Reliable measurement procedure of virtual touch tissue quantification with acoustic radiation force impulse imaging

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 745-751

  Kaminuma, Chie ^a   Tsushima, Yoshito ^a   Matsumoto, Noriko ^a   Kurabayashi, Takemi ^a   Taketomi Takahashi, Ayako ^a   Endo, Keigo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging; Liver; Mean shear wave velocity; Sonography; Virtual touch tissue quantification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; FOOD SUPPLY; LIVER; SHEAR WAVES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; MEAN SHEAR; MEASUREMENT SITES; RELIABLE MEASUREMENT; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; VIRTUAL TOUCH;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PALPATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MALE; PALPATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 79957960905     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.6.745     Document Type: Article

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