The basic principles of using sonographic techniques for imaging the elastic properties of
tissues are described, with particular emphasis on elastography. After some preliminaries …

Elastography is a method that can ultimately generate several new kinds of images, called
elastograms. As such, all the properties of elastograms are different from the familiar …

We review the principles of elastography and some of its accomplishments to date in the
area of breast imaging in vivo. We present a literature review of a variety of methods for the …

We describe a new method for quantitative imaging of strain and elastic modulus
distributions in soft tissues. The method is based on external tissue compression, with …

Recently, a number of methods have been developed that make it possible to image the
elastic properties of soft tissues. Because certain types of tissues such as malignant lesions …

Elastography is a new ultrasonic imaging technique that produces images (elastograms) of
the elastic properties of compliant tissue. To determine the Young's modulus it is necessary …

We present a review of elastography from a systems point of view. We show that
elastography can be viewed as a cascade of two distinct processes. The first process …

This paper presents the tradeoffs in elastographic imaging. Elastography is viewed as a new
imaging modality and presented in terms of three fundamental concepts that constitute the …

The mechanical attributes of soft tissues depend on their molecular building blocks (fat,
collagen etc.), on the microscopic and macroscopic structural organization of these blocks …

Elastography is a method for imaging the elastic properties of compliant tissues which
produces gray scale elasticity images called elastograms. The elastograms of phantoms …