Vibration sonoelastography and the detectability of lesions

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1437-1447

  Parker, Kevin J ^a   Fu, Dongshan ^a   Graceswki, Sheryl M ^a   Yeung, Fai ^a   Levinson, Stephen F ^a,b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler; Shear waves; Sonoelasticity; Sonoelastography; Tissue viscoelastic properties; Tumor detection; Ultrasound; Vibration

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONCOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

COLOR DOPPLER IMAGING; TUMOR DETECTION; VIBRATION SONOELASTOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; TUMOR; ULTRASOUND; VIBRATION; VISCOELASTICITY; WAVEFORM;

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LIVER; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VIBRATION;

EID: 0032410924     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(98)00123-9     Document Type: Article

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