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2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Measurement of the Skin-Liver Capsule Distance on Ultrasound RF Data for 1D Transient Elastography
verfasst von : Stéphane Audière, Maurice Charbit, Elsa D. Angelini, Jennifer Oudry, Laurent Sandrin
Erschienen in: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE
TM
) technique is routinely used in clinical practice to assess non-invasively the liver stiffness which is correlated to hepatic fibrosis. Adequate use of the VCTE
TM
probe requires the knowledge of the distance between the skin and the liver parenchyma. This paper compares two methods to estimate this distance using spatial variations of the spectral content of ultrasound radiofrequency (RF) lines, obtained from a probe consisting of a single element ultrasound transducer placed in front of the liver right lobe. Results on a database of 188 patients, including normal-weight and obese persons, show that the spectral variance can accurately discriminate the subcutaneous fat from the liver tissue. The proposed algorithm works in real-time and is suitable for VCTE
TM
scanning protocol setup.