Recently, a number of methods have been developed that make it possible to image the
elastic properties of soft tissues. Because certain types of tissues such as malignant lesions …

Elastography is a method that can ultimately generate several new kinds of images, called
elastograms. As such, all the properties of elastograms are different from the familiar …

The mechanical attributes of soft tissues depend on their molecular building blocks (fat,
collagen etc.), on the microscopic and macroscopic structural organization of these blocks …

Ultrasound elasticity imaging has been a research interest for the past 20 years with the goal
of generating novel images of soft tissues based on their material properties (ie, stiffness …

In the past decade, an important field that has emerged as complementary to ultrasonic
imaging is that of elasticity imaging. The term encompasses a variety of techniques that can …

We review the principles of elastography and some of its accomplishments to date in the
area of breast imaging in vivo. We present a literature review of a variety of methods for the …

Abstract Changes in tissue elasticity are generally correlated with its pathological state. In
many cases, despite the difference in elasticity, the small size of a lesion or its location deep …

Ultrasound elasticity imaging is a promising method that may eventually allow early
detection of many tissue pathologies. However, before elasticity imaging can be applied to …

Objective. The correlation between various diseases and the change in the local mechanical
properties of soft tissues has been long known. Over the past 20 years, there have been …

It is well known that some diseases, such as cancer, lead to a change of tissue hardness (ie
the so-called elasticity modulus). The reconstruction of tissue elasticity provides the …