4D cardiac strain imaging: Methods and initial results

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 872-875

  Lopata, Richard G P ^a   Nillesen, Maartje M ^a   Gerrits, Inge H ^a   Thijssen, Johan M ^a   Kapusta, Livia ^a   De Korte, Chris L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D; 4D; Cardiac imaging; Full volume; Rf data; Strain

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

3D; 3D CROSS-CORRELATION; ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; AXIAL STRAINS; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTATION TIME; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CYLINDRICAL INCLUSIONS; D-ALGORITHM; D-MATRIX; ELASTOGRAMS; FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTIONS; FRAME RATES; FULL VOLUME; HIGH-QUALITY; IN VIVO VALIDATION; IN-PLANE; IN-VIVO; INCLUSION MODEL; ITERATIVE PROCESSING; LEFT VENTRICLE; MEAN STRAIN; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; PARABOLIC INTERPOLATION; PHANTOM MODELS; PHILIPS; RADIAL STRAINS; RF-DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); STRAIN; STRAIN ESTIMATION; STRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; VOLUME DATA;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 48149099069     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2007.223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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