Tendon displacement assessment by pulsed Doppler tissue imaging: Validation with a reciprocating string test target

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1229-1239

  Holland, W P J ^a   Buyruk, H M ^b   Hoorn, E ^c   Stam, H J ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR REHABILITATION RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Moving string target; Tendon displacement measurement; Test phantom; Ultrasound pulsed Doppler

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; MEDICAL IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TENDONS;

TENDON DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT; ULTRASOUND PULSED DOPPLER;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

RUBBER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HAND INJURY; IMAGING; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PHANTOM; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REHABILITATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TENDON; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

BIOMECHANICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TENDONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0032869979     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00074-5     Document Type: Article

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