Signal-to-noise ratio, contrast-to-noise ratio and their trade-offs with resolution in axial-shear strain elastography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-28

  Thitaikumar, Arun ^a,b   Krouskop, Thomas A ^a,c   Ophir, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; IMAGE COMPRESSION; SHEAR STRAIN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

APPLIED AXIAL STRAIN; BEAMWIDTH; ELASTOGRAPHY; SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; YOUNG MODULUS; ACOUSTICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GELATIN;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELASTICITY; GELATIN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247527027     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/1/002     Document Type: Article

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