3D estimation of soft biological tissue deformation from radio-frequency ultrasound volume acquisitions

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 116-127

  Deprez, Jean François ^a   Brusseau, Elisabeth ^a   Schmitt, Cédric ^b   Cloutier, Guy ^b   Basset, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elastography; Image processing; Strain estimation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISEASES; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; STRAIN; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

BIOLOGICAL SOFT TISSUE; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL STRAINS; NORMALIZED CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; STRAIN ESTIMATION;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECUBITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 57149113139     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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