A parallelizable real-time motion tracking algorithm with applications to ultrasonic strain imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3773-3790

  Jiang, J ^a   Hall, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

REAL-TIME MOTION; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); TRACKING ALGORITHM; ULTRASONIC STRAIN IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250306000     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/13/008     Document Type: Article

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