Quantitative assessment and imaging of viscoelastic properties of soft tissue

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1885-1889

  Nitta, Naotaka ^a   Shiina, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ueno, Ei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASES; TISSUE; VISCOELASTICITY;

COMBINED AUTOCORRELATION METHOD; PHASE-DOMAIN PROCESSING; SOFT TISSUE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036992955     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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