A new system for the acquisition of ultrasonic multicompression strain images of the human prostate in vivo

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1147-1154

  Lorenz, Andreas ^a   Sommerfeld, H J ^a   Garcia Schurmann, Miguel ^a   Philippou, Stathis ^a   Senge, Theodor ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELASTICITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; STRAIN;

CROSS-CORRELATION METHODS; HUMAN PROSTATES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC MULTICOMPRESSION STRAIN IMAGES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0033277009     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.796120     Document Type: Article

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