MR elastography: Principles, guidelines, and terminology

A Manduca, PV Bayly, RL Ehman… - Magnetic resonance …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a phase contrast–based MRI technique that can
measure displacement due to propagating mechanical waves, from which material …

Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) of the human brain: technique, findings and clinical applications

LV Hiscox, CL Johnson, E Barnhill… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Neurological disorders are one of the most important public health concerns in developed
countries. Established brain imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

Magnetic resonance elastography by direct visualization of propagating acoustic strain waves

R Muthupillai, DJ Lomas, PJ Rossman, JF Greenleaf… - science, 1995 - science.org
A nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method is presented for quantitatively
mapping the physical response of a material to harmonic mechanical excitation. The …

Generalized Morse wavelets as a superfamily of analytic wavelets

JM Lilly, SC Olhede - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The generalized Morse wavelets are shown to constitute a superfamily that essentially
encompasses all other commonly used analytic wavelets, subsuming eight apparently …

Magnetic resonance elastography: non-invasive mapping of tissue elasticity

A Manduca, TE Oliphant, MA Dresner… - Medical image …, 2001 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a phase-contrast-based MRI imaging technique
that can directly visualize and quantitatively measure propagating acoustic strain waves in …

Selected methods for imaging elastic properties of biological tissues

JF Greenleaf, M Fatemi, M Insana - Annual review of biomedical …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract For millennia, physicians have used palpation as a part of the physical
examination to detect pathology. The ubiquitous presence of “stiffer” tissue associated with …

Model-based elastography: a survey of approaches to the inverse elasticity problem

MM Doyley - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Elastography is emerging as an imaging modality that can distinguish normal versus
diseased tissues via their biomechanical properties. This paper reviews current approaches …

Magnetic resonance elastography of the brain

SA Kruse, GH Rose, KJ Glaser, A Manduca… - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to obtain normative data using magnetic resonance
elastography (MRE)(a) to obtain estimates of the shear modulus of human cerebral tissue in …

Complex‐valued stiffness reconstruction for magnetic resonance elastography by algebraic inversion of the differential equation

TE Oliphant, A Manduca, RL Ehman… - … in Medicine: An …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Noninvasive quantitation of the mechanical properties of tissue could improve early
detection of pathology. Previously a method for detecting displacement from propagating …

Spatio-temporal directional filtering for improved inversion of MR elastography images

A Manduca, DS Lake, SA Kruse, RL Ehman - Medical image analysis, 2003 - Elsevier
Dynamic magnetic resonance elastography can visualize and measure propagating shear
waves in tissue-like materials subjected to harmonic mechanical excitation. This allows the …