Abbas Samani

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Abbas Samani is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Abbas Samani has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 64 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 25 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Abbas Samani's work include Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography (45 papers), Elasticity and Material Modeling (41 papers) and Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (18 papers). Abbas Samani is often cited by papers focused on Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography (45 papers), Elasticity and Material Modeling (41 papers) and Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (18 papers). Abbas Samani collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Iran and Germany. Abbas Samani's co-authors include Donald B. Plewes, Jonathan Bishop, Judit Zubovits, Ingolf Sack, C. Luginbuhl, Ali Sadeghi‐Naini, Don B. Plewes, Martin J. Yaffe, Lauren E. Flynn and Jürgen Braun and has published in prestigious journals such as Biomaterials, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Expert Systems with Applications.

In The Last Decade

Abbas Samani

96 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Elastic moduli of normal and pathological human breast tissues: an inversion-technique-based investigation of 169 samples

2007 528 citations Abbas Samani, Donald B. Plewes et al. Physics in Medicine and Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abbas Samani Canada	23	1.9k	1.5k	519	432	366	105	2.9k
Jin Ho Chang South Korea	31	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	670 1.3×	178 0.4×	164 0.4×	188	3.3k
Salavat R. Aglyamov United States	35	3.0k 1.6×	2.5k 1.7×	681 1.3×	246 0.6×	127 0.3×	168	3.8k
Marvin M. Doyley United States	26	2.2k 1.2×	2.3k 1.6×	686 1.3×	318 0.7×	210 0.6×	134	3.1k
Kenneth Hoyt United States	32	2.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	381 0.7×	183 0.4×	270 0.7×	178	3.1k
Kirill V. Larin United States	44	5.2k 2.8×	3.5k 2.4×	367 0.7×	412 1.0×	111 0.3×	301	6.7k
Kang Kim United States	31	1.5k 0.8×	746 0.5×	202 0.4×	565 1.3×	294 0.8×	132	2.9k
Alfred C. H. Yu Canada	33	2.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	593 1.1×	289 0.7×	275 0.8×	170	3.6k
Thomas A. Krouskop United States	31	3.5k 1.9×	3.3k 2.2×	1.4k 2.6×	584 1.4×	269 0.7×	86	5.1k
F. Kallel United States	23	3.2k 1.7×	3.4k 2.3×	1.4k 2.7×	351 0.8×	209 0.6×	50	4.2k
Dieter Klatt United States	23	1.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	406 0.8×	153 0.4×	248 0.7×	59	2.9k

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Kornecki, Anat, et al.. (2023). Enhanced full-inversion-based ultrasound elastography for evaluating tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced breast cancer. Physica Medica. 112. 102619–102619. 1 indexed citations

Hoover, Douglas A., et al.. (2021). In-vivo lung biomechanical modeling for effective tumor motion tracking in external beam radiation therapy. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 130. 104231–104231. 10 indexed citations

Sadeghi‐Naini, Ali, et al.. (2021). Combining First- and Second-Order Continuity Constraints in Ultrasound Elastography. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 68(7). 2407–2418. 15 indexed citations

Dhaliwal, Sandeep, et al.. (2020). Estimation of the hyperelastic parameters of fresh human oropharyngeal soft tissues using indentation testing. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 108. 103798–103798. 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Qi, Abbas Samani, & Terry M. Peters. (2020). MR and ultrasound cardiac image dynamic visualization and synchronization over Internet for distributed heart function diagnosis. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. 88. 101850–101850. 5 indexed citations

Dhaliwal, Sandeep, et al.. (2018). Estimation of the Young's moduli of fresh human oropharyngeal soft tissues using indentation testing. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 86. 352–358. 9 indexed citations

Mousavi, Seyed Reza, Hassan Rivaz, Gregory J. Czarnota, Abbas Samani, & Ali Sadeghi‐Naini. (2017). Ultrasound Elastography of the Prostate Using an Unconstrained Modulus Reconstruction Technique: A Pilot Clinical Study. Translational Oncology. 10(5). 744–751. 5 indexed citations

Fatouraee, Nasser, et al.. (2017). A novel micro-to-macro structural approach for mechanical characterization of adipose tissue extracellular matrix. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 77. 140–147. 6 indexed citations

Samani, Abbas, et al.. (2016). A novel micro-to-macro approach for cardiac tissue mechanics. Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering. 20(2). 215–229. 5 indexed citations

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Mousavi, Seyed Reza, et al.. (2015). A novel shape‐similarity‐based elastography technique for prostate cancer assessment. Medical Physics. 42(9). 5110–5119. 3 indexed citations

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Flynn, Lauren E., et al.. (2015). Comparative biomechanical study of using decellularized human adipose tissues for post-mastectomy and post-lumpectomy breast reconstruction. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 57. 235–245. 22 indexed citations

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Yu, Claire, Juares Bianco, Cody Brown, et al.. (2013). Porous decellularized adipose tissue foams for soft tissue regeneration. Biomaterials. 34(13). 3290–3302. 142 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Sumit, et al.. (2011). Estimation of the Orthotropic Elastic Properties of the Rat Eardrum. Scholarship@Western (Western University). 34. 4 indexed citations

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Sadeghi‐Naini, Ali, et al.. (2011). CT image construction of a totally deflated lung using deformable model extrapolation. Medical Physics. 38(2). 872–883. 13 indexed citations

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Mousavi, Seyed Reza, et al.. (2011). Statistical finite element method for real-time tissue mechanics analysis. Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering. 15(6). 595–608. 22 indexed citations

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Nanayakkara, Nuwan D., Bernard Chiu, Abbas Samani, et al.. (2009). Nonrigid registration of three‐dimensional ultrasound and magnetic resonance images of the carotid arteries. Medical Physics. 36(2). 373–385. 17 indexed citations

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Nanayakkara, Nuwan D., Bernard Chiu, Abbas Samani, et al.. (2006). A Non-Rigid Image Registration Technique for 3D Ultrasound Carotid Images using a "Twisting and Bending" Model. PubMed. 2006. 2738–2741. 5 indexed citations

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Samani, Abbas & Donald B. Plewes. (2004). A method to measure the hyperelastic parameters ofex vivobreast tissue samples. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 49(18). 4395–4405. 147 indexed citations

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Samani, Abbas, Jonathan Bishop, C. Luginbuhl, & Donald B. Plewes. (2003). Measuring the elastic modulus ofex vivosmall tissue samples. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 48(14). 2183–2198. 235 indexed citations

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Plewes, Donald B., et al.. (2000). Visualization and quantification of breast cancer biomechanical properties with magnetic resonance elastography. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 45(6). 1591–1610. 254 indexed citations

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