Evaluation of material parameters of PVA phantoms for reconstructive ultrasound elastography

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1329-1332

  Khaled, Walaa ^a   Neumann, Thorsten ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^a   Reichling, Stefan ^a   Arnold, Alexander ^a   Bruhns, Otto T ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Material properties; Phantoms; PVA; Reconstructive; Ultrasound elastography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONING; BOUNDARY DATA; CLINICAL STUDIES; E-MODULUS; EARLY DETECTION; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTOGRAPHY; HARD TISSUES; IMAGE SEQUENCING; MATERIAL PARAMETERS; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; PHANTOMS; PROSTATE CANCER; PVA; REAL TIME; RECONSTRUCTIVE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 48149097518     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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