A new imaging technique on strength and phase of pulsatile tissue-motion in brightness-mode ultrasonogram

Masayuki Fukuzawa; Masayoshi Yamada; Nobuyuki Nakamori; Yoshiki Kitsunezuka

doi:10.1117/12.709354

12 March 2007 A new imaging technique on strength and phase of pulsatile tissue-motion in brightness-mode ultrasonogram

Masayuki Fukuzawa, Masayoshi Yamada, Nobuyuki Nakamori, Yoshiki Kitsunezuka

Proceedings Volume 6513, Medical Imaging 2007: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing; 65130B (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709354
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A new imaging technique has been developed for observing both strength and phase of pulsatile tissue-motion in a movie of brightness-mode ultrasonogram. The pulsatile tissue-motion is determined by evaluating the heartbeat-frequency component in Fourier transform of a series of pixel value as a function of time at each pixel in a movie of ultrasonogram (640x480pixels/frame, 8bit/pixel, 33ms/frame) taken by a conventional ultrasonograph apparatus (ATL HDI5000). In order to visualize both the strength and the phase of the pulsatile tissue-motion, we propose a pulsatile-phase image that is obtained by superimposition of color gradation proportional to the motion phase on the original ultrasonogram only at which the motion strength exceeds a proper threshold. The pulsatile-phase image obtained from a cranial ultrasonogram of normal neonate clearly reveals that the motion region gives good agreement with the anatomical shape and position of the middle cerebral artery and the corpus callosum. The motion phase is fluctuated with the shape of arteries revealing local obstruction of blood flow. The pulsatile-phase images in the neonates with asphyxia at birth reveal decreases of the motion region and increases of the phase fluctuation due to the weakness and local disturbance of blood flow, which is useful for pediatric diagnosis.

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Masayuki Fukuzawa, Masayoshi Yamada, Nobuyuki Nakamori, and Yoshiki Kitsunezuka "A new imaging technique on strength and phase of pulsatile tissue-motion in brightness-mode ultrasonogram", Proc. SPIE 6513, Medical Imaging 2007: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing, 65130B (12 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709354

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