Novel estimators for elastography

SK Alam, FL Lizzi, EJ Feleppa… - Medical Imaging 2001 …, 2001 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In conventional elastography, strains are estimated by computing gradient of estimated
displacement. However, gradient-based algorithms are susceptible to noise. We have …

An adaptive strain estimator for elastography

SK Alam, J Ophir, EE Konofagou - IEEE transactions on …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elastography is based on the estimation of strain due to applied tissue compression. In
conventional elastography, strain is computed from the gradient of the displacement …

Adaptive spectral strain estimators for elastography

SK Alam, FL Lizzi, T Varghese, EJ Feleppa… - Ultrasonic …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
In conventional elastography, internal tissue deformations, induced by external compression
applied to the tissue surface, are estimated by cross-correlation analysis of echo signals …

Analysis of an adaptive strain estimation technique in elastography

S Srinivasan, F Kallel, R Souchon… - Ultrasonic …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Elastography is based on the estimation of strain due to tissue compression or expansion.
Conventional elastography involves computing strain as the gradient of the displacement …

Reduction of image noise in elastography

I Céspedes, J Ophir - Ultrasonic imaging, 1993 - Elsevier
Elastography is a method for imaging the elastic properties of compliant tissues which
produces gray scale elasticity images called elastograms. The elastograms of phantoms …

A novel and robust method for rapid strain estimation in elastography

SK Alam - Ultrasonic imaging, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
In elastography, change in signal shape from tissue deformation and nonaxial tissue motion
reduce correlation between the pre-and postcompression echo signals. Appropriate global …

Elastography: a quantitative method for imaging the elasticity of biological tissues

J Ophir, I Cespedes, H Ponnekanti… - Ultrasonic …, 1991 - journals.sagepub.com
We describe a new method for quantitative imaging of strain and elastic modulus
distributions in soft tissues. The method is based on external tissue compression, with …

Elastographic imaging using staggered strain estimates

S Srinivasan, J Ophir, SK Alam - Ultrasonic imaging, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Power spectral strain estimators in elastography

EE Konofagou, T Varghese, J Ophir, SK Alam - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 1999 - Elsevier
Elastography can produce quality strain images in vitro and in vivo. Standard elastography
uses a coherent cross-correlation technique to estimate tissue displacement and tissue …

Theoretical bounds on strain estimation in elastography

I Cespedes, M Insana, J Ophir - IEEE transactions on …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elastography is a technique for the estimation of tissue elasticity that is based on the
estimation of strain. Tissue strain can be estimated by finite difference computations of echo …