Noninvasive Young's modulus evaluation of tissues surrounding pulsatile vessels using ultrasound Doppler measurement

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1265-1271

  Balocco, Simone ^a,c   Basset, Olivier ^a   Courbebaisse, Guy ^b   Boni, Enrico ^c   Tortoli, Piero ^c   Cachard, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; ELASTIC MODULI; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PROBLEM SOLVING; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

ARTERIAL VESSELS; PHANTOM; PULSATILE VESSELS;

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; LETTER; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTICITY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34347213413     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.379     Document Type: Article

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