From times immemorial manual palpation served as a source of information on the state of
soft tissues and allowed detection of various diseases accompanied by changes in tissue …

The basic principles of using sonographic techniques for imaging the elastic properties of
tissues are described, with particular emphasis on elastography. After some preliminaries …

Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a phase-contrast-based MRI imaging technique
that can directly visualize and quantitatively measure propagating acoustic strain waves in …

▪ Abstract For millennia, physicians have used palpation as a part of the physical
examination to detect pathology. The ubiquitous presence of “stiffer” tissue associated with …

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

Acoustic and mechanical properties are reported for gelatin materials used to construct
tissue-like phantoms for elasticity imaging (elastography). A device and procedure for …

We consider the problem of determining the shear modulus of a linear-elastic,
incompressible medium given boundary data and one component of the displacement field …

A least-squares strain estimator (LSQSE) for elastography is proposed. It is shown that with
such an estimator, the signal-to-noise ratio in an elastogram (SNRe) is significantly …

A major disadvantage of the current practice of elastography is that only the axial component
of the strain is estimated. The lateral and elevational components are basically disregarded …

Elastography is an imaging technique to reconstruct elasticity distributions of heterogeneous
objects. Since cancerous tissues are stiffer than healthy ones, for decades, elastography has …