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 …

Acoustic radiation force: a review of four mechanisms for biomedical applications

AP Sarvazyan, OV Rudenko… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radiation force is a universal phenomenon in any wave motion where the wave energy
produces a static or transient force on the propagation medium. The theory of acoustic …

Resonance, velocity, dispersion, and attenuation of ultrasound‐induced shear wave propagation in blood clot in vitro models

G Bosio, F Destrempes, L Yazdani… - … of Ultrasound in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Improve the characterization of mechanical properties of blood clots. Parameters
derived from shear wave (SW) velocity and SW amplitude spectra were determined for gel …

Phase velocity estimation with expanded bandwidth in viscoelastic phantoms and tissues

P Kijanka, MW Urban - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) is a technique used to measure mechanical
properties to evaluate healthy and pathological soft tissues. SWE typically employs an …

Ultrasound shear wave attenuation imaging for grading liver steatosis in volunteers and patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A pilot study

L Yazdani, I Rafati, M Gesnik, F Nicolet… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective The aims of the work described here were to assess shear wave attenuation
(SWA) in volunteers and patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and …

[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 …

The revisited frequency-shift method for shear wave attenuation computation and imaging

L Yazdani, M Bhatt, I Rafati, A Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound (US) shear wave (SW) elastography has been widely studied and implemented
on clinical systems to assess the elasticity of living organs. Imaging of SW attenuation …

Hydrophone spatial averaging correction for acoustic exposure measurements from arrays—Part I: Theory and impact on diagnostic safety indexes

KA Wear - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports underestimation of mechanical index (MI) and nonscanned thermal index
for bone near focus (TIB) due to hydrophone spatial averaging effects that occur during …

Viscoelastic parameter estimation using simulated shear wave motion and convolutional neural networks

L Vasconcelos, P Kijanka, MW Urban - Computers in biology and medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) techniques have been very useful for the
analysis of tissue rheological properties, but there are still obstacles for robust evaluation of …

Dispersion curve calculation in viscoelastic tissue-mimicking materials using non-parametric, parametric, and high-resolution methods

P Kijanka, MW Urban - Ultrasonics, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultrasound shear wave elastography is a modality used for noninvasive, quantitative
evaluation of soft tissue mechanical properties. A common way of exploring the tissue …