… (3) The mechanical properties of the soft tissue … tissue mechanical properties; therefore,
in vivo and quantitative measurements of the elastic properties of soft tissues via elastography …

… to the tissue, it can either be a short transient mechanical force or an oscillatory force with a
fixed frequency. A time-varying mechanical perturbation will propagate as mechanical waves …

… ultrasound elastography techniques as relevant to clinical practice using commercially
available ultrasound … is that disease may involve change in the mechanical properties of tissues. …

… mechanical properties of different tissue lesions. The assessment of … of tissue lesions. This
article describes the physical basis of both elastographic methods: compression elastography …

… tissue mechanical changes often correlate with tissue … principles of ultrasound elastography,
many of the ultrasound-… Originally, elastography was a technique that imaged tissue …

… Elastography-based imaging techniques have received substantial attention in recent years
… of tissue mechanical properties. These techniques take advantage of changed soft tissue …

… However, there is a near void in the literature regarding the mechanical properties of tissue
… and accurate strain estimation concept for ultrasonic elastography using iterative phase zero …

… Ultrasound elastography (sonoelastography) is a noninvasive imaging technique that can be
used in medicine to define stiffness of the tissues … mechanical force and surrounding tissue, …

… In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm that uses a tissue mechanics-based estimation
of out-of-plane strain to improve the in-plane tissue displacement and strain fields. Unlike …

… In this work, the focus is on quasi-static ultrasound elastography where the tissue is externally
excited by pressing the ultrasound probe against the tissue. In quasistatic elastography, …