Multilevel and motion model-based ultrasonic speckle tracking algorithms

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 427-441

  Yeung, Fai ^a   Levinson, Stephen F ^a,b   Parker, Kevin J ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Biomechanics; Computer simulation; Doppler ultrasound; Elasticity; Image processing; Motion estimation; Muscles; Speckle tracking; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION COMPENSATION; MUSCLE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TISSUE; TRACKING (POSITION);

DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; ULTRASONIC SPECKLE TRACKING ALGORITHMS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SHEAR STRESS; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0032033471     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(97)00281-0     Document Type: Article

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