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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-10-26
pubmed:abstractText
The sound speed in biological tissues provides important diagnostic and treatment planning information. Conventional methods of sound-speed determination generally require that transducers make physical contact with specimens in order to measure thickness and travel time in the time domain. The physical contact may cause deformation and affect blood flow and the measurement of travel time in the time domain may be sensitive to waveform distortion due to tissue inhomogeneity and surface roughness. A method for determination of the sound speed is proposed in which the sound travel time in the sample and the difference in total travel time from the transducer to the rigid reflector due to the presence of the sample are estimated in the frequency domain and which does not require physical contact of ultrasonic probes to living or freshly excised tissue specimens. Ultrasonic speed measurements in silicone rubber and acrylic resin specimens verified the method validity. The standard deviation of the measurements over a 10- x 10-mm area is less than 4 m/s. Sound-speed distribution measurements of porcine muscle are in agreement with previously published results.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0001-4966
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
92
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1564-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-12-27
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Determination of sound speed in biological tissues based on frequency analysis of pulse response.
pubmed:affiliation
Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article