A finite-element approach for Young's modulus reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 890-901

  Zhu, Yanning ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^a   Jiang, Jingfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Tissue characterization; Tissue elasticity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; STRESSES; TISSUE;

TISSUE ELASTICITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0043028150     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.815065     Document Type: Article

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