Linear and nonlinear elastic modulus imaging: An application to breast cancer diagnosis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1628-1637

  Goenezen, Sevan ^a   Dord, Jean Francois ^a   Sink, Zac ^a   Barbone, Paul E ^a   Jiang, Jingfeng ^c   Hall, Timothy J ^c   Oberai, Assad A ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Breast tumor; inverse problem; linear and nonlinear elasticity imaging; ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; BREAST TISSUES; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; ECHO SIGNALS; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; FASTER RATES; IN-VIVO; INVERSE PROBLEM SOLUTION; LARGE STRAINS; LINEAR AND NONLINEAR ELASTICITY; LINEAR ARRAYS; LOW NOISE; MALIGNANT TUMORS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MODULUS IMAGING; NONLINEAR ELASTICS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RECTANGULAR REGIONS; REGION OF INTEREST; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN; TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG MODULUS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84864599935     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2201497     Document Type: Article

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