Usefulness of ultrasonic strain measurement-based mechanical properties imaging technique—toward realization of combined rapid diagnosis/treatments

International Congress Series

Volumn 1274, Issue C, 2004, Pages 75-86

  Sumi, C ^a   Wakabayashi, Gou ^b   Tanabe, Minoru ^b   Kubota, Mitsuhiro ^c  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Yamachika Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Cross spectrum phase gradient method; Density; Diagnosis; Interstitial thermal treatment; Measurement; Mechanical property; Phase matching method; Poisson's ratio; Reconstruction; Regularization method; Shear modulus; Strain tensor; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 28444447609     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2004.07.015     Document Type: Article

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