Acoustic Radiation Force-Driven Assessment of Myocardial Elasticity Using the Displacement Ratio Rate (DRR) Method

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1087-1100

  Bouchard, Richard R ^a   Hsu, Stephen J ^a   Palmeri, Mark L ^a   Rouze, Ned C ^a   Nightingale, Kathryn R ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force; Myocardial stiffness; Shear wave velocimetry; Ultrasonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; CARDIAC CYCLES; CARDIAC DISEASE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTICITY IMAGING; ELASTICITY MODEL; GOLD STANDARDS; IN-VIVO; MYOCARDIAL STIFFNESS; NONINVASIVE METHODS; PHANTOM IMAGING; RADIATION FORCES; RELATIVE STIFFNESS; SAMPLING WINDOWS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SOFT TISSUE; STIFFNESS VARIATIONS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ELASTICITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; DISPLACEMENT RATIO RATE; DOG; ELASTICITY; EPICARDIUM; HEART CYCLE; HEART ELASTICITY; HEART MUSCLE COMPLIANCE; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR WAVE VELOCIMETRY; SYSTOLE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART DISEASES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 79959245185     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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