Adapting the Lagrangian speckle model estimator for endovascular elastography: Theory and validation with simulated radio-frequency data

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1276-1286

  Maurice, Roch L ^a   Ohayon, Jacques ^b   Finet, Gérard ^c   Cloutier, Guy ^a,d  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d Lab of Biorheology/Med Ultrasonics   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHOGRAMS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR ELASTOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; THEORY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSELS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 4043062846     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1771615     Document Type: Article

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