Complementary to axial, lateral displacement and strain can provide important information
on the biological soft tissues. In this paper, the effects of key parameters (ie, lateral …

The cross-correlation algorithm used to compute the local strain components for
elastographic imaging requires a minimum radio-frequency data segment length of around …

Quasi-static elastography is an ultrasound method which is widely used to assess
displacements and strain in tissue by correlating ultrasound data at different levels of …

Elastography provides tissue mechanical information to differentiate normal and disease
states. Nowadays, axial displacement and strain are usually estimated in clinical practice …

Accurate lateral displacement and strain estimation is critical for some applications of
elasticity imaging. Typically, motion estimation in the lateral direction is challenging because …

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 …

In the current practice of ultrasound elastography, only the axial component of the
displacement vector is estimated and used to produce strain images. A method was recently …

Tracking the displacement between the pre-and post-deformed radio-frequency (RF) frames
is a pivotal step of ultrasound elastography, which depicts tissue mechanical properties to …

In conventional elastography, strain is estimated from the gradient of the displacement (time-
delay) estimates. The displacement estimates involve estimating the peak location of the …

A novel zero-crossing tracking strain estimator (ZCT) has been developed for elastography.
This technique is based on tracking the zero-crossings between the pre-and …