Ultrasonic strain imaging promises to be a valuable tool in medical diagnostics. Reliability
and ease-of-use have become important considerations. These depend on selection of …

Ultrasonic strain imaging that uses signals from conventional diagnostic ultrasound systems
is capable of showing the contrast of tissue elasticity, which provides new diagnostically …

We present a new, intelligent interface for freehand strain imaging, which has been
designed to support clinical trials investigating the potential of ultrasonic strain imaging for …

This article presents a new method for acquiring three-dimensional (3-D) volumes of
ultrasonic axial strain data. The method uses a mechanically-swept probe to sweep out a …

Background: Freehand quasistatic strain imaging can reveal qualitative information about
tissue stiffness with good spatial accuracy. Clinical trials, however, repeatedly cite instability …

Ultrasound strain imaging is becoming increasingly popular as a way to measure stiffness
variation in soft tissue. Almost all techniques involve the estimation of a field of relative …

This paper presents a new method for forming high-quality ultrasonic strain images. To
achieve this goal, three radiofrequency echo frames are selected by an automated …

High-frame rate ultrasound imaging is necessary to track fast deformation in ultrasound
elasticity imaging, but the image quality may be degraded. Previously, we investigated the …

Quasistatic strain imaging is a form of elastography that can produce qualitative images of
tissue stiffness with only software modifications to conventional ultrasound hardware. Unlike …

Ultrasonic strain imaging usually begins with displacement estimates computed using finite-
length sections of RF ultrasound signals. Amplitude variations in the ultrasound are known …