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 …

Fifty shades of brain: a review on the mechanical testing and modeling of brain tissue

S Budday, TC Ovaert, GA Holzapfel… - … Methods in Engineering, 2020 - Springer
Brain tissue is not only one of the most important but also the most complex and compliant
tissue in the human body. While long underestimated, increasing evidence confirms that …

Mechanical characterization of human brain tissue

S Budday, G Sommer, C Birkl, C Langkammer… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Mechanics are increasingly recognized to play an important role in modulating brain form
and function. Computational simulations are a powerful tool to predict the mechanical …

Optical coherence elastography–OCT at work in tissue biomechanics

KV Larin, DD Sampson - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Magnetic resonance elastography: a review

YK Mariappan, KJ Glaser, RL Ehman - Clinical anatomy, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a rapidly develo** technology for
quantitatively assessing the mechanical properties of tissue. The technology can be …

The mechanobiology of brain function

WJ Tyler - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
All cells are influenced by mechanical forces. In the brain, force-generating and load-
bearing proteins twist, turn, ratchet, flex, compress, expand and bend to mediate neuronal …

Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) of the human brain: technique, findings and clinical applications

LV Hiscox, CL Johnson, E Barnhill… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Neurological disorders are one of the most important public health concerns in developed
countries. Established brain imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

Imaging the elastic properties of tissue: the 20 year perspective

KJ Parker, MM Doyley, DJ Rubens - Physics in medicine & …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
After 20 years of innovation in techniques that specifically image the biomechanical
properties of tissue, the evolution of elastographic imaging can be viewed from its infancy …

Predictors for traumatic brain injuries evaluated through accident reconstructions

S Kleiven - 2007 - sae.org
The aim of this study is to evaluate all the 58 available NFL cases and compare various
predictors for mild traumatic brain injuries using a detailed and extensively validated finite …

An overview of elastography-an emerging branch of medical imaging

A Sarvazyan, TJ Hall, MW Urban… - Current Medical …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
From times immemorial manual palpation served as a source of information on the state of
soft tissues and allowed detection of various diseases accompanied by changes in tissue …