Kucewicz JC, Dunmire B, Giardino ND, Leotta DF, Paun M, Dager SR, Beach KW. Tissue pulsatility imaging of cerebral vasoreactivity during hyperventilation.
ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY 2008;
34:1200-1208. [PMID:
18336991 PMCID:
PMC2582389 DOI:
10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.01.001]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2007] [Revised: 11/02/2007] [Accepted: 01/02/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
Abstract
Tissue pulsatility imaging (TPI) is an ultrasonic technique that is being developed at the University of Washington to measure tissue displacement or strain as a result of blood flow over the cardiac and respiratory cycles. This technique is based in principle on plethysmography, an older nonultrasound technology for measuring expansion of a whole limb or body part due to perfusion. TPI adapts tissue Doppler signal processing methods to measure the "plethysmographic" signal from hundreds or thousands of sample volumes in an ultrasound image plane. This paper presents a feasibility study to determine if TPI can be used to assess cerebral vasoreactivity. Ultrasound data were collected transcranially through the temporal acoustic window from four subjects before, during and after voluntary hyperventilation. In each subject, decreases in tissue pulsatility during hyperventilation were observed that were statistically correlated with the subject's end-tidal CO2 measurements. (
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