Elastography: Imaging the elastic properties of soft tissues with ultrasound

Journal of Medical Ultrasonics

Volumn 29, Issue WINTER, 2002, Pages 155-171

  Ophir, Jonathan ^a,b   Alam, S Kaisar ^a,c   Garra, Brian S ^d   Kallel, Faouzi ^a   Konofagou, Elisa E ^a,e   Krouskop, Thomas ^f   Merritt, Christopher R B ^g   Righetti, Raffaella ^a,b   Souchon, Remi ^h   Srinivasan, Seshadri ^a,b   Varghese, Tomy ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h INSERM   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE; THEORY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ULTRASOUND; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 0036964828     PISSN: 13441388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02480847     Document Type: Review

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