Ultrasonic speed microscopy for imaging of coronary artery

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Saijo, Yoshifumi ^a   Hozumi, Naohiro ^b   Lee, Cheolkyou ^b   Nagao, Masayuki ^b   Kobayashi, Kazuto ^c   Oakada, Nagaya ^c   Tanaka, Naohiko ^d   Santos Filho, Esmeraldo dos ^a   Sasaki, Hidehiko ^a   Tanaka, Motonao ^a   Yambe, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HONDA ELECTRONICS CO LTD   (Japan)

^d SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic microscopy; Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery; Ultrasonic speed

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY IMAGING; ULTRASONIC SPEED;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33845718325     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.06.050     Document Type: Article

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