超声新技术改善癌症、肝病和其他疾病的诊断-动脉网

New Ultrasound Technologies Improve Diagnosis for Cancer, Liver Disease and Other Pathologies

HospiMedica 等信源发布 2024-09-17 06:24

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Several diseases, including some cancers, can remain hidden or difficult to detect using traditional medical imaging. However, new technologies developed by researchers may soon enhance ultrasound's effectiveness in diagnosing conditions such as cancer, liver disease, and other pathologies.

一些疾病，包括一些癌症，可能仍然隐藏或难以使用传统医学成像检测。然而，研究人员开发的新技术可能会很快提高超声波在诊断癌症，肝病和其他疾病方面的有效性。

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has recently granted four patents for advanced diagnostic ultrasound technology created by researchers at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY, USA). Using advanced physics, mathematics, and scattering theory, the researchers have developed techniques to extract previously hidden features from ultrasound data, revealing potential issues with organs like the liver, thyroid, or breast.

美国专利和商标局最近授予了罗切斯特大学（美国纽约州罗切斯特）研究人员创造的先进诊断超声技术的四项专利。利用高等物理、数学和散射理论，研究人员开发了从超声数据中提取先前隐藏的特征的技术，揭示了肝脏、甲状腺或乳腺等器官的潜在问题。

Some of these innovations have already been licensed to startups aiming to bring these advancements into clinical settings to benefit patients..

其中一些创新已经被授权给旨在将这些进步带入临床环境以造福患者的初创公司。。

Two of the patents are associated with the H-scan technique, while the other two focus on reverberant shear wave fields. The H-scan technology enhances traditional black-and-white ultrasound images by adding color to specific features—for example, coding fat deposits in the liver as yellow or indicating cancer in the breast with red.

其中两项专利与H扫描技术有关，而另外两项专利则专注于混响剪切波场。H扫描技术通过为特定特征添加颜色来增强传统的黑白超声图像，例如，将肝脏中的脂肪沉积物编码为黄色或用红色表示乳腺癌。

The technologies related to reverberant shear wave fields improve elastography, which measures tissue stiffness. These advancements provide quicker, more cost-effective methods for delivering critical diagnostic information to doctors and radiologists. Since these technologies focus on ultrasound image processing, they can be seamlessly integrated into existing ultrasound equipment without the need for new hardware..

与混响剪切波场相关的技术改进了测量组织刚度的弹性成像。这些进步为向医生和放射科医生提供了更快，更具成本效益的方法。由于这些技术专注于超声波图像处理，因此它们可以无缝集成到现有的超声波设备中，而无需新的硬件。。

“These are inventions that you can retrofit to existing imaging systems. You can reprogram the scanners to process our way and out comes this new analysis and information,” said Kevin Parker, the William F. May Professor of Engineering at the University’s Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, who has developed the ultrasound technologies.

该大学哈吉姆工程与应用科学学院（HajimSchoolofEngineering&AppliedSciences）的威廉·梅（WilliamF.May）工程教授凯文·帕克（KevinParker）说：“这些发明可以改造现有的成像系统。你可以重新编程扫描仪来处理我们的方式，然后得出这些新的分析和信息。”。

“We don’t have to recreate a whole new generation of ultrasound scanners.”.

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