An inductive method to measure mechanical excitation spectra for MRI elastography

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 32-39

  Plewes, D B ^a   Luginbuhl, C ^a   Macgowan, C ^b   Sack, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elastography; Elastography instrumentation; Nonlinear acoustics; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 4744371690     PISSN: 10437347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20011     Document Type: Article

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