ULTRASONIC METHOD OF DETERMINING THICKNESS OF ADIPOSE TISSUE IN ABDOMINAL AREA Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B8/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: examination of tissues by a sensor is performed transversely to the body axis on a midline in the greyscale B-mode. Examination starts from a point, located 1.5 cm downward from the xiphoid process in the epigastric area to a point, located in the mesogastric area 1.5-2 cm below the navel. The greatest thickness of adipose tissue is identified. Boundaries of skin are specified in the mode of colour Doppler mapping, with the identification of boundary surfaces of subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue, muscles in the area of scanning, with the identification of their boundary surfaces. Vascular signals from the boundary surface of tissues are located in the mode of energy Doppler mapping by moving the sensor on the left and on the right of the abdominal midline at 1.5-2 cm distance from it. The thickness of subcutaneous adipose tissue is repeatedly determined as a distance between the posterior boundary surface of skin tissue and the anterior boundary surface of tissue of the recti. The thickness of visceral adipose tissue is repeatedly determined. On the left of the body midline the thickness of visceral adipose tissue is determined as a distance between the posterior boundary surface of the recti and the anterior surface of the wall of the abdominal part of the aorta below the place of branching of the renal arteries. On the right of the abdominal midline the thickness of visceral tissue is determined as a distance between the posterior boundary surface of tissue of the recti and the lower boundary surface of the uncinate process of the pancreas head, with further determination of mean arithmetic thickness of each of adipose tissues.

EFFECT: method increases self-descriptiveness, reliability of assessment of fat volume in the organism due to obtaining objective data about the thickness of subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue.

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