A major disadvantage of the current practice of elastography is that only the axial component
of the strain is estimated. The lateral and elevational components are basically disregarded …

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 …

In current practice, only one out of three components of the tissue displacement vector and
one of nine components of the strain tensor are accurately estimated and imaged in …

In elastography, several methods for 2-D strain imaging have been introduced, based on
both raw frequency (RF) data and speckle-tracking. Although the precision and lesion …

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 …

Elastography typically measures and images the normal strain component along the
insonification/compression axis, ie, in the axial direction. We have recently shown that, by …

Elastography based on strain imaging currently endures mechanical artefacts and limited
contrast transfer efficiency. Solving the inverse elasticity problem (IEP) should obviate these …

Elastography is a method for imaging the elastic properties of compliant tissues which
produces gray scale elasticity images called elastograms. The elastograms of phantoms …

This paper introduces two real-time elastography techniques based on analytic minimization
(AM) of regularized cost functions. The first method (1D AM) produces axial strain and …

Elastography is a new imaging modality where elastic tissue parameters related to the
structural organization of normal and pathological tissues are imaged. Basic principles …