Effective lateral modulations with applications to shear modulus reconstruction using displacement vector measurement

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2607-2625

  Sumi, Chikayoshi ^a   Noro, Toshinori ^a   Tanuma, Atsushi ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APODIZATION FUNCTION; APODIZATIONS; APRIORI; DIRECT INVERSION; DISPLACEMENT VECTORS; ECHO SIGNALS; EFFECTIVE APERTURE; FRAUNHOFER APPROXIMATIONS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; HANNING WINDOW; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; LATERAL GAUSSIAN ENVELOPE COSINE MODULATIONS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL AUTOCORRELATION METHODS; NEW MODULATION; PARABOLIC FUNCTIONS; SHEAR MODULUS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRAIN TENSOR; TARGET MOTIONS; ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ELASTIC MODULI; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MODULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 62549130030     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.977     Document Type: Article

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