System for real-time elastography

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 941-942

  Pesavento, A ^a   Lorenz, A ^a   Ermert, H ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELASTICITY TESTING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

REAL TIME ELASTOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032688611     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990614     Document Type: Article

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