Adaptive spectral strain estimators for elastography

SK Alam, FL Lizzi, T Varghese, EJ Feleppa… - Ultrasonic …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
In conventional elastography, internal tissue deformations, induced by external compression
applied to the tissue surface, are estimated by cross-correlation analysis of echo signals …

An adaptive strain estimator for elastography

SK Alam, J Ophir, EE Konofagou - IEEE transactions on …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elastography is based on the estimation of strain due to applied tissue compression. In
conventional elastography, strain is computed from the gradient of the displacement …

Analysis of an adaptive strain estimation technique in elastography

S Srinivasan, F Kallel, R Souchon… - Ultrasonic …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Elastography is based on the estimation of strain due to tissue compression or expansion.
Conventional elastography involves computing strain as the gradient of the displacement …

Direct mean strain estimation for elastography using nearest-neighbor weighted least-squares approach in the frequency domain

MK Hasan, EMA Anas, SK Alam, SY Lee - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Ultrasound elastography is emerging with enormous potential as a medical imaging
modality for effective discrimination of pathological changes in soft tissue. It maps the tissue …

Elastographic imaging using staggered strain estimates

S Srinivasan, J Ophir, SK Alam - Ultrasonic imaging, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Conventional techniques in elastography estimate strain as the gradient of the displacement
estimates obtained through crosscorrelation of pre-and postcompression rf A-lines. In these …

Power spectral strain estimators in elastography

EE Konofagou, T Varghese, J Ophir, SK Alam - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 1999 - Elsevier
Elastography can produce quality strain images in vitro and in vivo. Standard elastography
uses a coherent cross-correlation technique to estimate tissue displacement and tissue …

Theoretical derivation of SNR, CNR and spatial resolution for a local adaptive strain estimator for elastography

S Srinivasan, J Ophir, SK Alam - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2004 - Elsevier
Conventional techniques in elastography estimate the axial strain as the gradient of the
displacement (time-delay) estimates obtained using cross-correlation of pre-and temporally …

Trade-offs between the axial resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio in elastography

S Srinivasan, R Righetti, J Ophir - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2003 - Elsevier
Elastography involves tracking the ultrasonic A-mode signals before and after mechanical
compression of tissue to form a computed image of the local strains undergone by various …

Comparison of shift estimation strategies in spectral elastography

K Hoyt, F Forsberg, J Ophir - Ultrasonics, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper compares the performance of various spectral shift estimators for use in spectral
elastography, namely, the normalized cross-correlation (NCC), sum squared difference …

Frequency-domain-based strain estimation and high-frame-rate imaging for quasi-static elastography

A Ramalli, O Basset, C Cachard… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In freehand elastography, quasi-static tissue compression is applied through the ultrasound
probe, and the corresponding axial strain is estimated by calculating the time shift between …