This paper introduces a 2-D strain imaging technique based on minimizing a cost function
using dynamic programming (DP). The cost function incorporates similarity of echo …

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 …

Elastography is based on the estimation of strain due to tissue compression or expansion.
Conventional elastography involves computing strain as the gradient of the displacement …

Conventional techniques in elastography estimate strain as the gradient of the displacement
estimates obtained through crosscorrelation of pre-and postcompression rf A-lines. In these …

In current practice, only one out of three components of the tissue displacement vector and
one of nine components of the strain tensor are accurately estimated and imaged in …

A new elastography method is presented that images the mechanical properties of soft
tissue. The tissue is externally vibrated over a range of frequencies simultaneously and the …

Elastography can produce quality strain images in vitro and in vivo. Standard elastography
uses a coherent cross-correlation technique to estimate tissue displacement and tissue …

Elasticity imaging is based on the measurements of local tissue deformation. The approach
to ultrasound elasticity imaging presented in this paper relies on the estimation of dense …

The cross-correlation algorithm used to compute the local strain components for
elastographic imaging requires a minimum radio-frequency data segment length of around …

In elastography, we want to image the entire range of stiffnesses of the elastic components
found in inhomogeneous tissues. In order to achieve this, the elastographic dynamic range …