Evaluation of shear wave speed measurements using crawling waves sonoelastography and single tracking location acoustic radiation force impulse imaging

dc.contributor.advisorCastañeda Aphan, Benjamín
dc.contributor.advisorParker, Kevin J.
dc.contributor.authorOrmachea Quispe, Juvenales_ES
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-25T13:46:27Zes_ES
dc.date.available2015-07-25T13:46:27Zes_ES
dc.date.created2015es_ES
dc.date.issued2015-07-25es_ES
dc.description.abstractMany pathological conditions are closely related with an increase in tissue sti ness. For many years, experts performed manual palpation in order to measure elasticity changes, however, this method can only be applied on superficial areas of the human body and provides crude sti ness estimation. Elastography is a technique that attempts to characterize the elastic properties of tissue in order to provide additional and useful information for clinical diagnosis. For more than twenty years, di erent research groups have developed various elastography modalities with a strong interest for quantitative images during the last decade. Recently, comparative studies among di erent elastographic techniques have been performed in order to better characterize biomaterials, to cross-validate several shear wave elastographic modalities and to study the factors that influence their precision and accuracy. This comparison works may contribute to achieve standardization in quantitative elastography and their use in commercial equipment for their application in human patients. However, there is still a limited literature in the field of quantitative elastography modalities comparisons. This thesis focuses on the comparison between two elastographic techniques: crawling wave sonoelastography (CWS) and single tracking location-acoustic radiation force impulse (STL-ARFI). The comparison shows the estimation of the shear wave speed (SWS), lateral resolution, contrast and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) in homogeneous and inhomogeneous phantoms using both techniques. The SWS values obtained with both modalities are validated with mechanical measurements that are considered as ground truth. The SWS results for the three di erent homogeneous phantoms (10%, 13%, and 16% gelatin concentrations), show good agreement between CWS, STL-ARFI and mechanical measurements as a function of frequency. The maximum accuracy errors obtained with CWS were 2.52%, 1.63% and 2.26%. For STL-ARFI, the maximum errors were 6.22%, 5.63% and 4.08% for the 10%,13% and 16% gelatin phantom respectively. For lateral resolution, contrast and CNR estimated in the inhomogeneous phantoms, it can be seen that for vibration frequencies higher than 340 Hz, CWS presents better results than the obtained with STL-ARFI using distances between the push beams ( x) higher than 4 mm. However, using these vibration frequencies will not be feasible for in vivo tissues due to attenuation problems. It that sense, for lower vibration frequencies than 300 Hz and x among 3 mm and 6 mm, comparable lateral resolution, contrast and CNR was obtained. Finally, the results of this study contribute to the data currently available for comparing elastographic techniques. Moreover, the methodology implemented in this document may be helpful for future standardization for di erent elastographic modalities.es_ES
dc.description.uriTesises_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/6195
dc.language.isospaes_ES
dc.publisherPontificia Universidad Católica del Perúes_ES
dc.publisher.countryPEes_ES
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/pe/*
dc.subjectAcústica--Ondases_ES
dc.subjectOndas sonoras--Fuentes de radiaciónes_ES
dc.subjectUltrasonidoes_ES
dc.subject.ocdehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.02.05es_ES
dc.titleEvaluation of shear wave speed measurements using crawling waves sonoelastography and single tracking location acoustic radiation force impulse imaginges_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesises_ES
renati.advisor.dni10791304
renati.discipline613077es_ES
renati.levelhttps://purl.org/pe-repo/renati/level#maestroes_ES
renati.typehttp://purl.org/pe-repo/renati/type#tesises_ES
thesis.degree.disciplineProcesamiento de señales e imágenes digitaleses_ES
thesis.degree.grantorPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Escuela de Posgradoes_ES
thesis.degree.levelMaestríaes_ES
thesis.degree.nameMaestro en Procesamiento de señales e imágenes digitaleses_ES

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