A normalization method for axial-shear strain elastography

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2833-2838

  Chen, Lujie ^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

AXIAL STRAIN; BENIGN AND MALIGNANT TUMORS; ELASTOGRAPHY; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; NORMALIZATION METHODS; SOFT TISSUE; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; STRAIN IMAGING; STRAIN VALUES; TIME-AVERAGED;

VISUALIZATION;

SHEAR STRAIN;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NURSING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650334791     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1757     Document Type: Article

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