Reduction of influence of variation in center frequencies of RF echoes on estimation of artery-wall strain

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1921-1934

  Hasegawa, Hideyuki ^b   Kanai, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELASTICITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HEALTH; MOTION ESTIMATION; MUSCLE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STANDARDS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ARTERIAL WALLS; CENTER FREQUENCIES; COMPLEX SIGNALLING; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; IN-VITRO; PHASE-SENSITIVE; PHASE-SENSITIVE METHODS; RADIAL DISTANCES; RF SIGNALS; SMALL STRAINS; SMOOTH MUSCLES; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; STRAIN ESTIMATION; STRAIN PROFILING; TRACKING METHODS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 52649112758     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.884     Document Type: Article

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