A regularized approach for freehand ultrasound elastography of breast lesions

2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 952-955

  Pellot Barakat, Claire ^a,b   Frouin, Frédérique ^b   Herment, Alain ^b   Mai, Jerome J ^a   Lindfors, Karen K ^c   Tsou, Jean K ^a   Von Behren, Patrick ^d   Insana, Michael F ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; GELATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; TUMORS;

BREAST LESIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; SUM SQUARED DIFFERENCES (SSD); ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 17144396369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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