EP1324701A1 - Tomodensitometre - Google Patents

Tomodensitometre

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EP1324701A1
EP1324701A1 EP01986583A EP01986583A EP1324701A1 EP 1324701 A1 EP1324701 A1 EP 1324701A1 EP 01986583 A EP01986583 A EP 01986583A EP 01986583 A EP01986583 A EP 01986583A EP 1324701 A1 EP1324701 A1 EP 1324701A1
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ultrasound
container
working memory
transducers
resolution
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Rainer Stotzka
Werner Alois Kaiser
Hartmut Gemmeke
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Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B8/00—Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves
    • A61B8/08—Detecting organic movements or changes, e.g. tumours, cysts, swellings
    • A61B8/0825—Detecting organic movements or changes, e.g. tumours, cysts, swellings for diagnosis of the breast, e.g. mammography
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B8/00—Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves
    • A61B8/13—Tomography
    • A61B8/14—Echo-tomography
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B8/00—Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves
    • A61B8/40—Positioning of patients, e.g. means for holding or immobilising parts of the patient's body
    • A61B8/406—Positioning of patients, e.g. means for holding or immobilising parts of the patient's body using means for diagnosing suspended breasts

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  • the invention relates to an ultrasound tomograph according to the transmission, scattering and impulse-echo method working for tissue examinations of extremities, in particular the female breast and the male reproductive organ.
  • Ultrasound examination is becoming increasingly important in medical technology.
  • ultrasound in contrast to X-ray fluoroscopy, does not damage the tissue to be examined.
  • tissue types can be differentiated, the other imaging methods, e.g. B. in X-ray, leave only a very low contrast.
  • a medical ultrasound device essentially consists of a transducer with a number of ultrasound transducers and a control and evaluation unit, which transmits the control pulses for the ultrasound transducers and receives the measurement signals received as electrical signals, amplifies them and, during the measurement, real-time images on one Reconstructed screen.
  • the complexity of such a reconstruction in real time not only limits the number of individual ultrasound transducers in medical ultrasound devices, but also to a large extent correction options during the reconstruction.
  • the transducers are usually not stationary, but are guided manually.
  • US Pat. No. 4,478,083 describes a system for ultrasound mammography with the aid of the pulse-echo method, in which the female breast is inserted and positioned in a cylindrical container from above in a suitable manner.
  • the female breast is inserted and positioned in a cylindrical container from above in a suitable manner.
  • the main emission direction of each ultrasound transducer is oriented perpendicularly from the container wall into the interior of the container (see column 5, last paragraph).
  • an evaluation unit is described, which is connected in such a way that the areas of the breast to be examined are defined and scanned one after the other, with only one transducer or one transducer group of ultrasonic transducers for each pulse-echo process the transmission of the ultrasound pulse and the reception of the return echo is selected via an electronic switch and the return echo is filtered out by setting time windows.
  • DE 28 27 423 A1 describes a device for determining the internal structure of a body with the aid of sound beams, in which the body is introduced into a container filled with a coupling medium and is sonicated in it using the ultrasound transmission method.
  • one or more ultrasound transmitters send a sound beam through the body to at least one ultrasound transducer as a receiver, the reception signals are electronically processed in an evaluation unit, stored, and the distribution of the sound refractive index and the absorption coefficient are then determined.
  • a model of the body is built up in the evaluation unit using a grid of points, which is compared with the empirical measurement values, can be optimized by iterative repetition of the sound measurement and can thus be further processed into individual cross-sectional images.
  • the sound transducers in the container are arranged in a cylindrical shape in a matrix.
  • a limited number of transducers, both as a transmitter and as a receiver must be activated by an electronic switch, with a subsequent amplifier for each active receiver, possibly with additional electronic stages (see page 24, paragraph 2) , With this arrangement in addition to transmission, scatter and echo components
  • Ultrasonic pulses can be received, but are not used for the evaluation.
  • a body is introduced into a container with ultrasound transducers fixedly arranged on the entire wall and sonicated with at least one of these ultrasound transducers with an ultrasound frequency between 1 and 5 MHz. All other transducers can be used as receivers that can be switched one after the other via an electronic switch, the signals of which are successively amplified and recorded for further processing. The runtime, phase and amplitude of the received ultrasound pulses are used for further processing.
  • a three-dimensional image of the body is generated from the reflection properties and sound velocities determined from this.
  • the object of the invention is to further develop a high-resolution ultrasound tomograph in accordance with the last-mentioned prior art in such a way that a considerable improvement in the temporal resolution in the reconstruction of the three-dimensional image is made possible even in real time without compromising on image accuracy.
  • the object is achieved by a high-resolution ultrasound tomograph according to claim 1.
  • Preferred embodiments of the ultrasound tomograph are the subject of the dependent claims.
  • the pulses generated by one or a group of ultrasonic transducers are used by everyone, including those as Transmitter-switched ultrasonic transducers, recorded simultaneously and separately as measurement signals for each ultrasonic transducer
  • Transmitter for the impulse d. H. from a changed perspective, generate further data records in the shortest possible time intervals, which can also be correlated with one another due to the short repetition sequence with tolerance of small time errors.
  • dynamic contrast agent examinations with high temporal and local resolution can be reconstructed and evaluated using a three-dimensional representation of the female breast.
  • FIG. 3 shows an overview of the individual processing steps which are necessary for the reconstruction of a three-dimensional image.
  • FIG. 1 shows an exemplary embodiment of the overall structure of the high-resolution ultrasound tomograph for performing a mammography. It consists of a cylindrical, open-topped container 1, on the entire cylindrical surface of which ultra- sound converter 2 are attached.
  • the open side of the container is inserted flush into an opening in a patient couch 3, with a breast 4 of the patient 5 lying face down on the patient couch 3 hanging into the container 1 during mammography.
  • a coupling medium 6 in the container 1 preferably a gel or a liquid, which wets the breast 4 to be examined and the ultrasound transducers 2.
  • Each of the existing ultrasonic transducers 2 is self-sufficient, for example individually connected via a suitable coaxial line 7 to a computer-aided control and evaluation unit 8 with a working memory.
  • the control and evaluation unit 8 is equipped with an output unit 9, preferably a monitor, for the imaging output of a reconstruction of the breast 4.
  • the ultrasonic transducer is connected to the coaxial line 7 at an electronic switch 11, with which the ultrasonic transducer 2 is activated and switchable either as a receiving transducer or as a transmitting transducer is.
  • Switch 11 receives the corresponding switching signal directly from computer 10 via a control line 12.
  • the ultrasound transducer 2 If the ultrasound transducer 2 is activated as a transmitter transducer, it receives an electrical pulse from a pulse generator 13, which is triggered by a timer 14 in the computer, which is irradiated by the latter as a shock wave in the natural frequency of the ultrasound transducer into the coupling medium.
  • the received signal is transferred from the switch 11 to an amplifier 15, in which the signal is amplified, filtered and digitized and is forwarded as digital data to the working memory 16 of the computer. All simultaneous data from the ultrasound transducers activated as reception transducers is then stored in the working memory 16 as a data record.
  • the filtering of the signals in the amplifier is preferably used to filter out background noise or interference signals by means of frequency filters and to select the signals, for. B. by setting a time window, the filter properties are transmitted as commands from the computer 10 via a control line 17 to the amplifier 15.
  • an ultrasound pulse emitted by the switched-through transmitter transducers is thus received by all active receiver transducers and stored in the form of digital data in a data record in the working memory.
  • the three-dimensional representation of the examined breast is reconstructed on the computer from the individual data of the data sets.
  • a three-dimensional snapshot is generated from a data set.
  • Local resolution can be optimized by reducing the temporal resolution. If, for example, a snapshot with increased local resolution is required for a diagnosis, different data records from several ultrasound measurements, but which are immediately adjacent to one another in the shortest possible time, can also be used for the reconstruction, using different ultrasound transducers connected through as transmitter transducers, i.e. from a different perspective . However, very rapid phenomena in the breast to be examined can lead to temporal errors in a reconstruction and must be eliminated or corrected if necessary. Large, time-related error effects are not to be expected at realistic repetition frequencies of the ultrasound measurements. For example, given an assumed speed of sound in the coupling medium and in the breast of approx. 1500 m / s and a maximum run length of an ultrasound pulse in the container of 0.50 m, a maximum response is frequency of 2000 ultrasound measurements per second.
  • Another possibility for a higher local resolution is to separate a certain area in the breast to be examined, in which only the signal curve is evaluated in a reduced time window, i. H. can be recorded as a data record with a correspondingly higher resolution.
  • the coordinates 10 of the region of interest are converted into corresponding control signals to the amplifier 15 in the computer 10.
  • ultrasound measurements are to be repeated at pre-selectable intervals, whereby each data record represents the basis of its own snapshot. Similar to a film projection, the chronological sequence can be visualized by displaying a sequence of reconstructed snapshots.
  • a three-dimensional image of the examined breast or another part of the body is reconstructed using the following scheme.
  • a sound pulse is radiated into the breast as a partial spherical wave, this is scattered in the breast at various points, for example by refraction, deflection or reflection, and is measured at different receiver positions.
  • the speed of sound is then determined assuming constant speed of sound in the measuring room and taking into account first-order reflections only. All possible positions of the scattering points lie on an ellipse around the transmitter and the receiver, the dimensions of which are determined by the measured sound propagation time from the transmitter via any point on the ellipse to the receiver.
  • the ellipses from different measurements are stacked with different receivers. The intersection points of the ellipses represent the scattering points and are assigned to a pixel with a gray or color level for the reconstruction.
  • a plurality of ultrasound pulses are also received by a reception transducer, which in turn each generate an ellipse. Otherwise, the ellipses from the largest possible number of simultaneous measurements are also used for the three-dimensional reconstruction of the examined breast and the scatter points determined are assigned to a pixel with a gray or color level.
  • a phase observation of the received ultrasound pulses is suitable for eliminating noise or other disturbances. If the signals are not summed as absolute values, but rather as vectors, noise is averaged out of the result, for example.
  • a further possibility in the case of a reconstruction is the transformation of a received signal in amplitude and phase with the aid of a Hibert transformation into a real and an imaginary signal component, the gray levels being able to be determined by means of coherent addition of the individual signals.
  • the pixels are then put together for each possible point in the container with the determined gray or color levels to form a reconstructed, three-dimensional image.
  • the precision of the reconstruction is favored by the following influences:
  • Both the amplifier and the coupling medium 6 and the breast to be examined can be described as linear systems.
  • the position of the breast 4 in the vessel 1 is determined with a few measurements, using the reflectivity of the skin in the coupling medium.
  • the temperature-dependent sound velocity in the coupling medium is then determined via a transit time measurement with a known travel path from the transmitter transducer to the receiving transducer, and in a second sub-step the sound velocity in the breast.
  • the measurement process is carried out several times with a preselected repetition frequency.
  • the ultrasound transducers 2 installed in the vessel 1 are partly switched through either as a transmitter transducer, but completely as a reception transducer, the aim being to penetrate the ultrasound pulse into the vessel as a partial spherical wave, if possible, by means of a transmitter transducer or a correspondingly controllable transducer group.
  • the measured signals are amplified analog logarithmically to compensate for the difference in amplitude of the received ultrasound pulses due to path-dependent damping.
  • the analog logarithmic amplification makes it possible to limit the resolution during digitization (in the example an 8 bit A / D converter) and thus the memory capacity to be made available for the measurement.
  • the filter 10 activates corresponding filter functions in the amplifier 15. In particular, this step also includes the definition of the resolution of the three-dimensional reconstruction by selecting the pixel grid and the determination of a sound velocity table linked to this grid for the time correction during the reconstruction.
  • this step contains a determination of the required sampling frequency, which, as described above, can also be increased by reducing the resolution required for the reconstruction if a simultaneous data record is sufficient for the reconstruction of a snapshot.
  • This step serves to correct runtime and phase errors in the coupling medium due to temperature changes. This is done by stretching or compressing the measured signals.
  • Stacking is the elimination of duplicate, identical individual data.
  • the measured transit time of an ultrasound pulse is independent of the direction of propagation, ie the transfer function between two transducers is independent of which of the two transducers is used as a reception transducer and which is used as a transmission transducer.
  • a finer tuning is carried out with regard to the influence of errors, preferably based on the radiation behavior of the active ultrasound transducers.
  • the three-dimensional image is then reconstructed using the before algorithm described by forming an ellipse pro
  • This step reduces the resolution of the reconstructed image to a required level.
  • the color values can be changed for better display.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un tomodensitomètre à ultrasons à haute résolution, fonctionnant selon le principe de transmission, diffusion et écho d'impulsion, et constitué d'un contenant ouvert vers le haut, dont toute la surface des parois est couverte de transducteurs d'ultrasons disposés de manière fixe, d'un moyen de couplage situé dans le contenant, et d'une unité d'évaluation et de commande assistée par ordinateur avec mémoire de travail. L'invention vise à perfectionner ce tomodensitomètre à ultrasons à haute résolution de manière à améliorer sensiblement la résolution temporelle lors de la reconstitution de l'image tridimensionnelle, également en temps réel, sans diminuer la précision de l'image. A cet effet, l'unité d'évaluation et de commande est connectée aux transducteurs d'ultrasons de telle sorte que les signaux ultrasonores émis par au moins un transducteur constituent une impulsion ultrasonore, qui est reçue en parallèle par tous les autres transducteurs d'ultrasons et, en tant que signal électrique, est amplifiée, filtrée et numérisée, avant d'être mémorisée sous forme d'enregistrement dans la mémoire de travail.
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