Shear wave speed recovery in sonoelastography using crawling wave data
Shear wave speed recovery in sonoelastography using crawling wave data
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DOI:
10.1121/1.3442575
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发表时间:
2010-07-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Thomas, Ashley
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作者:
Lin, Kui;McLaughlin, Joyce;Thomas, Ashley
The crawling wave experiment, in which two harmonic sources oscillate at different but nearby frequencies, is a development in sonoelastography that allows real-time imaging of propagating shear wave interference patterns. Previously the crawling wave speed was recovered and used as an indicator of shear stiffness; however, it is shown in this paper that the crawling wave speed image can have artifacts that do not represent a change in stiffness. In this paper, the locations and shapes of some of the artifacts are exhibited. In addition, a differential equation is established that enables imaging of the shear wave speed, which is a quantity strongly correlated with shear stiffness change. The full algorithm is as follows: (1) extract the crawling wave phase from the spectral variance data; (2) calculate the crawling wave phase wave speed; (3) solve a first-order PDE for the phase of the wave emanating from one of the sources; and (4) compute and image the shear wave speed on a grid in the image plane. (C) 2010 Acoustical Society of America. [DOI: 10.1121/1.3442575]