Vibroacustografia na avaliação tridimensional de artroplastia total de quadril / Vibro-acoustography in the tridimensional evaluation of total hip arthroplasty

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2011

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Vibro-acoustography (VA) is a high lateral resolution (<0.7 mm), speckle-free, non- ionizing and non-invasive image based on the nonlinear combination phenomenon of ultrasound waves (MHz) that generates a narrow focus region of low frequency (kHz). In this work, we propose a VA-based tridimensional evaluation of the exposed area of implants, after total hip arthroplasty (THA). THA is a therapeutic surgery procedure in which the hip joints are replaced by metal prostheses in patients with advanced osteoarthritis. Currently, the postoperative assessment of THA is performed by analyzing planar X-ray radiographies. However, this technique presents limitations in the implant stability evaluation such as: inaccurate evaluation of the area, since the planar radiography reduces the tridimensional problem into a two-dimensional one; problems in the visualization of some regions of the implants due to the superimposition of the regions; limitations of using ionizing radiation in the pelvis region of young patients. Due to the high attenuation of the ultrasound wave into objects of high density, the VA image can be set to mainly acquire the surface information. Topological correction based on the geometry of the implant is presented in order to accurately evaluate the surface area in tridimensional representation of the VA image. The topological correction based on B-mode slices is also presented and is useful in the evaluation of bone shape or in cases which the shape of the object is unknown. Furthermore, it is presented a numerical study of the use of reconfigurable arrays (RCA) for VA beam formation. A parametric study of the aperture selection, number of channels, number of elements, focal distance and steering parameters is presented in order to show the feasibility and evaluate the performance of VA imaging based on RCA. The point-spread function of the system is calculated based on angular spectrum methods using the Fresnel approximation for rectangular sources. Advantages of two-dimensional and RCA arrays and aspects related to clinical importance of the RCA implementation in VA such as spatial resolution, image frame-rate, and commercial machine implementation are discussed. It is concluded that: the VA image is less sensitive to the wave incident angle than B-mode; the VA image presents high-resolution and high-contrast between bone and implant, which allowed an accurate evaluation of the uncovered area; RCA transducers improve the VA acquisition by producing spatial resolution similar to confocal transducers, and due to the possibility of steering in elevation and azimuthal planes.

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artroplastia total de quadril bone implant implantes osso reconfigurable array total hip arthroplasty transdutores matriciais ultrasound ultrassom vibro-acoustography vibroacustografia

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