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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

B-Lines Lung Ultrasonography Simulation Using Finite Element Method.

Fellipe Allevato Martins da Silva, Eduardo Moreno, Wagner Coelho de Albuquerque Pereira

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Lung Ultrasound: A Leading Diagnostic Tool.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Fellipe Allevato Martins da SilvaEngineering Program-COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-901, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-0246-7969
Eduardo MorenoDepartamento Física Aplicada, Instituto de Cibernetica Matematica y Fisica-ICIMAF, Habana 10400, Cuba.ORCID 0000-0003-3689-6163
Wagner Coelho de Albuquerque PereiraEngineering Program-COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-901, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-5880-3242

Funding

Brazilian agencies CNPq, CAPES and FAPERJ and also to the CYTED agency NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionLung Ultrasonography (LUS) is a fast technique for the diagnosis of patients with respiratory syndromes. B-lines are seen in response to signal reverberations and amplifications into sites with peripheral lung fluid concentration or septal thickening. Mathematical models are commonly applied in biomedicine to predict biological responses to specific signal parameters.

objectiveThis study proposes a Finite-Element numerical model to simulate radio frequency ultrasonic lines propagated from normal and infiltrated lung structures. For tissue medium, a randomized inhomogeneous data method was used. The simulation implemented in COMSOL

resultsThe RF signals, processed in MATLAB DISCUSSION: The use of inhomogeneous materials in the model was good enough to simulate the scattering response, similar to others in the literature. The model is useful to study the impact of the lung infiltration characteristics on the appearance of LUS images.

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B-linesCOMSOLfinite element methodlung ultrasonographysimulation

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PMID36359594
PMCPMC9689043

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