Fundamental analysis of lateral displacement estimation quality in ultrasound elastography

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 462-465

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

^a Biomedical Engineering Department   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamwidth; Bias; Elastography; Jitter; Lateral; Pitch

Indexed keywords

BEAMWIDTH; BIAS; ELASTOGRAPHY; LATERAL; PITCH;

ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; QUALITY CONTROL; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

JITTER;

EID: 70449401587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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