J. Ophir

17.3k citations

188 papers · 13.6k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 56

Impact in

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging top 0.02%
- Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography
Biomedical Engineering top 0.05%
- Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
- Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
- Elasticity and Material Modeling

Papers in

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 169
- Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography 168
Mechanics of Materials 90
- Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation 85
- Flow Measurement and Analysis 13

Co-authors: I. Céspedes H. Ponnekanti Tomy Varghese Elisa E. Konofagou F. Kallel Youseph Yazdi Xiaodan Li Thomas A. Krouskop
Journals: Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology (71 papers)Ultrasonic Imaging (43 papers)IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (12 papers)Physics in Medicine and Biology (11 papers)The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States France Canada

In The Last Decade

J. Ophir

186 papers receiving 13.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Elastography: Ultrasonic estimation and imaging of the elastic properties of tissues 1999 · 592 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1999 Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H Journal of Engineering in Medicine
1997 Radiology
1991 Ultrasonic Imaging
1991 Ultrasonic Imaging

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All Works

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1	On the Advantages of Imaging the Axial-Shear Strain Component of the Total Shear Strain in Breast Tumors Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·Arun K. Thittai, Nick Sutcliffe, J. Ophir	2012	16
2	Axial–Shear Strain Distributions in an Elliptical Inclusion Model: Experimental Validation and in vivo Examples With Implications to Breast Tumor Classification Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·Arun K. Thittai, Nick Sutcliffe, J. Ophir	2010	28
3	The feasibility of estimating and imaging the mechanical behavior of poroelastic materials using axial strain elastography Physics in Medicine and Biology ·Raffaella Righetti, SUDE HATUN AKTİMUR, J. Ophir, Thomas A. Krouskop	2007	30
4	Comparing elastographic strain images with modulus images obtained using nanoindentation: preliminary results using phantoms and tissue samples Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·Seshadri Srinivasan, Thomas A. Krouskop, J. Ophir	2004	30
5	Theoretical derivation of SNR, CNR and spatial resolution for a local adaptive strain estimator for elastography Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·S. Srinivasan, J. Ophir, S. Kaisar Alam	2004	17
6	Elastography: Imaging the elastic properties of soft tissues with ultrasound Journal of Medical Ultrasonics ·J. Ophir, S. Kaisar Alam, Brian S. Garra, F. Kallel, Elisa E. Konofagou, Thomas A. Krouskop, Christopher R. B. Merritt, Raffaella Righetti, Rémi Souchon, Seshadri Srinivasan, Tomy Varghese	2002	268
7	Phase aberration effects in elastography Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·Tomy Varghese, Mehmet Bilgen, J. Ophir	2001	9
8	Poroelastography: imaging the poroelastic properties of tissues Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·Elisa E. Konofagou, Timothy P. Harrigan, J. Ophir, Thomas A. Krouskop	2001	109
9	Cardiac elastography - a feasibility study European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging ·Jan D’hooge, Elisa E. Konofagou, Bart Bijnens, J. Ophir, Jan Thoen, George R. Sutherland, Paul Suetens	2000	6
10	Spectral estimators in elastography Ultrasonics ·Elisa E. Konofagou, Tomy Varghese, J. Ophir	2000	13
11	Nonlinear stress-strain relationships in tissue and their effect on the contrast-to-noise ratio in elastograms Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·Tomy Varghese, J. Ophir, Thomas A. Krouskop	2000	50
12	The feasibility of elastographic visualization of HIFU-induced thermal lesions in soft tissues Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·F. Kallel, R. Jason Stafford, Roger E. Price, Raffaella Righetti, J. Ophir, John D. Hazle	1999	98
13	Multiresolution imaging in elastography IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control ·Tomy Varghese, Mehmet Bilgen, J. Ophir	1998	64
14	A deconvolution filter for improvement of time-delay estimation in elastography IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control ·S. Kaisar Alam, J. Ophir, I. Céspedes, Tomy Varghese	1998	7
15	Variable Compressions with RF and Baseband Processing for Dynamic Range Expansion of Elastograms Journal of Medical Ultrasonics ·N Roth, Tomy Varghese, J. Ophir	1997	5
16	Noise reduction in elastograms using temporal stretching with multicompression averaging Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·Tomy Varghese, J. Ophir, I. Céspedes	1996	99
17	Estimating tissue strain from signal decorrelation using the correlation coefficient Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·Tomy Varghese, J. Ophir	1996	33
18	Reduction of stress nonuniformities by apodization of compressor displacement in elastography Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology ·Elisa E. Konofagou, Yul Ryu, J. Ophir, Ignacio Céspedes	1996	16
19	Elastography of beef muscle Meat Science ·J. Ophir, R. K. Miller, H. Ponnekanti, I. Céspedes, A. D. Whittaker	1994	28
20	Attenuation of Ultrasound in Normal Liver and Diffuse Liver Disease in Vivo Ultrasonic Imaging ·Nabil Maklad, J. Ophir, Márcia Richelly do Nascimento	1984	58

About J. Ophir

J. Ophir is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Mechanics of Materials, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics and Civil and Structural Engineering, having authored 188 papers that have together received 13.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography (168 papers), Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (85 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (56 papers), Elasticity and Material Modeling (53 papers), Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (39 papers), Electrical and Bioimpedance Tomography (26 papers), Flow Measurement and Analysis (13 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (11.2k citations), Biomedical Engineering (9.8k citations), Mechanics of Materials (4.6k citations), Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (533 citations) and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (1.1k citations). J. Ophir has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Frequent co-authors include I. Céspedes, H. Ponnekanti, Tomy Varghese, Elisa E. Konofagou, F. Kallel, Youseph Yazdi, Xiaodan Li, Thomas A. Krouskop, Brian S. Garra and S. Kaisar Alam. Their work appears in journals such as Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, Ultrasonic Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Physics in Medicine and Biology and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

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