An inverse method for imaging the local elasticity of atherosclerotic coronary plaques

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 277-289

  Baldewsing, Radjkumarsing A ^a,b   Danilouchkine, Mikhail G ^a   Mastik, Frits ^a   Schaar, Johannes A ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a   van der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Hewitt Associates   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deformable finite element model; Human atherosclerotic coronary arteries; Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) elastography; Inverse elasticity problem; Optimization; Strain; Vulnerable plaque; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HISTOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL STABILITY; OPTIMIZATION; STRAIN;

HUMAN ATHEROSCLEROTIC CORONARY ARTERIES; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS) ELASTOGRAPHY; INVERSE ELASTICITY PROBLEM; THIN-CAP FIBROATHEROMA;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 44449153871     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2007.907980     Document Type: Article

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