Introduction to the special issue on optics in elastography and ...

The mechanical properties of tissues and cells have proven to be of great importance in biology and medicine, spawning major research efforts and commercial outcomes. The interplay between mechanical and biochemical cues and the mechanical properties of subcellular and cellular constituents has come to be appreciated as key to understanding many fundamental aspects of biology as well as the genesis and progression of disease. At the same time, at the other extreme, the mechanical properties of w