Many manufacturers of ultrasound systems offer elastography capabilities. Though the
research literature describes techniques involving external actuators, commercial systems …

This edition of Ultrasound includes five papers on elastography. The technique of palpation
in which stiffness of tissues is evaluated by squeezing is well known. In many ways …

Ultrasound Elastography for Biomedical Applications and Medicine Ivan Z. Nenadic,
Matthew W. Urban, James F. Greenleaf, Mayo Clinic Ultrasound Research Laboratory, Mayo …

For centuries tissue palpation has been an important diagnostic tool. During palpation,
tumors are felt as tissues harder than the surrounding tissues. The significance of palpation …

Tissue stiffness assessed by palpation for diagnosing pathology has been used for
thousands of years. Ultrasound elastography has been developed more recently to display …

Ultrasound (US) elasticity imaging is an extension of the ancient art of palpation and of
earlier US methods for viewing tissue stiffness such as echopalpation. Elasticity images …

Ultrasound elastography is an emerging set of imaging modalities used to image tissue
elasticity and are often referred to as virtual palpation. These techniques have proven …

Ultrasonography has been widely used for diagnosis since it was first introduced in clinical
practice in the 1970's. Since then, new ultrasound modalities have been developed, such as …

The objective of this study is to assess strain and shear wave (SW) elastography
performance in terms of accuracy by performing in vitro measurements on a calibrated …

Ultrasound has been used as a diagnostic tool for more than 40 years. Many medical
applications have adopted ultrasound, mostly notably in obstetrics and cardiology. Started …