Non-invasive quantitative reconstruction of tissue elasticity using an iterative forward approach

D Fu, SF Levinson, SM Gracewski… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
… the displacements of all internal points can be uniquely determined. The goal in the reconstruction
of soft tissue elastic … In this section, ultrasound experiments on a homogeneous tissue-…

Reconstructive elasticity imaging for large deformations

AR Skovoroda, LA Lubinski… - IEEE transactions on …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… to reconstruct the elas- tic modulus of soft tissue based on ultrasonic displacement and …
large to be described with a linear elastic model, nonlinear displacement-strain relations must be …

Ultrasonic strain imaging and reconstructive elastography for biological tissue

W Khaled, S Reichling, OT Bruhns, H Ermert - Ultrasonics, 2006 - Elsevier
… using ultrasound elastography to reconstruct the relative elastic modulus of biological tissue.
Real-time … First the internal displacement field of biological tissue is determined using an …

Imaging of the tissue elasticity based on ultrasonic displacement and strain measurements

Y Yamashita, M Kubota - Acoustical Imaging, 2000 - Springer
… applied to reconstruct the tissue elasticity in the presence of measurement noise. In the
present study, only one component of the displacement vector was also used to reconstruct the …

Tissue elasticity reconstruction using linear perturbation method

F Kallel, M Bertrand - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… forward model for elastography from elasticity distribution to ultrasound images. In the …
relating the elasticity distribution perturbation { AEk } to the displacement field perturbation {…

Elasticity reconstruction from displacement and confidence measures of a multi-compressed ultrasound RF sequence

J Li, Y Cui, M Kadour, JA Noble - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In this paper we have introduced a new method for elasticity reconstruction from a
sequence of ultrasound RF data under different static compression. The elasticity in- …

Medical ultrasound: imaging of soft tissue strain and elasticity

PNT Wells, HD Liang - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Using the confidence of displacement estimates as a weighting factor, the inverse problem
of elasticity reconstruction was solved and an accuracy of 1 per cent was achieved in the …

Tissue elasticity reconstruction based on ultrasonic displacement and strain images

AR Skovoroda, SY Emelianov… - IEEE transactions on …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
reconstruction. We strongly believe that artifacts due solely to global boundary conditions
must be minimized for elasticity … two different formulations of elasticity reconstruction. The first …

Reconstructive elasticity imaging

SY Emelianov, AR Skovoroda, MA Lubinski… - Acoustical imaging, 1995 - Springer
… of the Young's modulus must be estimated based on displacement and strain data from a
single imaging plane. Therefore, to reconstruct the elastic modulus using current ultrasonic

Elastography: ultrasonic imaging of tissue strain and elastic modulus in vivo

J Ophir, I Cespedes, B Garra, H Ponnekanti… - … journal of ultrasound, 1996 - Elsevier
… are used to reconstruct the distribution of the elastic moduli in the tissue. Such … Ultrasonic
methods for deriving information related to the motion (displacement or velocity) and the elastic