On the use of envelope and RF signal decorrelation as tissue strain estimators

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1427-1433

  Alam, S Kaisar ^a   Ophir, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Decorrelation; Elastography; Frequency dependent attenuation; Imaging; Precision; PSF; SNR; Strain; Ultrasound; Window size

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ELASTOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT ATTENUATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; ELASTICITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030723306     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(97)00186-5     Document Type: Article

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