Open AccessThermoacoustic elastography: recovery of bulk elastic modulus of heterogeneous media using tomographically measured thermoacoustic measurements
Author(s) -
Zheng Zhu,
Huabei Jiang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-4292
pISSN - 2223-4306
DOI - 10.21037/qims.2019.03.18
Subject(s) - elastic modulus , elastography , elasticity (physics) , imaging phantom , materials science , acoustics , biomedical engineering , thermoacoustics , elastic energy , microwave , optics , physics , composite material , computer science , ultrasound , medicine , thermodynamics , telecommunications
Tissue mechanical parameters such as elasticity are of great significance for the assessment of biological histopathological and physiological characteristics. Here, we propose a new approach called thermoacoustic elastography (TAE) for imaging tissue elastic modulus.