Non-invasive quantitative reconstruction of tissue elasticity using an iterative forward approach

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1495-1509

  Fu, D ^a   Levinson, S F ^a,b   Gracewski, S M ^a   Parker, K J ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

SPECKLE TRACKING METHOD; VIBRATION SONOELASTOGRAPHY;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; VIBRATION; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034043280     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/6/307     Document Type: Article

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