Phase-based ultrasonic deformation estimation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-111

  Lindop, Joel E ^a   Treece, Graham M ^a   Gee, Andrew H ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; REAL TIME CONTROL; TISSUE;

STRAIN DEFORMATIONS; STRAIN IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 41649085886     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.620     Document Type: Article

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