Comparison of ultrasound B-mode, strain imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse displacement and shear wave velocity imaging using real time clinical breast images

Kavitha Manickam; Ramasubba Reddy Machireddy; Bagyam Raghavan

doi:10.1117/12.2217250

1 April 2016 Comparison of ultrasound B-mode, strain imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse displacement and shear wave velocity imaging using real time clinical breast images

Kavitha Manickam, Ramasubba Reddy Machireddy, Bagyam Raghavan

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Proceedings Volume 9790, Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography; 97901H (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217250
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

It has been observed that many pathological process increase the elastic modulus of soft tissue compared to normal. In order to image tissue stiffness using ultrasound, a mechanical compression is applied to tissues of interest and local tissue deformation is measured. Based on the mechanical excitation, ultrasound stiffness imaging methods are classified as compression or strain imaging which is based on external compression and Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging which is based on force generated by focused ultrasound. When ultrasound is focused on tissue, shear wave is generated in lateral direction and shear wave velocity is proportional to stiffness of tissues. The work presented in this paper investigates strain elastography and ARFI imaging in clinical cancer diagnostics using real time patient data. Ultrasound B-mode imaging, strain imaging, ARFI displacement and ARFI shear wave velocity imaging were conducted on 50 patients (31 Benign and 23 malignant categories) using Siemens S2000 machine. True modulus contrast values were calculated from the measured shear wave velocities. For ultrasound B-mode, ARFI displacement imaging and strain imaging, observed image contrast and Contrast to Noise Ratio were calculated for benign and malignant cancers. Observed contrast values were compared based on the true modulus contrast values calculated from shear wave velocity imaging. In addition to that, student unpaired t-test was conducted for all the four techniques and box plots are presented. Results show that, strain imaging is better for malignant cancers whereas ARFI imaging is superior than strain imaging and B-mode for benign lesions representations.

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Kavitha Manickam, Ramasubba Reddy Machireddy, and Bagyam Raghavan "Comparison of ultrasound B-mode, strain imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse displacement and shear wave velocity imaging using real time clinical breast images", Proc. SPIE 9790, Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 97901H (1 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217250

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Ultrasonography

Real time imaging

Cancer

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