Young's modulus reconstruction for radio-frequency ablation electrode-induced displacement fields: A feasibility study

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1325-1334

  Jiang, Jingfeng ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a   Brace, Christopher L ^b   Madsen, Ernest L ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^a   Bharat, Shyam ^a   Hobson, Maritza A ^a,c   Zagzebski, James A ^a   Lee Jr , Fred T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ablation; Ablative therapy; Elastic modulus imaging; Elasticity imaging; Elastography; Inverse problem

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ORGANS; ABLATED REGIONS; ABLATIVE THERAPY; BOVINE LIVER; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; EDGE-PRESERVING REGULARIZATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; EX-VIVO; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HIGH CONTRAST; MINIMALLY INVASIVE TREATMENTS; MODULUS IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS; RF ELECTRODES; THERMAL ABLATION; TISSUE COAGULATION; TISSUE DEFORMATIONS; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ABLATION; COAGULATION; DEFORMATION; EDGE DETECTION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PLANNING; REPAIR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CATTLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CATTLE; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 68249108613     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2015355     Document Type: Article

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