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 …

Viscoelasticity imaging of biological tissues and single cells using shear wave propagation

H Li, G Flé, M Bhatt, Z Qu, S Ghazavi, L Yazdani… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Changes in biomechanical properties of biological soft tissues are often associated with
physiological dysfunctions. Since biological soft tissues are hydrated, viscoelasticity is likely …

Shear-wave generation using acoustic radiation force: in vivo and ex vivo results

K Nightingale, S McAleavey, G Trahey - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging involves the mechanical excitation of tissue
using localized, impulsive radiation force. This results in shear-wave propagation away from …

[كتاب][B] Medical image registration

JV Hajnal, DLG Hill - 2001‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Image registration is the process of systematically placing separate images in a common
frame of reference so that the information they contain can be optimally integrated or …

Imaging anisotropic and viscous properties of breast tissue by magnetic resonance‐elastography

R Sinkus, M Tanter, S Catheline… - … in Medicine: An …, 2005‏ - Wiley Online Library
MR‐elastography is a new technique for assessing the viscoelastic properties of tissue. One
current focus of elastography is the provision of new physical parameters for improving the …

Measurement of viscoelastic properties of homogeneous soft solid using transient elastography: An inverse problem approach

S Catheline, JL Gennisson, G Delon, M Fink… - The Journal of the …, 2004‏ - pubs.aip.org
Two main questions are at the center of this paper. The first one concerns the choice of a
rheological model in the frequency range of transient elastography, sonoelasticity or NMR …

An octahedral shear strain-based measure of SNR for 3D MR elastography

MDJ McGarry, EEW Van Houten… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011‏ - iopscience.iop.org
A signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) measure based on the octahedral shear strain (the maximum
shear strain in any plane for a 3D state of strain) is presented for magnetic resonance …

Initial in vivo experience with steady‐state subzone‐based MR elastography of the human breast

EEW Van Houten, MM Doyley… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2003‏ - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To describe initial in vivo experiences with a subzone‐based, steady‐state MR
elastography (MRE) method. This sparse collection of in vivo results is intended to shed light …

Three‐dimensional subzone‐based reconstruction algorithm for MR elastography

EEW Van Houten, MI Miga, JB Weaver… - … in Medicine: An …, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Accurate characterization of harmonic tissue motion for realistic tissue geometries and
property distributions requires knowledge of the full three‐dimensional displacement field …

Ultrasonic tracking of acoustic radiation force-induced displacements in homogeneous media

ML Palmeri, SA McAleavey, GE Trahey… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of ultrasonic methods to track the tissue deformation generated by acoustic
radiation force is subject to jitter and displacement underestimation errors, with …