Internal Displacement and Strain Imaging Using Ultrasonic Speckle Tracking

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 314-325

  O'Donnell, Matthew ^a   Skovoroda, Andrei R ^b   Shapo, Benjamin M ^c   Emelianov, Stanislav Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; STRAIN; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TISSUE; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT; PALPATION; PULSED DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; SELF SCREENING PROCEDURE; STRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SPECKLE TRACKING; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0028439396     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.285465     Document Type: Article

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