A review of various modalities in breast imaging: technical aspects and clinical outcomes

S Iranmakani, T Mortezazadeh, F Sajadian… - Egyptian Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Nowadays, breast cancer is the second cause of death after cardiovascular
diseases. In general, about one out of eight women (about 12%) suffer from this disease …

A review on methods for diagnosis of breast cancer cells and tissues

Z He, Z Chen, M Tan, S Elingarami, Y Liu, T Li… - Cell …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Breast cancer has seriously been threatening physical and mental health of women in the
world, and its morbidity and mortality also show clearly upward trend in China over time …

Viscoelasticity imaging of biological tissues and single cells using shear wave propagation

H Li, G Flé, M Bhatt, Z Qu, S Ghazavi, L Yazdani… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Changes in biomechanical properties of biological soft tissues are often associated with
physiological dysfunctions. Since biological soft tissues are hydrated, viscoelasticity is likely …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanotransduction in tumor dynamics modeling

B Blanco, H Gomez, J Melchor, R Palma, J Soler… - Physics of Life …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mechanotherapy is a groundbreaking approach to impact carcinogenesis. Cells sense and
respond to mechanical stimuli, translating them into biochemical signals in a process known …

Investigating the contribution of collagen to the tumor biomechanical phenotype with noninvasive magnetic resonance elastography

J Li, K Zormpas-Petridis, JKR Boult, EL Reeves… - Cancer Research, 2019 - AACR
Increased stiffness in the extracellular matrix (ECM) contributes to tumor progression and
metastasis. Therefore, stromal modulating therapies and accompanying biomarkers are …

Analysis of friction in quantitative micro-elastography

KL Metzner, Q Fang, RW Sanderson… - Biomedical Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Quantitative micro-elastography (QME) is a compression-based optical coherence
elastography technique capable of measuring the mechanical properties of tissue on the …

Definition and evaluation of a finite element model of the human heel for diabetic foot ulcer prevention under shearing loads

A Trebbi, N Fougeron, Y Payan - Medical Engineering & Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Diabetic foot ulcers are triggered by mechanical loadings applied to the surface of the
plantar skin. Strain is considered to play a crucial role in relation to ulcer etiology and can be …

MR elastography of the breast: evolution of technique, case examples, and future directions

BK Patel, N Samreen, Y Zhou, J Chen, K Brandt… - Clinical breast …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recognizing that breast cancers present as firm, stiff lesions, the foundation of breast
magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is to combine tissue stiffness parameters with …

Poroelasticity as a model of soft tissue structure: Hydraulic permeability reconstruction for magnetic resonance elastography in silico

DR Sowinski, MDJ McGarry, EEW Van Houten… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Magnetic Resonance Elastography allows noninvasive visualization of tissue mechanical
properties by measuring the displacements resulting from applied stresses, and fitting a …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging brain function with simultaneous BOLD and viscoelasticity contrast: fMRI/fMRE

PS Lan, KJ Glaser, RL Ehman, GH Glover - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is emerging as a new tool for studying viscoelastic
changes in the brain resulting from functional processes. Here, we demonstrate a novel time …