Development and validation of ultrasound speckle tracking to quantify tendon displacement

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1373-1379

  Korstanje, Jan Wiebe H ^a   Selles, Ruud W ^a   Stam, Henk J ^a   Hovius, Steven E R ^a   Bosch, Johan G ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flexor Digitorum Superficialis; Speckle tracking; Tendon gliding; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS; B-MODE IMAGES; BLOCK MATCHING; FLEXOR DIGITORUM SUPERFICIALIS; HUMAN CADAVER; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; MANUAL TRACKING; MULTI-KERNEL; MUSCULO-TENDINOUS JUNCTION; SPECKLE TRACKING; SUBPIXEL MOTION ESTIMATION; TRACKING ERRORS; ULTRASOUND SPECKLE;

EXPERIMENTS; MOTION ESTIMATION; SPECKLE; TENDONS; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLEXOR DIGITORUM SUPERFICIALIS MUSCLE; HAND MOVEMENT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWINE; TENDON DISPLACEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SWINE; TENDONS;

EID: 77950300223     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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