The feasibility of blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening in the hippocampus of wild-type mice
using focused ultrasound (FUS) through the intact skull and skin was investigated. Needle …

Elastography is a method that can ultimately generate several new kinds of images, called
elastograms. As such, all the properties of elastograms are different from the familiar …

Background The role played by the thoracolumbar fascia in chronic low back pain (LBP) is
poorly understood. The thoracolumbar fascia is composed of dense connective tissue layers …

Early detection of cardiovascular diseases has been a very active research area in the
medical imaging field. Assessment of the local and global mechanical functions is one of the …

Several techniques have been developed in an effort to estimate mechanical properties of
tissues. These techniques typically estimate static or harmonic motion resulting from an …

High-precision motion estimation has become essential in ultrasound-based techniques such
as time-domain Doppler and elastography. Normalized cross-correlation (NCC) has been …

The therapeutic efficacy of neurological agents is severely limited, because large compounds
do not cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Focused ultrasound (FUS) sonication in the …

The in vivo cavitation response associated with blood–brain barrier (BBB) opening as induced
by transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS) in conjunction with microbubbles was studied in …

Focused ultrasound (FUS) in combination with microbubbles (MBs) has been successfully
used in the delivery of various-size therapeutic agents across the blood–brain barrier (BBB). …

Elastography is based on the estimation of strain due to applied tissue compression. In
conventional elastography, strain is computed from the gradient of the displacement estimates …