Error analysis in acoustic elastography. I. Displacement estimation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1139-1146

  Bilgen, Mehmet ^a   Insana, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ECHOLOCATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0031042473     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418018     Document Type: Article

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