Controlled motion strain measurement using lateral speckle tracking in Achilles tendons during healing

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1104-1107

  Brown, Phillip ^a   Alsousou, Joseph ^b   Thompson, Mark ^b   Noble, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achilles; block matching; elastography; rupture; strain; tendon; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES; ACHILLES TENDONS; AVERAGE VALUES; BLOCK MATCHING; CLINICAL MEASURE; CONTROLLED MOTIONS; DATA POINTS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; IN-VIVO; LATERAL MOTION; LATERAL STRAIN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATERIAL DEFORMATION; MATERIAL FUNCTION; MULTI-COMPRESSION; MULTISCALES; PRECISION BLOCK; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; RUPTURE; SPECKLE TRACKING; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRAIN IMAGES; STRAIN IMPROVEMENT; SUB PIXELS; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

MACROS; PATIENT TREATMENT; STRAIN; TENDONS; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84864863313     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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