Wave-based optical coherence elastography: the 10-year perspective

F Zvietcovich, KV Larin - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
After ten years of progress and innovation, optical coherence elastography (OCE) based on
the propagation of mechanical waves has become one of the major and the most studied …

Comparative study of shear wave-based elastography techniques in optical coherence tomography

F Zvietcovich, JP Rolland, J Yao… - … of biomedical optics, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We compare five optical coherence elastography techniques able to estimate the shear
speed of waves generated by one and two sources of excitation. The first two techniques …

Longitudinal shear waves for elastic characterization of tissues in optical coherence elastography

F Zvietcovich, GR Ge, H Mestre, M Giannetto… - Biomedical optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In dynamic optical coherence elastography (OCE), surface acoustic waves are the
predominant perturbations. They constrain the quantification of elastic modulus to the …

Group versus phase velocity of shear waves in soft tissues

KJ Parker, J Ormachea, Z Hah - Ultrasonic imaging, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Across the varieties of waves that have been studied in physics, it is well established that
group velocities can be significantly greater than or less than phase velocities measured …

Ultrasonic surface acoustic wave elastography: A review of basic theories, technical developments, and medical applications

AA Masud, J Liu - Medical Physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Physiological and pathological changes in tissues often cause changes in tissue
mechanical properties, making tissue elastography an effective modality in medical imaging …

A Scholte wave approach for ultrasonic surface acoustic wave elastography

J Liu, J Leer, SR Aglayomov, SY Emelianov - Medical Physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Pathological changes in tissues are often related to changes in tissue
mechanical properties, making elastography an important tool for medical applications …

Age-related changes in the viscoelasticity of rabbit lens characterised by surface wave dispersion analysis

H Zhang, M Singh, F Zvietcovich, K Larin… - Quantum …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The viscoelastic properties of the young and mature rabbit lenses in situ are evaluated using
wave-based optical coherence elastography (OCE). Surface waves in the crystalline lens …

An approach to viscoelastic characterization of dispersive media by inversion of a general wave propagation model

F Zvietcovich, JP Rolland, KJ Parker - Journal of Innovative Optical …, 2017 - World Scientific
In the characterization of elastic properties of tissue using dynamic optical coherence
elastography, shear/surface waves are propagated and tracked in order to estimate speed …

Perspectives and advances in optical elastography

JP Rolland, F Zvietcovich, RG Gary… - Optical Elastography …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In medicine, both pathological (eg cirrhosis) and non-pathological states (eg aging) can be
characterized by changes in the mechanical properties of biological tissue. The use of …

Shear wave propagation in viscoelastic media: validation of an approximate forward model

F Zvietcovich, N Baddour, JP Rolland… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Many approaches to elastography incorporate shear waves; in some systems these are
produced by acoustic radiation force (ARF) push pulses. Understanding the shape and …