Performance evaluation of different implementations of the Lagrangian speckle model estimator for non-invasive vascular ultrasound elastography

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3116-3126

  Mercure, Elizabeth ^a   Cloutier, Guy ^a,b   Schmitt, Ćdric ^a,b   Maurice, Roch L ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Biomechanical simulations; Lagrangian speckle model estimator (LSME); Non invasive vascular ultrasound elastography (NIVE); Shear; Strain; Vessel mimicking phantom

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FLOWS; PHANTOMS; SHEARING; SPECKLE; STRAIN; ULTRASONICS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMECHANICAL SIMULATION; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LAGRANGIAN SPECKLE MODEL ESTIMATOR; STANDARD DEVIATION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; ULTRASOUND BEAMS; VASCULAR ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NON INVASIVE VASCULAR ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

EID: 46149100518     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2936771     Document Type: Article

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