Displacement Reconstructions in Ultrasound Elastography

Abstract : We consider the reconstruction of internal elastic displacements from ultrasound measurements , which finds applications in the medical imaging modality called elastography. By appropriate interferometry and windowed Fourier transforms of the ultrasound measurements, we propose a reconstruction procedure of the vectorial structure of spatially varying elastic displacements in biological tissues. This provides a modeling and generalization of scalar reconstruction procedures routinely used in elastography. The proposed algorithm is justified using a single scattering approximation and local asymptotic analysis. Its validity is assessed by numerical simulations.