A compensative model for the angle-dependence of motion estimates in noninvasive vascular elastography

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 727-735

  Mercure, Elizabeth ^a   Deprez, Jean Fraņois ^a,b   Fromageau, J́ŕmie ^a   Basset, Olivier ^b   Soulez, Gilles ^c   Cloutier, Guy ^a,c   Maurice, Roch L ^a,c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

angle dependence; atherosclerosis; axial shear; axial strain; carotid artery; Lagrangian speckle model estimator (LSME); noninvasive vascular elastography (NIVE); strain tensor

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

ANGLE DEPENDENCE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AXIAL SHEAR; AXIAL STRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY; LAGRANGIAN SPECKLE MODEL ESTIMATOR; NON-INVASIVE VASCULAR ELASTOGRAPHY; STRAIN TENSOR;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 79551657624     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3539701     Document Type: Article

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