Passive elastography: Shear-wave tomography from physiological-noise correlation in soft tissues

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1122-1126

  Gallot, Thomas ^a   Catheline, Stefan ^a   Roux, Philippe ^a   Brum, Javier ^b   Benech, Nicolas ^b   Negreira, Carlos ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOGRAPHY; GREEN'S FUNCTION RETRIEVAL; HUMAN BODIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL NOISE; SOFT TISSUE; TIME REVERSAL; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRASONIC SCANNERS;

GREEN'S FUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

SHEAR FLOW;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959546470     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1920     Document Type: Article

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