Journal
ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 11, Pages 3001-3012Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.07.005
Keywords
Liver attenuation; Porcine liver; Non-linear distortion; Drug delivery; In situ pressure; Exposimetry; Derating
Funding
- European Regional Development Fund
- Republic of Cyprus through Research Promotion Foundation [DIDAKTOR/0311/78]
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The aim of this study was to evaluate a simple, reliable and reproducible method for accuracy in estimating the acoustic pressure delivered in tissue exposed to ultrasound. Such a method would be useful for therapeutic applications of ultrasound with microbubbles, for example, sonoporation. The method is based on (i) low-amplitude water measurements that are easily made and do not suffer from non-linear propagation effects, and (ii) the attenuation coefficient of the tissue of interest. The range of validity of the extrapolation method for different attenuation and pressure values was evaluated with a non-linear propagation theoretical model. Depending on the specific tissue attenuation, the method produces good estimates of pressures in excess of 10 MPa. Ex vivo machine-perfused pig liver tissue was used to validate the method for source pressures up to 3.5 MPa. The method can be used to estimate the delivered pressure in vivo in diagnostic and therapeutic applications of ultrasound. (E-mail: maverk@uw.edu) (C) 2015 World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology.
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