Usefulness of ultrasonic strain measurement-based shear modulus reconstruction for diagnosis and thermal treatment

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1670-1689

  Sumi, Chikayoshi ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine   (Japan)

^d Japan Society of Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering   (Japan)

^e Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

^f Institute of Electrical Engineers of   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMAL THERAPY; VITRO LIVER; VIVO LIVER;

ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

STRAIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARCINOMA; CATTLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA; CATTLE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, CONNECTIVE TISSUE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 28444462539     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1561622     Document Type: Article

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