Ultrasonic elastography and plane strain inverse algorithms for polymer gel dosimetry

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2025-2027

  Crescenti, Remo A ^a   Bamber, Jeffrey C ^a   Oberai, Assad A ^b   Barbone, Paul E ^c   Richter, Joseph P ^b   Bush, Nigel L ^a   Webb, Steve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COLLOIDS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; GELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STIFFNESS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

A-PLANE; ACCURACY AND PRECISION; COMBINED SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL SET UPS; INVERSE ALGORITHMS; INVERSE COMPUTATION; IRRADIATION GEOMETRIES; PLANE STRAINS; POLYMER GEL DOSIMETRY; ULTRASONIC ELASTOGRAPHY;

GELATION;

EID: 48149097339     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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