Imaging of visceral fat in living rabbit by using detection of ultrasonic velocity change

Author

Horinaka, H. ; Matsunaka, T. ; Ohara, Y. ; Maeda, Y. ; Izukawa, Y. ; Mano, K. ; Matsuyama, T. ; Wada, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1357

Lastpage

1360

Abstract

Development of the noninvasive imaging equipment for the diagnosis of visceral fat in the early stage has been eagerly anticipated. The ultrasonic velocity-change imaging method was applied to living rabbits fed on the standard diet and that on the high fat diet. Experimental results show that the ultrasonic velocity-change images give the information about the fat accumulation level in liver of rabbit. The ultrasonic velocity-change imaging method has possible application to the diagnosis of fatty liver in a living human body.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical ultrasonics; fats; liver; ultrasonic velocity; fat accumulation level; fatty liver diagnosis; high fat diet; living human body; living rabbit; noninvasive imaging equipment; rabbit liver; standard diet; ultrasonic velocity change detection; ultrasonic velocity-change imaging method; visceral fat diagnosis; visceral fat imaging; Acoustics; Imaging; Liver; Rabbits; Radiation effects; Radio frequency; Standards; fat distribution; fatty lever; medical diagnosis; tissue characterization; ultrasonic velocity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1948-5719

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1253-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0335

Filename

6293566