Imaging and estimation of tissue elasticity by ultrasound

BS Garra - Ultrasound quarterly, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… In conclusion, the potential for elasticity estimation to replace some or all biopsies for diffuse
disease is high. Elasticity imaging will also likely be helpful for identification and grading of …

Tissue Elasticity Estimation with Optical Coherence Elastography: Toward Mechanical Characterization of In Vivo Soft Tissue

AS Khalil, RC Chan, AH Chau, BE Bouma… - Annals of biomedical …, 2005 - Springer
… for tissue elasticity reconstruction, and assess the benefits of OCT on the distribution results
of four representative tissue block … ), and high-resolution estimates, with the ability to resolve …

Estimation of tissue elasticity of the lung

RW Carton, JW Clark… - Journal of Applied …, 1964 - journals.physiology.org
elastic tissue and collagen acting in parallel, that the elastic … Assuming that elastic tissue
does not differ sharply in its properties … to organ, we can now solve equation 4 for elastic tissue : …

A combined FEM/genetic algorithm for vascular soft tissue elasticity estimation

AS Khalil, BE Bouma… - Cardiovascular …, 2006 - Springer
… is proposed for elasticity reconstruction in soft tissues, combining finite … soft tissues and a
genetic algorithm (GA) for parameter estimation. With a model reduction of the discrete elasticity

Imaging of the elastic properties of tissue—A review

L Gao, KJ Parker, RM Lerner, SF Levinson - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 1996 - Elsevier
… The speckle tracking system employs a sum of absolute difference (SAD) method to
estimate tissue motion in two dimensions. The echo data are first obtained for a two-dimensional …

The estimation of elasticity and viscosity of soft tissues in vitro using the data of remote acoustic palpation

S Girnyk, A Barannik, E Barannik, V Tovstiak… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2006 - Elsevier
… use another method of soft tissues elastic and viscous properties estimation. This is based
on … focal point, where a strong dependence on both tissue elasticity and viscosity takes place. …

Selected methods for imaging elastic properties of biological tissues

JF Greenleaf, M Fatemi, M Insana - Annual review of biomedical …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
… that methods for estimating “hardness” of tissues would add a weapon to the medical
armamentarium. To this end, this review discusses several methods of estimating tissue hardness …

Real time tissue elasticity imaging using the combined autocorrelation method

T Shiina, N Nitta, EI Ueno, JC Bamber - Journal of Medical Ultrasonics, 2002 - Springer
… We therefore developed a more useful technique for imaging tissue elasticity. This approach,
which … We further tried to estimate the distribution of the elastic modulus as a quantitative …

Estimation of nonlinear elasticity parameter of tissues by ultrasound

N Nitta, T Shiina - Japanese journal of applied physics, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
… the intensity of tissue nonlinear elasticity is introduced as the nonlinear elasticity parameter.
This … information that the nonlinear elastic behavior of soft tissues exhibits an exponential …

Tissue elasticity reconstruction using linear perturbation method

F Kallel, M Bertrand - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
tissue motion estimation has recently been proposed as a method to determine and then map
the elastic properties of soft tissue [… elasticity distribution {Ek}, we update our estimate of {E} …