Implementation of vibro-acoustography on a clinical ultrasound system

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1169-1181

  Urban, Matthew W ^a   Chalek, Carl ^b   Kinnick, Randall R ^a   Kinter, Thomas M ^a   Haider, Bruno ^b   Greenleaf, James F ^a   Thomenius, Kai E ^b   Fatemi, Mostafa ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; ACOUSTOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRANSLATION; CLINICAL USE; DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; GENERAL ELECTRICS; HARDWARE MODIFICATIONS; IMAGING MODALITY; LINEAR-ARRAY; PHANTOM IMAGING; PROSTATE TISSUE; ULTRASOUND BEAMS; ULTRASOUND FREQUENCY; ULTRASOUND RADIATION FORCE; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; VIBROACOUSTOGRAPHY;

SCANNING; TISSUE; WATER TANKS;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 79959541887     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1927     Document Type: Article

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