Optical coherence elastography (OCE), as the use of OCT to perform elastography has
come to be known, began in 1998, around ten years after the rest of the field of elastography …

Optical elastography, the use of optics to characterize and map the mechanical properties of
biological tissue, involves measuring the deformation of tissue in response to a load. Such …

Serial assessment of the biomechanical properties of tissues can be used to aid the early
detection and management of pathophysiological conditions, to track the evolution of lesions …

Implanted electronic sensors, compared with conventional medical imaging, allow
monitoring of advanced physiological properties of soft biological tissues continuously, such …

The spatial presentation of mechanical information is a key parameter for cell behavior. We
have developed a method of polymerization control in which the differential diffusion …

Quantitative map** of deformation and elasticity in optical coherence tomography has
attracted much attention of researchers during the last two decades. However, despite …

Optical coherence elastography (OCE) can provide clinically valuable information based on
local measurements of tissue stiffness. Improved light sources and scanning methods in …

The extracellular matrix (ECM) performs many critical functions, one of which is to provide
structural and mechanical integrity, and many of the constituent proteins have clear …

Over the past decade, researchers have highlighted the importance of mechanical cues of
the metastatic niche such as matrix stiffness, topography, mechanical stresses, and …

A noise-tolerant approach to strain estimation in phase-sensitive optical coherence
elastography, robust to decorrelation distortions, is discussed. The method is based on …