High-resolution quantitative imaging of cornea elasticity using supersonic shear imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1881-1893

  Tanter, M ^a   Touboul, D ^b   Gennisson, Jean Luc ^a   Bercoff, Jeremy ^c   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c SUPERSONIC IMAGINE   (France)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cornea; Elastography; Stiffness; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL RESPONSE; CORNEA; CORNEA TRANSPLANT; CORNEAL PATHOLOGIES; CORNEAL REFRACTIVE SURGERY; ELASTICITY MEASUREMENT; ELASTOGRAPHY; EX-VIVO; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FINE TUNING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; IN-VIVO; INTRA OCULAR PRESSURE; LINEAR PROBE; LOCAL ELASTICITY; NONINVASIVE ESTIMATION; PORCINE CORNEAS; POST TREATMENT; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE MAPPING; REAL TIME; REMOTE PALPATION; SUPERSONIC SHEAR IMAGING; TIME-DOMAIN FINITE DIFFERENCES; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRASONIC SYSTEM; WIDE FIELD; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SWINE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CORNEA; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SWINE;

EID: 72249104685     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2021471     Document Type: Article

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