Artifacts and technical restrictions in 2D shear wave elastography

P Bouchet, JL Gennisson, A Podda… - Ultraschall in der …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
2 D shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) is the latest evolution of elastography techniques
and allows real-time quantitative assessment of the medium stiffness. The aim of this review …

Usability and pitfalls of shear-wave elastography for evaluation of muscle quality and its potential in assessing sarcopenia: a review

S Bastijns, AM De Cock, M Vandewoude… - Ultrasound in Medicine & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sarcopenia is age-related progressive and generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and
strength. Its prevalence is rising, which poses a burden for society because it increases …

Full Characterization of in vivo Muscle as an Elastic, Incompressible, Transversely Isotropic Material Using Ultrasonic Rotational 3D Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging

AE Knight, CA Trutna, NC Rouze… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using a 3D rotational shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) setup, 3D shear wave data were
acquired in the vastus lateralis of a healthy volunteer. The innate tilt between the transducer …

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 …

Evaluation of robustness of S-transform based phase velocity estimation in viscoelastic phantoms and renal transplants

P Kijanka, L Vasconcelos, J Mandrekar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) methods are being used to differentiate healthy
versus diseased tissue on the basis of their viscoelastic mechanical properties. Tissue …

Shear wave elastography: a review on the confounding factors and their potential mitigation in detecting chronic kidney disease

WTH Lim, EH Ooi, JJ Foo, KH Ng, JHD Wong… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
Early detection of chronic kidney disease is important to prevent progression of irreversible
kidney damage, reducing the need for renal transplantation. Shear wave elastography is …

Magnetic resonance elastography of slow and fast shear waves illuminates differences in shear and tensile moduli in anisotropic tissue

JL Schmidt, DJ Tweten, AN Benegal, CH Walker… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Mechanical anisotropy is an important property of fibrous tissues; for example, the
anisotropic mechanical properties of brain white matter may play a key role in the mechanics …

Rectus femoris mimicking ultrasound phantom for muscle mass assessment: Design, research, and training application

N Nakanishi, S Inoue, R Tsutsumi, Y Akimoto… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ultrasound has become widely used as a means to measure the rectus femoris muscle in
the acute and chronic phases of critical illness. Despite its noninvasiveness and …

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 …