Background In ultrasound elastography, reconstruction of tissue elasticity (eg, Young's
modulus) requires regularization and known information of forces and/or displacements on …

Background Model-based reconstruction algorithms have shown potentials over
conventional strain-based methods in quasi-static elastographic image by using realistic …

Background The convectional strain-based algorithm has been widely utilized in clinical
practice. It can only provide the information of relative information of tissue stiffness …

Cancer is known to induce significant structural changes to tissue. In most cancers, including
breast cancer, such changes yield tissue stiffening. As such, imaging tissue stiffness can be …

The purpose of ultrasound elastography is to identify lesions by reconstructing the hardness
characteristics of tissue reconstructed from ultrasound data. Conventional quasi-static …

Purpose Success of ablation treatment depends on the accurate placement of the target
ablation focus and the complete destruction of the pathological tissue. Thus, monitoring the …

It is well known that some diseases, such as cancer, lead to a change of tissue hardness (ie
the so-called elasticity modulus). The reconstruction of tissue elasticity provides the …

Herein, a novel algorithm is proposed for strain estimation in free-hand palpation quasi-
static ultrasound elastography. In all previously proposed methods for strain estimation, post …

During the past decade, signals from conventional focusing schemes with one or a few focal
depths have been used in ultrasound elastography. Echo signals from transducer elements …

As the pathological characteristics of living tissue generally correlate with tissue stiffness,
techniques such as ultrasound elastography play an important role in the medical field. One …