Jie Liu

TL;DR: The focus of this paper is on imaging parameter estimation from ultrasonic echo data, and how jitter from hand-held force applicators used for clinical applications propagate through the imaging chain to generate image noise.

TL;DR: A new noninvasive ultrasonic method implemented with coded excitation techniques was utilized to improve WSS estimation accuracy and precision by providing high spatial and temporal resolution and quantified the impact of relating shear-mediated cellular adhesion molecule expression to inaccuracies in WSS measurements.

TL;DR: A numerical approach for evaluating the ideal observer acting on radio frequency (RF) frame data, which involves inversion of large nonstationary covariance matrices, and a power-series approach to computing this inverse is described.

TL;DR: Analytical beam pattern analysis and simulation results show that this spatial filtering method can improve lateral resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio as compared with conventional dynamic receive focusing (DRF) methods.

TL;DR: This paper reviews linear viscoelastic theory as applied to gelatin hydrogels for the purpose of formulating approaches to molecular-scale interpretation of elasticity imaging in soft biological tissues and finds Elastic strain and retardance time images are found to provide the best combination of contrast and signal strength in gelatin.