NDLI: 10B-1 Strain Imaging of Arterial Wall with Translational Motion Compensation and Error Correction

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Author	Hasegawa, H. Kanai, H.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Hasegawa, H.; Kanai, H.)
Abstract	To assess elastic properties, correlation techniques are widely used to measure the displacement and strain of the arterial wall caused by the heartbeat. However, the displacements estimated by the phase-sensitive correlation methods are biased when the frequency used for the displacement estimation is different from the center frequency of RF echo. One of reasons for the frequency variation is the interference of echoes. In the case of the arterial wall, the displacement due to radial translation is larger than that contributing to strain by a factor of 10 and, thus, the error resulting from the translational motion due to the mismatch between the frequency used for displacement estimation and the actual center frequency is not negligible compared with the minute displacement contributing to strain. In this study, a method is proposed in which the radial translation is removed prior to the calculation of complex correlation between echoes in two different frames to estimate the phase change between the echoes. The radial translation is removed by tracking the echo from the luminal interface of the wall because it is dominant compared with echoes from scatterers in the wall and is less affected by the interference. Using this procedure, the significant error resulting from the large translation can be greatly suppressed. After the removal of translation, an error correcting function based on complex correlation is introduced to further reduce the error due to the frequency mismatch. Accuracy improvement by the proposed method was validated using phantoms. As shown in the figure, the error in strain estimated by the proposed method was 12.0% from the theoretical strain profile, significantly smaller than that (23.7%) by the conventional method. Furthermore, in the in vitro experiments using extracted femoral arteries, the arterial wall containing calcined tissue showed very small strain in comparison with that almost homogeneously composed of fibrous tissue (mixture of smooth muscle and collagen). The means and the standard deviations of distensibility (calculated from strain and internal pressure) of fibrous and calcined tissues obtained for 7 sections of 5 femoral arteries were 2.42plusmn2.1 and 0.35plusmn0.50 $MPa^{-1},$ respectively.
Starting Page	860
Ending Page	863
File Size	217052
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424413836
ISSN	10510117
DOI	10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.220
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-10-28
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Capacitive sensors Arteries Motion compensation Error correction Frequency estimation Phase estimation Strain measurement Echo interference Displacement measurement Heart beat
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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