Contrast-transfer improvement for electrode displacement elastography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6403-6418

  Bharat, Shyam ^a,b   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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST TRANSFER; ELECTRODE DISPLACEMENT ELASTOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION INDUCED LESIONS; THERMAL LESIONS;

STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTRAST TRANSFER IMPROVEMENT; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE DISPLACEMENT ELASTOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELASTICITY; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846893896     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/24/008     Document Type: Article

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