Potential of MRI and ultrasound radiation force in elastography: Applications to diagnosis and therapy

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 490-499

  Sinkus, Ralph ^a   Tanter, Mickaël ^a   Bercoff, Jérémy ^b   Siegmann, Katja ^c   Pernot, Mathieu ^b   Athanasiou, Alexandra ^d   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b SUPERSONIC IMAGINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force; Elastography; High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Supersonic shear imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; COMPLEX SHEAR MODULUS; DATA COMPLETENESS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; SUPERSONIC SHEAR IMAGING; ULTRASOUND RADIATION FORCE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 64549163139     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2007.913536     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. R. Sinkus, M. Tanter, T. Xydeas, S. Catheline, J. Bercoff, and M. Fink, "Viscoelastic shear properties of in vivo breast lesions measured by MR elastography," Magn. Res. Imag., vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 159-165, 2005.
2. A. L. McKnight, J. L. Kugel, P. J. Rossman, A. Manduca, L. C. Hartmann, and R. L. Ehman, "MR elastography of breast cancer: Preliminary results," AJR Amer. J. Roentgenol., vol. 178, no. 6, pp. 1411-1417, Jun. 2002.
3. L. Huwart, F. Peeters, R. Sinkus, L. Annet, N. Salameh, L. C. Ter Beek, Y. Horsmans, and B. E. Van Beers, "Liver fibrosis: Non-invasive assessment with MR elastography, " NMR Biomed., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 173-179, Mar. 6, 2006.
4. L. Huwart, C. Sempoux, N. Salameh, J. Jamart, L. Annet, R. Sinkus, F. Peeters, L. ter Beek, Y. Horsmans, and B. E. Van Beers, "Comparison of MR elastography and aspartate aminotransferase toplatelets ratio index for the non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis," Radiology, 2007.
5. O. Rouviere, M. Yin, M. A. Dresner, P. J. Rossman, L. J. Burgart, J. L. Fidler, and R. L. Ehman, "MR elastography of the liver: Preliminary results," Radiology, vol. 240, no. 2, pp. 440-448, Aug. 2006.
6. L. Curiel, R. Souchon, O. Rouviere, A. Gelet, and J. Y. Chapelon, "Elastography for the follow-up of high-intensity focused ultrasound prostate cancer treatment: Initial comparison with MRI," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1461-1468, Nov. 2005.
7. J. Kemper, R. Sinkus, J. Lorenzen, C. Nolte-Ernsting, A. Stork, and G. Adam, "MR elastography of the prostate: Initial in-vivo application," Rofo, vol. 176, no. 8, pp. 1094-1099, Aug. 2004.
8. Q. C. C. Chan, B. Larrat, G. Li, E. S. Yang, and R. Sinkus, in Proc. Int. Soc. Magn. Res. Med. Berlin, 2007, p. 2402.
9. J. Ophir, E. I. Cespedes, H. Ponnekanti, Y. Yazdi, and X. Li, "Elastography: A method for imaging the elasticity in biological tissues," Ultrason. Imag., vol. 13, pp. 111-134, 1991.
10. D. B. Plewes, I. Betty, S. N. Urchuk, and I. Soutar, "Visualizing tissue compliance with MR imaging," J. Magn. Res. Imag., vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 733-738, 1995.
11. M. Tanter, J. Bercoff, L. Sandrin, and M. Fink, "Ultrafast compound imaging for 2-D motion vector estimation: Application to transient elastography," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 49, pp. 1363-1374, Oct. 2002.
12. J. Bercoff, M. Tanter, and M. Fink, "Supersonic shear imaging: A new technique for soft tissue elasticity mapping," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 51, pp. 396-409, Apr. 2004.
13. K. J. Parker, D. Fu, S. M. Graceswki, F. Yeung, and S. F. Levinson, "Vibration sonoelastography and the detectability of lesions," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 1437-1447, 1998.
14. R. Sinkus, J. Lorenzen, D. Schrader, M. Lorenzen, M. Dargatz, and D. Holz, "High-resolution tensor MR elastography for breast tumour detection," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 1649-1664, 2000.
15. K. P. Pruessmann, M. Weiger, M. B. Scheidegger, and P. Boesiger, "SENSE: Sensitivity encoding for fast MRI," Magn. Res. Med., vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 952-962, Nov. 1999.
16. M. Pernot, T. Deffieux, J.-L. Gennisson, M. Tanter, M. Fink, R. Sinkus, P. Annic, F. Cudeiro, G. Montaldo, and J. Bercoff, "A 3D elastography system based on the concept of ultrasound-computed tomography for in vivo breast examination," in Proc. IEEE Ultrason. Symp., 2006.
17. A. Fenster and D. B. Downey, "Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging," Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., vol. 2, pp. 457-475, 2000.
18. L. Landau and E. Lifschitz, Theory of Elasticity, 3rd ed. London, U.K.: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1986.
19. R. Sinkus, M. Tanter, S. Catheline, J. Lorenzen, C. K. Kuhl, E. Sondermann, and M. Fink, "Imaging anisotropic and viscous properties of breast tissue by magnetic resonance-elastography," Magn. Res. Med., vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 372-387, 2005.
20. M. Z. Kiss, T. Varghese, and T. J. Hall, "Viscoelastic characterization of in vitro canine tissue," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 49, no. 18, pp. 4207-4218, 2004.
21. B. Fabry, G. N. Maksym, J. P. Butler, M. Glogauer, D. Navajas, N. A. Taback, E. J. Millet, and J. J. Fredberg, "Time scale and other invariants of integrative mechanical behavior in living cells," Phys. Rev. E, vol. 68, p. 041914, 2003.
22. F. Baum, U. Fischer, R. Vosshenrich et al., "Classification of hypervascularized lesions in CE MR imaging of the breast," Eur. Radiol., vol. 12, pp. 1087-1092, 2002.
23. O. V. Rudenko, A. P. Sarvazyan, and S. Y. Emelianov, "Acoustic radiation force and streaming induced by focused ultrasound in a dissipative medium," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 99, no. 15, pp. 2791-2798, 1995.
24. A. P. Sarvazyan, O. V. Rudenko, S. D. Swanson, J. B. Fowlkes, and S. Y. Emelianov, "Shear wave elasticity imaging - A new ultrasonic technology of medical diagnostic," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 20, pp. 1419-1436, 1998.
25. J. Bercoff, M. Tanter, M. Muller, and M. Fink, "The role of viscosity in the impulse diffraction field of elastic waves induced by the acoustic radiation force," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 51, pp. 1523-1536, Nov. 2004.
26. K. Nightingale, M. S. Soo, R. Nightingale, and G. Trahey, "Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: in vivo demonstration of clinical feasibility," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 227-235, Feb. 2002.
27. G. Ter Haar, D. Sinnett, and I. Rivens, "High intensity focused ultrasound - A surgical technique for the treatment of discrete liver tumors," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 1743-1750, 1989.
28. J. Y. Chapelon, M. Ribault, F. Vernier, R. Souchon, and A. Gelet, "Treatment of localised prostate cancer with transrectal high intensity focused ultrasound," Eur. J. Ultrasound, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 31-38, 1999.
29. J. Y. Chapelon, J. Margonari, Y. A. Theillere et a!., "Effects of high-energy focused ultrasound on kidney tissue in the rat and the dog," J. Eur. Urol., vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 147-152, 1992.
30. K. Hynynen, C. A. Damianou, V. Colucci et ai., "MR monitoring of focused ultrasonic surgery of renal cortex: Experimental and simulation studies," J Magn. Res. Imag., vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 259-266, 1995.
31. C. Damianou, "In vitro and in vivo ablation of porcine renal tissues using high-intensity focused ultrasound," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 29, pp. 1321-1330, 2003.
32. W. Fry, W. Mosberg, J. Barnard, and F. Fry, "Production of focal destructive lesions in the central nervous system with ultrasound," J. Neurosurg., vol. 11, pp. 471-478, 1954.
33. N. I. Vykhodtseva, K. Hynynen, and C. Damianou, "Pulse duration and peak intensity during focused ultrasound surgery: Theoretical and experimental effects in rabbit brain in vivo," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 987-1000, 1994.
34. J. F. Aubry, M. Tanter, M. Pernot, J. L. Thomas, and M. Fink, "Experimental demonstration of noninvasive transskull adaptive focusing based on prior computed tomography scans," J, Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 84-93, Jan. 2003.
35. B. D. de Senneville, C. Mougenot, B. Quesson, I. Dragonu, N. Grenier, and C. T. W. Moonen, "MR thermometry for monitoring tumor ablation," Eur. Radiol., vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 2401-2410, Sep. 2007.
36. M. Pernot, M. Tanter, J. Bercoff et al., "Temperature estimation using ultrasonic spatial compound imaging," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 51, pp. 606-615, May 2004.
37. E. Ebbini, "Noninvasive temperature imaging using diagnostic pulse-echo ultrasound," Med. Phys., vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 2528-2528, Jun. 2007.
38. J. Bercoff, M. Pernot, M. Tanter, and M. Fink, "Monitoring thermally-induced lesions with supersonic shear imaging," Ultrason. Imag., vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 71-84, Apr. 2004.
39. F. Kallel, R. J. Stafford, R. E. Price, R. Righetti, J. Ophir, and J. D. Hazle, "The feasibility of elastographic visualization of HIFU-induced thermal lesions in soft tissues. Image-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 641-647, May 1999.
40. R. Righetti, F. Kallel, R. J. Stafford, R. E. Price, T. A. Krouskop, J. D. Hazle, and J. Ophir, "Elastographic characterization of HIFU-induced lesions in canine livers," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1099-1113, 1999.
41. R. Salomir, A. S. Delemazure, J. Palussiere, O. Rouviere, F. Cotton, and J. Y. Chapelon, "Image-based control of the magnetic resonance imaging-guided focused ultrasound thermotherapy," Top Magn. Res. Imag., vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 139-151, Jun. 2006.