Shear wave speed recovery in sonoelastography using crawling wave data

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-97

  Lin, Kui ^a   McLaughlin, Joyce ^a   Renzi, Daniel ^a,b   Thomas, Ashley ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAWLING WAVES; FIRST-ORDER; HARMONIC SOURCES; IMAGE PLANE; REALTIME IMAGING; SHEAR STIFFNESS; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SONOELASTOGRAPHY;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SHEAR WAVES; SPEED; STIFFNESS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; MOTION; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND; VIBRATION; VISCOSITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LINEAR MODELS; MOTION; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONICS; VIBRATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77955207372     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3442575     Document Type: Article

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