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Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography

Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advancements in ultrasound elastography techniques for imaging tissue elasticity, including shear wave imaging and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. The clinical applications of these techniques, particularly in breast lesion diagnosis and muscle stiffness measurement, are extensively explored. Additionally, the cluster covers the use of magnetic resonance elastography for non-invasive mapping of tissue elasticity.

  • Ultrasound Elastography
  • Tissue Elasticity Mapping
  • Shear Wave Imaging
  • Clinical Applications
  • Soft Tissue Elasticity
  • Magnetic Resonance Elastography
  • Breast Lesion Diagnosis
  • Acoustic Radiation Force
  • Muscle Stiffness Measurement
  • Biomechanical Properties
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (961 and 789 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 961 works
  2. 2 United States 789 works
  3. 3 Japan 187 works
  4. 4 France 177 works
  5. 5 India 162 works
  6. 6 Germany 162 works
  7. 7 Canada 137 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 132 works
  9. 9 South Korea 115 works
  10. 10 Italy 112 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 32.8%United States: 26.9%Japan: 6.4%France: 6.0%6 others listed: 27.9%33%largest
China961 · 32.8%United States789 · 26.9%Japan187 · 6.4%France177 · 6.0%6 others listed820 · 27.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fudan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 60 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 48 works
  3. 3 Fudan UniversityChina 39 works
  4. 4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 34 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 33 works
  6. 6 InsermFrance 28 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works
  8. 8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 25 works
  10. 10 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography include Stephan Windecker, Victoria Delgado and Jeroen Joost Bax.

  1. 1 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  2. 2 Victoria Delgado Netherlands 269k citations
  3. 3 Jeroen Joost Bax Netherlands 229k citations
  4. 4 Clifford R. Jack United States 218k citations
  5. 5 Stephen M. Smith United Kingdom 214k citations
  6. 6 Patrick W.J.C. Serruys Netherlands 206k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography?

The most cited paper in Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography is "Multiscale vessel enhancement filtering" (Alejandro Federico Frangi, Wiro J. Niessen, Koen L. Vincken et al., 1998), with 3,736 citations. Next come "Elastography: A Quantitative Method for Imaging the Elasticity of Biological Tissues" (3,510) and "Optimally sparse representation in general (nonorthogonal) dictionaries via ℓ 1 minimization" (2,975).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Multiscale vessel enhancement filtering Alejandro Federico Frangi, Wiro J. Niessen, Koen L. Vincken et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paperOpen access 1998 3,736
2 Elastography: A Quantitative Method for Imaging the Elasticity of Biological Tissues J. Ophir, I. Céspedes, H. Ponnekanti et al. · Ultrasonic Imaging Apr 1991 3,510
3 Optimally sparse representation in general (nonorthogonal) dictionaries via ℓ 1 minimization David L. Donoho, Michael Elad · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 21 Feb 2003 2,975
4 Transient elastography: a new noninvasive method for assessment of hepatic fibrosis Laurent Sandrin, Bertrand Fourquet, Jean-Michel Hasquenoph et al. · Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology Dec 2003 2,748
5 Calculation of pressure fields from arbitrarily shaped, apodized, and excited ultrasound transducers Jørgen Arendt Jensen, N.B. Svendsen · IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Open access Mar 1992 2,495
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography research done?

The largest centres of Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Paris (France) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rochester.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 156 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 126 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 76 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 59 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 57 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 48 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 45 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 45 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 39 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RochesterUS · 24.7 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Fudan University and Concordia University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 15.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Concordia UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of Illino…Fudan University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 80.520.8%2.6×27 +44.3%
2Fudan UniversityChina 68.613.0%7.5×39 +78.2%
3Concordia UniversityCanada 64.929.3%10.3×10 -2.1%
4University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 63.217.6%8.2×23 +2.8%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 60.916.1%5.2×26 -9.4%
6University of TorontoCanada 59.512.9%3.8×25 -18.3%
7KU LeuvenBelgium 57.810.7%6.0×19 +4.6%
8Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 57.610.2%9.0×20 +18.1%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 56.114.6%3.0×23 +30.2%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 55.110.0%3.5×33 +29.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography, country by country

Is Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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