Assessing and improving acoustic radiation force image quality using a 1.5-D transducer design

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1602-1608

  Dhanaliwala, Ali H ^a   Hossack, John A ^a   Mauldin, F William ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ANALYTICAL MODELS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; IMAGE CONTRASTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; TRANSDUCER ARRAY; TRANSDUCER DESIGN; UPPER BOUND;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84864199988     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2360     Document Type: Article

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