Ultrafast imaging in biomedical ultrasound

M Tanter, M Fink - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although the use of ultrasonic plane-wave transmissions rather than line-per-line focused
beam transmissions has been long studied in research, clinical application of this …

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 …

Imaging the elastic properties of tissue: the 20 year perspective

KJ Parker, MM Doyley, DJ Rubens - Physics in medicine & …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
After 20 years of innovation in techniques that specifically image the biomechanical
properties of tissue, the evolution of elastographic imaging can be viewed from its infancy …

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 …

Quantitative assessment of breast lesion viscoelasticity: initial clinical results using supersonic shear imaging

M Tanter, J Bercoff, A Athanasiou, T Deffieux… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper presents an initial clinical evaluation of in vivo elastography for breast lesion
imaging using the concept of supersonic shear imaging. This technique is based on the …

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 …

In vivo brain viscoelastic properties measured by magnetic resonance elastography

MA Green, LE Bilston, R Sinkus - NMR in Biomedicine: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a non‐invasive imaging technique used to
visualise and quantify mechanical properties of tissue, providing information beyond what …

Imaging of the elastic properties of tissue—A review

L Gao, KJ Parker, RM Lerner, SF Levinson - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 1996 - Elsevier
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 …

In vivo breast tumor detection using transient elastography

J Bercoff, S Chaffai, M Tanter, L Sandrin… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper presents first in vivo experiments for breast tumor detection using transient
elastography. This technique has been developed for detection and quantitative mapping of …

Biophysical bases of elasticity imaging

AP Sarvazyan, AR Skovoroda, SY Emelianov… - Acoustical imaging, 1995 - Springer
Elasticity imaging is based on two processes. The first is the evaluation of the mechanical
response of a stressed tissue using imaging modalities, eg ultrasound, magnetic resonance …