Ultrafast compound imaging for 2-D motion vector estimation: Application to transient elastography

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1363-1374

  Tanter, Mickaël ^a   Bercoff, Jeremy ^a   Sandrin, Laurent ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELASTIC MODULI; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR WAVES; SPECKLE; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MOTION VECTOR ESTIMATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0036771559     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2002.1041078     Document Type: Article

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