Elastography: general principles and clincial applications.
Elastography: general principles and clincial applications.
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10.1016/j.cult.2013.09.006
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2014-01
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Elastography visualizes differences in the biomechanical properties of normal and diseased tissues (Sarvazyan et al. 1995; Krouskop et al. 1998; Samani et al. 2007; Parker et al. 2011). Elastography was developed in the late 1980s to early 1990s to improve ultrasonic imaging (Lerner and Parker 1987; Lerner et al. 1988; Ophir et al. 1991; O’Donnell et al. 1994), but the success of ultrasonic elastography has inspired investigators to develop analogues based on magnetic resonance imaging (Muthupillai et al. 1995; Bishop et al. 2000; Sinkus et al. 2000; Weaver et al. 2001), and optical coherence tomography (Khalil et al. 2005; Kirkpatrick et al. 2006; Ko et al. 2006). In this chapter, we will focus on ultrasonic techniques with a brief reference to approaches based on magnetic resonance imaging.The general principle of elastography can be summarized as follows:(1) perturb the tissue using a quasi-static, harmonic, or transient mechanical source;(2) measure the resulting mechanical response (displacement, strain or amplitude and phase of vibration); and (3) infer the biomechanical properties of the underlying tissue by applying either a simplified or continuum mechanical model to the measured mechanical response (Manduca et al. 1998; Ophir et al. 2000; Bamber et al. 2002; Greenleaf et al. 2003; Parker et al. 2011). In this chapter, we will describe (a) the general principles of quasi-static, harmonic, and transient elastography (see Fig. 1)—the most popular approaches to elastography and (b) the physics of elastography—the underlying equations of motion that governs the motion in each approach. We also provide examples of clinical applications of each approach.