Speckle tracking methods for ultrasonic elasticity imaging using short-time correlation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 82-96

  Lubinski, Mark A ^a   Emelianov, Stanislav Y ^a   O'Donneil, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; STRAIN;

GEL-BASED PHANTOMS; STRAIN DECORRELATION; ULTRASONIC ELASTICITY IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032785966     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.741427     Document Type: Article

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