Stable, intelligible ultrasonic strain imaging

Ultrasound

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 187-192

  Gee, Andrew ^a   Lindop, Joel ^a   Treece, Graham ^a   Prager, Richard ^a   Freeman, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elastography; Normalization; Persistence; Strain Imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049104248     PISSN: 1742271X     EISSN: 17431344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313408X320932     Document Type: Article

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