Summary of the invention
The technical problem that the present invention solves is: build a kind of liver fat measuring system, overcome prior art and lack compared with the technical problem of effective method in calculating ultrasonic attenuation coefficient and Fat quantification testing process.
Technical scheme of the present invention is: build a kind of liver fat quantitative system based on ultrasonic, comprise supersonic generator, ultrasonic receiver, ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module, ultrasonic attenuation coefficient acquisition module, obtain Liver and kidney echo intensity than the strength ratio acquisition module of H, the quantitative module of liver fat, described supersonic generator is to liver position emission pulse ultrasonic, described ultrasonic receiver receives hyperacoustic echo signal, described ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module obtains the luminance level value of this liver far-field region and the luminance level value of near-field region, described ultrasonic attenuation coefficient acquisition module obtains liver echo attenuation coefficient, described ultrasonic attenuation coefficient acquisition module obtains ultrasonic attenuation coefficient a according to following formula:
Wherein: a represents liver echo attenuation coefficient, A
nand A
fbe respectively liver near field area-of-interest luminance level value and liver far field area-of-interest luminance level value, Δ d represents the distance between liver far-field region and near-field region, and f represents ultrasound echo signal frequency; The quantitative module of described liver fat obtains hepatic fat content according to following formula: S=63H+168a-28, and wherein S represents hepatic fat content, a represents liver echo attenuation coefficient.
Further technical scheme of the present invention is: also comprise ultrasound echo signal noise signal removal module, described ultrasound echo signal noise signal is removed module the ultrasonic signal receiving is removed to noise signal.
Further technical scheme of the present invention is: described ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module also comprises ultrasonic signal is carried out to envelope curve matching, chooses the far-field region of described liver and the near-field region of described liver according to the curve of matching.
Technique effect of the present invention is: build a kind of liver fat quantitative system based on ultrasonic, comprise supersonic generator, ultrasonic receiver, ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module, ultrasonic attenuation coefficient acquisition module, obtain Liver and kidney echo intensity than the strength ratio acquisition module of H, the quantitative module of liver fat, described supersonic generator is to liver position emission pulse ultrasonic, described ultrasonic receiver receives hyperacoustic echo signal, described ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module obtains the luminance level value of this liver far-field region and the luminance level value of near-field region, described ultrasonic attenuation coefficient acquisition module obtains liver echo attenuation coefficient, by Liver and kidney echo intensity than H and liver echo attenuation coefficient to liver fat detection by quantitative.The brightness of image level value that the art of this patent scheme obtains by the ultrasound echo signal of liver, calculates liver echo attenuation coefficient more accurately, then by Liver and kidney echo intensity to when liver echo attenuation coefficient to liver fat detection by quantitative.Facilitate simple and practical, accurately and reliably.
The specific embodiment
Below in conjunction with specific embodiment, technical solution of the present invention is further illustrated.
As shown in Figure 1, the specific embodiment of the present invention is: build a kind of liver fat quantitative system based on ultrasonic, comprise supersonic generator 1,
ultrasonic receiver 2, ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module 3, ultrasonic attenuation
coefficient acquisition module 4, obtain Liver and kidney echo intensity than the strength
ratio acquisition module 5 of H, the
quantitative module 6 of liver fat, described supersonic generator 1 is to liver position emission pulse ultrasonic, described
ultrasonic receiver 2 receives hyperacoustic echo signal, described ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module 3 obtains the luminance level value of this liver far-field region and the luminance level value of near-field region, described ultrasonic attenuation
coefficient acquisition module 4 obtains liver echo attenuation coefficient, described ultrasonic attenuation
coefficient acquisition module 4 obtains ultrasonic attenuation coefficient a according to following formula:
Wherein: a represents liver echo attenuation coefficient, A
nfor liver near field area-of-interest luminance level value, A
ffor liver far field area-of-interest luminance level value, Δ d represents the distance between liver far-field region and near-field region, and f represents ultrasound echo signal frequency; The quantitative module 6 of described liver fat obtains hepatic fat content according to following formula: S=63H+168a-28, and wherein S represents hepatic fat content, a represents liver echo attenuation coefficient.
As shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, specific embodiment of the invention process is: described supersonic generator 1 is to liver position emission pulse ultrasonic, and described ultrasonic receiver 2 receives hyperacoustic echo signal, from the ultrasonic echo signal receiving.In the time that the sound wave of transmitting is pulse ultrasonic wave, by receiving liver ultrasound echo signal, in the image of its formation, form luminance level value according to ultrasonic echo intensity, and ultrasonic echo intensity is exponential damping in certain medium,, ultrasonic luminance level value is exponential damping in certain medium, that is:
A
n=A
0×e
a×f×d, (1)
Wherein, A
n, A
0the luminance level value that is respectively two certain depth ultrasound echo signals formation images, a represents ultrasonic echo attenuation quotient, and f is that hyperacoustic frequency occurs supersonic generator 1, and d is that sound source is to the distance of surveying thing certain depth.
When described supersonic generator 1 is to liver position emission pulse ultrasonic, described ultrasonic receiver 2 receives hyperacoustic echo signal, as shown in Figure 2, and A
nfor liver near field area-of-interest luminance level value, A
ffor liver far field area-of-interest luminance level value, that is, and A
nfor the integral area of liver near field area-of-interest, A
ffor the integral area of liver far field area-of-interest.Thus, the ratio that can derive liver near field area-of-interest luminance level value and liver far field area-of-interest luminance level value is:
A
n/A
f=e
a×f×△d
Wherein: A
nfor liver near field area-of-interest luminance level value, A
ffor liver far field area-of-interest luminance level value, a represents ultrasonic echo attenuation quotient, and f is that hyperacoustic frequency occurs supersonic generator 1, △ d be liver far field area-of-interest and liver near field area-of-interest along sound field the distance difference apart from sound source.
By mathematic(al) manipulation, obtain:
So far, obtain ultrasonic echo attenuation quotient.
Adopt [
1h] in the experiment of hepatic fat content measured of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectrum, ultrasonic Liver and kidney echo ratio is the strongest to the predictive ability of hepatic fat content.By [
1h] experiment of hepatic fat content measured of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectrum, known ultrasonic Liver and kidney echo ratio and ultrasonic liver echo attenuation coefficient and hepatic fat content are linear, by introducing 3D simulation human abdomen model, ultrasonic Liver and kidney echo ratio and liver echo attenuation coefficient are carried out to standardization, by adopting multiple linear regression analysis screening from the using ultrasonic quantitative index of each body measurement parameter and markization to can be used for estimating the main quantitative parameter of liver fat.Concrete acquisition methods is: first set up the linear equation about ultrasonic Liver and kidney echo ratio and ultrasonic liver echo attenuation coefficient and hepatic fat content, that is: and C=xH+ya+z, wherein, x, y, z is linear equation coefficient.Simulate human abdomen's models for several times by 3D and measure hepatic fat content, ultrasonic Liver and kidney echo ratio and ultrasonic liver echo attenuation coefficient, get its meansigma methods, can obtain linear equation coefficient x, y, z, wherein, linear equation coefficient x, y, z is also quantitative parameter, forms hepatic fat content computing formula by these quantitative parameters and liver echo attenuation coefficient:
S=63H+168a-28, wherein S represents hepatic fat content, a represents liver echo attenuation coefficient.
Strength ratio acquisition module 5 obtains respectively the echo intensity of liver and the echo intensity of kidney, then obtains its ratio H.Thus: obtain hepatic fat content by ultrasonic Liver and kidney echo ratio and liver echo attenuation coefficient.
As shown in Figure 1, the preferred embodiment of the present invention is: also comprise ultrasound echo signal noise signal removal module, described ultrasound echo signal noise signal is removed module the ultrasonic signal receiving is removed to noise signal, and the image border that the ultrasound echo signal receiving is formed is more level and smooth.
As shown in Figure 1, the preferred embodiment of the present invention is: described ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module 3 also comprises ultrasonic signal is carried out to envelope curve matching, chooses the far-field region of described liver and the near-field region of described liver according to the curve of matching.
Technique effect of the present invention is: build a kind of liver fat quantitative system based on ultrasonic, comprise supersonic generator 1, ultrasonic receiver 2, ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module 3, ultrasonic attenuation coefficient acquisition module 4, obtain Liver and kidney echo intensity than the strength ratio acquisition module 5 of H, the quantitative module 6 of liver fat, described supersonic generator 1 is to liver position emission pulse ultrasonic, described ultrasonic receiver 2 receives hyperacoustic echo signal, described ultrasonic echo luminance level value acquisition module 3 obtains the luminance level value of this liver far-field region and the luminance level value of near-field region, described ultrasonic attenuation coefficient acquisition module 4 obtains liver echo attenuation coefficient, described ultrasonic attenuation coefficient acquisition module 4 obtains ultrasonic attenuation coefficient a according to following formula:
Wherein: a represents liver echo attenuation coefficient, A
nfor liver near field area-of-interest luminance level value, A
ffor liver far field area-of-interest luminance level value, Δ d represents the distance between liver far-field region and near-field region, and f represents ultrasound echo signal frequency; The quantitative module 6 of described liver fat obtains hepatic fat content according to following formula: S=63H+168a-28, and wherein S represents hepatic fat content, a represents liver echo attenuation coefficient.The brightness of image level value that technical solution of the present invention obtains by the ultrasound echo signal of liver, calculates liver echo attenuation coefficient more accurately, then by Liver and kidney echo intensity to when liver echo attenuation coefficient to liver fat detection by quantitative.Facilitate simple and practical, accurately and reliably.
Above content is in conjunction with concrete preferred implementation further description made for the present invention, can not assert that specific embodiment of the invention is confined to these explanations.For general technical staff of the technical field of the invention, without departing from the inventive concept of the premise, can also make some simple deduction or replace, all should be considered as belonging to protection scope of the present invention.