Title :
Magnetic resonance elastography and inverse problem solution in elasticity
Author :
Z. Akalin;B.M. Eyuboglu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Middle East Tech. Univ., Ankara, Turkey
Abstract :
Visualization of mechanical properties of soft tissues using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with mechanical compression is introduced. Then, reconstruction of the elasticity distribution by the linear perturbation method is explained. Simulation results show that the elasticity distribution of soft tissues can be reconstructed by utilizing the phase images obtained from MRI so that the biomechanical properties of soft tissues can be visualized.
Keywords :
"Magnetic resonance","Inverse problems","Biological tissues","Magnetic resonance imaging","Visualization","Image reconstruction","Elasticity","Mechanical factors","Image coding","Perturbation methods"
Conference_Titel :
[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5674-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804245
