Conventional diagnostic ultrasound images of the anatomy (as opposed to blood flow)
reveal differences in the acoustic properties of soft tissues (mainly echogenicity but also, to …

Imaging has become an essential tool in modern radiotherapy (RT), being used to plan dose
delivery prior to treatment and verify target position before and during treatment. Ultrasound …

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of real-time freehand elastography by
using the extended combined autocorrelation method (CAM) to differentiate benign from …

Objectives To evaluate whether real‐time elastography, a new, non‐invasive method for the
diagnosis of breast cancer, improves the differentiation and characterization of benign and …

BACKGROUND: Conventional gray scale ultrasound has a low sensitivity and specificity for
prostate cancer detection. Better imaging modalities are needed. OBJECTIVE: To determine …

It is well known that some diseases, such as cancer, lead to a change of tissue hardness (ie
the so-called elasticity modulus). The reconstruction of tissue elasticity provides the …

The elastic properties of tissues are expected to provide novel information for use in
diagnosing pathologic changes in tissues and discriminating between malignant and benign …

In this paper we introduce a new speckle tracking method that is based on the standard time-
domain cross correlation strain estimation (TDE). We call this method time-domain cross …

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to develop a more reliable
ultrasonic elastographic diagnostic method than a five-point scoring system by analyzing the …

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 …