Initial phantom validation of minute roughness measurement using phase tracking for arterial wall diagnosis non-invasively in vivo

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 853-857

  Cinthio, Magnus ^a   Hasegawa, Hideyuki ^b   Kanai, Hiroshi ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE; IN-VIVO; LATERAL MOTION; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE TRACKING; RADIO FREQUENCIES; ROUGH SURFACES; SAW-TOOTH;

SILICONES;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955423421     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1879     Document Type: Article

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