ArticleUltrasound in medicine & biology2015
Beyond Cervical Length: A Pilot Study of Ultrasonic Attenuation for Early Detection of Preterm Birth Risk.
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- Characterization of Cervical Remodeling During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: A Case Series Analysis.The American journal of case reports · 2026Article
- Trajectory of Postpartum Cervical Remodeling in Women Delivering Full-Term and Spontaneous Preterm: Sensitivity to Quantitative Ultrasound Biomarkers.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2024Article
- Automated Field of Interest Determination for Quantitative Ultrasound Analyses of Cervical Tissues: Toward Real-time Clinical Translation in Spontaneous Preterm Birth Risk Assessment.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2024Article
- Enhanced identification of women at risk for preterm birth via quantitative ultrasound: a prospective cohort study.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2024Article
- Quantification of Thyroid Viscosity in Healthy Subjects Using Ultrasound Shear Wave Dispersion (Viscosity PLUS).Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Cervical Assessment for Predicting Preterm Birth-Cervical Length and Beyond.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- An optomechanogram for assessment of the structural and mechanical properties of tissues.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Why Are Viscosity and Nonlinearity Bound to Make an Impact in Clinical Elastographic Diagnosis?Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Gap-filling method for suppressing grating lobes in ultrasound imaging: Experimental study with deep-learning approach.IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions · 2020Article
- A Phantom-Based Assessment of Repeatability and Reproducibility of Transvaginal Quantitative Ultrasound.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2019Article
- Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters Based on the Backscattered Echo Power Signal as Biomarkers of Cervical Remodeling: A Longitudinal Study in the Pregnant Rhesus Macaque.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2019Article
- Non-invasive Small Vessel Imaging of Human Thyroid Using Motion-Corrected Spatiotemporal Clutter Filtering.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2019Article
- Low fat but not soy protein isolate was an effective intervention to reduce nonalcoholic fatty liver disease progression in C57BL/6J mice: monitored by a novel quantitative ultrasound (QUS) method.Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Quantitative Ultrasound Biomarkers Based on Backscattered Acoustic Power: Potential for Quantifying Remodeling of the Human Cervix during Pregnancy.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2019Article
- Inter-sonographer reproducibility of quantitative ultrasound outcomes and shear wave speed measured in the right lobe of the liver in adults with known or suspected non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.European radiology · 2018Article
- Repeatability and Reproducibility of the Ultrasonic Attenuation Coefficient and Backscatter Coefficient Measured in the Right Lobe of the Liver in Adults With Known or Suspected Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2018Article
- A Method for Stereological Determination of the Structure Function From Histological Sections of Isotropic Scattering Media.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2018Article
- New techniques in evaluation of the cervix.Seminars in perinatology · 2017Review
- Decreased Nutrient Intake Is Associated With Premature Cervical Remodeling.Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNNArticle
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether cervical ultrasonic attenuation could identify women at risk of spontaneous preterm birth. During pregnancy, women (n = 67) underwent from one to five transvaginal ultrasonic examinations to estimate cervical ultrasonic attenuation and cervical length. Ultrasonic data were obtained with a Zonare ultrasound system with a 5- to 9-MHz endovaginal transducer and processed offline. Cervical ultrasonic attenuation was lower at 17-21 wk of gestation in the SPTB group (1.02 dB/cm-MHz) than in the full-term birth groups (1.34 dB/cm-MHz) (p = 0.04). Cervical length was shorter (3.16 cm) at 22-26 wk in the SPTB group than in the women delivering full term (3.68 cm) (p = 0.004); cervical attenuation was not significantly different at this time point. These findings suggest that low attenuation may be an additional early cervical marker to identify women at risk for SPTB.
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