Lateral speckle tracking using synthetic lateral phase

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 540-550

  Chen, Xunchang ^a   Zohdy, Marwa J ^a   Emelianov, Stanislav Y ^b   O'Donnell, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY IMAGING; LATERAL SPECKLE TRACKING; SYNTHETIC LATERAL PHASE (SLP); ZERO-CROSSING DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84862368294     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1302763     Document Type: Article

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