Shear wave spectroscopy for in vivo quantification of human soft tissues visco-elasticity

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 313-322

  Deffieux, Thomas ^a   Montaldo, Gabriel ^a   Tanter, Mickaël ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Elastography; Liver; Muscle; Rheology; Shear Wave Spectroscopy; Shear wave spectroscopy (SWS); Supersonic Shear Imaging; Supersonic shear imaging (SSI)

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIVER; MUSCLE; PLASTICITY; RANGE FINDING; RHEOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY; VISCOSITY;

ELASTOGRAPHY; SHEAR WAVE SPECTROSCOPY; SHEAR WAVE SPECTROSCOPY (SWS); SUPERSONIC SHEAR IMAGING; SUPERSONIC SHEAR IMAGING (SSI);

SHEAR WAVES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RHEOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 61449131569     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.925077     Document Type: Article

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