Physics Presentations And Conference Materials
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-3-2012
Publication Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Conference Name
11th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound
Abstract
Effective real-time HIFU lesion detection is important for expanded use of HIFU in interventional electrophysiology (e.g., epicardial ablation of cardiac arrhythmia). The goal of this study was to investigate rapid, high-frequency M-mode ultrasound imaging for monitoring spatiotemporal changes in tissue during HIFU application. The HIFU application (4.33 MHz, 1000 Hz PRF, 50% duty cycle, 1 s exposure, 6100 W/cm2) was perpendicularly applied to porcine cardiac tissue with a high-frequency imaging system (Visualsonics Vevo 770, 55 MHz, 4.5 mm focal distance) confocally aligned. Radiofrequency (RF) M-mode data (1 kHz PRF, 4 s × 7 mm) was acquired before, during, and after HIFU treatment. Gross lesions were compared with M-mode data to correlate lesion and cavity formation. Integrated backscatter, echo-decorrelation parameters, and their cumulative extrema over time were analyzed for automatically identifying lesion width and bubble formation. Cumulative maximum integrated backscatter showed the best results for identifying the final lesion width, and a criterion based on line-to-line decorrelation was proposed for identification of transient bubble activity.
Rights Statement
© 2012 American Institute of Physics, all rights reserved. Posted with permission.
Recommended Citation
Kumon, Ronald; Gudur, Madhu Sudhan Reddy; Zhou, Yun; and Deng, Cheri X., "High-frequency ultrasound M-mode monitoring of HIFU ablation in cardiac tissue" (2012). Physics Presentations And Conference Materials. 4.
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