Measurement of viscoelastic properties of homogeneous soft solid using transient elastography: An inverse problem approach

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3734-3741

  Catheline, S ^a   Gennisson, J L ^a   Delon, G ^a   Fink, M ^a   Sinkus, R ^a,b   Abouelkaram, S ^a,c   Culioli, J ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

ELASTOGRAPHY; SOFT SOLIDS; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; VISCOSITY MAPPING;

VISCOELASTICITY;

AGAR; GELATIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATTLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLOW KINETICS; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 11144347615     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1815075     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. B. S. Garra, E. I. Cespedes, J. Ophir, S. R. Spratt, and R. A. Zuurbier, "Elastography of breast lesions: Initial clinical results," Radiology 202, 79-86 (1997).
2. S. F. Levinson, M. Shinagawa, and T. Sato, "Sonoelastic determination of human skeletal muscle elasticity," J. Biomech. 28, 1145-1154 (1995).
3. F. Lee, J. P. Bronson, R. M. Lerner, K. J. Parker, S. R. Huang, and D. J. Roach, "Sonoelasticity Imaging: Results in In vitro tissue specimens," Radiology 181, 237-239 (1991).
4. R. Muthupillari, D. J. Lomas, P. J. Rossman, J. F. Greenleaf, A. Manduca, and R. L. Ehman, "Magnetic resonance elastography by direct visualisation of propagating acoustic strain wave," Science 269, 1854-1857 (1995).
5. D. B. Plewes, I. Betty, S. N. Urchuk, and I. Soutar, "Visualizing tissue compliance with MR imaging." J. Magn. Reson Imaging 5, 733-738 (1995).
6. S. Catheline, F. Wu, and M. Fink, "A solution to diffraction biases in sonolelasticity: The acoustic impulse technique," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 2941-2950 (1999).
7. L. Sandrin, M. Tanter, S. Catheline, and M. Fink, "Shear modulus imaging with 2-D transient elastography," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 49, 426-435 (2002).
8. T. E. Oliphant, A. Manduca, R. L. Ehman, and J. F. Greenleaf, "Complex valued stiffness reconstruction for magnetic resonance elastography by algebraic inversion of the differential equation," Magn. Reson. Med. 45, 299-310 (2001).
9. M. Sridhar, H. Du, C. Pellot-Barakat, S. I. Simon, and M. F. Insana, "Ultrasonic mechanical relaxation imaging," Proc. SPIE 5373, 202 (2004).
10. E. E. W. Van Houten, J. B. Weaver, M. I. Miga, F. E. Kennedy, and K. D. Paulsen, "Elasticity reconstruction from experimental MR displacement data: Initial experience with an overlapping subzone finite element inversion process," Med. Phys. 27, 101-107 (2000).
11. H. L. Oestrecher, "Field and impedance of an oscillating sphere in a viscoelastic medium with an application to biophysics," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 23, 707-714 (1951).
12. T. J. Royston, Y. Yazicioglu, and F. Loth, "Surface response of a viscoelastic medium to subsurface acoustic sources with application to medical diagnosis," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 1109-1121 (2003).
13. A. Bot, R. H. W. Wientjes, and K. H. de Haas, "The transition zone for gelatin gels as measured by high-frequency rheology," Imaging Sci. J. 45, 191-196 (1997).
14. I. R. Titze, S. A. Klemuk, and S. Gray, "Methodology for rheological testing of engineered biomaterials at low audio frequencies," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 154, 392-401 (2004).
15. L. Sandrin, S. Catheline, M. Tanter, X. Hennequin, and M. Fink, "Time resolved pulsed elastography with ultrafast ultrasonic imaging," Ultrason. Imaging 21, 259-272 (1999).
16. J. Bercoff, S. Chaffai, M. Tanter, L. Sandrin, S. Catheline, M. Fink, J.-L. Gennisson, and M. Meunier, "In vivo breast tumor detection using transient elastography," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 29, 1387-1396 (2003).
17. W. F. Walker and G. E. Trahey, "A fundamental limit on the performance of correlation based on phase correction and flow estimation technique," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 41, 644-654 (1994).
18. U. Hamhaber, F. A. Grieshaber, J. H. Nagel, and U. Klose, "Comparison of quantitative shear wave MR-elastography with mechanical compression tests," Magn. Reson. Med. 49, 71-77 (2003).
19. M. Djabourov, J. Leblond, and P. Papon, "Gelation of aqueous gelatin solutions. II. Rheology of the sol-gel transition," J. Phys. (France) 49, 333-343 (1988).
20. L. Landau, E. Lifchitz, Théorie de l'élasticité (Mir, Moscou, 1990), Vol. 7, Chap. 5, Sec. 33.
21. D. Royer and E. Dieulesaint, Ondes Elastiques dans les Solides (Masson, Paris, 1996), Vol. 1, Sec. 426.
22. J. L. Gennisson, S. Catheline, S. Chaffaï, and M. Fink, "Transient elastography in anisotropic medium: Application to the measurement of slow and fast shear waves velocities in muscles," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 536-541 (2003).
23. I. Sack, J. Bernarding, and J. Braun, "Analysis of wave pattern in MR elastography of skeletal muscle using coupled harmonic oscillator simulations," J. Magn. Reson Imaging 20, 95-104 (2002).
24. E. L. Madsen, H. J. Sathoff, and J. A. Zagzebski, "Ultrasonic shear wave properties of soft tissues and tissuelike materials," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 74, 1346-1354 (1983).
25. L. Sandrin, M. Tanter, J.-L. Gennisson, S. Catheline, and M. Fink, "Shear elasticity probe for soft tissues with 1D transient elastography," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 49, 436-446 (2002).
26. S. Catheline, L. Sandrin, J.-L. Gennisson, M. Tanter, and M. Fink, "Ultrasound-based noninvasive shear elasticity probe for soft tissues," IEEE Ultrasonic Symp. 2, 1799-1801 (2000).
27. L. Sandrin, B. Fourquet, J.-M. Hasquenoph, S. Yon, C. Fournier, F. Mal, C. Christidis, M. Ziol, B. Poulet, F. Kazemi, M. Beaugrand, and R. Palau, "Transient elastography: A new noninvasive method for assessment of hepatic fibrosis," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 29, 1705-1703 (2003).
28. S. Catheline, J. L. Thomas, F. Wu, and M. Fink, "Diffraction field of a low frequency vibrator in soft tissues using transient elastography," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 46, 1013-1019 (1999).
29. D. C. Gakenheimer and J. Miklowitz, "Transient excitation of an half space by a point load traveling on the surface," J. Appl. Mech. 36, 505-514 (1969).
30. H. Lamb, "On the propagation of tremors over the surface of an elastic solid," Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London 203, 1-42 (1904).
31. J.-L. Gennisson, "The 1D shear elasticity probe: A new tool to study biological tissues," thesis manuscript (in French), Paris VI University, France, 2003, Chap. 5, Sec. I.b.
32. R. Righetti, J. Ophir, S. Srinivasan, and T. Kroutskop, "The feasibility of using elastography for imaging the Poisson's ratio in porous media," Ultrasound Med. Biol. 30, 215-228 (2004).
33. R. Sinkus, M. Tanter, T. Nisius, and C. Kuhl, "Anisotropic properties of breast cancer. In Vivo results utilizing a cubic model," Second International Conference on the Ultrasonic measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Corpus Christi, TX, October 2003.