Quantitative three-dimensional elasticity imaging from quasi-static deformation: A phantom study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 757-779

  Richards, Michael S ^a   Barbone, Paul E ^b   Oberai, Assad A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGES; 3-D ULTRASOUNDS; BREAST TISSUES; CLINICAL MAMMOGRAPHIES; COMPRESSED STATE; DISPLACEMENT FIELDS; LINEAR ELASTIC SOLIDS; PHANTOM MATERIALS; PHANTOM STUDIES; QUASI-STATIC DEFORMATIONS; SHEAR ELASTIC MODULUS; SHEAR MODULUS DISTRIBUTIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLACEMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELASTICITIES; TISSUE PHANTOMS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULI; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPRESSION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 63749127266     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/3/019     Document Type: Article

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