Spatial-angular compounding for elastography using beam steering on linear array transducers

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 618-626

  Rao, Min ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Shi, Hairong ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Angled beams; Angular compounding; Compounding; Elasticity; Elasticity imaging; Elastogram; Elastography; Signal to noise; Stiffness; Strain; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPOUNDING (CHEMICAL); ELASTICITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ANGLED BEAMS; ANGULAR COMPOUNDING; ELASTICITY IMAGING; ELASTOGRAMS; ELASTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE;

TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPRESSION; ELASTOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 33644610871     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2168429     Document Type: Article

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