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Viscoelasticity imaging using ultrasound: parameters and error analysis.
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- Automated In Vivo Sub-Hertz Analysis of Viscoelasticity (SAVE) for Evaluation of Breast Lesions.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2018Article
- Impact of Acoustic Radiation Force Excitation Geometry on Shear Wave Dispersion and Attenuation Estimates.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2018Article
- Modeling Ramp-hold Indentation Measurements based on Kelvin-Voigt Fractional Derivative Model.Measurement science & technology · 2018Article
- Automated Compression Device for Viscoelasticity Imaging.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2017Article
- Virtual Breast Quasi-static Elastography (VBQE).Ultrasonic imaging · 2017Article
- Design and Testing of a Single-Element Ultrasound Viscoelastography System for Point-of-Care Edema Quantification.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2016Article
- Characterization of material properties of soft solid thin layers with acoustic radiation force and wave propagation.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2015Article
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- Model-based elastography: a survey of approaches to the inverse elasticity problem.Physics in medicine and biology · 2012Article
- Integration of crawling waves in an ultrasound imaging system. Part 2: signal processing and applications.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2012Article
- Investigation of temperature-dependent viscoelastic properties of thermal lesions in ex vivo animal liver tissue.Journal of biomechanics · 2009Article
- Fractional derivative models for ultrasonic characterization of polymer and breast tissue viscoelasticity.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2009Article
- pH-induced contrast in viscoelasticity imaging of biopolymers.Physics in medicine and biology · 2009Article
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Techniques are being developed to image viscoelastic features of soft tissues from time-varying strain. A compress-hold-release stress stimulus commonly used in creep-recovery measurements is applied to samples to form images of elastic strain and strain retardance times. While the intended application is diagnostic breast imaging, results in gelatin hydrogels are presented to demonstrate the techniques. The spatiotemporal behaviour of gelatin is described by linear viscoelastic theory formulated for polymeric solids. Measured creep responses of polymers are frequently modelled as sums of exponentials whose time constants describe the delay or retardation of the full strain response. We found the spectrum of retardation times tau to be continuous and bimodal, where the amplitude at each tau represents the relative number of molecular bonds with a given strength and conformation. Such spectra indicate that the molecular weight of the polymer fibres between bonding points is large. Imaging parameters are found by summarizing these complex spectral distributions at each location in the medium with a second-order Voigt rheological model. This simplification reduces the dimensionality of the data for selecting imaging parameters while preserving essential information on how the creeping deformation describes fluid flow and collagen matrix restructuring in the medium. The focus of this paper is on imaging parameter estimation from ultrasonic echo data, and how jitter from hand-held force applicators used for clinical applications propagate through the imaging chain to generate image noise.
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