Why are viscosity and nonlinearity bound to make an impact in clinical elastographic diagnosis?

G Rus, IH Faris, J Torres, A Callejas, J Melchor - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The adoption of multiscale approaches by the biomechanical community has caused a
major improvement in quality in the mechanical characterization of soft tissues. The recent …

Viscoelasticity imaging of biological tissues and single cells using shear wave propagation

H Li, G Flé, M Bhatt, Z Qu, S Ghazavi, L Yazdani… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Changes in biomechanical properties of biological soft tissues are often associated with
physiological dysfunctions. Since biological soft tissues are hydrated, viscoelasticity is likely …

Guidelines for finite-element modeling of acoustic radiation force-induced shear wave propagation in tissue-mimicking media

ML Palmeri, B Qiang, S Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound shear wave elastography is emerging as an important imaging modality for
evaluating tissue material properties. In its practice, some systematic biases have been …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound shear wave propagation modeling in general tissue–like viscoelastic materials

M Osika, P Kijanka - Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective This study aims to present an approach for the simulation of ultrasound elastic
waves propagation in a diverse range of heterogeneous tissue-like viscoelastic materials …

In vivo viscoelastic response (VisR) ultrasound for characterizing mechanical anisotropy in lower-limb skeletal muscles of boys with and without Duchenne muscular …

CJ Moore, MC Caughey, DO Meyer, R Emmett… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2018 - Elsevier
Our group has previously found that in silico, mechanical anisotropy may be interrogated by
exciting transversely isotropic materials with geometrically asymmetric acoustic radiation …

Characterizing musculoskeletal tissue mechanics based on shear wave propagation: a systematic review of current methods and reported measurements

J Blank, M Blomquist, L Arant, S Cone… - Annals of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Developing methods for the non-invasive characterization of the mechanics of
musculoskeletal tissues is an ongoing research focus in biomechanics. Often, these …

Robust phase velocity dispersion estimation of viscoelastic materials used for medical applications based on the multiple signal classification method

P Kijanka, B Qiang, P Song… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) is emerging as a promising imaging modality
for the noninvasive evaluation of tissue mechanical properties. One of the ways to explore …

An automatic differentiation-based gradient method for inversion of the shear wave equation in magnetic resonance elastography: specific application in fibrous soft …

S Chatelin, I Charpentier, N Corbin… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantitative and accurate measurement of in vivo mechanical properties using dynamic
elastography has been the scope of many research efforts over the past two decades. Most …

Shear complex modulus imaging utilizing frequency combination in the least mean square/algebraic Helmholtz inversion

DT Tran, NTT Ha, LQ Hai, DN Tran… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2024 - Springer
Complex shear modulus imaging (CSMI) is a technique used to determine the elasticity and
viscosity of soft tissues; it aids in investigating tissue structure and detecting tumors. CSMI …

Analytical solution for converging elliptic shear wave in a bounded transverse isotropic viscoelastic material with nonhomogeneous outer boundary

M Guidetti, TJ Royston - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Dynamic elastography methods—based on optical, ultrasonic, or magnetic resonance
imaging—are being developed for quantitatively mapping the shear viscoelastic properties …