Elasticity reconstruction from displacement and confidence measures of a multi-compressed ultrasound RF sequence

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 319-326

  Li, Junbo ^b   Cui, Yaoyao ^b   Kadour, Michael ^b   Noble, J Alison ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AXIAL DISPLACEMENTS; ELASTICITY RECONSTRUCTION; STRAIN IMAGES;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DATA COMPRESSION; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 40549104504     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.651     Document Type: Article

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