Characterizing dispersion in bovine liver using ARFI-based shear wave rheometry.

Biomed Phys Eng Express

Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, United States of America.

Published: August 2024

Dispersion presents both a challenge and a diagnostic opportunity in shear wave elastography (SWE).(SWR) is an inversion technique for processing SWE data acquired using an acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) excitation. The main advantage of SWR is that it can characterize the shear properties of homogeneous soft media over a wide frequency range. Assumptions associated with SWR include tissue homogeneity, tissue isotropy, and axisymmetry of the ARFI excitation).Evaluate the validity of the SWR assumptions in ex vivo bovine liver.SWR was used to measure the shear properties of bovine liver tissue as function of frequency over a large frequency range. Assumptions associated with SWR (tissue homogeneity, tissue isotropy, and axisymmetry of the ARFI excitation) were evaluated through measurements performed at multiple locations and probe orientations. Measurements focused on quantities that would reveal violations of the assumptions.Measurements of shear properties were obtained over the 25-250 Hz range, and showed a 4-fold increase in shear storage modulus (from 1 to 4 kPa) and over a 10-fold increase in the loss modulus (from 0.2 to 3 kPa) over that decade-wide frequency range. Measurements under different conditions were highly repeatable, and model error was low in all cases.SWR depends on modeling the ARFI-induced shear wave as a full vector viscoelastic shear wave resulting from an axisymmetric source; it is agnostic to any specific rheological model. Despite this generality, the model makes three main simplifying assumptions. These results show that the modeling assumptions used in SWR are valid in bovine liver over a wide frequency band.

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