Tissue stiffness measurement using temporal variation of ultrasound speckle pattern

Mok-Kun Jeong; Jeong-Man Park; Sung-Jae Kwon; Moo-Ho Bae

doi:10.1117/12.479876

23 May 2003 Tissue stiffness measurement using temporal variation of ultrasound speckle pattern

Mok-Kun Jeong, Jeong-Man Park, Sung-Jae Kwon, Moo-Ho Bae

Proceedings Volume 5035, Medical Imaging 2003: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479876
Event: Medical Imaging 2003, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper proposes a method of imaging the stiffness of soft tissue to help diagnose cancers or tumors which have been difficult to detect with ultrasound B-mode imaging modality. To measure the soft tissue stiffness, sinusoidal vibrations are applied to it, and the magnitude of its mechanical vibration is determined by estimating the temporal variation of speckle pattern brightness in ultrasound B-mode images. It is verified by simulation and experiment that the proposed method can estimate the relative tissue stiffness from B-mode images with a modest amount of computation.

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Mok-Kun Jeong, Jeong-Man Park, Sung-Jae Kwon, and Moo-Ho Bae "Tissue stiffness measurement using temporal variation of ultrasound speckle pattern", Proc. SPIE 5035, Medical Imaging 2003: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing, (23 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479876

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