Shear wave velocity imaging using transient electrode perturbation: Phantom and ex vivo validation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 666-678

  Dewall, Ryan J ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrode vibration elastography; radio frequency (RF) ablation; shear wave tracking; time to peak; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ELASTOGRAPHY; RADIO-FREQUENCY (RF) ABLATION; SHEAR WAVE TRACKING; TIME-TO-PEAK; ULTRASOUND;

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MECHANICAL TESTING; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SHEAR WAVES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; LIVER RESECTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; VALIDATION STUDY; VIBRATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRODES; HEPATECTOMY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIBRATION;

EID: 79952130535     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2091412     Document Type: Article

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