Ultrasound Laboratory Trento (ULTRa), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, 38123, Trento, Italy.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2020 Oct;148(4):2146. doi: 10.1121/10.0002183.
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a rapidly evolving field of application for ultrasound technologies. Especially during the current pandemic, many clinicians around the world have employed LUS to assess the condition of the lung for patients suspected and/or affected by COVID-19. However, LUS is currently performed with standard ultrasound imaging, which is not designed to cope with the high air content present in lung tissues. Nowadays LUS lacks standardization and suffers from the absence of quantitative approaches. To elevate LUS to the level of other ultrasound imaging applications, several aspects deserve attention from the technical and clinical world. This overview piece tries to provide the reader with a forward-looking view on the future for LUS.
肺部超声（LUS）是超声技术的一个快速发展的应用领域。特别是在当前的大流行期间，世界各地的许多临床医生都使用 LUS 来评估疑似和/或受 COVID-19 影响的患者的肺部状况。然而，目前 LUS 是使用标准的超声成像来进行的，而这种成像设计并不能应对肺部组织中存在的高空气含量。目前，LUS 缺乏标准化，并且缺乏定量方法。为了将 LUS 提升到其他超声成像应用的水平，技术和临床领域有几个方面值得关注。这篇综述试图为读者提供对 LUS 未来的前瞻性观点。
