Tissue Elasticity Reconstruction Based on Ultrasonic Displacement and Strain Images

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 747-765

  Skovoroda, A R ^a   Emelianov, S Y ^a,b   O'Donnell, M ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

STRAIN IMAGES; TISSUE ELASTICITY RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRASONIC DISPLACEMENT;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0029342790     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.393117     Document Type: Article

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