Improvement of Shear Wave Motion Detection Using Harmonic Imaging in Healthy Human Liver

Carolina Amador; Pengfei Song; Duane D. Meixner; Shigao Chen; Matthew W. Urban

doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.12.012

Improvement of Shear Wave Motion Detection Using Harmonic Imaging in Healthy Human Liver

Carolina Amador, Pengfei Song, Duane D. Meixner, Shigao Chen, Matthew W. Urban

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Abstract

Quantification of liver elasticity is a major application of shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) to non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis stages. SWEI measurements can be highly affected by ultrasound image quality. Ultrasound harmonic imaging has exhibited a significant improvement in ultrasound image quality as well as for SWEI measurements. This was previously illustrated in cardiac SWEI. The purpose of this study was to evaluate liver shear wave particle displacement detection and shear wave velocity (SWV) measurements with fundamental and filter-based harmonic ultrasound imaging. In a cohort of 17 patients with no history of liver disease, a 2.9-fold increase in maximum shear wave displacement, a 0.11 m/s decrease in the overall interquartile range and median SWV and a 17.6% increase in the success rate of SWV measurements were obtained when filter-based harmonic imaging was used instead of fundamental imaging.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1031-1041
Number of pages	11
Journal	Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume	42
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.12.012
State	Published - May 1 2016

Keywords

Filter-based harmonic imaging
In vivo
Liver elasticity
Shear wave elasticity imaging

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Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
Biophysics
Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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