A new approach to elastographic imaging: Modality independent elastography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 I, Issue , 2002, Pages 604-611

  Miga, Michael I ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Elasticity image; Elastography; Finite elements; Image reconstruction; Imaging; Inverse problem; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

ELASTOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0036033609     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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