Speckle Tracking Ultrasound for Assessment of the Relative Motion of Flexor Tendon and Subsynovial Connective Tissue in the Human Carpal Tunnel

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1973-1981

  Yoshii, Yuichi ^a   Villarraga, Hector R ^a   Henderson, Jacqueline ^a   Zhao, Chunfeng ^a   An, Kai Nan ^a   Amadio, Peter C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Carpal tunnel; Relative motion; Shear index; Speckle tracking; Subsynovial connective tissue (SSCT); Ultrasound; Velocity vector imaging (VVI)

Indexed keywords

CARPAL TUNNEL; RELATIVE MOTION; SPECKLE TRACKING; SUBSYNOVIAL CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ULTRASOUND VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COLLAGEN; SPECKLE; TENDONS; TUNNELS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY; WIND TUNNELS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARPAL CANAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; FLEXOR TENDON; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TUBE; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VELOCITY; WRIST;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; TENDONS; WRIST JOINT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71749096134     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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