Ultrasound-based relative elastic modulus imaging for visualizing thermal ablation zones in a porcine model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2281-2306

  Jiang, Jingfeng ^a   Brace, Chris ^a,b   Andreano, Anita ^b,d   Dewall, Ryan J ^a,b   Rubert, Nick ^a   Fisher, Ted G ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a,b,c   Lee Jr , Fred ^b   Hall, Timothy J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATIVE THERAPY; AREA MEASUREMENT; BEST MATCH; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; IN-VIVO; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; INVERSE OPTIMIZATION; PEARSON COEFFICIENT; PORCINE MODELS; SOFT TISSUE; STRAIN IMAGES; STRAIN IMAGING; THERMAL ABLATION;

ELASTIC MODULI; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

ABLATION;

ABLATION THERAPY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER; OBSERVER VARIATION; SWINE; ULTRASOUND; YOUNG MODULUS;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELASTIC MODULUS; LIVER; MODELS, ANIMAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; SWINE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 77950566868     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/8/011     Document Type: Article

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