Capabilities of elastography methods in ultrasound diagnostics

Author

Muravieva, Olga V. ; Bogdan, Olga P. ; Murashov, Sergey A. ; Murashova, Darianna S.

Author_Institution

“Quality Control Instrum. & Tech.” Dept., Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Tech. Univ., Izhevsk, Russia

fYear

2014

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This article presents the research results of the static and dynamic elastography methods capability to quantitative evaluation of soft tissues elasticity, which could significantly improve the accuracy of ultrasound diagnostics. The physical models of both methods and schemes of experimental installments are presented. It is shown that quantitative evaluation of soft tissue shear modulus is possible with use of any ultrasonic medical scanner working in B-mode. The ultimate sensitivity of static and dynamic elastography methods to insufficient changes in shear modulus is investigated.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomechanics; biomedical ultrasonics; elasticity; shear modulus; B-mode; dynamic elastography methods; physical models; soft tissue elasticity; soft tissue shear modulus; static elastography methods; ultrasonic medical scanner; ultrasound diagnostics; Acoustics; Automation; Nonhomogeneous media; Solids; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Vibrations; dynamic elastography; shear modulus; soft tissues; static elastography; ultrasound diagnostics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechanical Engineering, Automation and Control Systems (MEACS), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tomsk

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6220-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEACS.2014.6986937

Filename

6986937