Quantifying the impact of shear wavelength and kernel size on shear wave speed estimation

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 13-16

  Palmeri, Mark L ^a   Rouze, Ned C ^a   Wang, Michael H ^a   Ding, Xuan ^a   Nightingale, Kathryn R ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ESTIMATION ERRORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; INCIDENT WAVES; KERNEL SIZE; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL; REFLECTED WAVES; REGION OF INTEREST; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SHEAR WAVE SPEED ESTIMATION; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME OF FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS; TISSUE STIFFNESS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 80054015060     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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