Abstract
This paper proposes a muscular thickness measurement method using acoustic velocity dependency according to temperature. It is known that the acoustic velocity for temperature change depends on the materials is slower than warm ones. From this principal, we measured the muscular thickness. We employ a 1.0 MHz ultrasonic probe, and acquire two kind ultrasonic echoes from same position of body with temperature variation. From these echoes, we extract boundary surface echoes. From echoes, regions of muscular and fat are extracted by difference between the acoustic velocity-temperature characteristics of muscular and fat. In our experiment, we employ a piece of pork as an experimental phantom, and we acquire ultrasonic echoes reflected from the phantom. Our proposed method successfully measured the thicknesses in muscular and fat region.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Annual changes in population dynamics overview (2010), http://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/hw/jinkou/kakutei10/dl/04_h2-1.pdf
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, System in accordance with the need of nursing care (2010), http://www.mhlw.go.jp/topics/kaigo/nintei/gaiyo1.html
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Trends in the number of Qualified Person of the level of care required (2010), http://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/hw/jinkou/kakutei10/dl/04_h2-1.pdf
Research of JARD (2001), http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~rokky/siki/JARD2001_04.pdf
Kai, Y., Fujino, H., Murata, S., Takei, K., Murata, J., Tateda, I.: Relationships among Body Composition, Upper and Lower Limb Muscle Strength and Circumferences of the Extremities. Physical Therapy Science 23(2), 241–244 (2008) (in Japanese)
Shiina, T., Yamakawa, M., Nitta, N., Ueno, E., Matsumura, T., Tamano, S., Mitake, T.: Clinical Assessment of Real-time, Freehand Elasticity Imaging System Based on The Combined Autocorrelation Method. In: IEEE Ultrasonic Symposium (2003)
Horinaka, H., Sakurai, D., Sano, H., Ohara, Y., Maeda, Y., Wada, K., Matsunaka, T.: Optically assisted ultrasonic velocity change images of visceral fat in a living animal. In: Proc.of IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2010, pp. 1416–1419 (2010)
Lamberti, N., Ardia, L., Albanese, D., Di Matteo, M.: An ultrasound technique for monitoring the alcoholic wine fermentation. Ultrasonics 49, 94–97 (2009)
Nakamura, Y., Fujihata, K., Yanagisawa, T., Hu, A., Nakamura, Y., Matsuzaki, Y.: Measurement of transmission characteristics of ultrasound on the distal radius. Technical Report of IEICE (in Japanese)
Ikezoe, T., Asakawa, Y., Shima, H., Ichihashi, N.: Age-related Changes on Muscle Architectural Characteristics and Strength in the Human Quadriceps. Physical Therapy Science 34(5), 232–238 (2007) (in Japanese)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Hata, H., Imawaki, S., Kuramoto, K., Kobashi, S., Hata, Y. (2014). Ultrasonic Muscular Thickness Measurement in Temperature Variation. In: Kim, Y., Ryoo, Y., Jang, Ms., Bae, YC. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05500-8_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05500-8_7
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-05499-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-05500-8
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)