Viscoelasticity imaging using ultrasound: Parameters and error analysis

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2425-2443

  Sridhar, M ^a   Liu, J ^b   Insana, M F ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS; VISCOELASTICITY;

POLYMERIC SOLIDS; STRAIN RETARDANCE; STRESS STIMULUS; VISCOELASTICITY IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

COLLAGEN; GELATIN; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ERROR; FIBER; FLOW KINETICS; FLUID FLOW; HYDROGEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NOISE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; STRENGTH; STRESS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VISCOELASTICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; GELATIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34249009050     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/9/007     Document Type: Article

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