Assessment of shear modulus of tissue using ultrasound radiation force acting on a spherical acoustic inhomogeneity

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2380-2387

  Karpiouk, Andrei B ^a   Aglyamov, Salavat R ^a   Ilinskii, Yury A ^b   Zabolotskaya, Eugenia A ^b   Emelianov, Stanislav Y ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ACOUSTIC FORCES; ACOUSTIC MATERIALS; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ELASTIC MEDIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; GEL PHANTOM; INHOMOGENEITIES; PULSE-ECHO MODE; RIGID SPHERE; SHEAR MODULUS; SHORT PULSE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRONG CORRELATION; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; ULTRASOUND RADIATION FORCE;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ELASTIC MODULI; SHEAR STRAIN; TERNARY SYSTEMS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

SPHERES;

ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 73949139959     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1326     Document Type: Article

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