Data Analyses for Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Abstract

We will introduce mathematical methods to extract viscoelasticity or an indication of it from time harmonic viscoelastic waves propagatinng inside a human tissue or phantom measured by hardware of MR elastography. A method called the modified integral method is to identify the viscoelasticity of the human tissue or phamtom by modeling them as a viscoelastic medium. On the otherhand, the method using a continuous wavelet transform is to extract an indication of viscoelasticity.