The role of the coupling term in transient elastography

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-83

  Sandrin, Laurent ^a   Cassereau, Didier ^b   Fink, Mathias ^b  

^a Echosens   (France)

^b INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION;

COUPLING EFFECTS; ELASTOGRAPHY;

ELASTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION;

ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 1642458137     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1635412     Document Type: Article

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