A hybrid displacement estimation method for ultrasonic elasticity imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 866-882

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; AXIAL DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION; CLINICAL DATA; DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING; ESTIMATION METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HYBRID METHOD; IN-VIVO; MULTI-LEVEL; MULTI-LEVEL CORRELATION; QUASI-STATIC; STRAIN IMAGES; ULTRASONIC STRAIN IMAGING;

ERRORS; ESTIMATION; HYBRID SENSORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77951078687     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1491     Document Type: Article

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