attenuation and structure parameters of aggregated red blood cells from backscatter measurements, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (express letter), 123(4):EL85-91, 2008.

85. Cloutier G., Zimmer A., Yu F., Chiasson J.L.,  Increased shear rate resistance and fastest kinetics of erythrocyte aggregation in diabetes measured with ultrasound, Diabetes Care, 31(7): 1400-1402, 2008.

86. Maurice R.L., Soulez G., Giroux M.-F., Cloutier G., Noninvasive vascular elastography for carotid artery characterization on subjects without previous history of atherosclerosis, Med Phys., 35(8): 3436-3443, 2008.

87. Mercure E., Cloutier G., Schmitt C., Maurice R.L., Performance evaluation of different implementations of the Lagrangian speckle model estimator for non-invasive vascular ultrasound elastography, Med Phys., 35(7): 3116-3126, 2008.

88. Destrempes F., Meunier J., Giroux M.F., Soulez G., Cloutier G., Segmentation in ultrasonic B-mode images of carotid arteries using mixture of Nakagami distributions and stochastic optimization, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., accepted, 2008.

89. Fromageau J., Lerouge S., Maurice R.L., Soulez G., Cloutier G., Noninvasive vascular ultrasound elastography applied to the characterization of experimental aneurysms and follow-up after endovascular repair, Physics in Medicine and Biology, in press, 2008.

90. Desprez J.F., Brusseau E., Schmitt C., Cloutier G., Basset O., 3-D estimation of soft biological tissue deformation from radio-frequency ultrasound volume acquisitions, Medical Image Analysis, in press, 2008.

91. Hadj Henni, A., Schmitt C., Cloutier G., 3-D transient and harmonic shear-wave scattering by a soft cylinder for dynamic vascular elastography, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., in press, 2008.

92. Saha R.K., Cloutier G., A Monte Carlo study on ultrasound backscattering by three-dimensional distributions of red blood cells, Physical Review E, in press, 2008.

 

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