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Recent experience with ultrasonic tissue characterization
Authors:Richard L Popp MD  
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From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

Abstract:The current effort in the research laboratory at Stanford University Medical Center attempts tissue characterization using the parameter of cyclic variation of integrated ultrasonic backscatter (CVIBS). This parameter is available using prototype equipment that concentrates on the relative change in ultrasonic backscatter rather than the absolute level of backscatter measured. The interobserver reproducibility is quite good. The magnitude of CVIBS is greater in the posterior wall than in the septum generally. There is a weak association of aging with the magnitude of CVIBS. Measurement of CVIBS in patients with uncomplicated pressure overload hypertrophy and those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy shows values in the posterior wall to be similar for all groups; however, the values for the septum were significantly smaller in patients in both hypertrophy groups compared with normal subjects. Studies in human cardiac allografts for the recognition of acute rejection have been carried out using CVIBS. A decrease in the magnitude of this parameter during rejection, compared to the baseline level, was characteristically seen. Return to prerejection levels was not invariably seen. Among the different systems for ultrasonic tissue characterization, the current system using CVIBS has been successful in specific studies.
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