Shear strain imaging using shear deformations

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 412-423

  Rao, Min ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Elasticity; Elasticity imaging; Elastogram; Elastography; Shear strain; Stiffness; Strain; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AXIAL COMPRESSION; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELASTICITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; ULTRASONICS;

CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCE; ELASTICITY IMAGING; ELASTOGRAMS; ELASTOGRAPHY; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND SIMULATION;

SHEAR STRAIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FIBROADENOMA; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 38849188499     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2825621     Document Type: Article

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