摘要:
Method for measuring a physical parameter in soft tissues of a mammal, in which a mechanical shear wave is propagated through the soft tissues and observation of the propagation leads to determine values of a shear wave propagation parameter. The physical parameter is computed on the basis of these values.
摘要:
The invention relates to an imagining method which is used to observe the simultaneous propagation of a shear wave at a multitude of points in a viscoelastic diffusing medium (1). The inventive method consists in: generating the shear wave by using a network of transconductors (6) to emit at least one focused ultrasonic compression wave in the viscoelastic medium; subsequently, using the same network of transconductors to emit non-focused ultrasonic compression waves at a rapid rate, in order to produce a series of images of the medium; and processing the images thus obtained in delayed time in order to determine movements in relation to the medium during the propagation of the shear wave.
摘要:
An imaging method using shear waves for observing a viscoelastic medium (2), comprising: several successive excitation steps j during which elastic shear waves are generated respectively at different excitation loci (L j ) in the viscoelastic medium (2) by an imaging device, the different excitation loci being separated from one another by a maximum distance Dm, - an imaging step corresponding to each excitation step j, in which a set j of successive raw images Im j (t k ) of the viscoelastic medium at times t k are determined during propagation of the shear wave, the raw images having a resolution R which is larger than the maximum distance Dm, an averaging step in which raw images Im j (t k ) corresponding to the same relative time t k are averaged to determine an average image Im' (t k ).