Ultrasonic strain imaging and reconstructive elastography for biological tissue

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Khaled, Walaa ^a   Reichling, Stefan ^a   Bruhns, Otto T ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inverse problem; Real time ultrasound elastography; Reconstruction of elasticity

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; HISTOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PATHOLOGY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STRAIN; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; REAL-TIME ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION OF ELASTICITY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845685874     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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