Quantifying local stiffness variations in radiofrequency ablations with dynamic indentation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 728-735

  Dewall, Ryan J ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a   Brace, Christopher L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastography; liver; mechanical testing; thermal ablation; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY REPRESENTATIONS; BOVINE LIVER; CENTRAL ZONE; DYNAMIC INDENTATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; EX-VIVO; GOLD STANDARDS; IMAGING MODALITY; IN-VIVO; LIVER TISSUE; LOCAL VARIATIONS; NORMAL TISSUE; RADIAL DISTANCE; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SPATIAL STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS VARIATIONS; THERMAL ABLATION; TRANSITION ZONES; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES;

DISEASES; ELASTIC MODULI; LIVER; MECHANICAL TESTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ABLATION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LIVER; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RIGIDITY; SHEAR FLOW; SPATIAL STIFFNESS; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MODELS, ANIMAL; NECROSIS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE;

EID: 84857617314     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2178848     Document Type: Article

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