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 …

Optical coherence elastography–OCT at work in tissue biomechanics

KV Larin, DD Sampson - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE), as the use of OCT to perform elastography has
come to be known, began in 1998, around ten years after the rest of the field of elastography …

Wave-based optical coherence elastography: the 10-year perspective

F Zvietcovich, KV Larin - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
After ten years of progress and innovation, optical coherence elastography (OCE) based on
the propagation of mechanical waves has become one of the major and the most studied …

Quantitative ultrasound imaging of soft biological tissues: a primer for radiologists and medical physicists

G Cloutier, F Destrempes, F Yu, A Tang - Insights into Imaging, 2021 - Springer
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) aims at quantifying interactions between ultrasound and
biological tissues. QUS techniques extract fundamental physical properties of tissues based …

[HTML][HTML] Acoustic waves in medical imaging and diagnostics

AP Sarvazyan, MW Urban, JF Greenleaf - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Up until about two decades ago acoustic imaging and ultrasound imaging were
synonymous. The term ultrasonography, or its abbreviated version sonography, meant an …

In vivo evaluation of the elastic anisotropy of the human Achilles tendon using shear wave dispersion analysis

J Brum, M Bernal, JL Gennisson… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-invasive evaluation of the Achilles tendon elastic properties may enhance diagnosis of
tendon injury and the assessment of recovery treatments. Shear wave elastography has …

Reverberant 3D optical coherence elastography maps the elasticity of individual corneal layers

F Zvietcovich, P Pongchalee, P Meemon… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The elasticity mapping of individual layers in the cornea using non-destructive elastography
techniques advances diagnosis and monitoring of ocular diseases and treatments in …

Optical coherence elastography assessment of corneal viscoelasticity with a modified Rayleigh-Lamb wave model

Z Han, J Li, M Singh, C Wu, C Liu… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Elsevier
The biomechanical properties of the cornea play a critical role in forming vision. Diseases
such as keratoconus can structurally degenerate the cornea causing a pathological loss in …

Multimodal quantitative optical elastography of the crystalline lens with optical coherence elastography and Brillouin microscopy

YS Ambekar, M Singh, J Zhang, A Nair… - Biomedical Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Assessing the biomechanical properties of the crystalline lens can provide crucial
information for diagnosing disease and guiding precision therapeutic interventions. Existing …

Velocities of naturally occurring myocardial shear waves increase with age and in cardiac amyloidosis

A Petrescu, P Santos, M Orlowska, J Pedrosa… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2019 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to evaluate whether velocity of naturally occurring myocardial
shear waves (SW) could relate to myocardial stiffness (MS) in vivo. Background: Cardiac SW …