A fast tissue stiffness-dependent elastography for HIFU-induced lesions inspection

Ultrasonics

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 857-869

  Zhang, Dachun ^a   Zhang, Siyuan ^a   Wan, Mingxi ^a   Wang, Supin ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Displacement; High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); Strain; Tissue stiffness distribution; Ultrasound elastography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BOVINE LIVER; COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DISPLACEMENT; DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGH TIME EFFICIENCY; IN-VITRO; OPTIMUM PARAMETERS; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; REAL TIME; SIGNAL TO NOISE; TIME EFFICIENCIES; TISSUE MODELS; TISSUE STIFFNESS DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS;

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; LIVER; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79960698889     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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