Electrode displacement strain imaging of thermally-ablated liver tissue in an in vivo animal model

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1075-1082

  Rubert, N ^a   Bharat, S ^a,b   DeWall, R J ^b   Andreano, A ^c   Brace, C ^c   Jiang, J ^a   Sampson, L ^c   Varghese, T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Elasticity; Elasticity imaging; Elastography; Electrode displacement; Microwave ablation; Radiofrequency ablation; Strain; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRODES; GEODESY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; STRAIN; SURVEYING; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ELASTICITY IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE DISPLACEMENTS; MICROWAVE ABLATION; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION;

ABLATION;

ANIMALIA; SUS;

EID: 77749292425     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3301603     Document Type: Article

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