Tissue Elasticity Imaging: Volume 1: Theory and Methods

ISBN-13: 9780128096611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str.

S. Kaisar Alam; Brian S. Garra

Opis

Tissue Elasticity Imaging: Volume 1: Theory and Methods offers an extensive treatment of the fundamentals and applications of this ground-breaking diagnostic modality. This first volume introduces elasticity imaging and its history, and describes the fundamental physics and different elasticity imaging methods, implementation details, problems and artifacts. This book is an essential resource for all researchers and practitioners (including scientists, radiologists, urologists, fellows and residents) interested in any elasticity imaging modality. Many diseases including cancers change the tissue mechanical properties. Conventional methods cannot detect these changes; however, elasticity images, produced by slow tissue deformation or low-frequency vibration, can display these changes. Different elasticity imaging methods may be optimal for different applications.

• Offers the first comprehensive reference on elasticity imaging
• Discusses the fundamentals of technology, limitations and their solutions, advanced methods and future directions
• Addresses the technology as well as the applications useful to both researchers and clinical practitioners
• Includes an online reference section regularly updated with advances in technology and applications

Spis treści

1 An early history of elasticity imaging
2 The governing theory of elasticity imaging
3 Vibration sonoelastography
4 Introduction to quasi-static elastography
5 Acoustic radiation force and shear wave elastography techniques
6 Magnetic resonance elastography
7 Reconstructive elastography
8 Lateral and shear strain imaging for ultrasound elastography
9 Optical elastography on the microscale