Correlation analysis of three-dimensional strain imaging using ultrasound two-dimensional array transducers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1858-1865

  Rao, Min ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSDUCERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

2-D ARRAY; 3D MOTION; APERTURE SIZES; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATIONS; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION CO-EFFICIENT; ELECTRONIC STEERING; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; OUT-OF PLANE; RADIO-FREQUENCY SIGNALS; REAL TIME; SIGNAL DECORRELATION; SLICE THICKNESS; SPHERICAL INCLUSIONS; STRAIN IMAGING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; TISSUE MOTION; TRANSDUCER ARRAYS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; ULTRASONIC BEAMS; ULTRASOUND BEAMS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 52449118732     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2953310     Document Type: Article

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