Imaging elastic properties of biological tissues by low-frequency harmonic vibration

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1503-1518

  Fatemi, Mostafa ^a   Manduca, Armando ^a   Greenleaf, James F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Elastography; Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Radiation force; Ribro acoustography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC GENERATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ELASTOGRAPHY; HARMONIC FORCE; RADIATION FORCE; VIBRO-ACOUSTOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 21344465423     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2003.817865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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