Investigating elastic properties of soft biological tissues: Local estimation of RF ultrasound signal compression for axial strain imaging

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 86-94

  Brusseau, Elisabeth ^a,b   Fromageau, Jérémie ^a   Rognin, Nicolas G ^a   Delachartre, Philippe ^a   Vray, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; RADIOFREQUENCY; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASOUND; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0036655783     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2002.1032645     Document Type: Article

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