TISSUE ELASTICITY RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON ULTRASONIC DISPLACEMENT ANDSTRAIN IMAGES

Authors
SKOVORODA AR EMELIANOV SY ODONNELL M
Citation
Ar. Skovoroda et al., TISSUE ELASTICITY RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON ULTRASONIC DISPLACEMENT ANDSTRAIN IMAGES, IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, 42(4), 1995, pp. 747-765
Citations number
40
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic",Acoustics
Journal title
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control → ACNP
ISSN journal
08853010
Volume
42
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
747 - 765
Database
ISI
SICI code
0885-3010(1995)42:4<747:TERBOU>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
A method is presented to reconstruct the elastic modulus of soft tissu e based on ultrasonic displacement and strain images. Incompressible a nd compressible media are considered separately, Problems arising with this method, as well as applications to real measurements on gel-base d, tissue equivalent phantoms, are given. Results show that artifacts present in strain images can be greatly reduced using a hybrid reconst ruction procedure based on numerical solution of the partial different ial equations describing mechanical equilibrium of a deformed medium.