Perfusion imaging with non-contrast ultrasound

Jaime E. Tierney; Douglas M. Dumont; Brett C. Byram

doi:10.1117/12.2216901

1 April 2016 Perfusion imaging with non-contrast ultrasound

Jaime E. Tierney, Douglas M. Dumont, Brett C. Byram

Proceedings Volume 9790, Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography; 979002 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216901
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A Doppler ultrasound clutter filter that enables estimation of low velocity blood flow could considerably improve ultrasound as a tool for clinical diagnosis and monitoring, including for the evaluation of vascular diseases and tumor perfusion. Conventional Doppler ultrasound is currently used for visualizing and estimating blood flow. However, conventional Doppler is limited by frame rate and tissue clutter caused by involuntary movement of the patient or sonographer. Spectral broadening of the clutter due to tissue motion limits ultrasound’s ability to detect blood flow less than about 5mm/s at an 8MHz center frequency. We propose a clutter filtering technique that may increase the sensitivity of Doppler measurements to at least as low as 0.41mm/s. The proposed filter uses an adaptive demodulation scheme that decreases the bandwidth of the clutter. To test the performance of the adaptive demodulation method at removing sonographer hand motion, six volunteer subjects acquired data from a basic quality assurance phantom. Additionally, to test initial in vivo feasibility, an arterial occlusion reactive hyperemia study was performed to assess the efficiency of the proposed filter at preserving signals from blood velocities 2mm/s or greater. The hand motion study resulted in initial average bandwidths of 577Hz (28.5mm/s), which were decreased to 7.28Hz (0.36mm/s) at -60 dB at 3cm using our approach. The in vivo power Doppler study resulted in 15.2dB and 0.15dB dynamic ranges between the lowest and highest blood flow time points for the proposed filter and conventional 50Hz high pass filter, respectively.

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Jaime E. Tierney, Douglas M. Dumont, and Brett C. Byram "Perfusion imaging with non-contrast ultrasound", Proc. SPIE 9790, Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 979002 (1 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216901

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