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Development of Ultrasound Diagnostic System for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders using Finite Difference Method  

Park, Won-Pil (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부, 의료공학연구원)
Woo, Dae-Gon (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부, 의료공학연구원)
Ko, Chang-Yong (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부, 의료공학연구원)
Lee, Qyoun-Jung (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부, 의료공학연구원)
Lee, Yong-Heum (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부, 의료공학연구원)
Choi, Seo-Hyoung (하나한방병원, 하나의원)
Shin, Tae-Min (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부, 의료공학연구원)
Kim, Han-Sung (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부, 의료공학연구원)
Lim, Do-Hyung (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부, 의료공학연구원)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering / v.24, no.9, 2007 , pp. 130-139 More about this Journal
Abstract
The disaster from functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) has detrimental impact on the quality of life of the affected population. There are, however, rare diagnostic methods for FGID. Our research group identified recently that the gastrointestinal tract well of the patients with FGID became more rigid than that of healthy people when palpating the abdominal regions overlaying the gastrointestinal tract. The objective of the current study is, therefore, to identify feasibility of a diagnostic system for FGID based on ultrasound technique, which can quantify the characteristics above. Two-dimensional finite difference (FD) models (one normal and two rigid models) were developed to analyze the reflective characteristic (displacement) on each soft-tissue layer responded after application of ultrasound signals. Based on the results from FD analysis, the ultrasound system for diagnosis of the FGID was developed and clinically tested via application of it to 40 human subjects with/without FGID who were assigned to Normal and Patient Groups. The results from FD analysis showed that the maximum displacement amplitude in the rigid models (0.12 and 0.16) at the interface between the fat and muscle layers was explicitly less than that in the normal model (0.29). The results from actual specimens showed that the maximum amplitude of the ultrasound reflective signal in the rigid models $(0.2{\pm}0.1Vp-p)$ at the interface between the fat and muscle layers was explicitly higher than that in the normal model $(0.1{\pm}0.0Vp-p)$. Clinical tests using our customized ultrasound system showed that the maximum amplitudes of the ultrasound reflective signals near to the gastrointestinal tract well for the patient group $(2.6{\pm}0.3Vp-p)$ were generally higher than those in normal group $(0.1{\pm}0.2Vp-p)$. These findings suggest that our customized ultrasound system using the ultrasound reflective signal may be helpful to the diagnosis of the FGID.
Keywords
Finite Difference Method; Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders; Gastrointestinal Tract; Ultrasound Responses;
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