Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging

I Sack - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a versatile imaging technique for mapping the
viscoelastic properties of soft biological tissues. It has been widely used to detect liver …

A review of optical coherence elastography: fundamentals, techniques and prospects

BF Kennedy, KM Kennedy… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In optical coherence elastography, images are formed by mapping a mechanical property of
tissue. Such images, known as elastograms, are formed on the microscale, intermediate …

Analyses of internal structures and defects in materials using physics-informed neural networks

E Zhang, M Dao, GE Karniadakis, S Suresh - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Characterizing internal structures and defects in materials is a challenging task, often
requiring solutions to inverse problems with unknown topology, geometry, material …

EFSUMB guidelines and recommendations on the clinical use of ultrasound elastography. Part 1: Basic principles and technology

J Bamber, D Cosgrove, CF Dietrich… - Ultraschall in der …, 2013 - thieme-connect.com
The technical part of these Guidelines and Recommendations, produced under the auspices
of EFSUMB, provides an introduction to the physical principles and technology on which all …

Physics-informed neural networks for nonhomogeneous material identification in elasticity imaging

E Zhang, M Yin, GE Karniadakis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04525, 2020 - arxiv.org
We apply Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for solving identification problems of
nonhomogeneous materials. We focus on the problem with a background in elasticity …

Quantitative micro-elastography: imaging of tissue elasticity using compression optical coherence elastography

KM Kennedy, L Chin, RA McLaughlin, B Latham… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Probing the mechanical properties of tissue on the microscale could aid in the identification
of diseased tissues that are inadequately detected using palpation or current clinical …

Elasticity imaging using physics-informed neural networks: Spatial discovery of elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio

A Kamali, M Sarabian, K Laksari - Acta biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Elasticity imaging is a technique that discovers the spatial distribution of mechanical
properties of tissue using deformation and force measurements under various loading …

Physics‐informed deep‐learning for elasticity: forward, inverse, and mixed problems

CT Chen, GX Gu - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Elastography is a medical imaging technique used to measure the elasticity of tissues by
comparing ultrasound signals before and after a light compression. The lateral resolution of …

Tomoelastography by multifrequency wave number recovery from time-harmonic propagating shear waves

H Tzschätzsch, J Guo, F Dittmann, S Hirsch… - Medical image …, 2016 - Elsevier
Palpation is one of the most sensitive, effective diagnostic practices, motivating the
quantitative and spatially resolved determination of soft tissue elasticity parameters by …

MR elastography of liver: current status and future perspectives

IS Idilman, J Li, M Yin, SK Venkatesh - Abdominal Radiology, 2020 - Springer
Non-invasive evaluation of liver fibrosis has evolved over the last couple of decades.
Currently, elastography techniques are the most widely used non-invasive methods for …