Angular strain estimation method for elastography

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2653-2661

  Bae, Unmin ^a,b   Kim, Yongmin ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERPOLATION; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

ELASTOGRAPHY; STRAIN ESTIMATOR; ULTRASOUND MACHINES; ULTRASOUND SIGNALS;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 40649129705     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.594     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. T. A. Krouskop T. M. Wheeler F. Kallel B. S. Garra T. Hall Elastic moduli of breast and prostate tissues under compression Ultrason. Imag. 20 260 274 1998
2. A. Lyshchik T. Higashi R. Asato S. Tanaka J. Ito M. Hiraoka A. B. Brill T. Saga K. Togashi Elastic moduli of thyroid tissues under compression Ultrason. Imag. 27 101 110 2005
3. J. Ophir I. Céspedes H. Ponnekanti Y. Yazdi X. Li Elastography: A quantitative method for imaging the elasticity of biological tissues Ultrason. Imag. 13 111 134 1991
4. M. O’Donnell A. R. Skovoroda B. M. Shapo S. Y. Emelianov Internal displacement and strain imaging using ultrasonic speckle tracking IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 41 314 325 1994
5. B. S. Garra E. I. Céspedes J. Ophir S. R. Spratt R. A. Zuurbier C. M. Magnant M. F. Pennanen Elastography of breast lesions: Initial clinical results Radiology 202 79 86 1997
6. C. L. de Korte G. Pasterkamp A. F. van der Steen H. A. Woutman N. Bom Characterization of plaque components with intravascular ultrasound elastography in human femoral and coronary arteries in vitro Circulation 102 617 623 2000
7. E. E. Konofagou J. D’Hooge J. Ophir Myocardial elastography—A feasibility study in vivo Ultrasound Med. Biol. 28 475 482 2002
8. S. Y. Emelianov X. Chen M. O’Donnell B. Knipp D. Myers T. W. Wakefield J. M. Rubin Triplex ultrasound: Elasticity imaging to age deep venous thrombosis Ultrasound Med. Biol. 28 757 767 2002
9. T. J. Hall Y. Zhu C. S. Spalding In vivo real-time freehand palpation imaging Ultrasound Med. Biol. 29 427 435 2003
10. M. A. Lubinski S. Y. Emelianov M. O’Donnell Speckle tracking methods for ultrasonic elasticity imaging using short-time correlation IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 46 82 96 1999
11. A. Pesavento C. Perrey M. Krueger H. Ermert A time-efficient and accurate strain estimation concept for ultrasonic elastography using iterative phase zero estimation IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 46 1057 1067 1999
12. T. Shiina T. Nitta E. Ueno J. C. Bamber Real time tissue elasticity imaging using the combined autocorrelation method Jpn. J. Med. Ultrason. 29 119 128 2002
13. S. Srinivasan J. Ophir A zero-crossing strain estimator for elastography Ultrasound Med. Biol. 29 227 238 2003
14. F. Kallel M. Bertrand A note on strain estimation using correlation techniques Proc. IEEE Ultrason. Symp. 2 883 887 Proc. IEEE Ultrason. Symp. 1993
15. I. Céspedes Y. Huang J. Ophir S. Spratt Methods for estimation of subsample time delays of digitized echo signals Ultrason. Imag. 17 142 171 1995
16. C. Kasai K. Namekawa A. Koyano R. Omoto Real-time two-dimensional blood flow imaging using an autocorrelation technique IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultrason. SU-32 458 464 1985
17. F. Kallel J. Ophir Three-dimensional tissue motion and its effect on image noise in elastography IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 44 1286 1296 1997
18. F. Kallel T. Varghese J. Ophir M. Bilgen The nonstationary strain filter in elastography: Part II. Lateral and elevational decorrelation Ultrasound Med. Biol. 23 1357 1369 1997
19. R. F. Wagner S. W. Smith J. M. Sandrik H. Lopez Statistics of speckle in ultrasound B-scans IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultrason. SU-30 156 163 1983
20. S. K. Alam J. Ophir E. E. Konofagou An adaptive strain estimator for elastography IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 45 461 472 1998
21. E. E. Konofagou T. Varghese J. Ophir S. K. Alam Power spectral strain estimators in elastography Ultrasound Med. Biol. 25 1115 1129 1999
22. T. Varghese E. E. Konofagou J. Ophir S. K. Alam M. Bilgen Direct strain estimation in elastography using spectral cross-correlation Ultrasound Med. Biol. 26 1525 1537 2000
23. M. Yamakawa T. Shiina Strain estimation using the extended combined autocorrelation method Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 40 3872 3876 2001
24. W. F. Walker G. E. Trahey A fundamental limit on delay estimation using partially correlated speckle signals IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 42 301 308 1995
25. T. Varghese J. Ophir A theoretical framework for performance characterization of elastography: The strain filter IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 44 164 172 1997
26. K. Hoyt F. Forsberg J. Ophir Investigation of parametric spectral estimation techniques for elasticity imaging Ultrasound Med. Biol. 31 1109 1121 2005
27. X. Lai H. Torp K. Kristoffersen An extended autocorrelation method for estimation of blood velocity IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 44 1332 1342 1997
28. G. M. Treece J. E. Lindop A. H. Gee R. W. Prager Efficient estimation of dropouts in displacement tracking Proc. Int. Conf. Ultrason. Meas. Imaging Tissue Elasticity 68 Proc. Int. Conf. Ultrason. Meas. Imaging Tissue Elasticity 2006
29. R. Righetti J. Ophir P. Ktonas Axial resolution in elastography Ultrasound Med. Biol. 28 101 113 2002
30. J.-L. Gennisson T. Baldeweck M. Tanter S. Catheline M. Fink L. Sandrin C. Cornillon B. Querleux Assessment of elastic parameters of human skin using dynamic elastography IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr. 51 980 989 2004
31. U. Bae Y. Kim Real-time ultrasound elastography Proc SPIE 6513 65130J Proc SPIE 2007