Strain imaging with a deformable mesh

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-146

  Zhu, Yanning ^a   Chaturvedi, Pawan ^b   Insana, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Elastography; Motion detection; Tissue strain; Ultrasound; Warping

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MAMMALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MESH GENERATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

BILINEAR TRANSFORMATION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; ELASTOGRAPHY; MOTION DETECTION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASONIC STRAIN IMAGING; WARPING;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SWINE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0032783378     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173469902100204     Document Type: Article

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