Quantitative ultrasound: measurement considerations for the assessment of muscular dystrophy and sarcopenia

Michael O Harris-Love, Reza Monfaredi, Catheeja Ismail, Marc R Blackman, Kevin Cleary, Michael O Harris-Love, Reza Monfaredi, Catheeja Ismail, Marc R Blackman, Kevin Cleary

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Keywords: assessment; muscular dystrophy; sarcopenia; screening; skeletal muscle; ultrasound.

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Figure 1
Changes in serial sonographic image characteristics based on examiner force and sound transducer orientation. (A–C) Depict transverse views of a muscle tissue mimetic phantom with a progressive magnitude of stress imposed on the phantom surface by the sound transducer. The material deformation (thickness, centimeter) secondary to the stress progression was as follows: (A) 3.78 cm, (B) 3.45 cm, and (C) 3.21 cm. (D–F) Depict similar sonographic views as the preceding panels. The echointensity observed in the serial images is based on a progressively increasing cranial/caudal tilt angle of the sound transducer applied to the phantom surface. The changes in echointensity (grayscale, unitless, 0–255) secondary to the angle progression were as follows: (D) 56.64, (E) 48.10, and (F) 36.90. (All images were acquired using a 6 MHz linear array sound transducer and a muscle mimetic phantom with anechoic gel via automated image capture by the Kuka LWA robot.)

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