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 mapping the
viscoelastic properties of soft biological tissues. It has been widely used to detect liver …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical properties of human hepatic tissues to develop liver-mimicking phantoms for medical applications

AS Lemine, Z Ahmad, NJ Al-Thani, A Hasan… - … and Modeling in …, 2024 - Springer
Using liver phantoms for mimicking human tissue in clinical training, disease diagnosis, and
treatment planning is a common practice. The fabrication material of the liver phantom …

Evaluation of robustness of S-transform based phase velocity estimation in viscoelastic phantoms and renal transplants

P Kijanka, L Vasconcelos, J Mandrekar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) methods are being used to differentiate healthy
versus diseased tissue on the basis of their viscoelastic mechanical properties. Tissue …

Characterizing viscoelastic polyvinyl alcohol phantoms for ultrasound elastography

A Sharma, SG Marapureddy, A Paul, SR Bisht… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrasound phantoms mimic the acoustic and mechanical properties of native tissues.
Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms are used extensively as models for validating ultrasound …

Characterisation of the soft tissue viscous and elastic properties using ultrasound elastography and rheological models: validation and applications in plantar soft …

A Tecse, SE Romero, R Naemi… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. The mechanical behaviour of soft tissue is influenced by its elastic and viscous
characteristics. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a validated method to …

The influence of static portal pressure on liver biophysical properties

Y Safraou, K Krehl, T Meyer, S Mehrgan, JEL Jordan… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The liver is a highly vascularized organ where fluid properties, including vascular pressure,
vessel integrity and fluid viscosity, play a critical role in gross mechanical properties. To …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic resonance elastography in a nutshell: Tomographic imaging of soft tissue viscoelasticity for detecting and staging disease with a focus on …

T Meyer, J Castelein, J Schattenfroh, AS Morr… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is an emerging clinical imaging modality for
characterizing the viscoelastic properties of soft biological tissues. MRE shows great …

[HTML][HTML] On the relationship between viscoelasticity and water diffusion in soft biological tissues

J Braun, J Bernarding, J Snellings, T Meyer… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) are
complementary imaging techniques that detect disease based on viscoelasticity and water …

Incremental dynamics of prestressed viscoelastic solids and its applications in shear wave elastography

Y Jiang, GY Li, Z Zhang, S Ma, Y Cao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Shear wave elastography (SWE) has emerged as a new imaging modality that brings tissue
mechanical properties as biomarkers potentially useful for early and precise diagnosis …

[HTML][HTML] Angular Integral Autocorrelation for Speed Estimation in Shear-Wave Elastography

H Asemani, IE Kabir, J Ormachea, MM Doyley… - Acoustics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The utilization of a reverberant shear-wave field in shear-wave elastography has emerged
as a promising technique for achieving robust shear-wave speed (SWS) estimation …