Displacement and strain estimation for evaluation of arterial wall stiffness using a familial hypercholesterolemia swine model of atherosclerosis

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4483-4492

  Ge, Wenqi ^a   Krueger, Christian G ^b   Weichmann, Ashley ^b   Shanmuganayagam, Dhanansayan ^b   Varghese, Tomy ^c  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

arterial wall stiffness; atherosclerosis; elastography; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONICS;

ACCUMULATED STRAIN; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AXIAL DISPLACEMENTS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; REGION OF INTEREST;

DISEASES;

SUIDAE;

EID: 84864193290     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4722746     Document Type: Article

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