The anisotropic mechanical properties (mechanical anisotropy) and view-dependent
ultrasonic backscattering (acoustic anisotropy) of striated muscle due to the underlying …

The shear deformation under loads contains useful information for distinguishing benign
breast lesions from malignant ones. In this study, we proposed a normalized shear …

Ultrasound elastography is a modality that is uniquely suited to augment conventional B-
mode ultrasound for various clinical applications. Motion tracking plays a critically important …

This paper introduces a novel technique to estimate tissue displacement in quasi-static
elastography. A major challenge in elastography is estimation of displacement (also referred …

Cervical-spine (C-spine) pathoanatomy is commonly evaluated by plane radiographs,
computed tomography (CT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); however, these …

Ultrasound Elastography (UE) is an emerging set of imaging modalities used to assess the
biomechanical properties of soft tissues. UE has been applied to numerous clinical …

Ultrasound strain imaging, which delineates mechanical properties to detect tissue
abnormalities, involves estimating the time-delay between two radio-frequency (RF) frames …

This thesis aims to address two problems; one in ultrasound elastography and one in image
registration. The first problem entails estimation of tissue displacement in Ultrasound …

Ultrasonic elastography is an imaging technique which provides information about the
elastic moduli of tissues, which are important to the early diagnosis of many types of cancer …

Minimally invasive procedures such as microwave ablation (MWA) are growing in popularity
as a substitute for surgical resection of hepatocellular carcinomas. Ultrasound electrode …