Uniform precision ultrasound strain imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2420-2436

  Treece, Graham M ^a   Lindop, Joel E ^b   Gee, Andrew H ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b New Energy Finance Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DATA; GRADIENT ESTIMATION; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH STRAINS; LOW QUALITIES; NON-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION; RELATIVE DISPLACEMENT; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; SOFT TISSUE; STIFFNESS VARIATIONS; STRAIN IMAGING; TIME-RATE; UNIFORM RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 73849109217     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFc.2009.1330     Document Type: Article

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