The diabetic foot is a complication that stems from diabetes when it is not properly managed.
The underlying biomechanical changes that occur inside the plantar tissue as a result of
glycation when a person begins to develop this complication suggest that there is a change in
its elasticity and hardness. Consequently, these changes could be estimated quantitatively with
elastography, which comprises many modalities that can be implemented with a magnetic
resonator, an ultrasound equipment, among other devices. One of these modalities relies on the
generation of a reverberant shear wave field inside the tissue or medium of interest, called
reverberant shear wave elastography (RSWE). In that sense, the literature is scarce pertaining
diabetic foot research with ultrasound elastography, while the RSWE modality is still in its
early stages.
The main objective of this work focuses on assessing the clinical application feasibility of this
novel elastography technique by characterizing the elasticity of regions of the foot plant.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PUCP/oai:tesis.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.12404/19584 |
| Date | 27 June 2021 |
| Creators | Gutiérrez Delgado, Fernando Iván |
| Contributors | Castañeda Aphan, Benjamín |
| Publisher | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PE |
| Source Sets | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Perú, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/pe/ |
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