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 …

Medical ultrasound: imaging of soft tissue strain and elasticity

PNT Wells, HD Liang - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
After X-radiography, ultrasound is now the most common of all the medical imaging
technologies. For millennia, manual palpation has been used to assist in diagnosis, but it is …

[HTML][HTML] The EFSUMB guidelines and recommendations for the clinical practice of elastography in non-hepatic applications: update 2018

A Săftoiu, OH Gilja, PS Sidhu… - Ultraschall in der …, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
This manuscript describes the use of ultrasound elastography, with the exception of liver
applications, and represents an update of the 2013 EFSUMB (European Federation of …

Validation of shear wave elastography in skeletal muscle

SF Eby, P Song, S Chen, Q Chen, JF Greenleaf… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscle is a very dynamic tissue, thus accurate quantification of skeletal muscle
stiffness throughout its functional range is crucial to improve the physical functioning and …

Mechanical induction of the tumorigenic β-catenin pathway by tumour growth pressure

ME Fernandez-Sanchez, S Barbier, J Whitehead… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The tumour microenvironment may contribute to tumorigenesis owing to mechanical forces
such as fibrotic stiffness or mechanical pressure caused by the expansion of hyper …

Ultrasound elastography: the new frontier in direct measurement of muscle stiffness

JE Brandenburg, SF Eby, P Song, H Zhao… - Archives of physical …, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of brightness-mode ultrasound and Doppler ultrasound in physical medicine and
rehabilitation has increased dramatically. The continuing evolution of ultrasound technology …

Ultrasound elastography for musculoskeletal applications

EE Drakonaki, GM Allen… - The British journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Ultrasound elastography (EUS) is a method to assess the mechanical properties of tissue,
by applying stress and detecting tissue displacement using ultrasound. There are several …

Shear wave sonoelastography of skeletal muscle: basic principles, biomechanical concepts, clinical applications, and future perspectives

M Creze, A Nordez, M Soubeyrand, L Rocher… - Skeletal radiology, 2018 - Springer
Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and therapeutic response evaluation of
muscular diseases. However, one important limitation is its incapacity to assess the in vivo …

Can chronic stretching change the muscle‐tendon mechanical properties? A review

SR Freitas, B Mendes, G Le Sant… - … journal of medicine …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
It is recognized that stretching is an effective method to chronically increase the joint range
of motion. However, the effects of stretching training on the muscle‐tendon structural …

Shear wave elastography of passive skeletal muscle stiffness: influences of sex and age throughout adulthood

SF Eby, BA Cloud, JE Brandenburg, H Giambini… - Clinical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Numerous structural and compositional changes–related not only to age, but
also activity level and sex–may affect skeletal muscle stiffness across the adult age-span …