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Oberai, Assad A.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7668-7713

A5034704499 | I135310074

Mayo Clinic

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Citations 2

A Force-Matched Approach to Large-Strain Nonlinearity in Elasticity Imaging for Breast Lesion Characterization

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering | August 17, 2023 | Volume: 71 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 367-374

10.1109/tbme.2023.3305986 | PMID 37590110

Repeatability of linear and nonlinear quantitative compression elastography in the breast

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | April 24, 2019 | Volume: 145 | Issue: 3_Supplement | Pages: 1891-1891

10.1121/1.5101854

Compression elastography allows the precise measurement of large deformations of soft tissue in vivo. From a measured large deformation, an inverse problem for both the linear and nonlinear elastic moduli distributions can be solved. As part of a larger clinical study to evaluate NEMs in breast cancer, we evaluate the repeatability of linear and nonlinear modulus maps from repeat measurements. Within the cohort of 31 subjects scanned to date, several had repeated scans. These repeated scans were processed to evaluate NEM repeatability. In vivo data were acquired by a custom, digitally controlled, uniaxial compression device with force feedback. RF-data were acquired using plane wave imaging, at a frame-rate of 200 Hz, with a ramp-and-hold compressive force of 8N, applied at 8 N/s. A two-dimensional (2D) block-matching algorithm was used to obtain sample-level displacement fields which were then tracked at subsample resolution using 2D cross correlation. Linear and nonlinear elasticity parameters in the Blatz model of tissue elasticity are estimated using iterative optimization. Repeatability between both modes and elastic modulus maps is measured and compared. Preliminary results indicate that when images are acquired in the same region of tissue, the modulus maps are consistent. [Work supported by NIH R01CA195527.]