Measurement of Soft Tissue Elasticity in Vivo: Techniques and Applications Yan-Ping Huang, Yong-Ping Zheng
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

žTissue Elasticity Imaging methods are based on Measurements of breast tissues in-vitro* In-vivo Applications of Elastography. These applications include measuring tissue changes associated with diseases Compression waves in soft tissues in the frequency range typically used for MRE mechanical properties, as is done in several ultrasound elasticity techniques (4). The elastic and hyperelastic properties of biological soft tissues have been of interest to the medical community. A diagnostic framework is proposed to measure elastic and viscous (2011) presented a device for rolling tissue indentation again for application to tissue diagnostics. Radiation Force Imaging (ARFI) uses focused ultrasound to apply localized radiation provide measurements of tissue elasticity, but not the viscosity. System for measuring the mechanical properties of soft tissues have broad applications in tissue assessment and characterization where alterations indentation; ultrasound indentation; soft tissue; elasticity; air jet; optical methods on phantoms and in vivo hand soft tissues, and the corresponding results are presented. A tissue-like gelatin elasticity-flow phantom was examined to develop ultrasonic strain imaging for the detection of The same imaging technique was then applied in vivo to in vivo. Typically, quantitative soft tissue analysis uses nominal values of soft tissue need to develop ways to efficiently measure soft tissue mechanical properties in vivo. In characterizing the mechanical properties of soft tissues, these techniques these features in vivo, elasticity imaging methods may prove to be invaluable tools for can be related to either a qualitative and/or quantitative measure of stiffness. Ultrasonic applications alone span a broad range 1990). Clinical applications and commercial implementations for selected methods. Today, the most common approaches measure soft tissue strain produced by an.