Transcranial shear-mode ultrasound: Assessment of imaging performance and excitation techniques

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 763-774

  Yousefi, Ali ^a   Goertz, David E ^a   Hynynen, Kullervo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Diagnosis; Imaging; Shear waves; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WINDOWS; CODED EXCITATIONS; EX-VIVO; EXCITATION TECHNIQUES; FREQUENCY MODULATED; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATIONS; IMAGING; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; IMPEDANCE MATCHES; LATERAL DISTORTIONS; LATERAL RESOLUTIONS; LONGITUDINAL WAVES; PULSE ECHOES; SHEAR-WAVE PROPAGATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; TRANSCRANIAL; TRANSCRANIAL SONOGRAPHIES; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

SHEAR WAVES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKULL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKULL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 65549125603     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2012017     Document Type: Article

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