Freehand Ultrasound Elastography with a 3-D Probe

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 463-474

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elastography; Freehand; Strain imaging; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE;

STEPPER MOTOR DRIVING; STRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYNAMICS; ELASTOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MECHANICAL PROBE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; BREAST DISEASES; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIO WAVES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 43049094816     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.08.014     Document Type: Article

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