Real-time regularized ultrasound elastography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 928-945

  Rivaz, Hassan ^a   Boctor, Emad M ^a   Choti, Michael A ^b   Hager, Gregory D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kalman filter; radio frequency (RF) ablation; real time ultrasound elastography; regulariation; robust estimation; two dimensional (2D) strain

Indexed keywords

RADIO-FREQUENCY (RF) ABLATION; REAL-TIME ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; REGULARIATION; ROBUST ESTIMATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) STRAIN;

ABLATION; COST FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; KALMAN FILTERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

STRAIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER TUMOR; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASER THERAPY; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 79953763729     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2091966     Document Type: Article

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