Non-invasive high-frequency vascular ultrasound elastography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1611-1628

  Maurice, Roch L ^a   Daronat, Michel ^a   Ohayon, Jacques ^c   Stoyanova, Ékatherina ^a   Foster, F Stuart ^d   Cloutier, Guy ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEFORMATION; GELS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; TENSORS;

HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING; NON-INVASIVE VASCULAR ELASTOGRAPHY (NIVE); RADIAL STRESS; VESSEL PHANTOM;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

GLYCEROL; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; RIGIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 17144376087     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/7/020     Document Type: Article

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