Assessment of viscous and elastic properties of sub-wavelength layered soft tissues using shear wave spectroscopy: Theoretical framework and in vitro experimental validation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2305-2315

  Nguyen, Thu Mai ^a   Couade, Mathieu ^a,b   Bercoff, Jeremy ^b   Tanter, Mickael ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SUPERSONIC IMAGINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; ARTERIAL WALL; ATTENUATION ESTIMATION; DISPERSION CURVES; DISPERSION EQUATIONS; DISPERSIVE EFFECTS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; IN-VITRO; LAYERED TISSUE; LEAKY LAMB WAVES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PROPAGATION AXIS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; SHEAR WAVE IMAGING; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SHEAR WAVE SPEED ESTIMATION; SKIN LAYER; SOFT TISSUE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THIN LAYERS; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE SPECTROSCOPY;

CURVE FITTING; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR WAVES; TISSUE; VISCOSITY;

SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 81355149473     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.2088     Document Type: Article

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