Image reconstruction of local shear and viscosity moduli for a finite-amplitude acoustic modulated radiation force

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1887-1890

  Giannoula, Alexia ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

FEM model; Inverse problem; Shear waves

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CIRCULAR INCLUSIONS; CONTRAST-TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FEM MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD MODEL (FEM); HIGH MODULATION FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; VISCOELASTIC MODELING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 77952799295     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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