ArticleUltrasound in medicine & biology2018
Detection of Changes in Cervical Softness Using Shear Wave Speed in Early versus Late Pregnancy: An in Vivo Cross-Sectional Study.
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- Cervical Power Doppler Angiography with Micro Vessel Blood Flow Indices in the Auxiliary Diagnosis of Acute Cervicitis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Use of shear wave elastography on the maternal cervix to recognise cervical insufficiency using a transabdominal ultrasound approach.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2021Article
- Menstrual Pain and Elasticity of Uterine Cervix.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Shear wave dispersion as a potential biomarker for cervical remodeling during pregnancy: evidence from a non-human primate model.Frontiers in physics · 2021Article
- Why Are Viscosity and Nonlinearity Bound to Make an Impact in Clinical Elastographic Diagnosis?Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Quantitative assessment of cervical softening during pregnancy with shear wave elasticity imaging: anInterface focus · 2019Article
- Labour and delivery: a clinician's perspective on a biomechanics problem.Interface focus · 2019Article
- Kelvin-Voigt Parameters Reconstruction of Cervical Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms Using Torsional Wave Elastography.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
- Quantitative Ultrasound Biomarkers Based on Backscattered Acoustic Power: Potential for Quantifying Remodeling of the Human Cervix during Pregnancy.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2019Article
- Anisotropy and Spatial Heterogeneity in Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters: Relevance to the Study of the Human Cervix.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2018Article
- Quantitative assessment of cervical softening during pregnancy in the Rhesus macaque with shear wave elasticity imaging.Physics in medicine and biology · 2018Article
- New techniques in evaluation of the cervix.Seminars in perinatology · 2017Review
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess the ability of shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) to detect changes in cervical softness between early and late pregnancy. Using a cross-sectional study design, shear wave speed (SWS) measurements were obtained from women in the first trimester (5-14 wk of gestation) and compared with estimates from a previous study of women at term (37-41 wk). Two sets of five SWS measurements were made using commercial SWEI applications on an ultrasound system equipped with a prototype catheter transducer (128 elements, 3-mm diameter, 14-mm aperture). Average SWS estimates were 4.42 ± 0.32 m/s (n = 12) for the first trimester and 2.13 ± 0.66 m/s (n = 18) for the third trimester (p <0.0001). The area under the curve was 0.95 (95% confidence interval: 0.82-0.99) with a sensitivity and specificity of 83%. SWS estimates indicated that the third-trimester cervix is significantly softer than the first-trimester cervix. SWEI methods may be promising for assessing changes in cervical softness.
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