High frame rate contrast enhanced echocardiography: microbubbles stability and contrast evaluation
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Author(s)
Toulemonde, Matthieu
Eckersley, Robert J
Tang, Meng-Xing
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Contrast Echocardiography (CE) with microbubble contrast agents have significantly advanced our capability in assessing cardiac function, including myocardium perfusion imaging and quantification. However in conventional CE techniques with line by line scanning, the frame rate is limited to tens of frames per second and image quality is low. Recent works in high frame-rate (HFR) ultrasound have shown significant improvement of the frame rate. The aim of this work is to investigate the MBs stability and the contrast improvement using HFR CE compared to CE transmission at an echocardiography relevant frequency for different mechanical indices (MIs). Our results show that the contrast and bubble destruction of HFR CE and standard CEUS varies differently as a function of space and MIs. At low MIs, HFR CE shows a similar behavior as focused CE with little MB destruction, and generates better CTR (up to 3 folds). As MI increases, the MB destruction is more significant for HFR CE with a reduction of the CTR.
Date Issued
2017-11-02
Date Acceptance
2017-09-06
Citation
2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2017, 2017
ISBN
9781538633830
ISSN
1948-5719
Publisher
IEEE
Journal / Book Title
2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
Volume
2017
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
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Grant Number
EP/M011933/1
Source
IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Physics, Applied
Engineering
Physics
Echocardiography
High frame rate / ultrafast contrast enhanced ultrasound
bubble disruption / stability
Contrast-to tissue ratio
ULTRASOUND
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2017-09-06
Finish Date
2017-09-09
Coverage Spatial
Washington, DC
Date Publish Online
2017-11-02