Selected Methods for Imaging Elastic Properties of Biological Tissues

Acoustic Fields and Waves in Solids

1973 • 5,867 citations

Magnetic Resonance Elastography by Direct Visualization of Propagating Acoustic Strain Waves

1995 • 2,008 citations

Biomechanics

1993 • 1,896 citations

Elastic Moduli of Breast and Prostate Tissues under Compression

1998 • 1,660 citations

Shear wave elasticity imaging: a new ultrasonic technology of medical diagnostics

1998 • 1,633 citations

Elastography: A quantitative method for imaging the elasticity of biological tissues

1991 • 1,409 citations

The Phenomenological Theory of Linear Viscoelastic Behavior

1989 • 1,239 citations

Magnetic resonance elastography: Non-invasive mapping of tissue elasticity

2001 • 1,044 citations

Elastography of breast lesions: initial clinical results.

1997 • 943 citations

On the feasibility of remote palpation using acoustic radiation force

2001 • 708 citations

Ultrasound-Stimulated Vibro-Acoustic Spectrography

1998 • 640 citations

Phantom materials for elastography

1997 • 513 citations

Ultrasonic imaging of internal vibration of soft tissue under forced vibration

1990 • 470 citations

Fundamentals and Applications of Ultrasonic Waves

2010 • 445 citations

Shear modulus imaging with 2-D transient elastography

2002 • 399 citations

Speckle tracking methods for ultrasonic elasticity imaging using short-time correlation

1999 • 375 citations

The acoustic radiation force

1984 • 343 citations

Complex-valued stiffness reconstruction for magnetic resonance elastography by algebraic inversion of the differential equation

2001 • 330 citations

Tissue elasticity reconstruction using linear perturbation method

1996 • 327 citations

Fundamentals and Applications of Ultrasonic Waves

2004 • 271 citations

2-D companding for noise reduction in strain imaging

1998 • 230 citations

A new ultrasound tissue-equivalent material.

1980 • 224 citations

Sono-Elasticity: Medical Elasticity Images Derived from Ultrasound Signals in Mechanically Vibrated Targets

1988 • 210 citations

Sonoelastic determination of human skeletal muscle elasticity

1995 • 203 citations

An overlapping subzone technique for MR-based elastic property reconstruction

1999 • 201 citations

Measurement of soft tissue motion using correlation between A-scans

1982 • 175 citations

Characterization of plaque components and vulnerability with intravascular ultrasound elastography

2000 • 173 citations

Local multiscale frequency and bandwidth estimation

2002 • 162 citations

Vibro-acoustic tissue mammography

2002 • 160 citations

Tissue hardness measurement using the radiation force of focused ultrasound

1990 • 141 citations

Acoustic radiation force and streaming induced by focused nonlinear ultrasound in a dissipative medium

1996 • 140 citations

Clutter filters adapted to tissue motion in ultrasound color flow imaging

2002 • 119 citations

Testing the limitations of 2-D companding for strain imaging using phantoms

1998 • 103 citations

Remote measurement of material properties from radiation force induced vibration of an embedded sphere

2002 • 94 citations

MR imaging of shear waves generated by focused ultrasound

2000 • 94 citations

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1996 • 87 citations

A focused ultrasound method for simultaneous diagnostic and therapeutic applications—a simulation study

2001 • 83 citations

On the noninvasive determination of material parameters from a knowledge of elastic displacements theory and numerical simulation

1998 • 82 citations

Non-invasive measurement of mechanical properties of arteries in health and disease

1999 • 82 citations

Ultrasonic study of in vivo kinetic characteristics of human tissues

1986 • 82 citations

Evaluation of a material parameter extraction algorithm using MRI-based displacement measurements

2000 • 80 citations

Shear acoustic properties of soft biological tissues in medical diagnostics

1993 • 74 citations

Application of fourier analysis to clinical study of patterns of tissue movement

1988 • 66 citations

Ultrasonic measurement of small displacements and deformations of tissue

1982 • 50 citations

Maximum-likelihood approach to strain imaging using ultrasound

2000 • 46 citations

Quantitative tissue motion analysis of digitized m-mode images: Gestational differences of fetal lung

1990 • 46 citations

Strain imaging of internal deformation

2002 • 43 citations

Strain Imaging with a Deformable Mesh

1999 • 40 citations

Representations of rapidly oscillating structures on the Doppler display

1985 • 36 citations

Reconstructive Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging for Renal Transplant Diagnosis: Kidney Ex Vivo Results

2000 • 36 citations

Effects of uncompensated relative time companding on a broad-band cross correlator

1985 • 31 citations

Covariance analysis of time delay estimates for strained signals

1998 • 16 citations

Is ultrasonic imaging a sensitive indicator of spatially varying elastic anisotropy?

2002 • 14 citations

Accelerating ultrasonic strain reconstructions by introducing mechanical constraints

2002 • 10 citations

An overlapping subzone technique for MR‐based elastic property reconstruction

1999 • 9 citations

MR imaging of shear waves generated by focused ultrasound

2000 • 2 citations