Abstract：
:Strategies for improvement of blood flow by promoting new vessel growth in ischemic tissue are being developed. Recently, contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEU) imaging has been used to assess tissue perfusion in models of ischemia-related angiogenesis, growth-factor mediated angiogenesis, and tumor angiogenesis. In these studies, microvascular flow is measured in order to assess the total impact of adaptations at different vascular levels. High-resolution methods for imaging larger vessels have been developed in order to derive "angiograms" of arteries, veins, and medium to large microvessels. We describe a novel method of vascular bed (microvessel and arterial) characterization of vessel anatomy and flow simultaneously, using serial measurement of the fractal dimension (FD) of a temporal sequence of CEU images. This method is proposed as an experimental methodology to distinguish ischemic from nonischemic tissue. Moreover, an improved approach for extracting the FD unique to this application is introduced.
journal_name
IEEE Trans Med Imagingjournal_title
IEEE transactions on medical imagingauthors
Charalampidis D,Pascotto M,Kerut EK,Lindner JRdoi
10.1109/tmi.2006.877442subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-08-01 00:00:00pages
1079-86issue
8eissn
0278-0062issn
1558-254Xjournal_volume
25pub_type
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