Serial assessment of the biomechanical properties of tissues can be used to aid the early
detection and management of pathophysiological conditions, to track the evolution of lesions …

Ultrasound elastography is an emerging set of imaging modalities used to image tissue
elasticity and are often referred to as virtual palpation. These techniques have proven …

Imaging systems are most effective for detection and classification when they exploit contrast
mechanisms specific to particular disease processes. A common example is mammography …

PURPOSE: To prospectively evaluate the elastographic appearance of thyroid gland tumors
and explore the potential sensitivity and specificity of ultrasonographic (US) elastography for …

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 …

Quasi-static ultrasound elastography is an importance imaging technology to assess the
conditions of various diseases through reconstructing the tissue strain from radio frequency …

Elastography is a new imaging modality where elastic tissue parameters related to the
structural organization of normal and pathological tissues are imaged. Basic principles …

A critical step in quasi-static ultrasound elastography is the estimation of time delay between
two frames of radio-frequency (RF) data that are obtained while the tissue is undergoing …

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 …

The goal of this work is to perform a segmentation of the intimamedia thickness (IMT) of
carotid arteries in view of computing various dynamical properties of that tissue, such as the …