New approach for modelling ultrasound blood backscatter signal.

Ultrasound Med Biol

Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, St. George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT, UK.

Published: April 2002

The ultrasound (US) scattered signal from blood has been treated as a random signal by many investigators. However, the degree of randomness of a medium is a relative term that can change considerably with the resolution of the sensor. In this study, the backscattered signal from blood has been looked at as a chaotic signal. By this treatment, according to Taken's theorem, a single variable (e.g., amplitude of the blood-backscattered signal) can be used to reconstruct the nonlinear dynamics of the blood-scattered signal. Multilayer perceptron neural network architecture, with error back-propagation, has been formulated and used as a basis for building and testing the chaotic model of the backscattered signal. This chaotic model is used successfully as a short-term predictor of the backscattered signal from blood-mimicking fluid (BMF) flowing in a vascular flow phantom under pulsatile flow. This modelling approach can be useful, for example, in detecting blood-borne emboli.

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