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| author | Heesterbeek, David G. J. van Riel, Max H. C. Sheombarsing, Ray S. S. van Leeuwen, Tristan Froeling, Martijn Berg, Cornelis A. T. van den Sbrizzi, Alessandro |
| author_facet | Heesterbeek, David G. J. van Riel, Max H. C. Sheombarsing, Ray S. S. van Leeuwen, Tristan Froeling, Martijn Berg, Cornelis A. T. van den Sbrizzi, Alessandro |
| contents | As disease often alters the structural properties of soft tissue, noninvasive elastography techniques have emerged to quantitatively assess in vivo mechanical properties. Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) based on dynamic deformations is the standard technique for imaging mechanical properties, but the viscoelastic nature of soft tissue makes the results dependent on the actuation frequency, which can be limiting. In this proof-of-principle study we propose a noise robust framework for reconstructing relative stiffness properties from quasi-static in vivo displacement fields captured on a physiological time scale. The acquisition is performed using a pneumatic pressure cuff to induce tissue deformation in a controlled manner. The reconstruction does not require boundary information which is generally hard to access in vivo nor spatial derivatives of displacement fields that are known to amplify noise. The validity of our framework is corroborated with in silico experiments on a numerical phantom. In vivo experiments on the thigh of a volunteer demonstrate the repeatability of the method. As an application, the quantitative change in muscle stiffness during isometric knee flexion is investigated which yielded physiologically meaningful results. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Quasi-static in vivo elastography from internal displacement information only Heesterbeek, David G. J. van Riel, Max H. C. Sheombarsing, Ray S. S. van Leeuwen, Tristan Froeling, Martijn Berg, Cornelis A. T. van den Sbrizzi, Alessandro Medical Physics As disease often alters the structural properties of soft tissue, noninvasive elastography techniques have emerged to quantitatively assess in vivo mechanical properties. Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) based on dynamic deformations is the standard technique for imaging mechanical properties, but the viscoelastic nature of soft tissue makes the results dependent on the actuation frequency, which can be limiting. In this proof-of-principle study we propose a noise robust framework for reconstructing relative stiffness properties from quasi-static in vivo displacement fields captured on a physiological time scale. The acquisition is performed using a pneumatic pressure cuff to induce tissue deformation in a controlled manner. The reconstruction does not require boundary information which is generally hard to access in vivo nor spatial derivatives of displacement fields that are known to amplify noise. The validity of our framework is corroborated with in silico experiments on a numerical phantom. In vivo experiments on the thigh of a volunteer demonstrate the repeatability of the method. As an application, the quantitative change in muscle stiffness during isometric knee flexion is investigated which yielded physiologically meaningful results. |
| title | Quasi-static in vivo elastography from internal displacement information only |
| topic | Medical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12609 |