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An important advantage of transient elastography compared to harmonic elastography techniques is the separation of shear waves and compression waves. [16] The technique can be implemented in 1D [ 17 ] and 2D which required the development of an ultrafast ultrasound scanner.
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a method for studying the properties of biological materials in living organisms by propagating shear waves at desired frequencies throughout the desired organic tissue. [10] This method uses a vibrator to send the shear waves into the tissue and magnetic resonance imaging to view the response in the ...
MR elastography for detection of liver fibrosis in two patients. The left column shows the anatomy, with the liver outlined. The middle row shows images of propagating shear waves in the liver, captured with the MRE technique. The right column shows elastograms computed from the wave images, with tissue stiffness depicted with on color scale.
Tomoelastography of the abdomen; upper a healthy state, lower with malignancy.. Tomoelastography (from ancient Greek τόμος tomos, “slice” and elastography – imaging of viscoelastic properties) is a medical imaging technique that provides quantitative maps of the mechanical properties of biological soft tissues with high spatial resolution (called elastograms).
The acoustoelastic effect is an effect of finite deformation of non-linear elastic materials. A modern comprehensive account of this can be found in. [1] This book treats the application of the non-linear elasticity theory and the analysis of the mechanical properties of solid materials capable of large elastic deformations.
Elastography has been proven feasible for characterization of ocular tissues. [ 11 ] Tissue exhibits varying degrees of viscoelasticity (time-dependent response to a load), poroelasticity (presence of fluid-filled pores or channels), and anisotropy, as well as a nonlinear relationship between elasticity and the applied load.
The idea is to find relative delay measurements for different transmission events and solve the limited-angle tomographic reconstruction problem using delay measurements and transmission geometry. Compared to shear-wave elastography, SoS imaging has better ex-vivo tissue differentiation [102] for benign and malignant tumors. [103] [104] [105]
Shearography uses the test object itself as the known reference; it shears the image so a double image is created. The superposition of the two images, a shear image, represents the surface of the test object at this unloaded state. This makes the method much less sensitive to external vibrations and noise.