3-D ultrasonic strain imaging using freehand scanning and a mechanically-swept probe

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 501-506

  Housden, R ^a   Gee, Andrew H ^a   Treece, Graham M ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL STRAIN; FREEHAND SCANNING; HIGH QUALITY; ULTRASONIC STRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASOUND PROBES;

PROBES; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77649165404     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1431     Document Type: Article

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