Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography and Transient Optical Coherence Elastography: Side-by-Side Comparison of
Justin R Rippy1, Manmohan Singh1, Salavat R Aglyamov1
1University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 USA.
Objective:
We compare the repeatability and accuracy of ultrasound shear wave elastography (USE) and transient optical coherence elastography (OCE).
Methods:
Elastic wave speed in gelatin phantoms and chicken breast was measured with USE and OCE and compared with uniaxial mechanical compression testing. Intra- and Inter-repeatability were analyzed using Bland-Altman plots and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC).
Results:
OCE and USE differed from uniaxial testing by a mean absolute percent error of 8.92% and 16.9%, respectively, across eight phantoms of varying stiffness. Upper and lower limits of agreement for intrasample repeatability for USE and OCE were ±0.075 m/s and -0.14 m/s and 0.13 m/s, respectively. OCE and USE both had ICCs of 0.9991. In chicken breast, ICC for USE was 0.9385 and for OCE was 0.9924.
Conclusion:
OCE and USE can detect small speed changes and give comparable measurements. These measurements correspond well with uniaxial testing.
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