Antonio QUESTA,Davide CARLINI,Giovanni BINI,Marco CROCCO
申请号：
US16381462
公开号：
US20190328364A1
申请日:
2019.04.11
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2019
代理人:
摘要：
A method for two-dimensional sheare wave elastography imaging comprises: a) acquiring B-mode ultrasound images of a target region in a body； b) selecting a region of interest inside the B-mode image； c) transmitting a shear wave excitation pulse focalized on an excitation region； d) measuring displacements of tracking focal points at different depths positions along laterally staggered tracking lines within the region of interest； e) determining elasticity parameters of the regions between two of the tracking focal points at the same depth and on at least two adjacent tracking lines as a function of the displacements caused by the shear wave at the tracking focal points； f) modifying the appearance of pixel(s) of the B-mode image inside the regions relatively to the grey-scale B-mode image as a function of elasticity parameters determined for the regions； and g) displaying the pixel(s) having a modified appearance at the corresponding pixel of the B-mode image.
