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    Area of Science:

    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Medical Imaging
    • Acoustics

    Background:

    • Quantifying shear-wave attenuation in soft tissues is vital for understanding tissue rheology and advancing diagnostic strategies.
    • Measuring attenuation in acoustic radiation force elastography is challenging due to shear-wave amplitude reduction from diffraction and viscous effects.
    • Existing diffraction correction methods rely on assumptions (cylindrical wavefront, isotropic medium) that may not hold true in all applications.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To adapt the frequency-shift method for accurate shear-wave attenuation measurement in elastography.
    • To develop a method that is insensitive to diffraction effects.
    • To provide a simple, real-time technique for in vivo tissue attenuation quantification.

    Main Methods:

    • Adapted the frequency-shift method, commonly used in ultrasound imaging and seismology, for shear-wave attenuation measurement.
    • Derived a closed-form relation between the decrease in peak frequency and the attenuation coefficient for linear frequency-dependent attenuation.
    • Validated the method against a plane-wave reference in phantoms and tested its applicability on ex vivo and in vivo biological tissues.

    Main Results:

    • The frequency-shift method demonstrated accurate shear-wave attenuation measurements in agar-gelatin phantoms with varying oil concentrations.
    • The method successfully quantified attenuation in ex vivo porcine liver and in vivo human muscle, both along and across tissue fibers.
    • Data confirmed the assumptions of a gamma-distributed source spectrum and linear frequency attenuation in biological tissues.

    Conclusions:

    • The frequency-shift method provides a robust and diffraction-insensitive approach for quantifying shear-wave attenuation in soft tissues.
    • This technique offers valuable diagnostic information on tissue viscosity, complementing elasticity assessment via shear-wave velocity.
    • The method's simplicity and potential for real-time processing make it suitable for clinical applications.