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Journal Article The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · November 2025 Elastic properties of materials can be measured by observing shear wave propagation following localized, impulsive excitations and comparing the spatiotemporal signals with signals calculated using a mechanical model of the material. These calculations are ... Full text Cite

Evaluation of 3D ARFI imaging of prostate cancer: diagnostic reliability and concordance with MpMRI.

Journal Article Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · April 2025 PurposeThe prevalence of prostate cancer (PCa) necessitates advanced diagnostic approaches for detection and lesion characterization. Utilizing two patient cohorts (n = 85), this study analyzes a custom-designed 3D ultrasonic acoustic radiation fo ... Full text Cite

Clinical Feasibility of 3-D Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging for Targeted Prostate Biopsy Guidance.

Journal Article Ultrason Imaging · March 2025 We have developed a 3-D acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) prostate imaging system to identify regions suspicious for cancer and guide a targeted prostate biopsy in a single visit. The system uses a side-fire transrectal probe and an automated rotatio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Volumetric Mechanical Characterization of in vivo Skeletal Muscle Assessed with 3D-Rotational Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (3D-RSWEI)

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2025 We present a volumetric characterization method for 3D-RSWEI data in in vivo skeletal muscle, in which shear wave speeds (SWS) are quantified at multiple rotational angles through multiple axial depths within the depth-of-field. We have shown in the vastus ... Full text Cite

Parameterization of the stress-strain relation for modeling wave propagation in nearly incompressible transversely isotropic materials.

Journal Article The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · December 2024 The stress-strain relation in a transversely isotropic (TI) material is described by five independent parameters. In the incompressible limit, only three parameters are required to describe shear wave propagation. Existing material parameterization models ... Full text Cite

Multiparametric Ultrasound Imaging of Prostate Cancer Using Deep Neural Networks.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · November 2024 OBJECTIVE: A deep neural network (DNN) was trained to generate a multiparametric ultrasound (mpUS) volume from four input ultrasound-based modalities (acoustic radiation force impulse [ARFI] imaging, shear wave elasticity imaging [SWEI], quantitative ultra ... Full text Link to item Cite

Automated Spontaneous Echo Contrast Detection Using a Multisequence Attention Convolutional Neural Network.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · June 2024 ObjectiveSpontaneous echo contrast (SEC) is a vascular ultrasound finding associated with increased thromboembolism risk. However, identification requires expert determination and clinician time to report. We developed a deep learning model that c ... Full text Cite

Rotational 3D shear wave elasticity imaging: Effect of knee flexion on 3D shear wave propagation in in vivo vastus lateralis.

Journal Article J Mech Behav Biomed Mater · February 2024 Skeletal muscle is a complex tissue, exhibiting not only direction-dependent material properties (commonly modeled as a transversely isotropic material), but also changes in observed material properties due to factors such as contraction and passive stretc ... Full text Link to item Cite

TPU Based Deep Learning Image Enhancement for Real-Time Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Journal Article IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging · January 1, 2024 Handheld ultrasound devices are becoming more prevalent in point-of-care ultrasound workflows. However, these devices are computationally constrained which challenges the advances in deep learning methodology for real-time use on mobile Point-of-care ultra ... Full text Cite

Characterization of Anisotropic Lattice Structured Phantoms Using 3D-Rotational Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (3D-RSWEI)

Conference IEEE Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Joint Symposium Uffc Js 2024 Proceedings · January 1, 2024 We present a 3D-RSWEI characterization of anisotropic lattice phantoms. Shear wave speeds versus rotational angle were measured while the lattices were submerged in water and after embedding in a softer, isotropic polyvinyl alcohol cryogel. In both cases, ... Full text Cite

Multidimensional SWEI algorithms in rotationally sampled media: Assessing the accuracy of phase velocity reconstruction in transversely isotropic media

Conference IEEE Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Joint Symposium Uffc Js 2024 Proceedings · January 1, 2024 In this work we propose and validate an algorithm to estimate phase velocity in anisotropic media using 3D rotational shear wave elasticity imaging. We propose a novel spatial and temporal weighting scheme to achieve millimeter-scale spatial and millisecon ... Full text Cite

Algorithms for Mapping Elastic Modulus (aMEM) Challenge

Conference IEEE Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Joint Symposium Uffc Js 2024 Proceedings · January 1, 2024 Elastographic imaging (or elastography) is a powerful, non-invasive, and multiscale technique that can measure the biomechanical properties of tissues. The rapidly expanding interest in elastography in both clinical and preclinical medical research domains ... Full text Cite

A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach to Identify Preventable Childhood Hearing Loss.

Journal Article Ear and hearing · September 2023 ObjectiveChildhood hearing loss has well-known, lifelong consequences. Infection-related hearing loss disproportionately affects underserved communities yet can be prevented with early identification and treatment. This study evaluates the utility ... Full text Cite

Combined ARFI and Shear Wave Imaging of Prostate Cancer: Optimizing Beam Sequences and Parameter Reconstruction Approaches.

Journal Article Ultrason Imaging · July 2023 This study demonstrates the implementation of a shear wave reconstruction algorithm that enables concurrent acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging and shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) of prostate cancer and zonal anatomy. The combined ARFI/SWE ... Full text Link to item Cite

Repeatability of Rotational 3-D Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging Measurements in Skeletal Muscle.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · March 2023 Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) usually assumes an isotropic material; however, skeletal muscle is typically modeled as a transversely isotropic material with independent shear wave speeds in the directions along and across the muscle fibers. To captu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physics-informed neural networks for modeling acoustic radiation force-induced shear wave propagation and the reconstruction of material parameters from observations

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2023 Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) solve differential equations and give compressed, analytic solutions free of discretization. Previous work used PINNs to model shear wave propagation from a spherical Gaussian impulse in an incompressible, transvers ... Full text Cite

Parametric Analysis of SV Mode Shear Waves in Transversely Isotropic Materials Using Ultrasonic Rotational 3-D SWEI.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control · November 2022 Ultrasonic rotational 3-D shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) has been used to induce and evaluate multiple shear wave modes, including both the shear horizontal (SH) and shear vertical (SV) modes in in vivo muscle. Observations of both the SH and SV mode ... Full text Link to item Cite

Full Characterization of in vivo Muscle as an Elastic, Incompressible, Transversely Isotropic Material Using Ultrasonic Rotational 3D Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Med Imaging · January 2022 Using a 3D rotational shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) setup, 3D shear wave data were acquired in the vastus lateralis of a healthy volunteer. The innate tilt between the transducer face and the muscle fibers results in the excitation of multiple shear ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Open-Source Radon-Transform Shear Wave Speed Estimator with Masking Functionality to Isolate Different Shear-Wave Modes

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2022 The Radon Transform (RT) approach is a common method used to estimate shear wave trajectory and speed in ultrasound shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI). The RT calculates the sum of 2D spatiotemporal data amplitude under each potential linear trajectory t ... Full text Cite

On the correlation between knee flexion and 3D shear wave speed and amplitude in in vivo vastus lateralis

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2022 We are investigating the potential for shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) derived material parameters to serve as biomarkers for skeletal muscle health. We consider muscle as a transversely isotropic (TI) material and use rotational 3D-SWEI acquisitions ... Full text Cite

Modeling Shear Wave Propagation in an Incompressible, Transversely Isotropic Material Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2022 There is increasing interest in using ultrasound shear wave elasticity imaging to study tissues described as incompressible, transversely isotropic (ITI) materials, such as skeletal muscle. In silico modeling helps us predict and understand shear wave beha ... Full text Cite

Screening and Image-Guided Targeted Biopsy of Prostate Cancer Using 3D Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2022 We have developed a 3D acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging system that screens for prostate cancer and provides imaging guidance for a targeted biopsy in a single clinic visit. ARFI and B-mode volumes are acquired by using a rotation stage to s ... Full text Cite

Liver stiffness measurement techniques: Basics

Chapter · January 1, 2022 Liver stiffness measurements can be estimated by multiple techniques. This chapter describes the basic principles of the various methods. The strain elastography techniques are briefly described as the acoustic radiation force imaging (ARFI) technique is n ... Full text Cite

Artifacts in liver stiffness evaluation

Chapter · January 1, 2022 Recognizing and understanding artifacts is critical to performing accurate liver stiffness measurements. Artifacts are very common in liver stiffness measurements. There are several types of artifacts that can occur. Artifacts can occur due to poor acquisi ... Full text Cite

Prostate Cancer Detection Using 3-D Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · July 2021 Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) B-mode imaging provides insufficient sensitivity and specificity for prostate cancer (PCa) targeting when used for biopsy guidance. Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) is an elasticity imaging technique that has been commerci ... Full text Link to item Cite

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Displacement Estimation in ARFI Imaging.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · July 2021 Ultrasound elasticity imaging in soft tissue with acoustic radiation force requires the estimation of displacements, typically on the order of several microns, from serially acquired raw data A-lines. In this work, we implement a fully convolutional neural ... Full text Cite

Semi-automated weak annotation for deep neural network skin thickness measurement.

Journal Article Ultrason Imaging · July 2021 Correctly calculating skin stiffness with ultrasound shear wave elastography techniques requires an accurate measurement of skin thickness. We developed and compared two algorithms, a thresholding method and a deep learning method, to measure skin thicknes ... Full text Link to item Cite

Quantifying Skin Stiffness in Graft-Versus-Host Disease, Morphea, and Systemic Sclerosis Using Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging and Shear Wave Elastography.

Journal Article J Invest Dermatol · April 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Radiological Society of North America/Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance Shear Wave Speed Bias Quantification in Elastic and Viscoelastic Phantoms.

Journal Article J Ultrasound Med · March 2021 OBJECTIVES: To quantify the bias of shear wave speed (SWS) measurements between different commercial ultrasonic shear elasticity systems and a magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) system in elastic and viscoelastic phantoms. METHODS: Two elastic phantoms, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Shear wave dispersion as a potential biomarker for cervical remodeling during pregnancy: evidence from a non-human primate model.

Journal Article Frontiers in physics · February 2021 Shear wave dispersion (variation of phase velocity with frequency) occurs in tissues with layered and anisotropic microstructure and viscous components, such as the uterine cervix. This phenomenon, mostly overlooked in previous applications of cervical She ... Full text Cite

Deep neural network for multiparametric ultrasound imaging of prostate cancer

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2021 This study presents a deep neural network (DNN) for generating a multiparametric ultrasound (mpUS) volume of the prostate by combining data from acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging, shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI), B-mode imaging, and quan ... Full text Cite

Group Shear Wave Speed Viscoelastic Analysis using 3D Rotational Volumetric Shear Wave Imaging in Relaxed and Contracted in vivo Muscle

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2021 To characterize muscle tissue as a viscoelastic transversely isotropic material, we use rotational volumetric shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) and group speed viscoelastic analysis. We performed these measurements in vivo in the vastus lateralis of two ... Full text Cite

Quantification of Skeletal Muscle Fiber Orientation in 3D Ultrasound B-Modes

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2021 Skeletal muscle exhibits transverse isotropy with a symmetry axis in the muscle fiber direction. Characterization of muscle mechanical properties with ultrasound shear wave elasticity imaging requires an accurate measurement of the 3D muscle fiber orientat ... Full text Cite

Factors Affecting in vivo SH and SV Mode Wave Propagation in vastus lateralis Muscle at Varying Knee Flexion Angles Using Ultrasonic Rotational 3D SWEI

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2021 We previously have demonstrated the use of ultrasonic rotational 3D SWEI to measure all three mechanical properties necessary to fully characterize the vastus lateralis muscle in vivo as an incompressible transversely isotropic material: transverse shear m ... Full text Cite

Deep Learning Based Quantitative Uncertainty Estimation for Ultrasound Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2021 Ultrasound shear wave elasticity (SWE) imaging measures tissue stiffness by tracking the shear wave speed (SWS), which is directly related to elastic moduli. One application of SWE is to quantify cervical softening during pregnancy in an effort to detect r ... Full text Cite

Multiparametric Ultrasound for Targeting Prostate Cancer: Combining ARFI, SWEI, QUS and B-Mode.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · December 2020 Diagnosing prostate cancer through standard transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsy is challenging because of the sensitivity and specificity limitations of B-mode imaging. We used a linear support vector machine (SVM) to combine standard TRUS imaging ... Full text Link to item Cite

Viscoelastic Characterization in Muscle using Group Speed Analysis and Volumetric Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · September 7, 2020 Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) typically assumes a homogeneous, isotropic, elastic material to relate shear wave speed (SWS) to stiffness; however muscle is anisotropic and viscoelastic (VE). To characterize this complex tissue, we combine 3D SWEI (a ... Full text Cite

Demonstration of Complex Shear Wave Patterns in Skeletal Muscle in vivo Using 3D SWEI

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · September 7, 2020 Shear wave elastography imaging (SWEI) of skeletal muscle has previously been used to identify speeds along and across the fibers, with limited success and low repeatability. In this work we show how a tilted configuration can be used to fully characterize ... Full text Cite

Evaluating Image Quality Improvement in Multiparametric Ultrasound Imaging of Prostate Cancer by Combining ARFI, SWEI, B-mode, and QUS

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · September 7, 2020 This study demonstrates the application of multiparametric ultrasound (mpUS) imaging techniques for combining data from four individual modalities: acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging, shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI), B-mode imaging, and q ... Full text Cite

Does Ultrasonic Data Format Matter for Deep Neural Networks?

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · September 7, 2020 Received ultrasonic data are carrier-modulated broadband signals and are converted to different formats depending on the application. Common formats extracted from the raw radio-frequency (RF) data include a complex-valued analytic signal, the envelope/mag ... Full text Cite

UltraNet: Deep Learning Tools for Modeling Acoustic Wall Clutter

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · September 7, 2020 Ultrasonic image quality is often challenged by speckle noise and acoustic clutter which reduces the anatomical conspicuity of medically relevant features. Deep learning approaches show promise in correcting these sources of noise, but there currently lack ... Full text Cite

MimickNet, Mimicking Clinical Image Post- Processing Under Black-Box Constraints.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on medical imaging · June 2020 Image post-processing is used in clinical-grade ultrasound scanners to improve image quality (e.g., reduce speckle noise and enhance contrast). These post-processing techniques vary across manufacturers and are generally kept proprietary, which presents a ... Full text Cite

Measurement of Viscoelastic Material Model Parameters Using Fractional Derivative Group Shear Wave Speeds in Simulation and Phantom Data.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · February 2020 While ultrasound shear wave elastography originally focused on tissue stiffness under the assumption of elasticity, recent work has investigated the higher order, viscoelastic properties of the tissue. This article presents a method to use group shear wave ... Full text Cite

Tractable calculation of the Green's tensor for shear wave propagation in an incompressible, transversely isotropic material.

Journal Article Physics in medicine and biology · January 2020 Assessing material properties from observations of shear wave propagation following an acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) excitation is difficult in anisotropic materials because of the complex relations among the propagation direction, shear wave pol ... Full text Cite

Characterizing liver stiffness with acoustic radiation force

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Acoustic radiation force elasticity imaging (ARFI) methods have become a viable clinical option to noninvasively evaluate the stiffness of the liver to evaluate fibrosis stage. Unlike external vibration-based methods such as transient elastography, acousti ... Full text Cite

Verasonics Processing Test Data

Dataset · October 31, 2019 Featured Publication Ultrasound elasticity imaging has been developed over the last decade to estimate tissue stiffness. Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) quantifies tissue stiffness by measuring the speed of propagating shear waves following acoustic radiation force excita ... Full text Cite

Multiparametric Ultrasound for the Targeting of Prostate Cancer using ARFI, SWEI, B-mode, and QUS

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 1, 2019 Prostate cancer diagnosis using standard transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) and systematic biopsy is challenging. To improve the performance of TRUS imaging, we combined it with acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging and shear wave elasticity imaging ( ... Full text Cite

Comparison of Deep Learning and Classical Image Processing for Skin Segmentation

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 1, 2019 Skin stiffness correlates with the progression of sclerotic skin diseases. Ultrasound shear wave elasticity imaging techniques can measure skin stiffness, but an accurate skin thickness measurement is required to compute the elastic modulus. We explored di ... Full text Cite

Analysis of Factors Affecting Shear Wave Speed in in vivo Skin

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 1, 2019 In 10 patients with cutaneous sclerotic skin conditions, shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) was used to measure shear wave speed in the skin in vivo. The dermis was segmented using an thresholding-based algorithm and group speeds were found in both the d ... Full text Cite

MimickNet, Matching Clinical Post-Processing under Realistic Black-Box Constraints

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 1, 2019 Image post-processing is used in clinical-grade ultrasound scanners to improve image quality (e.g., reduce speckle noise and enhance contrast). These post-processing techniques vary across manufacturers and are generally kept proprietary, which presents a ... Full text Cite

Bayesian Shear Wave Speed Reconstruction with an On-Axis ARFI Prior

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 1, 2019 Shear wave elasticity image quality can be degraded by poor signal-to-noise ratio or spatial resolution due to low shear wave amplitudes and reconstruction kernel size. A framework is presented for incorporating additional information about relative stiffn ... Full text Cite

Large Field-Of-View Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging with Combined On- and Off-Axis Stiffness Estimation for High Frame Rate Hepatic HCC Screening

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 1, 2019 Heptaocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a commonly occurring cancer and is currently detected using B-mode ultrasound scans in at-risk patients. However, B-mode ultrasound has low sensitivity for HCC, particularly for early stage disease. Ultrasound elasticity i ... Full text Cite

Robust Model-Based Viscoelastic Characterization of QIBA Phantoms through Fractional Derivative Group Shear Wave Speeds

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 1, 2019 We present a technique for viscoelastic material characterization from group shear wave speeds measured at various fractional derivative orders. In this work, we fit experimental group shear wave speeds at a range of fractional derivative orders to a look ... Full text Cite

A Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Rapid Displacement Estimation in ARFI Imaging

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 1, 2019 Ultrasound elasticity imaging in soft tissue with acoustic radiation force requires extracting displacement information, typically on the order of several microns, from raw data. In this work, we implement a fully convolutional neural network for ultrasoun ... Full text Cite

Evaluation of sensitivity of ultrasound imaging biomarkers of cervical viscosity based on shear wave elasticity imaging: A simulation study

Conference Aip Conference Proceedings · April 10, 2019 Our long-term goal is to quantify changes in the viscoelastic behavior of the uterine cervix during pregnancy using Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging. In this study we compared the sensitivity of two quantitative imaging biomarkers of viscosity extracted from ... Full text Cite

Corrections to "On the Quantitative Potential of Viscoelastic Response (VisR) Ultrasound Using the One-Dimensional Mass-Spring-Damper Model".

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · January 2019 In the original publication of this paper [1], equation (3) contained sign errors for the amplitude of the third and fourth Heaviside functions. The corrected equation is shown in the following: [Formula: see text]. ... Full text Cite

On-Axis Acoustic Radiation Force-Based Elasticity Measurement in Homogeneous and Layered, Skin-Mimicking Phantoms

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 17, 2018 Shear wave elasticity imaging has been difficult in inhomogeneous tissue, such as skin, where thin layers cause bias in shear wave speed estimates. Instead, we propose an FEM-based look-up table to estimate shear modulus at the on-axis location rather than ... Full text Cite

Investigating the Degree of Shear Wave Speed Anisotropy as a Function of Studied Ventricular Zone

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 17, 2018 In order for shear wave elastography (SWE)to be a quantitative imaging tool for myocardial stiffness, it is important to eliminate or reduce the non-disease related factors that affect myocardial stiffness estimation. It is known for shear wave speed repre ... Full text Cite

QIBA Ultrasound Shear Wave Speed Digital Phantoms

Dataset · October 15, 2018 Ultrasound shear wave elastography is emerging as an important imaging modality for evaluating tissue material properties. In its practice, some systematic biases have been associated with ultrasound frequencies, focal depths and configuration, and transdu ... Full text Cite

Characterization of Viscoelastic Materials Using Group Shear Wave Speeds.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · May 2018 Recent investigations of viscoelastic properties of materials have been performed by observing shear wave propagation following localized, impulsive excitations, and Fourier decomposing the shear wave signal to parameterize the frequency-dependent phase ve ... Full text Cite

Impact of Acoustic Radiation Force Excitation Geometry on Shear Wave Dispersion and Attenuation Estimates.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · April 2018 Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) characterizes the mechanical properties of human tissues to differentiate healthy from diseased tissue. Commercial scanners tend to reconstruct shear wave speeds for a region of interest using time-of-flight methods rep ... Full text Cite

Quantitative assessment of cervical softening during pregnancy in the Rhesus macaque with shear wave elasticity imaging.

Journal Article Physics in medicine and biology · April 2018 Abnormal parturition, e.g. pre- or post-term birth, is associated with maternal and neonatal morbidity and increased economic burden. This could potentially be prevented by accurate detection of abnormal softening of the uterine cervix. Shear wave elastici ... Full text Cite

Detection of Changes in Cervical Softness Using Shear Wave Speed in Early versus Late Pregnancy: An in Vivo Cross-Sectional Study.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · March 2018 The aim of this study was to assess the ability of shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) to detect changes in cervical softness between early and late pregnancy. Using a cross-sectional study design, shear wave speed (SWS) measurements were obtained from wo ... Full text Cite

Evaluating the Benefit of Elevated Acoustic Output in Harmonic Motion Estimation in Ultrasonic Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · February 2018 Harmonic imaging techniques have been applied in ultrasonic elasticity imaging to obtain higher-quality tissue motion tracking data. However, harmonic tracking can be signal-to-noise ratio and penetration depth limited during clinical imaging, resulting in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Anisotropic Constructive Shearwave Interference Measurement of Transversely Anisotropic Materials

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2018 Fibrous tissues, such as skeletal muscle, tendons, and myocardium, have been shown to support orientation-dependent shear wave propagation. It has been shown that shear waves can be induced and measured with ultrasound to assess such anisotropy. Existing m ... Full text Cite

Prostate Shear Wave Elastography: Multiresolution Reconstruction Dependence on Push Beam Spacing

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2018 This study demonstrates the implementation of a multiresolution shear wave tracking algorithm that enables elasticity imaging of prostate cancer and zonal anatomy. The combined ARFI/SWEI sequence uses closely-spaced push beams across the lateral field of v ... Full text Cite

Correlation Between 3D ARFI and Quantitative Imaging Metrics from SWEI and Multi-Parametric MRI in Vivo in Normal and Cancerous Prostate Tissue

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2018 Prostate lesions and healthy regions from 12 radical prostatectomy patients were identified in acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging, shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI), and multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) apparent diffusion ... Full text Cite

Large Field-of-View Shear Wave Imaging for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2018 Patients with liver cirrhosis or Hepatitis C have an increased likelihood of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and are screened every six months with ultrasound; however, B-mode has demonstrated a low sensitivity for detecting small, early stage HC ... Full text Cite

Notice of Removal: Investigating the impact of elevated acoustic output in B-mode harmonic imaging and harmonic motion tracking

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 Harmonic imaging techniques are widely used in B-mode abdominal imaging and motion tracking in shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) to reduce clutter and improve data quality. Harmonic imaging can be both signal-to-noise (SNR) and penetration depth (PD) li ... Full text Cite

Comparison of SWEI methods for measuring the frequency dependent phase velocity and attenuation in viscoelastic materials

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 This study compares three analysis methods to determine the frequency dependent phase velocity c(ω) and attenuation α(ω) from shear wave propagation in viscoelastic materials following acoustic radiation force impulse excitations. The analysis methods cons ... Full text Cite

Constructive shearwave imaging: Feasibility and improvements in SNR

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) measures mechanical properties of tissues and has been used to characterize tissue stiffness, but SWEI is limited by low displacement SNR in stiff media such as skin. A method for repeatable measurement of skin elastici ... Full text Cite

Group-shearwave based viscoelastic parameter estimation: Analysis of sources of bias

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging is used to assess liver fibrosis, as shear wave speed (SWS) correlates with fibrosis stage. We have previously proposed a group SWS-based method to derive the tissue's stiffness (μ) and viscosity (η) using an analytic solution ... Full text Cite

Group shear wave based viscoelastic parameter estimation in SWEI: Analysis of sources of bias

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 This study assesses the reliance of group shear wave speed calculations on the spatial dependence (source geometry) of an Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse excitation in viscoelastic materials. Furthermore, this work examines the impact of motion filtering ... Full text Cite

Constructive shearwave interference (CSI): Concept and feasibility

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 This paper introduces the design of a constructive shear wave interference (CSI) probe: a hemi-torroid annular mechanical ring array with a center ultrasonic tracking element. The idea is to induce shear wave displacements in a ring, then track the resulta ... Full text Cite

Notice of Removal: Comparison of methods for measuring the frequency dependent phase velocity and attenuation in viscoelastic materials

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 Shear wave (SW) propagation in viscoelastic materials is characterized by a complex, frequency-dependent shear modulus μ(f). Measurements of μ(f) typically require Fourier transform techniques to decompose an observed SW signal into discrete frequency comp ... Full text Cite

Notice of Removal: Biological and experimental factors affecting the assessment of cervical softening during pregnancy with shear wave elasticity imaging

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 Spontaneous preterm birth, the foremost source of neonatal mortality, could potentially be prevented by objectively detecting abnormal changes in the uterine cervix. Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (SWEI) biomarkers can quantify cervical softening that prece ... Full text Cite

Notice of Removal: Biological factors affecting shear wave speed measurements in the Rhesus macaque non-pregnant cervix

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 We are studying shear wave speed (SWS) as a biomarker to detect abnormal cervical softening that could lead to spontaneous preterm birth. Elucidating factors affecting the stiffness of the in vivo non-pregnant (NP) cervix is the first step to understand th ... Full text Cite

Notice of Removal: Shear wave speed: Becoming a clinically valuable biomarker

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (SWEI) utilizes acoustic radiation force excitations to generate transient shear waves in soft tissues. The speed of these propagating shear waves can be used to characterize the viscoelastic properties of soft tissues. Multip ... Full text Cite

Notice of Removal: Parameters impacting accuracy of ARFI-derived stiffness ratios: A simulation study with implications on measurement of dynamic myocardial stiffness

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 31, 2017 Measurement of myocardial stiffness using ultrasound-based transient elastography has received significant attention in recent years. The mechanical properties of myocardium not only undergo cyclic dynamic changes over the cardiac cycle but also change on ... Full text Cite

Accounting for the Spatial Observation Window in the 2-D Fourier Transform Analysis of Shear Wave Attenuation.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · October 2017 Recent measurements of shear wave propagation in viscoelastic materials have been analyzed by constructing the 2-D Fourier transform (2DFT) of the shear wave signal and measuring the phase velocity c(ω) and attenuation α(ω) from the peak location and full ... Full text Cite

Quantifying Image Quality Improvement Using Elevated Acoustic Output in B-Mode Harmonic Imaging.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · October 2017 Tissue harmonic imaging has been widely used in abdominal imaging because of its significant reduction in acoustic noise compared with fundamental imaging. However, tissue harmonic imaging can be limited by both signal-to-noise ratio and penetration depth ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessment of Structural Heterogeneity and Viscosity in the Cervix Using Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging: Initial Results from a Rhesus Macaque Model.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · April 2017 Shear wave elasticity imaging has shown promise in evaluation of the pregnant cervix. Changes in shear wave group velocity have been attributed exclusively to changes in stiffness. This assumes homogeneity within the region of interest and purely elastic t ... Full text Cite

Ultrasonic Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging Sequencing and Data Processing Using a Verasonics Research Scanner.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · January 2017 Ultrasound elasticity imaging has been developed over the last decade to estimate tissue stiffness. Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) quantifies tissue stiffness by measuring the speed of propagating shear waves following acoustic radiation force excita ... Full text Cite

Guidelines for Finite-Element Modeling of Acoustic Radiation Force-Induced Shear Wave Propagation in Tissue-Mimicking Media.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · January 2017 Ultrasound shear wave elastography is emerging as an important imaging modality for evaluating tissue material properties. In its practice, some systematic biases have been associated with ultrasound frequencies, focal depths and configuration, and transdu ... Full text Cite

Robust characterization of viscoelastic materials from measurements of group shear wave speeds

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · November 1, 2016 This study describes a new method to determine the stiffness μ0 and viscosity η of viscoelastic materials by observing shear wave propagation following localized, impulsive excitations and measuring the group shear wave speeds Vdisp a ... Full text Cite

Comparison between 3D ARFI imaging and mpMRI in detecting clinically-significant prostate cancer lesions

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · November 1, 2016 Current prostate cancer screening methods involve non-targeted needle biopsies and detection of clinically-insignificant lesions that receive excessive treatments, exposing patients to unnecessary adverse side effects and placing a burden on our health car ... Full text Cite

Dispersion analysis in skin using FEM: Characterizing the effects of the lower boundary material on the propagation of shear waves

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · November 1, 2016 Skin represents a complex structure for the quantification of viscoelastic (VE) properties using shear waves. Wave propagation through skin has been modeled as propagating both as a Lamb wave and as a Rayleigh wave, but both assumptions are limited due to ... Full text Cite

Single track location Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging of the liver with reduced propagation windows

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · November 1, 2016 Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (SWEI) measures the elastic properties of the liver noninvasively, with application to staging liver fibrosis. To make a useful estimate, a shear wave of sufficient amplitude must be generated in the liver. Tracking speckle si ... Full text Cite

On the feasibility of estimating ultrasonic shear wave attenuation using amplitude-based methods

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · November 1, 2016 Human tissues are known to be viscoelastic (VE), a type of material described by two behaviors: dispersion and attenuation. Several methods have been developed to measure shear wave dispersion, but quantifying shear wave attenuation (α) has been less succe ... Full text Cite

On-axis acoustic radiation force-based stiffness estimation in phantoms

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · November 1, 2016 This research quantitatively estimates stiffness by measuring the time-to-peak displacement directly along the acoustic radiation force (ARF) axis in contrast to shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) that measures shear wave velocity at lateral locations. W ... Full text Cite

Estimation of Shear Wave Speed in the Rhesus Macaques' Uterine Cervix.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · September 2016 Cervical softness is a critical parameter in pregnancy. Clinically, preterm birth is associated with premature cervical softening and postdates birth is associated with delayed cervical softening. In practice, the assessment of softness is subjective, base ... Full text Cite

On the Quantitative Potential of Viscoelastic Response (VisR) Ultrasound Using the One-Dimensional Mass-Spring-Damper Model.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · September 2016 Viscoelastic response (VisR) ultrasound is an acoustic radiation force (ARF)-based imaging method that fits induced displacements to a one-dimensional (1-D) mass-spring-damper (MSD) model to estimate the ratio of viscous to elastic moduli, τ, in viscoelast ... Full text Cite

Evaluating the Improvement in Shear Wave Speed Image Quality Using Multidimensional Directional Filters in the Presence of Reflection Artifacts.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · August 2016 Shear waves propagating through interfaces where there is a change in stiffness cause reflected waves that can lead to artifacts in shear wave speed (SWS) reconstructions. Two-dimensional (2-D) directional filters are commonly used to reduce in-plane refle ... Full text Cite

Changes in cervical stiffness during pregnancy: Preliminary assessment with shear wave elasticity imaging in the rhesus macaque

Conference Aip Conference Proceedings · June 17, 2016 The stiffness of the uterine cervix changes during pregnancy, significantly softening at term. A pathologically rapid softening can result in preterm birth. Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (SWEI) methods can be used to track these changes. Difficulties of in ... Full text Cite

Identifying Clinically Significant Prostate Cancers using 3-D In Vivo Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging with Whole-Mount Histology Validation.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · June 2016 Overly aggressive prostate cancer (PCa) treatment adversely affects patients and places an unnecessary burden on our health care system. The inability to identify and grade clinically significant PCa lesions is a factor contributing to excessively aggressi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Elastography Assessment of Liver Fibrosis: Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Consensus Conference Statement.

Journal Article Ultrasound quarterly · June 2016 Full text Cite

On System-Dependent Sources of Uncertainty and Bias in Ultrasonic Quantitative Shear-Wave Imaging.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · March 2016 Ultrasonic quantitative shear-wave imaging methods have been developed over the last decade to estimate tissue elasticity by measuring the speed of propagating shear waves following acoustic radiation force excitation. This work discusses eight sources of ... Full text Cite

Cervical Viscoelasticity Assessed Through Shear Wave Elasticity: Comparison of Rhesus Macaques and Humans.

Conference REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCES · March 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

Pathway-Specific Striatal Substrates for Habitual Behavior.

Journal Article Neuron · February 3, 2016 The dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is implicated in habit formation. However, the DLS circuit mechanisms underlying habit remain unclear. A key role for DLS is to transform sensorimotor cortical input into firing of output neurons that project to the mutually ... Full text Link to item Cite

Quantifying the benefit of elevated acoustic output in harmonic imaging

Conference 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius 2015 · November 13, 2015 Tissue harmonic imaging (THI) has been widely used in abdominal imaging due to its significant reduction in acoustic noise compared to fundamental imaging. However, THI can be both signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and penetration-depth limited during clinical i ... Full text Cite

System dependent sources of error in time-of-flight shear wave speed measurements

Conference 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius 2015 · November 13, 2015 This work discusses eight sources of uncertainty and bias arising from system dependent parameters in ultrasound shear wave speed (SWS) measurement. Each of the eight error sources of error we have identified is discussed in the context of a linear, isotro ... Full text Cite

Measurement of the frequency dependent phase velocity and attenuation from the Fourier description of shear wave propagation: Addressing geometric spreading arising from spatially asymmetric Gaussian excitations

Conference 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius 2015 · November 13, 2015 Observations of shear wave propagation in a viscoelastic (VE) tissue are typically analyzed by assuming the wave is described as a plane wave, or as the asymptotic form of a wave expanding radially from a cylindrically symmetric source. In this study we pr ... Full text Cite

Characterizing sclerotic skin stiffness with Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) and Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (SWEI)

Conference 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius 2015 · November 13, 2015 Sclerotic skin diseases are associated with inflammation and fibrosis in the dermis, and these changes in collagen content with disease progression make this pathology amenable to being characterized with Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) and Shear W ... Full text Cite

RSNA QIBA ultrasound shear wave speed Phase II phantom study in viscoelastic media

Conference 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius 2015 · November 13, 2015 Using ultrasonic shear wave speed (SWS) estimates has become popular to noninvasively evaluate liver fibrosis, but significant inter-system variability in liver SWS measurements can preclude meaningful comparison of measurements performed with different sy ... Full text Cite

Intravascular acoustic radiation force imaging

Conference 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius 2015 · November 13, 2015 Atherosclerosis is a disease in which plaque builds up in the arterial wall, narrowing and hardening the vessel and restricting the supply of blood and oxygen to the heart muscle. Plaques characterized by a thin fibrous cap and a soft, lipid-rich necrotic ... Full text Cite

On-axis radiation-force-based quantitative stiffness estimation with a Bayesian displacement estimator

Conference 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius 2015 · November 13, 2015 In traditional shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI), shear wave velocity is measured away from the acoustic radiation force (ARF) axis. Instead, we measure the time-to-peak displacement of tissue directly along the ARF axis. Measuring displacements along t ... Full text Cite

Preliminary Results on the Feasibility of Using ARFI/SWEI to Assess Cutaneous Sclerotic Diseases.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · November 2015 In this study, acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) and shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) were applied to the skin to investigate the feasibility of their use in assessing sclerotic skin diseases. Our motivation was to develop a non-invasive imaging ... Full text Link to item Cite

Elastography Assessment of Liver Fibrosis: Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Consensus Conference Statement.

Journal Article Radiology · September 2015 The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound convened a panel of specialists from radiology, hepatology, pathology, and basic science and physics to arrive at a consensus regarding the use of elastography in the assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic liver d ... Full text Cite

Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Values of the Benign Central Zone of the Prostate: Comparison With Low- and High-Grade Prostate Cancer.

Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · August 2015 OBJECTIVE: The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values for benign central zone (CZ) of the prostate were compared with ADC values of benign peripheral zone (PZ), benign transition zone (TZ), and prostate cancer, using histopathologic findings from radi ... Full text Link to item Cite

An analytic, Fourier domain description of shear wave propagation in a viscoelastic medium using asymmetric Gaussian sources.

Journal Article The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · August 2015 Recent measurements of shear wave propagation in viscoelastic materials have been analyzed by constructing the two-dimensional Fourier transform (2D-FT) of the spatial-temporal shear wave signal and using an analysis procedure derived under the assumption ... Full text Cite

Analyzing the Impact of Increasing Mechanical Index and Energy Deposition on Shear Wave Speed Reconstruction in Human Liver.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · July 2015 Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) has found success in liver fibrosis staging. This work evaluates hepatic SWEI measurement success as a function of push pulse energy using two mechanical index (MI) values (1.6 and 2.2) over a range of pulse durations. ... Full text Cite

Changes in shear wave speed pre- and post-induction of labor: a feasibility study.

Journal Article Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology · July 2015 ObjectiveTo explore the feasibility of using shear wave speed (SWS) estimates to detect differences in cervical softening pre- and post-ripening in women undergoing induction of labor.MethodsSubjects at 37-41 weeks' gestation undergoing c ... Full text Cite

WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 3: liver.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · May 2015 The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) has produced these guidelines for the use of elastography techniques in liver disease. For each available technique, the reproducibility, results, and limitations are analyzed, and recomme ... Full text Cite

WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 1: basic principles and terminology.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · May 2015 Conventional diagnostic ultrasound images of the anatomy (as opposed to blood flow) reveal differences in the acoustic properties of soft tissues (mainly echogenicity but also, to some extent, attenuation), whereas ultrasound-based elasticity images are ab ... Full text Cite

WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 2: breast.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · May 2015 The breast section of these Guidelines and Recommendations for Elastography produced under the auspices of the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) assesses the clinically used applications of all forms of elastography used in bre ... Full text Cite

Material characterization of in vivo and in vitro porcine brain using shear wave elasticity.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · March 2015 Realistic computer simulation of closed head trauma requires accurate mechanical properties of brain tissue, ideally in vivo. A substantive deficiency of most existing experimental brain data is that properties were identified through in vitro mechanical t ... Full text Cite

Quantifying Rhesus Monkey Cervical Softness With Shear Wave Speed Estimation.

Journal Article REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCES · March 1, 2015 Link to item Cite

Analysis of rapid multi-focal-zone ARFI imaging.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · February 2015 Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging has shown promise for visualizing structure and pathology within multiple organs; however, because the contrast depends on the push beam excitation width, image quality suffers outside of the region of excita ... Full text Cite

Detection of prostate cancer with multiparametric MRI (mpMRI): effect of dedicated reader education on accuracy and confidence of index and anterior cancer diagnosis.

Journal Article Abdom Imaging · January 2015 PURPOSE: To evaluate the impact of dedicated reader education on accuracy/confidence of peripheral zone index cancer and anterior prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis with mpMRI; secondary aim was to assess the ability of readers to differentiate low-grade canc ... Full text Link to item Cite

B-mode and acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging of prostate zonal anatomy: comparison with 3T T2-weighted MR imaging.

Journal Article Ultrason Imaging · January 2015 Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common non-cutaneous malignancy among men in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer-related death. Multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) has gained recent popularity to characterize PCa. Aco ... Full text Link to item Cite

Derivation and analysis of viscoelastic properties in human liver: impact of frequency on fibrosis and steatosis staging.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control · January 2015 Commercially-available shear wave imaging systems measure group shear wave speed (SWS) and often report stiffness parameters applying purely elastic material models. Soft tissues, however, are viscoelastic, and higher-order material models are necessary to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Acoustic Radiation Force-Based Elasticity Imaging

Chapter · January 1, 2015 8.1 Introduction Since ancient Egyptian medicine, manual palpation has been used to detect the size, location, and stiffness of superficial structures within the body [1]. By assessing the elasticity (i.e., stiffness) of structures compared with surroundin ... Full text Cite

Analyzing the impact of increasing Mechanical Index (MI) and energy deposition on shear wave speed (SWS) reconstruction in human liver

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 20, 2014 Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) has found success in liver fibrosis staging. However, technical failure and unreliable shear wave speed (SWS) estimation have been reported to increase both with elevated patient body mass index (BMI) and in the presenc ... Full text Cite

3D in vivo ARFI imaging: Prostate cancer sensitivity

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 20, 2014 Imaging tools that reliably visualize prostate cancer (PCa) are increasingly needed in the urological community. The objective of this research was to evaluate the ability of Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging to localize PCa in 29 patients wi ... Full text Cite

Dependence of shear wave spectral content on acoustic radiation force excitation duration and spatial beamwidth

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 20, 2014 Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (SWEI) has become increasingly popular to non-invasively characterize liver fibrosis. Generating adequate shear wave displacements in human liver in vivo can be challenging, especially in the high Body Mass Index (BMI) populat ... Full text Cite

Estimation of model parameters characterizing dispersion in ARFI induced shear waves in in vivo human liver

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 20, 2014 We consider the analysis of shear wave dispersion following ARFI excitation in a cohort of 135 Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease patients traditionally characterized as 'difficult-to-image.' Three analysis methods are considered: (1) measuring k(ω) by loca ... Full text Cite

Improving the accuracy of shear wave speed reconstructions using 4D directional filters in the presence of reflection artifacts

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 20, 2014 Reflected waves from stiffness boundaries can lead to artifacts in shear wave speed (SWS) reconstructions. 2D directional filters are commonly used with planar imaging systems to reduce in-plane reflected waves; however SWS artifacts arise from both in and ... Full text Cite

Comparison of shear wave speed estimates in Ex vivo non-pregnant vs. in vivo pregnant cervix

Journal Article IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 20, 2014 The cervix is primarily composed of layers of aligned collagen that reorganize through out pregnancy resulting in softening, shortening, and dilation at term. Premature changes during the softening process may be associated with preterm birth. The purpose ... Full text Cite

Feasibility of using a generalized-Gaussian Markov random field prior for Bayesian speckle tracking of small displacements

Journal Article IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · October 20, 2014 Accurate displacement estimation can be a challenging task in acoustic radiation force elastography, where signal decorrelation can degrade the ability of a normalized cross-correlation (NCC) estimator to characterize the tissue response. In this work, we ... Full text Cite

Statistical analysis of shear wave speed in the uterine cervix.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · October 2014 Although cervical softening is critical in pregnancy, there currently is no objective method for assessing the softness of the cervix. Shear wave speed (SWS) estimation is a noninvasive tool used to measure tissue mechanical properties such as stiffness. T ... Full text Cite

Estimation of shear wave speed in the human uterine cervix.

Journal Article Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology · April 2014 ObjectivesTo explore spatial variability within the cervix and the sensitivity of shear wave speed (SWS) to assess softness/stiffness differences in ripened (softened) vs unripened tissue.MethodsWe obtained SWS estimates from hysterectomy ... Full text Cite

Material characterization of in vivo and in vitro porcine brain using shear wave elasticity

Journal Article IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2013 Shear wave elasticity imaging was used to examine changes in porcine brain tissue shear modulus as a function of several experimental and physiological parameters. Animal studies were performed with two different ultrasound transducers. Four in vivo subjec ... Full text Cite

3D elasticity imaging with acoustic radiation force

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2013 Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) based elasticity imaging methods have been under development for the past 15 years, and both qualitative on-axis (ARFI imaging) and quantitative shear wave speed (SWEI) methods have been introduced into the commercia ... Full text Cite

Bayesian shear wave speed estimation for in vivo 3D imaging of the prostate

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2013 Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) has shown promise for visualizing structure and pathology within multiple organs; however, due to the assumptions of time of flight algorithms, artifacts caused by reflected waves at structural boundaries may be present ... Full text Cite

Detecting cervical softness with shear wave speed estimation

Journal Article IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2013 Cervical remodeling begins early and the cervix progressively softens throughout pregnancy. Premature changes may be associated with preterm birth, but there is currently no clinical objective method for assessing the softness of the cervix. Shear wave spe ... Full text Cite

Spatial variability of shear wave speed estimation in the non-pregnant cervix

Journal Article IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2013 Shear wave speed (SWS) estimation is a noninvasive technique used to assess tissue properties. This could be a valuable tool in understanding changes that occur in the cervix during pregnancy and contribute to approaches for the predicition and prevention ... Full text Cite

RSNA/QIBA: Shear wave speed as a biomarker for liver fibrosis staging

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2013 An interlaboratory study of shear wave speed (SWS) estimation was performed. Commercial shear wave elastography systems from Fibroscan, Philips, Siemens and Supersonic Imagine, as well as several custom laboratory systems, were involved. Fifteen sites were ... Full text Cite

Finite element modeling of impulsive excitation and shear wave propagation in an incompressible, transversely isotropic medium.

Journal Article Journal of biomechanics · November 2013 Elastic properties of materials can be measured by observing shear wave propagation following localized, impulsive excitations and relating the propagation velocity to a model of the material. However, characterization of anisotropic materials is difficult ... Full text Cite

Evaluating the feasibility of acoustic radiation force impulse shear wave elasticity imaging of the uterine cervix with an intracavity array: a simulation study.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · October 2013 The uterine cervix softens, shortens, and dilates throughout pregnancy in response to progressive disorganization of its layered collagen microstructure. This process is an essential part of normal pregnancy, but premature changes are associated with prete ... Full text Cite

Imaging transverse isotropic properties of muscle by monitoring acoustic radiation force induced shear waves using a 2-D matrix ultrasound array.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on medical imaging · September 2013 A 2-D matrix ultrasound array is used to monitor acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) induced shear wave propagation in 3-D in excised canine muscle. From a single acquisition, both the shear wave phase and group velocity can be calculated to estimate t ... Full text Cite

Ultrasonic characterization of the nonlinear properties of canine livers by measuring shear wave speed and axial strain with increasing portal venous pressure.

Journal Article Journal of biomechanics · July 2013 Elevated hepatic venous pressure is the primary source of complications in advancing liver disease. Ultrasound imaging is ideal for potential noninvasive hepatic pressure measurements as it is widely used for liver imaging. Specifically, ultrasound based s ... Full text Cite

Generation of a suite of 3D computer-generated breast phantoms from a limited set of human subject data.

Journal Article Med Phys · April 2013 PURPOSE: The authors previously reported on a three-dimensional computer-generated breast phantom, based on empirical human image data, including a realistic finite-element based compression model that was capable of simulating multimodality imaging data. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Acoustic radiation force elasticity imaging in diagnostic ultrasound.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · April 2013 The development of ultrasound-based elasticity imaging methods has been the focus of intense research activity since the mid-1990s. In characterizing the mechanical properties of soft tissues, these techniques image an entirely new subset of tissue propert ... Full text Cite

On the precision of time-of-flight shear wave speed estimation in homogeneous soft solids: initial results using a matrix array transducer.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · April 2013 A system capable of tracking radiation-force-induced shear wave propagation in a 3-D volume using ultrasound is presented. In contrast to existing systems, which use 1-D array transducers, a 2-D matrix array is used for tracking shear wave displacements. A ... Full text Cite

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of vulnerable plaques: a finite element method parametric analysis.

Journal Article Journal of biomechanics · January 2013 Plaque rupture is the most common cause of complications such as stroke and coronary heart failure. Recent histopathological evidence suggests that several plaque features, including a large lipid core and a thin fibrous cap, are associated with plaques mo ... Full text Cite

Intracranial dual-mode IVUS and hyperthermia using circular arrays: preliminary experiments.

Journal Article Ultrason Imaging · January 2013 In this study, we investigated the feasibility of using 3.5-Fr (3 Fr = 1 mm) circular phased-array intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) catheters for minimally invasive, image-guided hyperthermia treatment of tumors in the brain. Feasibility was demonstrated in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Bayesian speckle tracking. Part I: an implementable perturbation to the likelihood function for ultrasound displacement estimation.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · January 2013 Accurate and precise displacement estimation has been a hallmark of clinical ultrasound. Displacement estimation accuracy has largely been considered to be limited by the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB). However, the CRLB only describes the minimum variance ... Full text Cite

Bayesian speckle tracking. Part II: biased ultrasound displacement estimation.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · January 2013 Ultrasonic displacement estimates have numerous clinical uses, including blood flow estimation, elastography, therapeutic guidance, and acoustic radiation force imaging (ARFI). These clinical tasks could be improved with better ultrasonic displacement esti ... Full text Cite

Characterizing expansion and stiffening of the canine liver with increasing hepatic pressure

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2012 Hepatic venous pressure is increased in advancing liver disease and is considered the primary source of of complications (such as variceal bleeding and ascites). Measurement of clinically significant increases in portal pressure is important for managing l ... Full text Cite

3D shear wave imaging of anisotropic mechanical properties of muscle using a 2D matrix array transducer

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2012 A 2D matrix array is used to monitor acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) induced shear wave propagation in 3D in excised canine muscle. From a single acquisition, both the shear wave phase and group velocity can be calculated within a plane of symmetry ... Full text Cite

Comparison of concurrently acquired in vivo 3D ARFI and SWEI images of the prostate

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2012 In the prostate, ARFI and SWEI imaging methods have reported that cancer and other pathologies as being stiffer than the surrounding tissue. A three-dimensional in vivo prostatic imaging system capable of concurrently acquiring ARFI and SWEI data was devel ... Full text Cite

Parameters affecting the resolution and accuracy of 2-D quantitative shear wave images.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · August 2012 Time-of-flight methods allow quantitative measurement of shear wave speed (SWS) from ultrasonically tracked displacements following impulsive acoustic radiation force excitation in tissue. In heterogeneous materials, reflections at boundaries can distort t ... Full text Cite

Reply to: The use of acoustic radiation force-based shear stiffness in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Journal Article Journal of Hepatology · April 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Effect of prior probability quality on biased time-delay estimation.

Journal Article Ultrasonic imaging · April 2012 When properly constructed, biased estimators are known to produce lower mean-square errors than unbiased estimators. A biased estimator for the problem of ultrasound time-delay estimation was recently proposed. The proposed estimator incorporates knowledge ... Full text Cite

TH‐C‐217BCD‐06: Acoustic Radiation Force Based Imaging: An Overview

Conference Medical Physics · January 1, 2012 Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) based elasticity imaging methods have been under investigation in research laboratories for over 15 years. In ARFI imaging methods, temporally impulsive (i.e. < 1 msec) focused acoustic radiation force is used to mec ... Full text Cite

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of human prostates: initial in vivo demonstration.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · January 2012 Reliably detecting prostate cancer (PCa) has been a challenge for current imaging modalities. Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging is an elasticity imaging method that uses remotely generated, focused acoustic beams to probe tissue stiffness. A ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of hepatic pressurization on liver shear wave speed estimates in constrained versus unconstrained conditions.

Journal Article Physics in medicine and biology · January 2012 Increased hepatic venous pressure can be observed in patients with advanced liver disease and congestive heart failure. This elevated portal pressure also leads to variation in acoustic radiation-force-derived shear wave-based liver stiffness estimates. Th ... Full text Cite

Intracranial dual-mode IVUS and hyperthermia using circular arrays

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2011 In this study, we investigated the feasibility of using 3.5-Fr circular phased array IVUS catheters for minimally invasive, image-guided hyperthermia treatment of tumors in the brain. Feasibility was demonstrated in two ways: 1) by fitting a 3.5-Fr IVUS ca ... Full text Cite

Comparison of ultrasonic measurements of nulliparous versus multiparous cervices

Journal Article IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2011 Premature remodeling of uterine cervical microstructure plays a large role in preterm birth. Invasive studies confirm that collagen, the major contributor to cervical strength, undergoes rearrangement long before changes associated with pre-delivery remode ... Full text Cite

Methodology to register prostate B-mode and ARFI images to MR and histology

Conference IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2011 Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging is being developed for guiding needle biopsy and focal therapy of Prostate cancer (PCa). In vivo ARFI images portray internal structures in the prostate with higher contrast than matched B-mode images. Given ... Full text Cite

Comparison between Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI)-based hepatic stiffness quantification in deformed and undeformed pressurized canine livers

Journal Article IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2011 Increased hepatic interstitial pressure can be observed in patients with advanced liver disease and is associated with worsened clinical outcomes. Elevated hepatic stiffness has been reported clinically with increases in hepatic venous pressure gradient (H ... Full text Cite

Improving shear wave speed estimation precision in homogeneous media by tracking shear wave propagation in 3D using a real-time volumetric imaging transducer

Journal Article IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2011 A system capable of tracking radiation force induced shear wave propagation in 3D using ultrasound is presented. In contrast to existing systems, which use 1D array transducers, a 2D matrix array is used for tracking shear wave displacements. A HIFU piston ... Full text Cite

Generalized Bayesian speckle tracking applied to strain and ARFI displacements

Journal Article IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · December 1, 2011 Biased estimators with mean square error surpassing that described by the Cramer-Rao lower bound are implemented using Bayes' Theorem. In order to use Bayes' Theorem a new likelihood function was developed specifically for the ultrasound time-delay estimat ... Full text Cite

An analysis of the mechanical parameters used for finite element compression of a high-resolution 3D breast phantom.

Journal Article Med Phys · October 2011 PURPOSE: The authors previously introduced a methodology to generate a realistic three-dimensional (3D), high-resolution, computer-simulated breast phantom based on empirical data. One of the key components of such a phantom is that it provides a means to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dual-mode IVUS transducer for image-guided brain therapy: preliminary experiments.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · October 2011 In this study, we investigated the feasibility of using 3.5-Fr intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) catheters for minimally-invasive, image-guided hyperthermia treatment of tumors in the brain. Feasibility was demonstrated by: (1) retro-fitting a commercial 3.5 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Combined ultrasonic thermal ablation with interleaved ARFI image monitoring using a single diagnostic curvilinear array: a feasibility study.

Journal Article Ultrasonic imaging · October 2011 The goal of this work is to demonstrate the feasibility of using a diagnostic ultrasound system (Siemens Antares and CH6-2 curvilinear array) to ablate ex vivo liver with a custom M-mode sequence and monitor the resulting tissue stiffening with 2-D Acousti ... Full text Cite

Noninvasive evaluation of hepatic fibrosis using acoustic radiation force-based shear stiffness in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Journal Article J Hepatol · September 2011 BACKGROUND & AIMS: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the most common form of chronic liver disease in developed countries, may progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in a minority of people. Those with NASH are at increased risk for cirrho ... Full text Link to item Cite

Acoustic radiation force-based elasticity imaging methods.

Journal Article Interface focus · August 2011 Conventional diagnostic ultrasound images portray differences in the acoustic properties of soft tissues, whereas ultrasound-based elasticity images portray differences in the elastic properties of soft tissues (i.e. stiffness, viscosity). The benefit of e ... Full text Cite

What challenges must be overcome before ultrasound elasticity imaging is ready for the clinic?

Journal Article Imaging in medicine · August 2011 Ultrasound elasticity imaging has been a research interest for the past 20 years with the goal of generating novel images of soft tissues based on their material properties (i.e., stiffness and viscosity). The motivation for such an imaging modality lies i ... Full text Cite

Acoustic radiation force-driven assessment of myocardial elasticity using the displacement ratio rate (DRR) method.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · July 2011 A noninvasive method of characterizing myocardial stiffness could have significant implications in diagnosing cardiac disease. Acoustic radiation force (ARF)-driven techniques have demonstrated their ability to discern elastic properties of soft tissue. Fo ... Full text Cite

Effect of graphite concentration on shear-wave speed in gelatin-based tissue-mimicking phantoms.

Journal Article Ultrasonic imaging · April 2011 Elasticity-based imaging modalities are becoming popular diagnostic tools in clinical practice. Gelatin-based, tissue mimicking phantoms that contain graphite as the acoustic scattering material are commonly used in testing and validating elasticity-imagin ... Full text Cite

GPU-based real-time small displacement estimation with ultrasound.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · February 2011 General purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPUs) has been previously shown to speed up computationally intensive data processing and image reconstruction algorithms for computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR), and ultrasound images. ... Full text Cite

TU‐G‐220‐01: Quantitative Elasticity Imaging with Acoustic Radiation Force Induced Shear Waves

Conference Medical Physics · January 1, 2011 Purpose: Shear waves can be generated in soft tissues using impulsive acoustic radiation force (ARFI), and the resulting shear wave speeds (SWS) can be related to the shear moduli (G) by SWS = sqrt(G/rho). Time‐of‐flight (TOF) algorithms can be used to tra ... Full text Cite

Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging-based needle visualization.

Journal Article Ultrason Imaging · January 2011 Ultrasound-guided needle placement is widely used in the clinical setting, particularly for central venous catheter placement, tissue biopsy and regional anesthesia. Difficulties with ultrasound guidance in these areas often result from steep needle insert ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of qualitative and quantitative acoustic radiation force based elasticity imaging methods

Conference Proceedings International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging · January 1, 2011 Acoustic radiation force based elasticity imaging methods utilize focused acoustic beams to mechanically excite tissue and ultrasonic correlation based methods to monitor the dynamic response of the tissue, which reflects the underlying tissue stiffness. B ... Full text Cite

Robust estimation of time-of-flight shear wave speed using a radon sum transformation.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · December 2010 Time-of-flight methods allow quantitative measurement of shear wave speed (SWS) from ultrasonically tracked displacements following impulsive excitation in tissue. However, application of these methods to in vivo data are challenging because of the presenc ... Full text Cite

Robust estimation of time-of-flight shear wave speed using a Radon sum transformation

Journal Article Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2010 Time-of-flight methods allow quantitative measurement of shear wave speed (SWS) from ultrasonically tracked displacements following impulsive excitation in tissue. However, application of these methods to in vivo data is challenging due to the presence of ... Full text Cite

Quantifying the impact of shear wavelength and kernel size on shear wave speed estimation

Conference Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2010 Quantitative measurements of tissue stiffness can be obtained by measuring the speed of shear waves induced in tissue by acoustic radiation force. In homogeneous media, time-of-flight (TOF) measurements of shear wave speed (SWS) ideally are independent of ... Full text Cite

Improving precision of tissue shear modulus quantification within theregion of acoustic radiation force excitation with compounded displacementestimates

Conference Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2010 The time-to-peak (TTP) displacement within the region of acoustic radiationforce excitation (ROE) is directly related to the tissue shear modulus. It haspreviously been shown that the ROE TTP can be directly converted to shearmodulus using a look-up table ... Full text Cite

Characterizing stiffness of human prostates using acoustic radiation force.

Journal Article Ultrason Imaging · October 2010 Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging has been previously reported to portray normal anatomic structures and pathologies in ex vivo human prostates with good contrast and resolution. These findings were based on comparison with histological slide ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving the robustness of time-of-flight based shear wave speed reconstruction methods using RANSAC in human liver in vivo.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · May 2010 The stiffness of tissue can be quantified by measuring the shear wave speed (SWS) within the medium. Ultrasound is a real-time imaging modality capable of tracking the propagation of shear waves in soft tissue. Time-of-flight (TOF) methods have previously ... Full text Cite

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of human prostates ex vivo.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · April 2010 It has been challenging for clinicians using current imaging modalities to visualize internal structures and detect lesions inside human prostates. Lack of contrast among prostatic tissues and high false positive or negative detection rates of prostate les ... Full text Link to item Cite

Quantitative images of elastic modulus using tissue dynamics in the region of impulsive acoustic radiation force excitation

Journal Article ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Proceedings · January 1, 2010 Focused, impulsive, acoustic radiation force excitations can generate shear waves with microns of displacement in tissue. The speed of shear wave propagation is directly related to the tissue's shear modulus, which can be correlated with tissue pathology t ... Full text Cite

Optical tracking of acoustic radiation force impulse-induced dynamics in a tissue-mimicking phantom.

Journal Article The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · November 2009 Optical tracking was utilized to investigate the acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI)-induced response, generated by a 5-MHz piston transducer, in a translucent tissue-mimicking phantom. Suspended 10-microm microspheres were tracked axially and laterall ... Full text Cite

Investigations into pulsed high-intensity focused ultrasound-enhanced delivery: preliminary evidence for a novel mechanism.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · October 2009 Pulsed high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) exposures without ultrasound contrast agents have been used for noninvasively enhancing the delivery of various agents to improve their therapeutic efficacy in a variety of tissue models in a nondestructive m ... Full text Cite

In vivo quantification of liver stiffness in a rat model of hepatic fibrosis with acoustic radiation force.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · October 2009 Liver fibrosis is currently staged using needle biopsy, a highly invasive procedure with a number of disadvantages. Measurement of liver stiffness changes that accompany progression of the disease may provide a quantitative and noninvasive method to assess ... Full text Link to item Cite

Blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption using a diagnostic ultrasound scanner and Definity in Mice.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · August 2009 The objective of this work was to determine whether diagnostic ultrasound and contrast agent could be used to transcranially and nondestructively disrupt the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in mice under ultrasound image guidance and to quantify that disruption ... Full text Cite

On the feasibility of imaging peripheral nerves using acoustic radiation force impulse imaging.

Journal Article Ultrason Imaging · July 2009 Regional anesthesia is preferred over general anesthesia for many surgical procedures; however, challenges associated with poor image guidance limit its widespread acceptance as a viable alternative. In B-mode ultrasound images, the current standard for gu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Image quality, tissue heating, and frame rate trade-offs in acoustic radiation force impulse imaging.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · January 2009 The real-time application of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging requires both short acquisition times for a single ARFI image and repeated acquisition of these frames. Due to the high energy of pulses required to generate appreciable radiation ... Full text Cite

Robust hepatic shear modulus reconstruction using acoustic radiation force and RANSAC

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · January 1, 2009 Liver stiffness may be useful for the staging and management of hepatic fibrosis. Liver shear modulus can be quantified by measuring the shear wave speed (SWS) in the liver using time-of-flight (TOF) methods. In in vivo patient data, this approach is susce ... Full text Cite

Concurrent ARFI imaging and HIFU ablation using a diagnostic transducer array and ultrasound system with custom beam sequences

Conference Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · January 1, 2009 Background, Motivation and Objective: High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has primarily been performed using a specialized ultrasound transducer for therapy and either a separate transducer for imaging or a different imaging modality. Accurate localiz ... Full text Cite

Optical quantification of acoustic radiation force impulse-induced dynamics in a translucent phantom

Journal Article Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · January 1, 2009 The dynamic response in a translucent tissue-mimicking phantom resulting from an acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) was investigated with optically-based methods. Embedded microspheres (10-μm diameter) were tracked axially and laterally with an optica ... Full text Cite

Acoustic radiation force based quantification of tissue shear modulus within the region of excitation

Conference Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2008 The speed of shear wave propagation in tissue is directly related to the tissue's shear modulus. Shear waves can be generated in tissue using focused, impulsive, acoustic radiation force excitations. Shear modulus reconstruction has typically been performe ... Full text Cite

Investigating the effects of viscosity on focused, impulsive, acoustic radiation force induced shear wave morphology

Conference Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2008 The effect of dispersion on the morphology of impulsive acoustic radiation force induced shear waves propagating in viscoelastic (VE) media is investigated. Change in shear wave morphology was quantified by calculating its spatial coherence. The magnitude ... Full text Cite

An integrated indenter-ARFI imaging system for tissue stiffness quantification.

Journal Article Ultrasonic imaging · April 2008 The goal of this work is to develop and characterize an integrated indenter-ARFI (acoustic radiation force impulse) imaging system. This system is capable of acquiring matched datasets of ARFI images and stiffness profiles from ex vivo tissue samples, whic ... Full text Cite

Quantifying hepatic shear modulus in vivo using acoustic radiation force.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · April 2008 The speed at which shear waves propagate in tissue can be used to quantify the shear modulus of the tissue. As many groups have shown, shear waves can be generated within tissues using focused, impulsive, acoustic radiation force excitations, and the resul ... Full text Cite

Three-dimensional acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging of human prostates in vivo

Conference Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · January 1, 2008 We are investigating utilizing ARFI imaging to guide prostate needle biopsy. Our previous ex vivo study demonstrated that ARFI imaging using a VF10-5 linear array was able to visualize the internal anatomy and suspicious lesions in the prostate, which may ... Full text Cite

Dependence of in vivo, radiation force derived hepatic shear modulus estimates on imaging approach: Intercostal vs. subcostal

Journal Article Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2007 The speed at which shear waves propagate can be used to quantify the shear modulus of tissue. Focused, impulsive, acoustic radiation force excitations can be used to generate transient displacement fields in soft tissue that create shear waves that propaga ... Full text Cite

In-vivo staging of liver fibrosis in a rat model using acoustic radiation force

Journal Article Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2007 Liver fibrosis is currently staged using needle biopsy, a highly invasive procedure with a number of disadvantages. Measurement of liver stiffness changes which accompany progression of the disease may provide a quantitative and noninvasive method to asses ... Full text Cite

Radiation force imaging: Challenges and opportunities

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · October 15, 2007 A number of novel imaging modalities have been developed to interrogate the mechanical properties of tissue. A subset of these methods utilize acoustic radiation force to mechanically excite tissue and form images from the local responses of tissue to thes ... Full text Cite

The impact of physiological motion on tissue tracking during radiation force imaging.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · July 2007 The effect of physiological motion on the quality of radiation force elasticity images has been investigated. Experimental studies and simulated images were used to investigate the impact of motion effects on image quality metrics over a range of clinicall ... Full text Cite

A parallel tracking method for acoustic radiation force impulse imaging

Journal Article IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control (USA) · 2007 Radiation force-based techniques have been developed by several groups for imaging the mechanical properties of tissue. Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging is one such method that uses commercially available scanners to generate localized radia ... Cite

On the potential for guidance of ablation therapy using acoustic radiation force impulse imaging

Journal Article 2007 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging from Nano to Macro Proceedings · January 1, 2007 Acoustic radiation force imaging methods utilize acoustic radiation force to mechanically excite tissue, and the tissue response is monitored with conventional imaging methods. Radiation force based methods comprise a subset of elasticity imaging, in which ... Full text Cite

Parallel tracking and other methods for real-time ARFI imaging systems

Journal Article Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2006 Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging is a useful method for characterizing the local mechanical properties of tissue. Relevant issues in creating a real-time ARFI imaging system include patient exposure, oberservation time per image location, fi ... Full text Cite

Shear wave velocity estimation using acoustic radiation force impulsive excitation in liver In Vivo

Journal Article Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2006 Acoustic radiation force can be used to mechanically excite tissue in remote, focused locations, and the tissue response can be monitored using ultrasonic correlation based methods. The speed with which the resulting shear waves propagate away from the foc ... Full text Cite

Characterizing acoustic attenuation using focused impulsive acoustic radiation force

Conference Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2006 A new method to characterize a material's attenuation using acoustic radiation force is proposed. Comparison of displacement magnitudes generated in a homogeneous material by acoustic radiation force excitations can be used to estimate the material's atten ... Full text Cite

Dynamic mechanical response of elastic spherical inclusions to impulsive acoustic radiation force excitation.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · November 2006 Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging has been used clinically to study the dynamic response of lesions relative to their background material to focused, impulsive acoustic radiation force excitations through the generation of dynamic displacement field ... Full text Cite

Frame rate considerations for real-time abdominal acoustic radiation force impulse imaging.

Journal Article Ultrasonic imaging · October 2006 With the advent of real-time Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging, elevated frame rates are both desirable and relevant from a clinical perspective. However, fundamental limitations on frame rates are imposed by thermal safety concerns related t ... Full text Cite

Ultrasonic tracking of acoustic radiation force-induced displacements in homogeneous media.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · July 2006 The use of ultrasonic methods to track the tissue deformation generated by acoustic radiation force is subject to jitter and displacement underestimation errors, with displacement underestimation being primarily caused by lateral and elevation shearing wit ... Full text Cite

Characterizing acoustic attenuation of homogeneous media using focused impulsive acoustic radiation force.

Journal Article Ultrasonic imaging · April 2006 A new method to characterize a material's attenuation using acoustic radiation force is proposed. Comparison of displacement magnitudes generated in a homogeneous material by acoustic radiation force excitations can be used to estimate the material's atten ... Full text Cite

Analysis of contrast in images generated with transient acoustic radiation force.

Journal Article Ultrasound in medicine & biology · January 2006 Several mechanical imaging methods are under investigation that use focused ultrasound (US) as a source of mechanical excitation. Images are then generated of the tissue response to this localized excitation. One such method, acoustic radiation force impul ... Full text Cite

A combined indenter/ARFI imaging system

Journal Article Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2005 The goal of this project is to develop an integrated indenter-ARFI (acoustic radiation force impulse imaging) system. The system is capable of acquiring matched datasets from ex vivo tissue samples, which will be used to evaluate excised colorectal tumors ... Full text Cite

Controlled spatio-temporal heating patterns using a commercial, diagnostic ultrasound system

Conference Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2005 Thermal ultrasound therapy is being investigated as a non-invasive surgical tool with applications in soft tissue tumor and cardiac ablation; as a method for hemostasis; and in the control of thermally-activated drug delivery vehicles. The success of local ... Full text Cite

Finite-element analysis of temperature rise and lesion formation from catheter ultrasound ablation transducers.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · October 2005 A model using finite-element analysis (FEA) has been developed to calculate the temperature rise in tissue from intracardiac ultrasound ablation catheters and to predict if this temperature rise is adequate for producing a lesion in the tissue. In the mode ... Full text Cite

A finite-element method model of soft tissue response to impulsive acoustic radiation force.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · October 2005 Several groups are studying acoustic radiation force and its ability to image the mechanical properties of tissue. Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging is one modality using standard diagnostic ultrasound scanners to generate localized, impulsiv ... Full text Cite

Image processing and data acquisition optimization for Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse imaging of in vivo breast masses

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · September 19, 2005 Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging utilizes brief, high-energy acoustic pulses to excite tissue and ultrasonic correlation based tracking methods to monitor the resulting tissue displacement, which reflects the relative mechanical properties o ... Full text Cite

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of the abdomen: demonstration of feasibility and utility.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · September 2005 The feasibility of utilizing acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging to assess the mechanical properties of abdominal tissues was investigated. The thermal safety of the technique was also evaluated through the use of finite element method models. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of myocardial radiofrequency ablation: initial in vivo results.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · April 2005 Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging techniques were used to monitor radiofrequency (RF) ablation of ovine cardiac tissue in vivo. Additionally, ARFI M-mode imaging methods were used to interrogate both healthy and ablated regions of myocardial ... Full text Cite

Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging of the gastrointestinal tract.

Journal Article Ultrason Imaging · April 2005 The evaluation of lesions in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract using ultrasound can suffer from poor contrast between healthy and diseased tissue. Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging provides information about the mechanical properties of tissue ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ultrasonic imaging of the mechanical properties of tissues using localized, transient acoustic radiation FORCE

Conference ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings · January 1, 2005 Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging utilizes brief, high energy, focused acoustic pulses to generate radiation force in tissue, and ultrasonic correlation-based methods to detect the resulting tissue displacements in order to image the relative ... Full text Cite

Finite element analysis of temperature rise from an integrated 3-D intracardiac echo and ultrasound ablation transducer

Journal Article Proceedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2004 A method for simulating the temperature rise due to acoustic heating from an ablation transducer is introduced. The size of lesions produced by this temperature rise is also modeled. First the intensity from the transducer is calculated using Field II. Thi ... Cite

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of the mechanical properties of arteries: in vivo and ex vivo results.

Journal Article Ultrasound Med Biol · September 2004 We present results of a pilot study of ex vivo and in vivo acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging demonstrating measurements of the mechanical properties of the carotid and popliteal arteries. The results were obtained on a modified commercial sca ... Full text Link to item Cite

On the thermal effects associated with radiation force imaging of soft tissue.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · May 2004 Several laboratories are investigating the use of acoustic radiation force to image the mechanical properties of tissue. Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging is one approach that uses brief, high-intensity, focused ultrasound pulses to generate ... Full text Cite

On the thermal effects associated with radiation force imaging of soft tissue.

Journal Article IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · May 1, 2004 Several laboratories are investigating the use of acoustic radiation force to image the mechanical properties of tissue. Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging is one approach that uses brief, high-intensity, focused ultrasound pulses to generate ... Full text Cite

Experimental studies of the thermal effects associated with radiation force imaging of soft tissue.

Journal Article Ultrasonic imaging · April 2004 Many groups are studying acoustic radiation force-based imaging modalities to determine the mechanical properties of tissue. Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging is one of these modalities that uses standard diagnostic ultrasound scanners to gen ... Full text Cite

Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging of the gastrointestinal tract

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · 2004 Currently, the evaluation of lesions in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract using ultrasound suffers from poor contrast between healthy and diseased tissue. Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging provides information about the mechanical properties of ... Cite

Imaging tissue mechanical properties using impulsive acoustic radiation force

Journal Article 2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Macro to Nano · January 1, 2004 Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging utilizes brief, high energy, focused acoustic pulses to generate radiation force in tissue, and conventional diagnostic ultrasound methods to detect the resulting tissue displacements in order to image the re ... Full text Cite

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: A parametric analysis of factors affecting image quality

Journal Article Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2003 Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging utilizes brief, high energy, focused acoustic pulses to generate radiation force in tissue, and conventional diagnostic ultrasound methods to detect the resulting tissue displacements in order to image the me ... Cite

ARFI imaging of the cardiovascular system

Journal Article Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2003 We present results of a pilot study of ex vivo and in vivo acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging demonstrating measurements of the mechanical properties of the medial and adventitial layers in the carotid, and popliteal arteries. The data was obt ... Cite

Thermal effects associated with acoustic radiation force impulse imaging

Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2003 Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging uses brief, high-intensity, focused ultrasound pulses to generate radiation force in tissue. The absorption of acoustic energy also generates tissue heating. The purpose of this work is to study the maximum a ... Cite

Ferromagnetic brachytherapy seed motion in soft tissue: Models, measurements and ultrasound detection

Journal Article Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2002 We have previously reported a technique for identifying modified prostate brachytherapy seeds. In this method, an alternating magnetic field is used to vibrate the seeds in situ with micron amplitudes. These vibrations are detected with Power Doppler or ot ... Cite

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: Remote palpation of the mechanical properties of tissue

Journal Article Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · 2002 An overview is given of the Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging. It discusses the derivation of radiation force, the response of tissue to radiation force, and the potential for this imaging method to evaluate the mechanical properties of tissu ... Cite

On the feasibility of remote palpation using acoustic radiation force.

Journal Article The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · July 2001 A method of acoustic remote palpation, capable of imaging local variations in the mechanical properties of tissue, is under investigation. In this method, focused ultrasound is used to apply localized (on the order of 2 mm3) radiation force within tissue. ... Full text Cite

Acoustic remote palpation: Initial in vivo results

Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 2000 An ultrasonic method for remote palpation of tissue is under investigation. In this method, a single ultrasonic transducer array is used to both apply localized radiation forces within tissue and to track the resulting displacements. The magnitude of the t ... Cite

A finite element model of remote palpation of breast lesions using radiation force: factors affecting tissue displacement.

Journal Article Ultrasonic imaging · January 2000 The early detection of breast cancer reduces patient mortality. The most common method of breast cancer detection is palpation. However, lesions that lie deep within the breast are difficult to palpate when they are small. Thus, a method of remote palpatio ... Full text Cite

Finite element analysis of radiation force induced tissue motion with experimental validation

Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium · December 1, 1999 An ultrasonic radiation force-based method for remote palpation of tissue is investigated. The use of radiation force to image tissue stiffness has been proposed by several researchers. In this paper, the potential for using a diagnostic ultrasound system ... Cite