Dynamics of errors in 3D motion estimation and implications for strain- tensor imaging in acoustic elastography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1565-1578

  Bilgen, Mehmet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRAIN; TISSUE;

ACOUSTIC ELASTOGRAPHY; MOTION ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELASTICITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034099678     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/6/312     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Amini A A, Chen Y, Curwen R W, Mani V and Sun J 1998 Coupled B snake grids and constrained thin-plate splines for analysis of 2-D tissue deformations from tagged MRI IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 17 344-56
2. Bilgen M 1999a Target detectability in acoustic elastography IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 46 1128-33
3. _ 1999b Wavelet transform-based strain estimator for elastography IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 46 1407-15
4. Bilgen M and Insana M F 1996 Deformation models and correlation analysis in elastography J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99 3212-24
5. _ 1997a Error analysis in acoustic elastography: I. Displacement estimation J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101 1139-46
6. _ 1997b Error analysis in acoustic elastography: II. Strain estimation and SNR analysis J. Acoust. Soc: Am. 101 1147-54
7. _ 1998a Elastostatics of a spherical inclusion in homogeneous biological media Phys. Med. Biol. 43 2589-600
8. _ 1998b Covariance analysis of time-delay estimates from strained signals IEEE Trans. Signal Proc. 46 2589-600
9. Bilgen M, Insana M F, Hall T J and Chaturvedi P 1997 Statistical analysis of strain images estimated from overlapped and filtered echo signals Ultrasonic Imaging 19 209-20
10. Chaturvedi P, Insana M F and Hall T J 1998 2-D companding for noise reduction in strain imaging IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 45 179-91
11. Friemel B H, Bohs L N, Nightingale K R and Trahey G E 1998 Speckle decorrelation due to two-dimensional flow gradients IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 45 317-27
12. Fung Y C 1993 Biomechanics - Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues 2nd edn (New York: Springer)
13. Hall T J, Bilgen M and Insana M F 1997 Phantom materials for elastography IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 44 1355-65
14. Insana M F, Chaturvedi P, Hall T J and Bilgen M 1997 3D companding using linear arrays for improved strain imaging Proc. IEEE Ultrasonic Symp. pp 1435-8
15. Insana M F, Cook L T, Bilgen M, Chaturvedi P and Zhu Y 2000 Maximum-likelihood approach to strain imaging using ultrasound J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107 1421-34
16. Kallel F and Bertrand M 1996 Tissue elasticity reconstruction using linear perturbation theory IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 15 299-313
17. Kallel F, Varghese T, Ophir J and Bilgen M 1997 The nonstationary strain filter in elastography. Part II: lateral and elevational decorrelation IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 44 1286-96
18. Konofagou A and Ophir J 1998 A new elastographic method for estimation and imaging of lateral displacement, lateral strains, corrected axial strains and Poisson's ratios in tissues Ultrasound Med. Biol. 24 1183-99
19. Macs F, Collignon A, Vandeimeulen D, Marchal G and Suetens P 1997 Multimodality image registration by maximization of mutual information IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 16 187-98
20. Maurice R L and Bertrand M I 1999a Speckle motion artifact under tissue shearing IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 46 584-94
21. _ 1999b Lagrangian speckle model and tissue motion estimation - theory IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 18 593-603
22. Meunier J 1998 Tissue motion assessment from 3D echographic speckle tracking Phys. Med. Biol. 43 1241-54
23. Muthupillai R, Lomas D, Rossman P, Greenleaf J, Manduca A, and Ehman R 1995 Magnetic resonance elastography by direct visualization of propagating acoustic strain waves Science 269 1854-7
24. Nesi P, Innocenti F and Pezzati P 1998 RETIMAC: Real-time motion analysis chip IEEE Trans. Circ. Sys. II: Analog Digital Sig. Process. 45 361-75
25. O'Donnell M, Skovoroda A R, Shapo B M and Emelianov S Y 1994 Internal displacement and strain imaging using ultrasonic speckle tracking IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 41 314-25
26. Ophir J, Cespedes I, Ponnekanti H, Yazdi Y and Li X 1991 Elastography: a quantitative method for imaging the elasticity of biological tissues Ultrasonic Imaging 13 111-34
27. Parker K J, Huang S R, Muslin R A and Lerner R M 1996 Tissue response to mechanical vibrations for sonoelasticity imaging Ultrasound Med. Biol. 16 241-6
28. Plewes D, Betty I, Urchuk S and Soutar I 1995 Visualizing tissue compliance with MR imaging J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 5 733-8
29. Skovoroda A R, Emelianov S Y, Lubinski M A, Sarvazyan A P and O'Donnell M 1994 Theoretical analysis and verification of ultrasound displacement and strain imaging IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Ereq. Control 41 302-13
30. Sumi C, Suziki A and Nakayama K 1995 Estimation of shear modulus distribution in soft tissue from strain distribution elastography IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 42 193-202
31. Varghese T, Bilgen M and Ophir I 1998 Multiresolution strain filter in elastography IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 45 65-75