Parameters affecting the resolution and accuracy of 2-D quantitative shear wave images

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1729-1740

  Rouze, Ned C ^a   Wang, Michael H ^a   Palmeri, Mark L ^a   Nightingale, Kathryn R ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ARRIVAL TIME; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; KERNEL SIZE; LEADING EDGE; PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; PEAK DISPLACEMENT; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPHERICAL INCLUSION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD; TISSUE RESPONSE; WAVE SHAPE;

SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; TISSUE;

SLOW WAVE STRUCTURES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84865355869     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2377     Document Type: Article

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