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High Frequency Shear Wave Imaging: A Feasibility Study In Tissue Mimicking Gelatin Phantoms

Shear wave (SW) imaging is an ultrasound elastogrpahy technique for estimating the elastic properties of biological tissues. Increasing the frequency would improve both the confinement of the radiation force generating the shear wave, and the imaging spatial resolution. The objectives of the study were to realize a simple high frequency (HF) system for the generation and detection of SW propagation and to implement this system to develop and characterize tissue-mimicking gelatin phantoms (TMGP) for HF SWI with elastic properties in the range of those encountered in biological tissue.
A 5 MHz and 10 MHz focused transducer were used to induced SW’s in TMGP ranging from 4% to 12% gelatin with 3% silica for scattering and a 25 MHz single-element focused transducer recorded pulse-echo signals in order to capture the SW. The shear wave speeds in the TMGP were found to range linearly from 1.59-4.59 m/s in the 4% to 12% gelatin samples.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/44041
Date18 March 2014
CreatorsMaeva, Anna
ContributorsFoster, Stuart
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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