Shear wave speed recovery using moving interference patterns obtained in sonoelastography experiments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2438-2446

  McLaughlin, Joyce ^a   Renzi, Daniel ^a   Parker, Kevin ^b   Wu, Zhe ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHEAR WAVES; SONOCHEMISTRY; TISSUE;

INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SONOELASTOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL VARIANCE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CALCULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE DISPLAY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOFT TISSUE; SPECTRUM; ULTRASOUND; UNIVERSITY; VARIANCE; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34047244370     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2534717     Document Type: Article

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