Venous elastography: Validation of a novel high-resolution ultrasound method for measuring vein compliance using finite element analysis

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-109

  Biswas, Rohan ^a   Patel, Prashant ^a   Park, Dae W ^b   Cichonski, Thomas J ^a   Richards, Michael S ^a   Rubin, Jonathan M ^a   Hamilton, James ^c   Weitzel, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Pixel Velocity Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY; VEIN;

COMPLIANCE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VEINS;

EID: 77950202423     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2009.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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