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Development of a Fluid Dynamic Model for Quantitative Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging

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Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is a non-invasive imaging technique extensively used for blood perfusion imaging of various organs. This modality is based on the acoustic detection of gas-filled microbubble contrast agents used as intravascular flow tracers. Recent efforts aim at quantifying parameters related to the enhancement in the vascular compartment using time-intensity curve (TIC), and at using these latter as indicators for several pathological conditions. However, this quantification is mainly hampered by two reasons: first, the quantification intrinsically solely relies on temporal intensity variation, the explicit spatial transport of the contrast agent being left out. Second, the exact relationship between the acquired US-signal and the local microbubble concentration is hardly accessible. The current study introduces the use of a fluid dynamic model for the analysis of dynamic CEUS (DCEUS), in order to circumvent the two above mentioned limitations. A new kinetic analysis is proposed in order to quantify the velocity amplitude of the bolus arrival. The efficiency of proposed methodology is evaluated both in-vitro, for the quantitative estimation of microbubble flow rates, and in-vivo, for the classification of placental insufficiency (control vs. ligature) of pregnant rats from DCEUS. Besides, for the in-vivo experimental setup, we demonstrated that the proposed approach outperforms the performance of existing TIC-based methods.
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hal-01962485 , version 1 (21-12-2018)

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Baudouin Denis de Senneville, Anthony Novell, Chloé J. Arthuis, Vanda Mendes, Paul-Armand Dujardin, et al.. Development of a Fluid Dynamic Model for Quantitative Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2018, 37 (2), pp.372-383. ⟨hal-01962485⟩

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