Ultrasound elastography for musculoskeletal applications

EE Drakonaki, GM Allen… - The British journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Ultrasound elastography (EUS) is a method to assess the mechanical properties of tissue, by
applying stress and detecting tissue displacementtissue causing axial tissue displacement

A new time delay estimation method for displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography

A Khadem, S Kamaledin - 2008 9th International Conference …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… estimated local displacements to generate the final elastogram (strain image) [1]. The
estimation of the axial displacements of the tissue is equivalent to the local Time Delay Estimation (…

[PDF][PDF] New Technique for Processing Tissue Displacements Estimation in Breast Ultrasound Elastography

T Slimi, IM Moussa, T Kraiem, H Mahjoubi - J Tissue Sci Eng, 2018 - researchgate.net
… A new method of breast tissue displacements estimation analysis has been proposed in
this … used to estimate the displacements estimation in ultrasound breast elastography. Our …

Error analysis in acoustic elastography. I. Displacement estimation

M Bilgen, MF Insana - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
tissueestimating displacements by cross-correlating the pre- and post-compression echo
signals, and we introduce various approximations to simplify the derivation of the displacement

Elastography: imaging the elastic properties of soft tissues with ultrasound

J Ophir, SK Alam, BS Garra, F Kallel… - Journal of medical …, 2002 - Springer
… the elastographic imaging process, starting from the tissue … time-delay estimation of
echoes from strained tissues, and … strain estimation concept for ultrasonic elastography using …

Tendon motion and strain patterns evaluated with two-dimensional ultrasound elastography

LA Chernak, DG Thelen - Journal of biomechanics, 2012 - Elsevier
… The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of 2D ultrasound elastography to assess
tendon tissue motion and strain under axial loading conditions. Four porcine flexor tendons …

Direct reconstruction of ultrasound elastography using an end-to-end deep neural network

S Wu, Z Gao, Z Liu, J Luo, H Zhang, S Li - … 16-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part I, 2018 - Springer
… In the displacement estimation stage, we firstly use the separable convolution to extract and
… Table 1 shows the performance of our approach in the tissue displacement estimation and …

Medical ultrasound: imaging of soft tissue strain and elasticity

PNT Wells, HD Liang - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… In this review [54], the principles of quasi-static step displacement ultrasonic elastography
are discussed in the context of medical image processing. Some early clinical results are …

Displacement estimation for ultrasound elastography based on a robust uniform stretching method

Z Hosseini, A Khadem… - 2022 30th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… the tissue with an ultrasound probe. Then the corresponding tissue deformation is measured
using ultrasound … wave to obtain quantitative and qualitative estimates of tissue elasticity [7]. …

Displacement reconstructions in ultrasound elastography

G Bal, S Imperiale - SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2015 - SIAM
… the elastic displacements. The main objective of this paper is a modeling of the interaction
of the probing ultrasound with the underlying tissues perturbed by elastic displacements. …