Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging

I Sack - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a versatile imaging technique for map** the
viscoelastic properties of soft biological tissues. It has been widely used to detect liver …

AI in medical imaging informatics: current challenges and future directions

AS Panayides, A Amini, ND Filipovic… - IEEE journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews state-of-the-art research solutions across the spectrum of medical
imaging informatics, discusses clinical translation, and provides future directions for …

Biophysics in tumor growth and progression: from single mechano-sensitive molecules to mechanomedicine

Y **n, K Li, M Huang, C Liang, D Siemann, L Wu, Y Tan… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Evidence from physical sciences in oncology increasingly suggests that the interplay
between the biophysical tumor microenvironment and genetic regulation has significant …

MR elastography: Principles, guidelines, and terminology

A Manduca, PV Bayly, RL Ehman… - Magnetic resonance …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a phase contrast–based MRI technique that can
measure displacement due to propagating mechanical waves, from which material …

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

EM Brunt, VWS Wong, V Nobili, CP Day… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a disorder characterized by excess accumulation
of fat in hepatocytes (nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL)); in up to 40% of individuals, there are …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic resonance imaging more accurately classifies steatosis and fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease than transient elastography

K Imajo, T Kessoku, Y Honda, W Tomeno, Y Ogawa… - Gastroenterology, 2016 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Noninvasive methods have been evaluated for the assessment of liver
fibrosis and steatosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We …

Elastography assessment of liver fibrosis: society of radiologists in ultrasound consensus conference statement

RG Barr, G Ferraioli, ML Palmeri, ZD Goodman… - Radiology, 2015 - pubs.rsna.org
The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound convened a panel of specialists from radiology,
hepatology, pathology, and basic science and physics to arrive at a consensus regarding …

Ultrafast imaging in biomedical ultrasound

M Tanter, M Fink - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although the use of ultrasonic plane-wave transmissions rather than line-per-line focused
beam transmissions has been long studied in research, clinical application of this …

Quantitative elastography methods in liver disease: current evidence and future directions

P Kennedy, M Wagner, L Castéra, CW Hong… - Radiology, 2018 - pubs.rsna.org
Chronic liver diseases often result in the development of liver fibrosis and ultimately,
cirrhosis. Treatment strategies and prognosis differ greatly depending on the severity of liver …

Phase-contrast MRI: physics, techniques, and clinical applications

DT Wymer, KP Patel, WF Burke III, VK Bhatia - Radiographics, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
With phase-contrast imaging, the MRI signal is used to visualize and quantify velocity. This
imaging modality relies on phase data, which are intrinsic to all MRI signals. With use of …