Regularization for ultrasonic measurements of tissue displacement vector and strain tensor

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 787-799

  Sumi, Chikayoshi ^a,b   Sato, Kinji ^b  

^a IEEE

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; PHASE MATCHING; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; VECTORS;

DISPLACEMENT VECTOR MEASUREMENT; MULTIDIMENSIONAL CROSS-SPECTRUM PHASE GRADIENT METHOD (MCSPGM); MULTIDIMENSIONAL DOPPLER METHOD (MDM);

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 43349107511     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.713     Document Type: Article

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