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Nguyen TM Couade M Bercoff J Tanter M 《IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control》2011,58(11):2305-2315
In elastography, quantitative imaging of soft tissue elastic properties is provided by local shear wave speed estimation. Shear wave imaging in a homogeneous medium thicker than the shear wavelength is eased by a simple relationship between shear wave speed and local shear modulus. In thin layered organs, the shear wave is guided and thus undergoes dispersive effects. This case is encountered in medical applications such as elastography of skin layers, corneas, or arterial walls. In this work, we proposed and validated shear wave spectroscopy as a method for elastic modulus quantification in such layered tissues. Shear wave dispersion curves in thin layers were obtained by finite-difference simulations and numerical solving of the boundary conditions. In addition, an analytical approximation of the dispersion equation was derived from the leaky Lamb wave theory. In vitro dispersion curves obtained from phantoms were consistent with numerical studies (deviation <1.4%). The least-mean-squares fitting of the dispersion curves enables a quantitative and accurate (error < 5% of the transverse speed) assessment of the elasticity. Dispersion curves were also found to be poorly influenced by shear viscosity. This phenomenon allows independent recovery of the shear modulus and the viscosity, using, respectively, the dispersion curve and the attenuation estimation along the propagation axis. 相似文献
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Bercoff J Tanter M Fink M 《IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control》2004,51(4):396-409
Supersonic shear imaging (SSI) is a new ultrasound-based technique for real-time visualization of soft tissue viscoelastic properties. Using ultrasonic focused beams, it is possible to remotely generate mechanical vibration sources radiating low-frequency, shear waves inside tissues. Relying on this concept, SSI proposes to create such a source and make it move at a supersonic speed. In analogy with the "sonic boom" created by a supersonic aircraft, the resulting shear waves will interfere constructively along a Mach cone, creating two intense plane shear waves. These waves propagate through the medium and are progressively distorted by tissue heterogeneities. An ultrafast scanner prototype is able to both generate this supersonic source and image (5000 frames/s) the propagation of the resulting shear waves. Using inversion algorithms, the shear elasticity of medium can be mapped quantitatively from this propagation movie. The SSI enables tissue elasticity mapping in less than 20 ms, even in strongly viscous medium like breast. Modalities such as shear compounding are implementable by tilting shear waves in different directions and improving the elasticity estimation. Results validating SSI in heterogeneous phantoms are presented. The first in vivo investigations made on healthy volunteers emphasize the potential clinical applicability of SSI for breast cancer detection. 相似文献
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Jia-Hong Sun Tsung-Tsong Wu 《IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control》2009,56(1):121-128
In this paper, we propose a Lamb wave source that is based on the resonant cavity of a phononic-crystal plate. The phononic-crystal plate is composed of tungsten cylinders that form square lattices in a silicon plate, and the resonant cavity is created by arranging defects inside the periodic structure. The dispersion, transmission, and displacement of Lamb waves are analyzed by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The eigenmodes inside the cavities of the phononic-crystal plate are identified as resonant modes. The fundamental and higher order resonant modes, which vary with the length of cavities, are calculated. By exciting the specific resonant mode in an asymmetric cavity, the 232.40 MHz flexural Lamb wave has a magnified amplitude of 78 times larger than the normal one. Thus, the cavity on the tungsten/ silicon phononic-crystal plate may serve as a source element in a microscale acoustic wave device. 相似文献
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Jos M. Galn Ramn Abascal 《International journal for numerical methods in engineering》2003,58(7):1091-1118
The scattering of elastic guided waves by defects in two‐dimensional infinite plates is analysed in the plane and antiplane cases, corresponding, respectively, to Lamb and SH modes. A hybrid boundary element–finite element technique is used, where the defect neighbourhood is discretized with quadratic boundary elements and the radiation condition in the plate is satisfied through a normal mode expansion. A semi‐analytical finite element technique is applied in the infinite plate to calculate its dispersion curves and normal modes. This hybrid technique, which showed excellent performance in the solution of Lamb wave reflection at the edge of semi‐infinite plates, is extended in this paper to a wider range of problems, such as Lamb mode scattering by delaminations and surface defects and SH mode interaction with step discontinuities. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Deffieux T Gennisson JL Bercoff J Tanter M 《IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control》2011,58(10):2032-2035
In recent years, novel quantitative techniques have been developed to provide noninvasive and quantitative stiffness images based on shear wave propagation. Using radiation force and ultrafast ultrasound imaging, the supersonic shear imaging technique allows one to remotely generate and follow a transient plane shear wave propagating in vivo in real time. The tissue shear modulus, i.e., its stiffness, can then be estimated from the shear wave local velocity. However, because the local shear wave velocity is estimated using a time-of- flight approach, reflected shear waves can cause artifacts in the estimated shear velocity because the incident and reflected waves propagate in opposite directions. Such effects have been reported in the literature as a potential drawback of elastography techniques based on shear wave speed, particularly in the case of high stiffness contrasts, such as in atherosclerotic plaque or stiff lesions. In this letter, we present our implementation of a simple directional filter, previously used for magnetic resonance elastography, which separates the forward- and backward-propagating waves to solve this problem. Such a directional filter could be applied to many elastography techniques based on the local estimation of shear wave speed propagation, such as acoustic radiation force imaging (ARFI), shearwave dispersion ultrasound vibrometry (SDUV), needle-based elastography, harmonic motion imaging, or crawling waves when the local propagation direction is known and high-resolution spatial and temporal data are acquired. 相似文献
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Lee YC Cheng SW 《IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control》2001,48(3):830-837
This paper investigates the Lamb wave dispersion curves of a bi-layered plate and evaluates the feasibility of using the dispersion data to characterize the coating's material properties. The measurement of dispersion curves is based on a focusing PVDF transducer operating in a pulse/echo mode. An image displaying technique is used to determine the dispersion relation of Lamb waves from the measured data. Multiple dispersion curves of Lamb waves are accurately determined over a wide frequency range (4 to 20 MHz). Lamb wave dispersion curves for thin metal sheets electrodeposited with nickel coatings are measured. The elastic constants of the nickel coating are determined by comparing the experimental dispersion data with the theoretical ones calculated numerically. Potential applications of this measurement method are addressed 相似文献
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Orescanin M Wang Y Insana M 《IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control》2011,58(2):389-398
The Navier equation describing shear wave propagation in 3-D viscoelastic media is solved numerically with a finite differences time domain (FDTD) method. Solutions are formed in terms of transverse scatterer velocity waves and then verified via comparison to measured wave fields in heterogeneous hydrogel phantoms. The numerical algorithm is used as a tool to study the effects on complex shear modulus estimation from wave propagation in heterogeneous viscoelastic media. We used an algebraic Helmholtz inversion (AHI) technique to solve for the complex shear modulus from simulated and experimental velocity data acquired in 2-D and 3-D. Although 3-D velocity estimates are required in general, there are object geometries for which 2-D inversions provide accurate estimations of the material properties. Through simulations and experiments, we explored artifacts generated in elastic and dynamic-viscous shear modulus images related to the shear wavelength and average viscosity. 相似文献
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This paper is intended to examine the effect of inclusion shapes, inclusion contents, inclusion elastic constants, and plate thickness on the dispersion relations and modes of wave propagation in inclusion-reinforced composite plates. The shape of inclusion is modeled as spheroid that enables the composite reinforcement geometrical configurations ranging from sphere to short and continuous fiber. Mori–Tanaka mean-field theory is used to predict the effective elastic moduli of the composite plate explicitly. The effective elastic moduli are able to elucidate the effect of inclusion’s shape, stiffness, and volume fraction on the composite’s anisotropic elastic behavior. The resulting moduli are then used to determine the dispersion relations and the modal patterns of Lamb waves using the dynamic stiffness matrix method. The types (symmetric or antisymmetric) of Lamb waves in an isotropic plate can be classified according to the wave motions are symmetrical or antisymmetric about the midplane of the plate. Classifying the wave type in an anisotropic plate is not as simple as that in an isotropic plate, and has not received proper attention in the literature. The wave types and orders are identified by analyzing the dispersion curves and inspecting the calculated modal patterns, and the results indicate that the Lamb waves in an orthotropic composite plate can also be classified as either symmetric or antisymmetric waves. It is also found that the inclusion contents, aspect ratios and plate thickness affect propagation velocities, higher-order mode cutoff frequencies, and modal patterns. Propagation speed is generally increased with the aspect ratio, e.g., using longer fibers generally results in a higher propagation speed. 相似文献
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Sumi C 《IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control》2005,52(10):1670-1689
We previously reported an ultrasonic strain measurement-based one-dimensional (1-D) shear modulus reconstruction technique using a regularization method for differential diagnosis of malignancies on human superficial tissues (e.g., breast tissues). Here, ultrasonic strain measurement-based 2-D and 3-D shear modulus reconstruction techniques are described, and the 1-D technique is reviewed and subsequently applied to various human in vivo tissues, including deeply situated tissues (e.g., liver). Because soft tissues are deformed in 3-D space by externally situated arbitrary mechanical sources, the accuracy of the low-dimensional (i.e., 1-D or 2-D) reconstructions is lower to that of 3-D reconstruction due to occurrence of erroneous reconstruction artifacts (i.e., the reconstructed modulus is different than reality). These artifacts are confirmed on simulated inhomogeneous cubic phantoms containing a spherical homogenous inclusion using numerically calculated deformation data. The superiority of quasi-real-time imaging of the shear modulus is then demonstrated by comparing it with conventional B-mode imaging and strain imaging from the standpoints of monitoring the effectiveness of minimally invasive thermal therapy as well as differential diagnosis. Because the 2-D and 3-D techniques require special ultrasonic (US) equipment, the 1-D technique using conventional US imaging equipment is used, even though erroneous artifacts will occur. Specifically, the 1-D technique is applied as a diagnostic tool for differentiating malignancies in human in vivo liver and breast tissue, and a monitoring technique for determining the effectiveness of interstitial electromagnetic wave (micro and rf) thermal therapy on human in vivo liver and calf in vitro liver. Even when using the 1-D technique, reconstructed shear moduli were confirmed to be a suitable measure for monitoring thermal treatment as well as differential diagnosis. These results are encouraging in that they will promote use of 2-D and 3-D reconstruction techniques. 相似文献
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Topological design of microstructures of cellular materials for maximum bulk or shear modulus 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper presents a new approach to designing periodic microstructures of cellular materials. The method is based on the bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO) technique. The optimization problem is formulated as finding a micro-structural topology with the maximum bulk or shear modulus under a prescribed volume constraint. Using the homogenization theory and finite element analysis within a periodic base cell (PBC), elemental sensitivity numbers are established for gradually removing and adding elements in PBC. Numerical examples in 2D and 3D demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for achieving convergent microstructures of cellular materials with maximum bulk or shear modulus. Some interesting topological patterns have been found for guiding the cellular material design. 相似文献
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根据Hamilton原理建立了三维压电压磁动力学耦合系统的Hamilton对偶体系,将经典的弹性力学一类变量问题转化为二类变量,建立了Hamilton正则方程组,研究了功能梯度电磁材料(FGMM)板/管内的弹性导波的频散特性及波结构特征。结果表明:(1)压电效应提高了Lamb波的频率和波速,而磁效应则相反,压电效应对波动的影响远大于磁效应;它们而对SH波没有影响(厚度方向极化)。(2)短路及断路电学边界条件对SH波不发生任何影响(厚度方向极化),而短路对Lamb波的频率和波速有不同程度的降低(相同波数下)。(3)在波结构上,对平板而言,所谓的“对称”和“反对称”Lamb波由于材料的梯度特性而变得不再严格的关于中心线对称或反对称。对管而言,由于材料的非均匀分布导致存轴对称栩转波模态中出现了横截面翘曲现象.轴对称纵向波也出现厚度剪切应力。 相似文献
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剪切波相速度和衰减的频散特性的准确测量具有重要的意义。温度变化可能会对生物软组织的力学特性产生影响,为了研究温度的变化对剪切波相速度和衰减频散特性测量的影响,以大鼠肝脏为研究对象,基于声辐射力的剪切波成像的方法,通过离体实验来获取大鼠肝脏内部不同温度下的剪切波相速度和衰减频散特性曲线。实验结果发现,随着温度的升高,剪切波相速度逐渐减少,衰减频散逐渐增大,特别是在较高的频段(270~380 Hz)的变化更为显著。结果表明温度是测量大鼠肝脏中剪切波相速度和衰减频散特性中不可忽略的因素,这对今后的动物实验研究以及疾病评估提供了实验参考,具有重要的意义。 相似文献
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Hayward G Hyslop J 《IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control》2006,53(2):449-455
The use of finite element modeling, combined with optical generation and detection of Lamb waves in plate structures, was extended to encompass periodic ceramic-polymer materials typical of those encountered in 1-3 and 2-2 piezoelectric composite array transducers. The resultant dispersion data was employed to predict the occurrence of Lamb wave-induced cross talk in composite monolithic arrays. The finite element modeling method was then used to simulate the dispersion behavior of two array structures that were subsequently manufactured: a 1-D 45% volume fraction linear array coupon and a 2-D 35% volume fraction array coupon. Excellent agreement between theory and experiment was obtained using impedance measurements and laser scans of the surface displacement profile at selected frequencies. Regions of strong inter-element cross-coupling were identified and these are shown to correlate very well with the dispersion data obtained for the dual-phase plate material. This work is considered to provide a useful basis for the design of wideband monolithic composite arrays and minimization of guided wave propagation along the array substrate. 相似文献
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Latorre-Ossa H Gennisson JL De Brosses E Tanter M 《IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control》2012,59(4):833-839
The study of new tissue mechanical properties such as shear nonlinearity could lead to better tissue characterization and clinical diagnosis. This work proposes a method combining static elastography and shear wave elastography to derive the nonlinear shear modulus by applying the acoustoelasticity theory in quasi-incompressible soft solids. Results demonstrate that by applying a moderate static stress at the surface of the investigated medium, and by following the quantitative evolution of its shear modulus, it is possible to accurately and quantitatively recover the local Landau (A) coefficient characterizing the shear nonlinearity of soft tissues. 相似文献