Performance of ultrasound based measurement of 3D displacement using a curvilinear probe for organ motion tracking

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 5683-5703

  Harris, Emma J ^a   Miller, Naomi R ^a   Bamber, Jeffrey C ^a   Evans, Phillip M ^a   Symonds Tayler, J Richard N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; SPECKLE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CURVILINEAR GEOMETRY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUB-VOXEL DISPLACEMENTS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

TISSUE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 35848941705     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/18/014     Document Type: Article

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