After X-radiography, ultrasound is now the most common of all the medical imaging
technologies. For millennia, manual palpation has been used to assist in diagnosis, but it is …

Tissue-mimicking phantoms are very useful in the field of tissue characterization and
essential in elastography for the purpose of validating motion estimators. This study is …

The specific purpose of this review is to describe the progress of our work on elastography at
the University of Texas Medical School-Houston in the past decade (2000-2010), and to …

We investigated the feasibility of using echo-strain images to visualize the extent of high-
intensity ultrasound (US)-induced thermal lesions during their formation. Echo-strain …

Thermal therapies such as radio frequency, heated saline, and high-intensity focused
ultrasound ablations are often performed suboptimally due to the inability to monitor the …

Coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) has the ability to generate high quality image
using the backscattered signals from plane wave emitting at different steer angles. To …

Ultrasonic strain imaging usually begins with displacement estimates computed using finite-
length sections of RF ultrasound signals. Amplitude variations in the ultrasound are known …

US6687625B2 - Method and apparatus for feature tracking strain estimation for elastography -
Google Patents US6687625B2 - Method and apparatus for feature tracking strain estimation for …

In this study, the performances of one-dimensional and two-dimensional least-squares strain
estimators (LSQSE) are compared. Furthermore, the effects of kernel size are examined …

The performance of many signal-processing applications in ultrasound medical imaging,
including elastography, blood flow imaging, tissue velocity imaging, and acoustic radiation …