… This technology relies on shear ultrasonic waves that travel … (SSI) technique employs
ultrasonics radiation force to … were used to study the effect of attenuation on the cervical tissue. The …

… of an ex vivo cervix with the ultrasound beams angled to −28, 0, … In fact, in the cervix, attenuation
has been shown to be … Finite element modeling of the pregnant uterus, cervix, and fetal …

… late (third-trimester) pregnant cervix in a group of women from each time point. Unexpectedly,
we also found that acoustic attenuation estimates had high variance even after accounting …

… were used to study the effect of attenuation on the cervical tissue. … due to attenuation, and
consequently anomalous values of the … Cervical ultrasound elastography may hold potential to …

… initial exploration of SWS estimation in the rhesus macaque model we are developing for
comprehensive study of the pregnant cervix. … that acoustic attenuation varies during pregnancy […

… elastography is useful for assessing cervical … ultrasound elastography as well as the current
status and limitations in its application for cervical lesions and the cervix during pregnancy. …

… characterize both pregnant and non-pregnant cervical tissue … focal depth to high acoustic
attenuation in cervical tissue that … point are taken as initial reference undisplaced scatterer …

… Of these, attenuation values for the pregnant cervix have been reported, but large estimate
… the Introduction to this report, published attenuation estimates in the human cervix are “noisy…

… preliminary reliability study, it was shown that strain elastography using the Lagrangian strain
was very reliable in the elastographic assessment of cervical … words, the attenuation of the …

… current pregnancy as well as, from the current pregnancy, a clinical cervical length assessment
and … Later studies in human pregnancy revealed that QUS's attenuation coefficient (AC) is …