Imaging the elastic nonlinearity of tissues

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 452-455

  Hall, Timothy J ^a   Oberai, Assad A ^b   Barbone, Paul E ^c   Sommer, Amy M ^a   Gokhale, Nachiket H ^c   Goenezen, Sevan ^b   Jiang, Jingfeng ^a  

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

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D DISPLACEMENT; BREAST TISSUES; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; DUCTAL CARCINOMA; ELASTIC NON-LINEARITY; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; HIGH-QUALITY; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LIMITED DATA; MODULUS CONTRAST; NON LINEARITIES; NON-LINEARITY PARAMETER; PIECE-WISE LINEAR; SHEAR MODULUS; STRAIN IMAGING; TISSUE SAMPLES;

ABILITY TESTING; ELASTICITY; HEALTH; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; REPAIR; RESTORATION; ULTRASONICS;

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EID: 48149086392     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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