Cardiac disease and stroke are the major causes of death in the Western World.
Atherosclerosis of the carotid artery is the most important predictor of stroke. Elastography is …

In ultrasound elastography, tissue axial strains are calculated from the gradient of the
estimated axial displacements. However, the common differentiation operation amplifies the …

We demonstrate the importance of measuring the mechanical properties of biological tissue
in vivo by quantifying the mechanical properties of bovine vitreous both in its native state …

In current practice, only one out of three components of the tissue displacement vector and
one of nine components of the strain tensor are accurately estimated and imaged in …

This review encourages the reader to consider cerebral vascular disease beyond the
traditional clinical end points of major motor and speech strokes and to consider the …

In this paper, we explore two parameters or strain indices related to plaque deformation
during the cardiac cycle, namely, the maximum accumulated axial strain in plaque and the …

A hierarchical block-matching motion tracking algorithm for strain imaging is presented.
Displacements are estimated with improved robustness and precision by utilizing a …

Although few studies on ultrasonic materials characterization present the expanded
uncertainty, it is very important to quantify the final quality of the result. In addition, many of …

OBJECTIVE. Elastography is a promising tool for visualizing the zone of necrosis in liver
tissue resulting from radiofrequency tumor ablation. Because heat-ablated tissues are stiffer …

Plane strain tensor estimation using non-invasive vascular ultrasound elastography (NIVE)
can be difficult to achieve using conventional focus beamforming due to limited lateral …