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 …

Elastography is emerging as an imaging modality that can distinguish normal versus
diseased tissues via their biomechanical properties. This paper reviews current approaches …

Ultrasound elastography enables in vivo measurement of the mechanical properties of living
soft tissues in a non-destructive and non-invasive manner and has attracted considerable …

Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in modelling soft tissue
deformation. This topic has several biomedical applications ranging from medical imaging to …

Accurate characterization of harmonic tissue motion for realistic tissue geometries and
property distributions requires knowledge of the full three‐dimensional displacement field …

During the past decade, ultrasound has expanded medical imaging well beyond the
“traditional” radiology setting: a combination of portability, low cost, and ease of use makes …

We reconstruct the in vivo spatial distribution of linear and nonlinear elastic parameters in
ten patients with benign (five) and malignant (five) tumors. The mechanical behavior of …

We examine the inverse problem associated with quantitative elastic modulus imaging:
given the equilibrium strain field in a 2D incompressible elastic material, determine the …

Assessment of tissue stiffness is desirable for clinicians and researchers, as it is well
established that pathophysiological mechanisms often alter the structural properties of …

We establish the feasibility of imaging the linear and nonlinear elastic properties of soft
tissue using ultrasound. We report results for breast tissue where it is conjectured that these …