Max J Kerensky, Abhijit Paul, Denis Routkevitch, Andrew M Hersh, Kelley M Kempski Leadingham, A Daniel Davidar, Brendan F Judy, Joshua Punnoose, Autumn Williams, Avisha Kumar, Kurt Lehner, Beth Smith, Jennifer K Son, Javad R Azadi, Himanshu Shekhar, Karla P Mercado-Shekhar, Nitish V Thakor, Nicholas Theodore, Amir Manbachi
BACKGROUND: Tension in the spinal cord is a trademark of tethered cord syndrome. Unfortunately, existing tests cannot quantify tension across the bulk of the cord, making the diagnostic evaluation of stretch ambiguous. A potential non-destructive metric for spinal cord tension is ultrasound-derived shear wave velocity (SWV). The velocity is sensitive to tissue elasticity and boundary conditions including strain. We use the term Ultrasound Tensography to describe the acoustic evaluation of tension with SWV...
January 5, 2024: Commun Med (Lond)