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Modelling of Propagating Shear Waves in Biotissue Employing an Internal Variable Approach to Dissipation

H. T. Banks & Nicholas S. Luke

Commun. Comput. Phys., 3 (2008), pp. 603-640.

Published online: 2008-03

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The ability to reliably detect coronary artery disease based on the acoustic noises produced by a stenosis can provide a simple, non-invasive technique for diagnosis. Current research exploits the shear wave fields in body tissue to detect and analyze coronary stenoses. The methods and ideas outlined in earlier efforts [6] including a mathematical model utilizing an internal strain variable approximation to the quasi-linear viscoelastic constitutive equation proposed by Fung in [19] is extended here. As an initial investigation, a homogeneous two-dimensional viscoelastic geometry is considered. Being uniform in θ, this geometry behaves as a one dimensional model, and the results generated from it are compared to the one dimensional results from [6]. To allow for different assumptions on the elastic response, several variations of the model are considered. A statistical significance test is employed to determine if the more complex models are significant improvements. After calibrating the model with a comparison to previous findings, more complicated geometries are considered. Simulations involving a heterogeneous geometry with a uniform ring running through the original medium, a θ-dependent model which considers a rigid partial occlusion formed along the inner radius of the geometry, and a model which combines the ring and occlusion are presented.

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The ability to reliably detect coronary artery disease based on the acoustic noises produced by a stenosis can provide a simple, non-invasive technique for diagnosis. Current research exploits the shear wave fields in body tissue to detect and analyze coronary stenoses. The methods and ideas outlined in earlier efforts [6] including a mathematical model utilizing an internal strain variable approximation to the quasi-linear viscoelastic constitutive equation proposed by Fung in [19] is extended here. As an initial investigation, a homogeneous two-dimensional viscoelastic geometry is considered. Being uniform in θ, this geometry behaves as a one dimensional model, and the results generated from it are compared to the one dimensional results from [6]. To allow for different assumptions on the elastic response, several variations of the model are considered. A statistical significance test is employed to determine if the more complex models are significant improvements. After calibrating the model with a comparison to previous findings, more complicated geometries are considered. Simulations involving a heterogeneous geometry with a uniform ring running through the original medium, a θ-dependent model which considers a rigid partial occlusion formed along the inner radius of the geometry, and a model which combines the ring and occlusion are presented.

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The ability to reliably detect coronary artery disease based on the acoustic noises produced by a stenosis can provide a simple, non-invasive technique for diagnosis. Current research exploits the shear wave fields in body tissue to detect and analyze coronary stenoses. The methods and ideas outlined in earlier efforts [6] including a mathematical model utilizing an internal strain variable approximation to the quasi-linear viscoelastic constitutive equation proposed by Fung in [19] is extended here. As an initial investigation, a homogeneous two-dimensional viscoelastic geometry is considered. Being uniform in θ, this geometry behaves as a one dimensional model, and the results generated from it are compared to the one dimensional results from [6]. To allow for different assumptions on the elastic response, several variations of the model are considered. A statistical significance test is employed to determine if the more complex models are significant improvements. After calibrating the model with a comparison to previous findings, more complicated geometries are considered. Simulations involving a heterogeneous geometry with a uniform ring running through the original medium, a θ-dependent model which considers a rigid partial occlusion formed along the inner radius of the geometry, and a model which combines the ring and occlusion are presented.

H. T. Banks and Nicholas S. Luke. (2008). Modelling of Propagating Shear Waves in Biotissue Employing an Internal Variable Approach to Dissipation. Communications in Computational Physics. 3 (3). 603-640. doi:
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