基于超声散射元间距的生物软组织内部应变与弹性估计
Internal strain and elasticity estimate of soft tissue based on interscatterer spacings
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摘要: 超声弹性成像有希望成为生物软组织病变诊断和力学特性评价的有效手段.提出利用小坡变换检测组织背向散射信号的不连续性,估计规则散射元空间分布及其变化,由此得到组织内部应变分布与弹性模量的新方法.结果表明,利用小波变换的散射元定位方法具有较强的抗干扰能力,基于散射元间距的运动估计方法避免了超声散斑的解相关性,计算量较小,无误差积累.组织内部应变和弹性估计能够区分杨氏弹性不同的组织,具有较高的空间分辨力.方法同时提供了组织弹性与微结构的信息.Abstract: Ultrasounic elasticity imaging is a promising method that may eventually allow early detection of many tissue pathologies and assess the biomechanical properties of soft tissue.A new method is put forward to detect the discontinuity of ultrasound backscattering signals by dyadic wavelet transform,to locate the regular scatterers,and then to obtain the internal strain and elasticity distribution of soft tissue.The transient point detection method is robust.Motionestimation using interscatterer spacing eliminates ultrasounic speckle decorrelation,computing complexity and accumulated errors.The strain and elasticity evaluation can distinguish the tissue with different Young's Modulus with high spatial resolution.Besides the elasticity of soft tissue,microstructure information is presented also.