University of Pittsburgh- Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
发明人:
Kang Kim,Ahmed M. Mahmoud,Debaditya Dutta
申请号：
US16430315
公开号：
US20190282198A1
申请日:
2019.06.03
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2019
代理人:
摘要：
A method for quantifying an amount of fat contained in a liver or other tissue of a subject in vivo includes varying the temperature of a target area in a subject, imaging thermal strain of the target area using an ultrasound scanner, and quantifying the amount of fat in the targeted area based on the thermal strain imaging. In some embodiments, the thermal strain imaging is performed using high-resolution, phase-sensitive speckle tracking to differentiate between fat-based tissue and water-based tissue.
