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Introduction to the Ultrasound Targeted Microbubble Destruction Technique
Published on: June 12, 2011
A New Method to Quantify Concentration of Microbubbles in Attenuating Media Using Bubble Destruction Curve Analysis
Naohisa Kamiyama1, Noritaka Wakui2, Takuma Oguri1
1Department of Ultrasound General Imaging, GE Healthcare Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
It is known that the microbubbles of Sonazoid are accumulated in the liver parenchyma due to the phagocytosis of Kupffer cells in the sinusoid. Because this phagocytic function decreases due to the progression of fibrosis in chronic liver disease, the deterioration of the liver function may be quantified by measuring the concentration of the accumulated Sonazoid microbubbles. In this article, a new method to quantify the concentration of microbubbles accumulated in attenuating media is proposed. This method utilizes the contrast-enhanced imaging with high mechanical index, measures the depth of the bubble destruction for each frame and analyze the shape of the destruction curve to estimate the concentration of the bubbles. A phantom experiment was performed with various concentrations of the contrast agent Sonazoid solution as well as various attenuation coefficients of the viscous media. Because of the theoretical model proposed, the estimated attenuation indexes, related to the concentration of Sonazoid microbubbles, were independent of the background attenuation of the propagating medium. The result suggest it has a potential to quantify Sonazoid concentration in the liver parenchyma more precisely against different liver attenuation conditions.
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