After X-radiography, ultrasound is now the most common of all the medical imaging
technologies. For millennia, manual palpation has been used to assist in diagnosis, but it is …

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 …

Recently, a number of methods have been developed that make it possible to image the
elastic properties of soft tissues. Because certain types of tissues such as malignant lesions …

In the past decade, an important field that has emerged as complementary to ultrasonic
imaging is that of elasticity imaging. The term encompasses a variety of techniques that can …

The development of ultrasound-based elasticity imaging methods has been the focus of
intense research activity since the mid-1990s. In characterizing the mechanical properties of …

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 elasticity imaging has been a research interest for the past 20 years with the goal
of generating novel images of soft tissues based on their material properties (ie, stiffness …

The mechanical attributes of soft tissues depend on their molecular building blocks (fat,
collagen etc.), on the microscopic and macroscopic structural organization of these blocks …

Conventional diagnostic ultrasound images of the anatomy (as opposed to blood flow)
reveal differences in the acoustic properties of soft tissues (mainly echogenicity but also, to …

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 …