Medical ultrasound: imaging of soft tissue strain and elasticity

PNT Wells, HD Liang - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
After X-radiography, ultrasound is now the most common of all the medical imaging
technologies. For millennia, manual palpation has been used to assist in diagnosis, but it is …

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 …

Mechanics of ultrasound elastography

GY Li, Y Cao - Proceedings of the Royal Society A …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ultrasound elastography enables in vivo measurement of the mechanical properties of living
soft tissues in a non-destructive and non-invasive manner and has attracted considerable …

Production of acoustic radiation force using ultrasound: methods and applications

MW Urban - Expert review of medical devices, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Acoustic radiation force (ARF) is used in many biomedical applications. The
transfer of momentum in acoustic waves can be used in a multitude of ways to perturb tissue …

A review of vibro-acoustography and its applications in medicine

M W. Urban, A Alizad, W Aquino… - Current medical …, 2011 - benthamdirect.com
In recent years, several new techniques based on the radiation force of ultrasound have
been developed. Vibroacoustography is a speckle-free ultrasound based imaging modality …

Motion of a solid sphere in a viscoelastic medium in response to applied acoustic radiation force: Theoretical analysis and experimental verification

SR Aglyamov, AB Karpiouk, YA Ilinskii… - The Journal of the …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The motion of a rigid sphere in a viscoelastic medium in response to an acoustic radiation
force of short duration was investigated. Theoretical and numerical studies were carried out …

Shear wave dispersion ultrasonic vibrometry for measuring prostate shear stiffness and viscosity: an in vitro pilot study

FG Mitri, MW Urban, M Fatemi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports shear stiffness and viscosity “virtual biopsy” measurements of the three
excised noncancerous human prostates using a new tool known as shear wave dispersion …

Implementation of vibro-acoustography on a clinical ultrasound system

MW Urban, C Chalek, RR Kinnick… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vibro-acoustography is an ultrasound-based imaging modality that uses two ultrasound
beams of slightly different frequencies to produce images based on the acoustic response …

Radiation force and torque of light-sheets illuminating a cylindrical particle of arbitrary geometrical cross-section exhibiting circular dichroism

FG Mitri - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative …, 2020 - Elsevier
Unlike standard dielectric materials, the interaction of light-sheets of arbitrary wavefronts
with a particle exhibiting circular dichroism, such as chiral, topological insulator, liquid …

Matching and reconstruction of brachytherapy seeds using the Hungarian algorithm (MARSHAL)

AK Jain, Y Zhou, T Mustufa, E Clif Burdette… - Medical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Intraoperative dosimetric quality assurance in prostate brachytherapy critically depends on
discerning the three‐dimensional (3D) locations of implanted seeds. The ability to …