Title
Potential of determining thermal dose for ablation therapies using ultrasound elastography: An ex vivo feasability study
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-20-2018
Abstract
Thermal ablation therapy is a minimally invasive technique with the potential to allow eradication of tumors utilizing highly localized heating. Protein coagulation induced by heating is thought to induce a change at the microscopic level, thereby manifesting itself as measurable macroscopic changes of the tissue's viscoelastic properties. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between clinically relevant thermal doses and a novel biomechanical parameter measurable using ultrasound. Ex vivo porcine liver tissue samples were administered clinically relevant thermal doses via a temperature-controlled double immersive water bath. Stress and strain data obtained from unconfined uniaxial compression and stress-relaxation tests were fit to a Kelvin-Voigt fractional derivative (KVFD) model of tissue viscoelasticity. In the KVFD model, the alpha parameter is the order of the fractional derivative (0<;a
Publication Title
2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
ISBN
978-1-5386-3425-7
Recommended Citation
Kling, A.,
&
Jiang, J.
(2018).
Potential of determining thermal dose for ablation therapies using ultrasound elastography: An ex vivo feasability study.
2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS).
http://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2018.8579670
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/biomedical-fp/39
Publisher's Statement
Publisher's version of record: http://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2018.8579670