On the effects of reflected waves in transient shear wave elastography

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2032-2035

  Deffieux, Thomas ^a   Gennisson, Jean Luc ^a   Bercoff, Jeremy ^b   Tanter, Mickael ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b SUPERSONIC IMAGINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; HARMONIC MOTION IMAGING; INCIDENT AND REFLECTED WAVES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; SUPERSONIC SHEAR IMAGING;

SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 80054064360     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.2052     Document Type: Article

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