Recent Advances of Ultrasound Elastography in Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last three decades, different ultrasound elastographic methods for interrogating the mechanical properties of tissue have been developed and applied in clinical diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Ultrasound elastography-based methods are favorable in many cases due to their low cost, ease of use, portability, real-time capability, ability to penetrate deeper into the body, and ability to characterize motion within the human body. These methods take advantage of changes in the elastic, viscous, and anisotropic properties of tissues due to disease-induced alterations in tissue structure and composition. All these elastographic methods are different in terms of the use of mechanical force to probe the tissue, tracking force-induced deformation and inferring mechanical properties from the estimated deformation. These methods can be broadly classified into strain or displacement and shear wave imaging that uses either internal, external, or acoustic radiation force (ARF) as a mechanical force to probe the tissue.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to gather comprehensive research on ultrasound elastography by collecting contributions covering technical developments and preclinical and clinical application of ultrasound elastography in diagnostics and therapeutics. Contributions may therefore be related, but not limited to displacement imaging, straining imaging, shear wave imaging, motion estimation, beam forming and novel pulse sequence for the elastography method, and viscoelastic and anisotropic properties estimation.

Dr. Murad Hossain
Guest Editor

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