Effects of Various Parameters on Lateral Displacement Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1352-1366

  Luo, Jianwen ^a   Konofagou, Elisa E ^a,b  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam overlap; Beamwidth; Bias; Correlation Coefficient; Cross correlation; Displacement; Elastography; Estimation; Imaging; Interpolation; Jitter; Lateral Displacement; Motion; Performance; Pitch; Radiofrequency (RF) signal; Spline; Strain

Indexed keywords

BEAM OVERLAP; BEAMWIDTH; BIAS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-CORRELATION; DISPLACEMENT; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGING; LATERAL DISPLACEMENT; MOTION; PERFORMANCE; PITCH; RADIOFREQUENCY (RF) SIGNAL;

CORRELATION METHODS; INTERPOLATION; JITTER; SPLINES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELASTOGRAPHY; MOTION; PHANTOM; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 67650232960     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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