Automatic measurement of regional elasticity of carotid artery intima-media complex

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1767-1770

  Hasegawa, Hideyuki ^a   Kanai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CARDIOLOGY; ELASTICITY; LASER BEAMS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTERY WALL ELASTICITY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONIC BEAMS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 33847148464     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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