Ultrasound Phantom Using Thin Wires for the Depiction of Calcification --Comparison of Cross-Sections of Wire Targets and Mass Targets--

カテゴリ: 論文誌(論文単位)

グループ名: 【C】電子・情報・システム部門

発行日: 2011/09/01

タイトル(英語): Ultrasound Phantom Using Thin Wires for the Depiction of Calcification --Comparison of Cross-Sections of Wire Targets and Mass Targets--

著者名: Hirofumi Taki (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University), Takuya Sakamoto (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University), Makoto Yamakawa (Advanced Biomedical Engineering Research Unit, Kyoto University), Tsuyoshi Shiina (Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University), Toru Sato (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)

著者名(英語): Hirofumi Taki (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University), Takuya Sakamoto (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University), Makoto Yamakawa (Advanced Biomedical Engineering Research Unit, Kyoto University), Tsuyoshi Shiina (Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University), Toru Sato (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)

キーワード: ultrasonography，calcification，scattering cross-section，effective size，ultrasound phantom

要約(英語): We report on a technique to construct an ultrasound calcification phantom using wires. Employment of the proper angle of the measurement plane to a wire target can adjust its effective size to that of a mass target. To acquire this angle of the measurement plane we compared the scattering cross-sections of 0.2, 0.1, 0.05 and 0.03 mm diameter copper wires, and copper cylinders that are 0.2 and 0.1 mm in size. The experiments were conducted using a commercial ultrasonographic device with a 7.5 MHz linear array probe. The scattering cross-section of a wire is severely reduced as the angle of the measurement plane to that wire decreases. At a depth of 2 cm the scattering cross-sections of the 0.2 and 0.1 mm copper cylinders are equivalent to the scattering cross-section of a 0.1 mm diameter copper wire, when the measurement plane angles to the wire are 87.6 and 87.0 degrees for the 0.2 and 0.1 mm copper cylinders, respectively. This result indicated that the employment of the proper angle of the measurement plane can adjust the effective size of a wire target to the size of a mass target, and consequently fulfills the requirements for use as a calcification phantom.

本誌: 電気学会論文誌C（電子・情報・システム部門誌） Vol.131 No.9 （2011） 特集：医療・ヘルスケアにおける工学技術の新展開

本誌掲載ページ: 1528-1534 p

原稿種別: 論文／英語

電子版へのリンク: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ieejeiss/131/9/131_9_1528/_article/-char/ja/