Basic investigation of three-dimensional ultrasound tissue viscoelasticity microscope

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 7 B, 2007, Pages 4851-4857

  Shilna, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yoshida, Masashi ^a   Yamakawa, Makoto ^a   Nitta, Naotaka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elastic modulus; Tissue characterization; Ultrasound microscope; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELASTIC MODULI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TUMORS; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE ELASTICITY IMAGING; ULTRASOUND MICROSCOPE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 34547857434     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.46.4851     Document Type: Article

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