Realtime elastography. A new ultrasound procedure for the reconstruction of tissue elasticity;Realtime-elastographie: Ein neues sonographisches verfahren für die darstellung der gewebeelastizität

Radiologe

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 850-854

  Frey, H ^a  

^a Hitachi Medical Systems   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Realtime elastography; Strain imaging; Tissue elasticity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; B SCAN; CALCULATION; CANCER; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HARDNESS; HUMAN; IMAGING; PRESSURE; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STRESS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ULTRASOUND; VIBRATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0242557640     PISSN: 0033832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00117-003-0943-2     Document Type: Review

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