Rapid tracking of small displacements with ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1103-1116

  Pinton, Gianmarco F ^b   Dahl, Jeremy J ^b   Trahey, Gregg E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE (ARFI) IMAGING; COMPUTER CLUSTER; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; JITTER; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER; LIVER RESECTION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEPATECTOMY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746510692     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1642509     Document Type: Article

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