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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-10-29
pubmed:abstractText
Attenuation coefficient and propagation speed of intercostal tissues were estimated as functions of temperature (22, 30, and 37 degrees C) from fresh chest walls from eight 10- to 11-week-old female Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, eight 21- to 24-week-old female Long-Evans (LE) rats, and ten 6- to 10-week-old mixed sex Yorkshire (York) pigs. The primary purpose of the study was to estimate the temperature dependence of the intercostal tissue's attenuation coefficient so that accurate estimates of the in situ (at the pleural surface) acoustic pressure levels could be made for our ultrasound-induced lung hemorrhage studies. The attenuation coefficient of intercostal tissue for both species was independent of the temperature at the discrete frequencies of 3.1 MHz (-0.0076, 0.0065, and 0.016 dB/cm/degrees C for SD rats, LE rats, and York pigs, respectively) and 6.2 MHz (-0.015, 0.014, and 0.014 dB/cm/degrees C for SD rats, LE rats, and York pigs, respectively). However, the temperature-dependent regressions yielded a significant temperature dependency of the intercostal tissue attenuation coefficients in SD and LE rats (over the 3.1 to 9.6 MHz frequency range); there was no temperature dependency in York pigs (over the 3.1 to 8.6 MHz frequency range). There was no significant temperature dependency of the intercostal tissue propagation speed in SD rats; there was a temperature dependency in LE rats and York pigs (-0.59, -1.6, and -2.9 m/s/degrees C for SD rats, LE rats, and York pigs, respectively). Even though the attenuation coefficient's temperature dependency was significant from the linear regression functions, the differences were not very great (-0.040 to -0.13, 0.011 to 0.18, and 0.055 to 0.10 dB/cm/degrees C for SD rats, LE rats, and York pigs, respectively, over the data frequency range). These findings suggest that it is not necessary to determine the attenuation coefficient of intercostal tissue at body temperature (37 degrees C), but rather it is sufficient to determine the attenuation coefficient at room temperature (22 degrees C), a much easier experimental procedure.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0885-3010
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1411-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Adipose Tissue, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Body Temperature, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Intercostal Muscles, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Models, Statistical, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Pleura, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Pressure, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Rats, Long-Evans, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Sensitivity and Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Skin, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Skin Physiological Phenomena, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Swine, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Thorax, pubmed-meshheading:12403142-Ultrasonography
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Attenuation coefficient and propagation speed estimates of rat and pig intercostal tissue as a function of temperature.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.