Shear wave splitting in three-dimensional anisotropic media

Three dimensional shear wave scattering MR elastography

Introduction: Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a non invasive method that combines externally applied vibrations with the motion sensitivity of MRI to measure the shear elasticity soft tissues [1]. In MRE this is traditionally achieved by solving an inverse problem with MRE shear wave images as input data [2]. A complementary approach, which does not require the solution of an inverse p...

Shear wave focusing for three-dimensional sonoelastography.

A new vibration scheme is shown to provide localized vibration fields for three-dimensional sonoelastography imaging. The theoretical vibration distributions of double strip loads vibrating normally to the surface of a semi-infinite elastic space are calculated. A localization or focusing of shear waves inbetween the double-strip loads is predicted. Experimentally, two parallel rigid rectangula...

Wave-equation shear wave splitting tomography

G JI S ei sm ol og y Wave-equation shear wave splitting tomography Maureen D. Long,1,∗ Maarten V. de Hoop2 and Robert D. van der Hilst1 1Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Purdue University, 150 N. University...

Three-Dimensional Vector Holograms in Photoreactive Anisotropic Media

Null Detection in Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements

Shear-wave splitting measurements are widely used to analyze orientations of anisotropy. We compare two different shear-wave splitting techniques, which are generally assumed to give similar results. Using a synthetic test, which covers the whole backazimuthal range, we find characteristic differences, however, in fast-axis and delay-time estimates near Null directions between the rotation corr...