Radio-frequency ablation electrode displacement elastography: A phantom study

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2432-2442

  Bharat, Shyam ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^b   Zagzebski, James A ^b  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Compression; Displacement; Elasticity; Elasticity imaging; Elastogram; Elastography; Electrode displacement; Radio frequency ablation; Strain; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPACTION; ELASTICITY; ELECTRODES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STRAIN; ULTRASONICS;

DISPLACEMENT; ELASTICITY IMAGING; ELASTOGRAMS; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE DISPLACEMENTS; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DEVICE; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 44349145469     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2919763     Document Type: Article

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