Imaging the elastic properties of tissue: the 20 year perspective

KJ Parker, MM Doyley, DJ Rubens - Physics in medicine & …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
After 20 years of innovation in techniques that specifically image the biomechanical
properties of tissue, the evolution of elastographic imaging can be viewed from its infancy …

Beamforming method, measurement and imaging instruments, and communication instruments

C Sumi, N Yamazaki - US Patent 10,624,612, 2020 - Google Patents
US10624612B2 - Beamforming method, measurement and imaging instruments, and
communication instruments - Google Patents US10624612B2 - Beamforming method …

Carotid wall longitudinal motion in ultrasound imaging: an expert consensus review

FY Rizi, J Au, H Yli-Ollila, S Golemati… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Motion extracted from the carotid artery wall provides unique information for vascular health
evaluation. Carotid artery longitudinal wall motion corresponds to the multiphasic arterial …

Ultrasound vector flow imaging—Part I: Sequential systems

JA Jensen, SI Nikolov, CH Alfred… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper gives a review of the most important methods for blood velocity vector flow
imaging (VFI) for conventional sequential data acquisition. This includes multibeam …

Real-time regularized ultrasound elastography

H Rivaz, EM Boctor, MA Choti… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces two real-time elastography techniques based on analytic minimization
(AM) of regularized cost functions. The first method (1D AM) produces axial strain and …

Measurement and imaging instruments and beamforming method

C Sumi, N Yamazaki - US Patent 11,125,866, 2021 - Google Patents
A measurement and imaging instrument capable of beamforming with high speed and high
accuracy without approximate calculation. The instrument includes a reception unit which …

2-D arterial wall motion imaging using ultrafast ultrasound and transverse oscillations

S Salles, AJY Chee, D Garcia, CH Alfred… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrafast ultrasound is a promising imaging modality that enabled, inter alia, the
development of pulse wave imaging and the local velocity estimation of the so-called pulse …

Sub-sample displacement estimation from digitized ultrasound RF signals using multi-dimensional polynomial fitting of the cross-correlation function

RZ Azar, O Goksel… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A widely used time-domain technique for motion or delay estimation between digitized
ultrasound RF signals involves the maximization of a discrete pattern-matching function …

Phase-based block matching applied to motion estimation with unconventional beamforming strategies

A Basarab, P Gueth, H Liebgott… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A phase-based block matching method adapted to motion estimation with unconventional
beamforming strategies is presented. The unconventional beamforming technique used …

Directional transverse oscillation vector flow estimation

JA Jensen - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method for estimating vector velocities using transverse oscillation (TO) combined with
directional beamforming is presented. In directional TO (DTO), a normal focused field is …