Title
Feasibility of reverberant shear wave elastography for in vivo assessment of skeletal muscle viscoelasticity
Date Issued
07 September 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Abstract
Quantifying the local stiffness of muscular tissue can be a useful tool for the improvement of diagnosis, treatment or monitoring of muscle abnormality-related diseases. Shear wave elastography techniques provide information about tissue stiffness by measuring the shear wave speed (SWS). Recently, a new framework involving the generation of a reverberant shear wave field that propagates in all directions within the medium was proposed. The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of Reverberant Shear Wave Elastography (R-SWE) for the in vivo assessment of the viscoelastic properties of skeletal muscle, using the biceps brachii. Four experiments were performed at a vibration frequency range between 200-300 Hz in steps of 50 Hz, with the ultrasound transducer placed along the muscle fibers in both relaxed and contracted (MVC) states. The estimation of the SWS and a dispersion analysis using the Kelvin-Voigt Fractional Derivative (KVFD) model were carried out in order to assess the viscoelastic properties of the muscular tissue. Preliminary results show that R-SWE is feasible to use for the in vivo assessment of skeletal muscle by using a multifrequency approach. The viscoelastic parameters obtained by the KVFD curve-fitting and the dispersion analysis showed the expected differences between the relaxed and MVC states (i.e. a significant difference between the coefficient of viscosity and the dispersion rate of change). The SWS estimation also showed differences between the two states (e.g. a difference in SWS values of 35.52% at 300 Hz).
Volume
2020-September
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Tecnología médica de laboratorio (análisis de muestras, tecnologías para el diagnóstico)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85097905009
ISBN
9781728154480
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