TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical Evaluation of Synthetic Aperture Sequential Beamforming Ultrasound in Patients with Liver Tumors
AU - Hansen, Peter Møller
AU - Hemmsen, Martin
AU - Brandt, Andreas
AU - Rasmussen, Joachim
AU - Lange, Theis
AU - Krohn, Paul Suno
AU - Lönn, Lars
AU - Jensen, Jørgen Arendt
AU - Nielsen, Michael Bachmann
N1 - Copyright © 2014 World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - Medical ultrasound imaging using synthetic aperture sequential beamforming (SASB) has for the first time been used for clinical patient scanning. Nineteen patients with cancer of the liver (hepatocellular carcinoma or colorectal liver metastases) were scanned simultaneously with conventional ultrasound and SASB using a commercial ultrasound scanner and abdominal transducer. SASB allows implementation of the synthetic aperture technique on systems with restricted data handling capabilities due to a reduction in the data rate in the scanner by a factor of 64. The image quality is potentially maintained despite the data reduction. A total of 117 sequences were recorded and evaluated blinded by five radiologists from a clinical perspective. Forty-eight percent of the evaluations were in favor of SASB, 33% in favor of conventional ultrasound and 19 % were equal, that is, a clear, but non-significant trend favoring SASB over conventional ultrasound (p = 0.18), despite the substantial data reduction.
AB - Medical ultrasound imaging using synthetic aperture sequential beamforming (SASB) has for the first time been used for clinical patient scanning. Nineteen patients with cancer of the liver (hepatocellular carcinoma or colorectal liver metastases) were scanned simultaneously with conventional ultrasound and SASB using a commercial ultrasound scanner and abdominal transducer. SASB allows implementation of the synthetic aperture technique on systems with restricted data handling capabilities due to a reduction in the data rate in the scanner by a factor of 64. The image quality is potentially maintained despite the data reduction. A total of 117 sequences were recorded and evaluated blinded by five radiologists from a clinical perspective. Forty-eight percent of the evaluations were in favor of SASB, 33% in favor of conventional ultrasound and 19 % were equal, that is, a clear, but non-significant trend favoring SASB over conventional ultrasound (p = 0.18), despite the substantial data reduction.
U2 - 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.07.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.07.008
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25308936
SN - 0301-5629
VL - 40
SP - 2805
EP - 2810
JO - Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
JF - Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
IS - 12
ER -
