Correlation analysis of the beam angle dependence for elastography

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4093-4101

  Rao, Min ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TRANSDUCERS;

DISPLACEMENTS; ELASTOGRAPHIC IMAGING; INSONIFICATION ANGLE; SIGNAL DECORRELATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELASTOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745078610     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2195290     Document Type: Article

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