[HTML][HTML] WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 1: basic principles and terminology

T Shiina, KR Nightingale, ML Palmeri, TJ Hall… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2015 - Elsevier
Conventional diagnostic ultrasound images of the anatomy (as opposed to blood flow)
reveal differences in the acoustic properties of soft tissues (mainly echogenicity but also, to …

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 …

Viscoelastic and anisotropic mechanical properties of in vivo muscle tissue assessed by supersonic shear imaging

JL Gennisson, T Deffieux, E Macé, G Montaldo… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2010 - Elsevier
The in vivo assessment of the biomechanical properties of the skeletal muscle is a complex
issue because the muscle is an anisotropic, viscoelastic and dynamic medium. In this article …

Acoustic radiation force elasticity imaging in diagnostic ultrasound

JR Doherty, GE Trahey, KR Nightingale… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of ultrasound-based elasticity imaging methods has been the focus of
intense research activity since the mid-1990s. In characterizing the mechanical properties of …

Shearwave dispersion ultrasound vibrometry (SDUV) for measuring tissue elasticity and viscosity

S Chen, MW Urban, C Pislaru, R Kinnick… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Characterization of tissue elasticity (stiffness) and viscosity has important medical
applications because these properties are closely related to pathological changes …

Shear Wave Spectroscopy for In Vivo Quantification of Human Soft Tissues Visco-Elasticity

T Deffieux, G Montaldo, M Tanter… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In vivo assessment of dispersion affecting the propagation of visco-elastic waves in soft
tissues is key to understand the rheology of human tissues. In this paper, the ability of the …

[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 …

[图书][B] Magnetic resonance elastography: physical background and medical applications

S Hirsch, J Braun, I Sack - 2017 - books.google.com
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a medical imaging technique that combines
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with mechanical vibrations to generate maps of …

Acoustic radiation force-based elasticity imaging methods

ML Palmeri, KR Nightingale - Interface focus, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Conventional diagnostic ultrasound images portray differences in the acoustic properties of
soft tissues, whereas ultrasound-based elasticity images portray differences in the elastic …