Modeling shear waves through a viscoelastic medium induced by acoustic radiation force

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 6-7, 2012, Pages 678-696

  Lee, Kristen H ^a   Szajewski, Benjamin A ^a   Hah, Zaegyoo ^b   Parker, Kevin J ^b   Maniatty, Antoinette M ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force; Elastography; Shear waves; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; BACKGROUND MEDIUM; COMPUTATION TIME; CYLINDRICAL INCLUSION; DISCRETE LOCATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FOCAL POINTS; FOCAL REGIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; PEAK DISPLACEMENT; POINT SOURCES; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SINGLE ELEMENT; THRESHOLDING; VISCOELASTIC MEDIUM;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR WAVES; TISSUE; VISCOELASTICITY;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84862831208     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1488     Document Type: Article

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